Queering Families

Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times Volume 12
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-38620-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 368 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century

Envisioning queer futures where we lovingly wager everything for the world’s children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds, and in increasingly precarious times.

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 normative family structures by LGBTQ+ movements—calling into question how many queers, once deemed unfit to parent, have become contradictory agents within the US empire’s racial and colonial agendas.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spira, Tamara Lea

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction. The Beginning and the End of the World: Queering Families in Homonormative Times
1. The Long Story: The Nuclear Family and Its Other(s)
2. Opposing Figures: Good Families, Religious Liberties, and the Queering of Reproductive Justice
3. Your Children Are Not Your Children: Queer Investments in the Biogenetic Turn
4. Queering Family Abolition: Intergenerational Archives of Care
Epilogue. Dreams and Nightmares: Reproductive Dystopias, Reproductive Utopias

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tamara Lea Spira is Associate Professor of Queer Studies and American Studies in the Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University. A previous UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Spira received her PhD in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz.