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The Anti-Social Family

By Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

By Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

By Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

By Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

By Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

By Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

By Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

By Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh

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Category: Philosophy

Category: Philosophy

Category: Philosophy

Category: Philosophy

Paperback $24.95

Mar 04, 2025 | ISBN 9781804299593

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Jan 27, 2015 | ISBN 9781781687598

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Oct 17, 1991 | ISBN 9780860915454

Ebook $9.99

Jan 27, 2015 | ISBN 9781781687604

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    About The Anti-Social Family

    Although family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society continues to be structured around the nuclear family. The Anti-Social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute the family form in advanced capitalist societies. 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 that go beyond the family to more egalitarian caring alternatives.

    About The Anti-Social Family

    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.

    About The Anti-Social Family

    Although family values are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society continues to be structured around the nuclear family. The Anti-Social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute the family form in advanced capitalist societies. 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 that go beyond the family to more egalitarian caring alternatives.

    About The Anti-Social Family

    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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    Product Details

    Category: Philosophy

    Paperback | $24.95
    Published by Verso
    Mar 04, 2025 | 176 Pages | 7-4/5 x 5-1/12 | ISBN 9781804299593

    Category: Philosophy

    Paperback | $24.95
    Published by Verso
    Jan 27, 2015 | 176 Pages | 5-6/100 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9781781687598

    Category: Philosophy

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Verso
    Oct 17, 1991 | 176 Pages | 5-2/5 x 8-3/5 | ISBN 9780860915454

    Category: Philosophy

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Jan 27, 2015 | 174 Pages | 5-1/8 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9781781687604

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    Praise

    “Barrett and McIntosh incisively question the standard marxist (and mainstream) claims that (1) the nuclear family is suited to the functional requirements of the capitalist mode of production, and (2) the family has declined and much of its work is now undertaken by the state.”
    —The Women’s Review of Books

    “Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh have written 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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