The Anti-Social Family, Barrett and McIntosh

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The Anti-Social Family, Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh, 1982.  2nd edition 1992.

This is an extremely insightful book, every bit the equal of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus and David G. Cooper's Death of the Family.

The reason I know about Barrett and McIntosh is that they are heavily referenced in a the highly regarded text

Children and the Politics of Culture by Sharon Stephens (Editor) 1995.

Barrett and McIntosh often reference Mark Poster's Critical Theory of the Family, 1986

Barrett and McIntosh reference Mary McIntosh 'Who Needs Prostitutes? The Ideology of Male Sexual Needs' Carol Smart and Barry Smart, editors, Women, Sexuality, and Social Control, London 1978.

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Sexuality-Social-Control-Carol/dp/0710087233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433019274&sr=8-1&keywords=Women%2C+Sexuality%2C+and+Social+Control

Title Women, sexuality, and social control / edited by Carol Smart and Barry Smart Imprint London ; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul, 1978
 
Both Carol and Barry Smart have written lots of other interesting looking books too.

http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=500005

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Smart

In this second edition of Anti-Social Family Barrett and McIntosh make frequent reference to Engels's Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.

And on page 56, "...marriage is a form that conflates the sexual with the economic: as Engels so crisply pointed out, monogamous marriage and prostitution were born in the same moment."

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