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Love in the Age of Capitalism

Books on the family, sexual politics, and comradely love!

Verso Books18 June 2024

Love in the Age of Capitalism

Essential reads on how capital influences and forms our intimate relationships.

How can we build resilient communities in the era of polycrisis? How can we do better than the family? And how can we can harness the liberatory possibilities of love?

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You Can't Choose Your Family:

Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for each other is endless and exhausting. What if we could do better?

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Sex, Desire, and Consent:

Politics exists in the mess of life. Sex does too, and so must sexual politics, to make any sense at all.

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Red Love:

When we organise together and in solidarity with one another, when we take care of each other, another world is possible.

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  • Full Surrogacy Now
    "Rooted in historical, site-based, narrative, and political accounts, Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for. This kind of gestation depends on...
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  • Is Mother Dead

    Is Mother Dead

    **Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2023**'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed a...

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  • Lean on Me
    Have you ever relied on the kindness of strangers? What brings people together to find hope and solidarity? What do we owe each other as citizens and comrades?Questions of care, intimacy, educatio...
  • Mutual Aid
    Mutual Aid is a radical handbook for anyone who grasps the severity of the global poly-crisis and wants a community-based means to fight back. Dean Spade — lawyer, academic, writer, and activist — ...
  • The Politics of Friendship

    The Politics of Friendship

    Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future in ord...
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