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- ISBN 9781781687598
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jan 2015
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Michèle 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.
