# The Anti-Social Family

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- Book: [The Anti-Social Family](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-mcintosh/the-anti-social-family) ([The Anti-Social Family.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-mcintosh/the-anti-social-family.md))
- Authors: [Mary McIntosh](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-mcintosh), [Michèle Barrett](https://www.bookquiver.com/michele-barrett)
- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-17-8168-759-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2015-01-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The stereotypical nuclear family is in the minority of households, yet remains a powerful ideology. This classic of socialist feminism charts how the family reinforces conditions of inequality, and asks: Why does the family enjoy such popular support, including by feminists and the left? Despite its many problems, The Anti-social Family answers, the family meets real needs. These needs must be taken seriously, and alter-native ways to meet them developed, giving people more choices and collectively taking on the work and responsibilities currently privatised within the family.