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The Anti-Social Family

Part of Radical Thinkers

Author Michèle Barrett, Mary McIntosh
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On sale Jan 27, 2015 | 176 Pages | 9781781687598
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Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to the ideas of Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh. The Anti-social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute the family form in advanced capitalist societies to show how they reinforce conditions of inequality. This classic work explores the personal and social needs that the family promises to meet but more often denies, and proposes moral and political practices for more egalitarian caring alternatives.
“An extremely brave, and with the benefit of hindsight, what must appear to be a very daring critique of the family.” —Sociology
Michele Barrett is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, of Women’s Oppression Today. Mary McIntosh was a sociologist and feminist.
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Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to the ideas of Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh. The Anti-social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute the family form in advanced capitalist societies to show how they reinforce conditions of inequality. This classic work explores the personal and social needs that the family promises to meet but more often denies, and proposes moral and political practices for more egalitarian caring alternatives.

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“An extremely brave, and with the benefit of hindsight, what must appear to be a very daring critique of the family.” —Sociology

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Michele Barrett is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, of Women’s Oppression Today. Mary McIntosh was a sociologist and feminist.
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Mary McIntosh View titles by Mary McIntosh

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