{"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\u003cp\u003eRadical Intimacy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding 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, Radical Intimacy is the compassionate antidote to a callous society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50409842344267,"sku":"2005717","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/31DdmW3YjeL._SY291_BO1204203200_QL40_ML2__0cc033ed_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726629727","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/radical-intimacy","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}