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DESCRIPTION:Scholar Sophie Lewis will deliver a lecture at Cornell's Societ
 y for the Humanities (A.D. White House\, Guerlac Room) on Wednesday\, Marc
 h 1\, from 5-6:30pm. The lecture will be followed by a public reception an
 d book signing. Copies of Sophie's most recent book will be available for 
 purchase. \n\nThe lecture\, entitled "Abolish Which Family? Black Familial
 ity\, Patriarchal Motherhood\, and the Communization of Care" will address
  the capitalist privitization of the care of family members and its societ
 al effects. \n\n \n\nAbstract: For over two centuries\, utopians of variou
 s stripes have raised the banner of the "abolition of the family": the pos
 itive supersession of the capitalist privatization of care\, including tra
 nscendence of patriarchy's prevalent mode of possessive maternalism. From 
 the "phalansteries" of the first self-described "feminists" to the "red lo
 ve" vision of the early Zhenotdel in Russia to the Black lesbian-feminist 
 anti-imperialist efflorescence of the 60s and 70s\, radical movements soug
 ht to imagine (and\, experimentally\, to prefigure) the deprivatization of
  care. But how does the intensely racializing history of the family's cons
 titution in the United States impact a demand to abolish "the" family? Who
 se families\, whose motherhoods\, are at stake in the communization of car
 e? Read more ->\n\nSophie Lewis is the author of Full Surrogacy Now: Femin
 ism Against Family (Verso\, 2019)\, hailed by Donna Haraway as “the seri
 ously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for.” Abolish
  the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso\, 2022) is her sec
 ond book. As a member of the faculty of Brooklyn Institute for Social Rese
 arch\, Sophie teaches courses on feminist\, trans and queer politics and p
 hilosophy\, including family abolitionism\, Shulamith Firestone\, and Kath
 i Weeks. With the Out of the Woods writing collective\, Lewis contributed 
 to the collection Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis (Common
  Notions\, 2020). With Blind Field Journal\, she has helped foster communi
 ties of Marxist-feminist cultural criticism. Previously\, Dr. Lewis studie
 d English Literature (BA) and Nature\, Society and Environmental Policy (M
 Sc) at Oxford University\; Politics (MA) at the New School for Social Rese
 arch\; and Geography (PhD) at Manchester University. Her doctoral disserta
 tion\, “Cyborg Labor: Exploring Surrogacy as Gestational Work\,” sough
 t to reframe the political economy of contract pregnancy for the purposes 
 of an antiwork polymaternalist utopianism. Sophie’s essays and commentar
 ies appear in venues such as n+1\, Boston Review\, The Nation\, The Baffle
 r\, Mal\, e-flux\, the New York Times and London Review of Books\; her pap
 ers appear in\, e.g.\, Signs\, Paragraph\, and Feminist Theory. A Visiting
  Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Research on Femi
 nist\, Queer and Transgender Studies\, Sophie is nevertheless a freelance 
 writer dependent on public speaking and Patreon (patreon.com/reproutopia).
  Her lectures are archived at lasophielle.org.\n\nRead more about Sophie L
 ewis in an article on the Society's website.
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LOCATION:A.D. White House\, Guerlac Room
SUMMARY:Sophie Lewis: Abolish Which Family? Black Familiality\, Patriarchal
  Motherhood\, and the Communization of Care 
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