ISBN:
978-0-520-38620-4
,
978-0-520-38619-8
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 346 Seiten ;
,
21,6 cm.
Series Statement:
Reproductive justice : a new vision for the twenty-first century 12
Series Statement:
Reproductive justice : a new vision for the twenty-first century
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
United States
;
Gay-parent families / United States / 21st century
;
Reproductive rights / United States / 21st century
;
Parents
;
Reproductive Rights
;
Family
;
Sexual and Gender Minorities
;
History, 21st Century
;
Droits génésiques / États-Unis / 21e siècle
;
parents
;
Regenbogenfamilie.
;
Reproduktive Rechte.
;
USA.
;
Regenbogenfamilie
;
Reproduktive Rechte
Abstract:
"Queering Families traces the shifting dominant meanings of queer family from the late twentieth century to today. With this book, Tamara Lea Spira highlights the growing embrace of traditional family structures by LGBTQ movements -- calling into question how many queers, once deemed unfit to parent, have become contradictory agents within the racial, colonial, and imperial agendas of the United States. Simultaneously, Queering Families celebrates the rich history of queer reproductive justice, from the radical movements of the 1970s through the present, led by Black, decolonial, and queer of color feminist activists. Ultimately, Spira argues that queering reproductive justice impels us to build communities of care to cherish and uphold the lives of those who, defying normativity's violent stranglehold, are deemed to be unworthy of life. She issues the call to lovingly wager a future for the world's children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds and in increasingly perilous times"--
