1st Edition
The Abolitionists The Family and Marriage under Attack
By Ronald Fletcher
Copyright 1989
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction New and radical criticisms: a strange reversal; Chapter 1 ‘The source of all our discontents’: Edmund Leach; Chapter 2 The family as destroyer: Laing, Cooper and Esterson; Chapter 3 The abolition of the family: Marxism and the New Left; Chapter 4 The family as prison: The New Feminism; Chapter 5 An alternative to the family: The commune; Chapter 6 Conclusion;
Biography
Ronald Fletcher
