Edited by Chris Kortright

Paperback | 280 pp. | 4.5 x 7 in | August 2020
ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-9951551-6-9

The debate over restructuring, reworking, challenging and/or dismantling the moral value of "The Family" has always been an important part of anarchist ideas. The critique and challenge of "The Family" and marriage has run through most anarchist currents from anarchist communism to egoism. As many anarchists rallied for gender and queer liberation, they argued that these liberations could not be separated from the abolition of the nuclear family, marriage and monogamy. In resent years, the question of the family had been dropped from many anarchist discussions. This return to older debates around the family offers anarchist an opportunity to think about or re-open anarchist discussions of the family question.

This book is offered as an introduction to these debates. The texts in this collection appeared in anarchist publications between 1888-1908. Most of the articles are from Liberty, The Firebrand, Lucifer: The Light-Bearer, and Mother Earth amount other publications.