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Family Bonds - Genealogies of Race and Gender (Paperback, New)
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Family Bonds - Genealogies of Race and Gender (Paperback, New)
Series: Studies in Feminist Philosophy
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Feminist and critical race theorists alike have long acknowledged
the "intersection" of gender and race difference; it is by now a
truism that the ways we become boys and girls, men and women,
cannot be disentangled from the ways we become white or Black men
and women, Asian or Latino boys and girls. And yet, even as many
have sought to attend to this intersection of difference, most
critical treatments focus finally either on the production of
gender or the production of race. Family Bonds proposes a new way
to think about the categories of gender and race together. It first
explicates and then puts to work Foucault's archaeological and
genealogical methods to advance the main argument of the book:
Gender is best understood primarily as a function of "disciplinary"
power operating within the family, while race is primarily a
function of a "regulatory" power acting upon the family. Each of
the book's central chapters is an individual story, or history -
the founding of Levittown, the definitive suburb after the Second
World War (1950s and 60s); the development of the diagnosis of
Gender Identity Disorder (1970s and 1980s); and the federal
coordination of scientific research on violence (1980s and 1990s).
Together they make up a larger story about the construction of race
and gender in the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century
and demonstrate the centrality of the family in these
constructions. Rather than a formal study of Foucault's own work,
Family Bonds is an effort to produce genealogies of the sort that
Foucault himself hoped his work would prompt.
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