
Beyond Family: A Case for Another Regime of Reproduction, Sexuality and Kinship
Beginning by declaring 'Familia delenda est!' or "the Family is (to be) destroyed" Bülent Somay argues that the nuclear family is repressive and regressive and needs to be replaced. "The family has now become a hindrance against expanding our horizons, increasing our knowledge, imagining and experimenting new modes of existence, not only for women, but also for children who will become men, women, straight and gay persons, transgender and fluid-gender people, in short, all of us." Bulent Somay's previous books include Something is Missing: Things We Don't Want to Know about Love, Sex and Life, The End of Truth, The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father and The View from the Masthead "What makes Beyond Family so precious is that it combines detailed research of facts with a firm pro-feminist and anti-traditional taking of sides. Somay's starting point is the hypothesis that the time of the family is over: yes, we live in deep crisis, but any kind of return to tradition will just deepe