The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish

The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives (Feminist Criticism Theory)
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Interrogates the normative heterosexual family from feminist, Jewish, and queer perspectives.

The 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.

â€œâ€¦Marla Brettschneiderâ€™s smart, heartfelt, and radical meditation on the very real complexities of family identity goes far beyond the sentimental nonsense that often accompanies contemporary gay discourse on family, love, and marriage â€¦ Enlightening and endlessly provocative, The Family Flamboyant is a tremendous addition to the literature on queer and Jewish studies.â€ â€” Lambda Book Report

â€œâ€¦creatively and unabashedly interweaves the personal with the political and philosophical â€¦ I do not (yet) agree with all of Brettschneiderâ€™s conclusions, but at the very least she certainly moves us toward some creative re-thinking of what, and who, is family.â€ â€” Central Conference of American Rabbis Newsletter

â€œThe Family Flamboyant is a spirited testimony to the richness and multiplicity of family life, and a model of how reflections onÂ oneâ€™s own experience and scholarship can illuminate one another to mutual advantage. This book is a welcome addition to the bookshelf for anyone interested in the complex ways in which people enter into and sustain family relationships.â€ â€” Mary Lyndon Shanley, author of Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents

â€œThe strength of this book is the passionate voice of Brettschneider and her ability to harness it for a fresh discussion of the place of Jewishness in American multicultural thought. The writing is truly impressive.â€ â€” Matti Bunzl, author of Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna

â€œWhat is really impressive about this work is Brettschneiderâ€™s integration of personal anecdote with philosophical insight. She reads the meaning of her own life within the debates of identity politics, and this method serves her very well. The reader is captivated by her personal narrative and duly impressed with the insight she garners.â€ â€” Lori J. Marso, author of (Un)Manly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseauâ€™s and Germaine de StaÃ«lâ€™s Subversive Women
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State University of New York Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780791468944
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780791468944
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives (Feminist Criticism Theory)

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