false 2034562 1 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. Family Bonds 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 within the family, while race is primarily a function of a "regulatory" power acting upon the family. Each 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, Family Bonds is an effort to produce genealogies of the sort that Foucault himself hoped his work would prompt. 2039310 6 8 2007 Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) total:5|5:1|4:3|3:1| 5 20 7 1 4 0 false false Thu Sep 11 16:02:17 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 16:08:23 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Mar 13 21:07:21 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 21:07:21 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 20:44:19 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 20:44:19 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 25 16:47:29 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 26 13:43:10 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Feb 11 07:35:05 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 07:35:05 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Feb 06 05:29:18 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 12:50:25 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 12:50:31 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 18:40:41 -0700 2007 Sun May 11 12:25:55 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2034562