Montegary Liz Montegary

Familiar Perversions (eBook, PDF)

The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOver the past two decades, same-sex couples raising children have become more visible within US political and popular culture. Thanks to widely circulated images of well-mannered, well-dressed, and well-off two-parent families, a select number of LGBT-identified parents have gained recognition as model American citizens. In Familiar Perversions, Liz Montegary shows how this seemingly progressive view of same-sex parenting has taken shape during a period of growing racial inequality and economic insecurity in the United States. This book evaluates the recent successes of the family equality movement, while asking important questions about its relationship to neoliberalism, the policing of sexual cultures, and the broader context of social justice organizing at the turn of the twenty-first century. Montegary s investigation of the politics of LGBT family life takes us on a journey that includes not only activist events and the courtrooms where landmark decisions about same-sex families were made, but also parenting workshops, cruise ships, and gay resort towns. Through its sustained historical analysis, Familiar Perversions lays critical groundwork for imagining a queer family movement that can support and strengthen the diverse networks of care, kinship, and intimacy on which our collective survival depends.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813591391
• Artikelnr.: 72471911

Autorenporträt

LIZ MONTEGARY is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Stony Brook University in New York. She is the coeditor of Mobile Desires: The Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Familiar Perversions
1    Anxiety: The History of Lesbian and Gay Parenting Activism      
2    Visibility: Local Communities, Transnational Economies, and the
Exceptionally American Family         
3    Equality: Same-Sex Marriage and the Precarity and Perversity of
Children      
4    Vitality: The Family Business of Health Promotion and Wealth
Management
Conclusion: Toward a Queer Family Politics        
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index