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<i>Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender</i> (review)

Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender (review) book rev iews Ellen Fe d e r . Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 145 pages. ISBN 987-0-19-531474-8. Sarah Ha n s e n In her excellent book Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender , Ellen Feder tells a “new tale” of race and gender in the United States. Moving beyond the truism that race and gender intersect, Feder “thinks together” these categories without confl ating their different modes of production. To do so, she gives unique attention to a third fi gure—the family. According to Feder, although race and gender are experienced in inseparable ways, they are produced distinctly through the family. Mechanisms of gender act within the family, and mechanisms of race act upon it. To develop this position, provoca- tive in its very simplicity, Feder “tells stories” using Michel Foucault’s method of storytelling—genealogy. From the postwar construction of the Levittown suburb to the diagnosis and treatment of gender identity disorder (GID) to debates over the federal government’s “Violence Initiative”—Feder’s stories illustrate the family’s central role in the construction of race and gender. Family Bonds should fi nd and fascinate a broad academic audience; Feder’s prose is clear and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png philoSOPHIA State University of New York Press

<i>Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender</i> (review)

Hansen, Sarah K.
philoSOPHIA , Volume 1 (1) – Jun 4, 2012
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book rev iews Ellen Fe d e r . Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 145 pages. ISBN 987-0-19-531474-8. Sarah Ha n s e n In her excellent book Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender , Ellen Feder tells a “new tale” of race and gender in the United States. Moving beyond the truism that race and gender intersect, Feder “thinks together” these categories without confl ating their different modes of production. To do so, she gives unique attention to a third fi gure—the family. According to Feder, although race and gender are experienced in inseparable ways, they are produced distinctly through the family. Mechanisms of gender act within the family, and mechanisms of race act upon it. To develop this position, provoca- tive in its very simplicity, Feder “tells stories” using Michel Foucault’s method of storytelling—genealogy. From the postwar construction of the Levittown suburb to the diagnosis and treatment of gender identity disorder (GID) to debates over the federal government’s “Violence Initiative”—Feder’s stories illustrate the family’s central role in the construction of race and gender. Family Bonds should fi nd and fascinate a broad academic audience; Feder’s prose is clear and

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