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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. ¿Y si la familia no fuera el único horizonte posible, ni siquiera el más deseable? Este libro se propone algo impropio: cuestionar la familia. Ciertamente, para aquellos que tienen suerte, las familias pueden estar llenas de amor y cuidado pero, para muchos otros, son lugares de dolor, de abandono, de negligencia e incluso de abuso y violencia. De hecho, se sabe que la mayoría de los abusos se dan en la familia. Pero incluso en las llamadas familias felices, el trabajo no remunerado y no reconocido, que se necesita para criar a los hijos y cuidarse unos a otros, es interminable y agotador. Para Sophie Lewis las cosas podrían ser, sin duda, de otro modo. Y por eso se propone defender esta «infame propuesta»: abolir la familia. En esta dirección, Lewis rastrea la historia de las demandas abolicionistas de la familia, desde el socialismo utópico de Charles Fourier hasta el Manifiesto comunista y los escritos de la bolchevique rusa Alexandra Kollontai; desde la política antifamilia, tan característica de la década de 1960, en feministas radicales como Shulamith Firestone y los homosexuales progresistas, hasta los marxistas queer del siglo XXI. La conclusión no deja de ser radical: solo pensando más allá de la familia podemos comenzar a imaginar lo que podría venir después. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
What if we could do better than the family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family. Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for each other is endless and exhausting. It could be otherwise: in this urgent, incisive polemic, leading feminist critic Sophie Lewis makes the case for family abolition. Abolish the Family traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the Communist Manifesto and early-twentieth century Russian family abolitionist Alexandra Kollontai. Turning her attention to the 1960s, Lewis reminds us of the anti-family politics of radical feminists like Shulamith Firestone and the gay liberationists, a tradition she traces to the queer marxists bringing family abolition to the twenty-first century. This exhilarating essay looks at historic rightwing panic about Black families and the violent imposition of the family on indigenous communities, and insists: only by thinking beyond the family can we begin to imagine what might come after. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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In the early days, gay marriage had not been the goal. Rather, progressively minded gay and lesbians envisaged an alternative form of partnership, and entirely different type of matrimonial bond: a different form and a different name. They lost their cause to the mainstream that wanted gay marriage.
Sophie Lewis draws this argument one more, expanding it to other groups of people, and for different purposes. Instead of attacking matrimony, Lewis wants to abolish the family. Her book is not particularly woke. It's ideological base is that preceding wokeism. Abolish the family. A manifesto for care and liberation is, as it says, a manifesto, harking back to that other influential manifesto: Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto. Abolish the family. A manifesto for care and liberation is a neo-Marxist pamphlet.
Feminist writers throughout this period have pointed at the significance of Engels's Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats (The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan). Abolish the family. A manifesto for care and liberation seems to be a bit too inconsequential on the idea to abolish the family altogether.
Superficially, in the light of eroding gender stereotypes toward a more open society, and large, looming issues such as care for the aging population in a world where fewer people can rely on their family, it seems the book has a valid point. However, for all fierce and revolutionary gusto with which the book presents its argument, it is mum on alternatives that could fill the gap left after the abilition of the family. ( )