Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender

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