A01=Ronald Fletcher
Author_Ronald Fletcher
Betty Friedan
capitalist society critique
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Clitoral Orgasm
Comfortable Concentration Camp
communal living analysis
Conjugal Family
critiques of family abolitionism
Dialectical Knowledge
Entire Moral Order
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Erin Pizzey
family
Female Eunuch
Feminine Mystique
feminist theory critique
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Law Commission
lectures
modern
Modern British Family
Modern Family
monogamous
Monogamous Family
narrow
Narrow Privacy
patriarchal structures
privacy
radical social change
reith
Respectable Family Man
Retired Farm Worker
schizophrenogenic
Schizophrenogenic Families
secrets
Selfish Pursuit
sociology of kinship
tawdry
Tawdry Secrets
Uninvited Guest
Women's Lib Movement
Women's Liberation Movement
Woodford Green
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415008556
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1988
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In The Abolitionists (a companion volume to The Shaking of the Foundations) Ronald Fletcher turns his attention to those critics who have advocated the abolition of the family. Blaming the strength of the family for all discontents, they see the family as the deeply entrenched last bastion of an exploitative capitalist society - an obstacle to social progress and a prop for patriarchy. These new critics have exerted a growing influence throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and this is the first book to subject them to a systematic critical appraisal. The Abolitionists is a controversial and impressive defence of the modern family shaped by a century and a half of humane reform.
