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Familiar Perversions : The Racial, Sexual, and Economic Politics of LGBT Families / Liz Montegary.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780813591391
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.874086/64 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ75.28.U6 M66 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- References -- Index
Summary: Over 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- References -- Index

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Over 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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