Sophie Lewis
Auteur de Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Œuvres de Sophie Lewis
Communism for Kids (MIT Press) 2 exemplaires
The Good Little Devil and Other Tales 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
This Tilting World (2019) — Traducteur, quelques éditions; Traducteur, quelques éditions — 25 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
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Listes
2023 (2)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Aussi par
- 13
- Membres
- 162
- Popularité
- #130,374
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 7
- Langues
- 1
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.… (plus d'informations)