{"product_id":"family-bonds-ellen-k-feder-9780195314755","title":"Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender","description":"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. \u003cem\u003eFamily Bonds\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003ewithin\u003c\/em\u003e the family, while race is primarily a function of a \"regulatory\" power acting \u003cem\u003eupon\u003c\/em\u003e the family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach 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, \u003cem\u003eFamily Bonds\u003c\/em\u003e is an effort to produce genealogies of the sort that Foucault himself hoped his work would prompt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen K. Feder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195314751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195314755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Ellen K. Feder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46232960893183,"sku":"9780195314755","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1a27105-5f77-4919-a09f-391411383dbc.jpg?v=1728991659","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/family-bonds-ellen-k-feder-9780195314755","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}