{"product_id":"radical-intimacy","title":"Radical Intimacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eCapitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. “Making connections” means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do not want to achieve all, or any of these life goals. Instead we are left feeling atomised, exhausted and disempowered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadical Intimacy\u003c\/em\u003e shows that it doesn't need to be this way. A punchy and impassioned account of inspiring ideas about alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical imagination to discover a new form of intimacy and to transform our personal lives and in turn society as a whole. Including critiques of the “wellness” industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence; transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death and much more, \u003cem\u003eRadical Intimacy\u003c\/em\u003e is the compassionate antidote to a callous society. [publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357998326100,"sku":"A8B-33506","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Num_C3_A9riser_2020_09233fcd-dbc6-4901-86fa-c81818008644.jpg?v=1790813754","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/radical-intimacy","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}