The family flamboyant : race politics, queer families, Jewish lives / Marla Brettschneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brettschneider, Marla.

Series:

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay and lesbian studies.

Jewish lesbians--Family relationships.

Jewish lesbians.

Jewish families.

Monogamous relationships.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Race awareness.

Group identity.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bronze Medalist, 2007 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Gay/Lesbian CategoryThe Family Flamboyant is a graceful and lucid account of the many routes to family formation. Weaving together personal experience and political analysis in an examination of how race, gender, sexuality, class, and other hierarchies function in family politics, Marla Brettschneider draws on her own experience in a Jewish, multiracial, adoptive, queer family in order to theorize about the layered realities that characterize families in the United States today. Brettschneider uses critical race politics, feminist insight, class-based analysis, and queer theory to offer a distinct and distinctly Jewish contribution to both the family debates and the larger project of justice politics.

Contents:

K-i-s-s-i-n-g

Whitens whites, keeps colors bright: Jewish families queering the race project

Jew dykes adopting children: a guide to the perplexed

Going natural: the family has no clothes

Questing for heart in a heartless world: Jewish feminist ruminations on monogamy and marriage

Justice and la vida Jew

in technicolor queer.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-213) and index.

ISBN:

9780791481066

0791481069

9781429457965

1429457961

OCLC:

85861938