Family Abolition (eBook)

Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

M. E. O'Brien (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
304 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4384-6 (ISBN)

Infos

An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary beloved community for an age of climate catastrophe. Spread this book around, and start communizing care!--Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the FamilyStunningly urgent and timely...Through an exhilaratingly accessible narrative, OBrien moves effortlessly between history, current specificities, and future possibilities to show that communized care is not a far-off fantasy--Lara Sheehi, Assistant Professor, George Washington UniversityFor some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror, coercion, and personal domination. In a capitalist society, the private family carries the impossible demands of interpersonal care and social reproductive labor. Can we imagine a different future?In Family Abolition, author M.E. OBrien uncovers the history of struggles to create radical alternatives to the private family. OBrien traces the changing family politics of racial capitalism in the industrial cities of Europe and the slave plantations and settler frontier of North America, explaining the rise and fall of the housewife-based family form. From early Marxists to Black and queer insurrectionists to todays mass protest movements, OBrien finds revolutionaries seeking better ways of loving, caring, and living. Family Abolition takes us through the past and present of family politics into a speculative future of the commune, imagining how care could be organized in a free society.M.E. OBrien writes on gender and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. She co-authors the novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 20522072, and tweets @genderhorizon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Abolish the family • Anexandra Kollontai • Black Panthers • Bourgeois Family • capitalism and love • Capitalist property relatio • Charles Fourier • Chosen Families • Collective parenting • communal living • communes • communist family • communist society • Compulsary Heterosexuality • Domestic violence • dyadic parenting • Engels Origin of the Family • Families against the family • Full Surrogacy Now • Gender stereotypes • Heteronormative Families • kinship • Marxism and the Family • Marxist sociology • new forms of the family • Nuclear family • Nuclear Households • patriarchial family • People's Free Food Program • postcapitalist family • Queer Communes • queer community • Queer Families • radical families • sexual liberation • Sexual Transgression • Sex Work • Shulamith Firestorm • Social reproduction • Sophie Lewis • systems of care • The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State • Trans • Transgender • Transgender politics • Wages for Housework • welfare rights movement • What does abolish the family mean? • Why should we abolish the family?
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4384-8 / 0745343848
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4384-6 / 9780745343846