Sophie Lewis

I si poguéssim fer-ho millor que la família? Hem de parlar de la família. Per als que tenen sort, les famílies es poden omplir d'amor i cura, però per a molts no.I si poguéssim fer-ho millor que la família? Hem de parlar de la família. Per als que tenen sort, les famílies es poden omplir d'amor i cura, però per a molts són llocs de dolor: des de l'abandonament i la negligència, fins als abusos i la violència. Ningú és més probable que et faci mal que la teva família. Fins i tot en les anomenades famílies felices, el treball no remunerat i no reconegut que cal per criar els fills i cuidar-se els uns als altres és interminable i esgotador. Podria ser d'una altra manera: en aquesta polèmica urgent i incisiva, la principal crítica feminista Sophie Lewis defensa l'abolició de la família. Abolir la família recorre la història de les demandes abolicionistes de la família, començant amb el socialista utòpic Charles Fourier i El manifest comunista al segle XIX i la feminista russa de principis del segle XX Aleksandra Kol·lontai. Dirigint la seva atenció a la dècada de 1960, Lewis ens recorda la política anti família de feministes radicals com Shulamith Firestone i del moviment gai, una tradició que segueix els seus passos fins als marxistes queer que han portat aquest debat al segle XXI. Aquest emocionant assaig analitza el pànic històric de la dreta respecte a les famílies negres i la imposició violenta de la família a les comunitats indígenes, i insisteix: només pensant més enllà de la família podem començar a imaginar què en pot venir després. Ressenyes Sophie Lewis està al capdavant d'una nova generació d'acadèmiques i activistes que pensen en la transformació del treball gestacional dins del capitalisme farmacopornogràfic contemporani. Ni simplement natural ni banalment cultural, la gestació apareix com el nucli no pensat de la política de gènere i sexual, i la clau de la revolució uterina que vindrà: trans-Marx es troba amb la política dels mamífers! Paul B. Preciado Com seria imaginar un comunisme no sols de benestar, sinó també d'atenció, amor i pertinença? Un comunisme en què totes les necessitats humanes estiguessin cobertes sense dependre de la fràgil bombolla del nucli familiar? Aquesta institució que se suposa que tots creiem que hi serà per a nosaltres, encara que tants llibres i pel·lícules detallin totes les formes en què fracassa. Aquest és l'arduós, però decisiu terreny on s'aventura Sophie Lewis. Abolir la família és una breu i aguda sacsejada a les nostres suposicions sobre la bona vida i com aconseguir-la. McKenzie Wark

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be places of love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. In this urgent, incisive pamphlet, leaving feminist critic Sophie Lewis introduces the idea of family abolition as a question of universalizing and generalizing the good things about our families. In this short and exhilarating text, Sophie Lewis takes the reader through the various histories of family abolition, from utopian socialists to queer, Black and indigenous feminists and into the future, imagining what life might be like after the family. Radical and utopian as it undeniably is, family abolition is the real movement working to undo the care austerity that fundamentally structures life under racial capitalism. The argument for family abolition has become even clearer under COVID 19 where the myth of the nuclear unit has been seen to be a fiction. We were told to keep a 'social distance' (from everyone... except family). Consequently, those without family were left alone, isolated and abandoned. There is no justice in these rules, which keep loved ones from being with one another, treat children like property, and shore up wealth (or poverty) within a class. What is the alternative?

From the author of Abolish the Family, a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love to dismiss and making the case for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we’ll need to stand against fascism, nationalism, femmephobia, and cisness.In recent years, “white feminism” and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won’t make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need.Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today’s anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist.At once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms /em> is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.

From the author of Abolish the Family, a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love to dismiss and making the case for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we’ll need to stand against fascism, nationalism, femmephobia, and cisness.In recent years, “white feminism” and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won’t make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need.Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today’s anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist.At once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms /em> is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.

The surrogacy industry is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you? Full Surrogacy Now brings a fresh and unique perspective to the debate. Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as is, Sophie Lewis argues we should be looking to radically transform it. Surrogates should be put front and centre, and their rights towards the babies they gestate should be expanded to acknowledge that surrogates are more than mere vessels. In doing so, we break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share. This might sound like a radical proposal, but expanding our idea of who children belong to would be a good thing. Taking collective responsibility for children, rather than only caring for the ones we share DNA with, would radically transform notions of kinship. Adopting this expanded concept of surrogacy helps us see that it always, as the saying goes, takes a village to raise a child.

Nikdo vám nemůže ublížit více než vaše rodina: Feministický manifest Zrušte rodinu vychází poprvé v českém překladu. Stojí rodina v cestě světu autonomní lásky a sdílené solidarity? A nestačilo by ji jen reformovat? Podle Sophie Lewis je nejbližší rodina jádrem nespravedlnosti a nerovnosti a překáží cestě ke svobodné společnosti je nutné ji odstranit. Její nejnovější kniha Zrušte rodinu: manifest za péči a osvobození se po vydání v roce 2022 stal předmětem bouřlivých diskusí a v roce 2023 vyjde poprvé v českém překladu. Sophie Lewis představuje radikální pohled na instituci tzv. tradiční rodiny, kterou vykresluje jako prostor plný traumat a bolesti, a nabízí vizi společenského vývoje, v níž by pokrevní vazby nahradily komunity založené na nových typech vztahů, jejichž součástí by byla spravedlivější dělba pečující práce.