For a recent review in the London Review of Books, Katrina Forrester discusses Counterrevolution by Melinda Cooper. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full article. An excerpt appears below:

“In Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, published in 2017, Cooper detailed the way in which the uneasy alliance between neoliberals and social conservatives was forged through a defence of the family, conceived of as a social unit that facilitates market freedom by removing the responsibility for welfare from the state. In Counterrevolution, she again demonstrates that capitalism’s transformations are never merely a matter of economics, narrowly conceived, and that fiscal politics are always also moral politics. When neoliberal policymakers attack abortion and promote conservative visions of sexuality and the family, it is not only to maintain women’s subordinate status, but because the family is central to the reorganisation of economic life they have overseen in the last half-century, which has engendered a new form of ‘dynastic’ capitalism.”