{"title":"Sophie Lewis","description":"\u003cp\u003eSophie Lewis offers a provocative exploration of social structures and feminist theory, challenging conventional ideas about family, reproduction, and kinship. Her works blend rigorous research with bold arguments, inviting readers to reconsider the roles that biology, society, and politics play in shaping human relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in both education and social science, her writing encourages critical reflection on the intersecting dynamics of power and care. Expect insightful discussions that question traditional norms and envision alternative futures centred on communal support and shared responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"enemy-feminisms-by-sophie-lewis-9798888902493","title":"Enemy Feminisms","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ea 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSophie 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 strategising that is truly antifascist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, \u003ci\u003eEnemy Feminisms\u003c\/i\u003e is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Touring different feminisms over time like those that are steeped in transphobia and anti-sex sentiment, Lewis asserts that not all feminism is net good, and we need to watch out for the types that are counterproductive at best, violent and hateful at worst.' — Soaliha Iqbal, \u003ci\u003eMissing Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854477840620,"sku":"9798888902493","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/31ebe1837fd46984e27057a18e507d54.jpg?v=1759269630"},{"product_id":"abolish-the-family-by-sophie-lewis-9781839767197","title":"Abolish the Family","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if we could do better than the family?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEven 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history of family abolitionist demands, beginning with nineteenth-century utopian socialist and sex radical Charles Fourier, the \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis exhilarating essay looks at historic right-wing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362504753388,"sku":"9781839767197","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/571003482843.jpg?v=1772884791"},{"product_id":"full-surrogacy-now-by-sophie-lewis-9781786637307","title":"Full Surrogacy Now","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe surrogacy industry is worth an estimated 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFull Surrogacy Now\u003c\/i\u003e 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 they are more than mere vessels. In doing so, we can break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis might sound like a radical proposal, she admits, 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. 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