The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-First Century

David Eng, David L. Eng

The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy

In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"--the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our "colorblind" age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark legal decision overturning Texas's antisodomy statute, Eng reveals how the ghosts of miscegenation haunt both Lawrence and the advent of queer liberalism.Eng develops the concept of "queer diasporas" as a critical response to queer liberalism. A methodology drawing attention to new forms of family and kinship, accounts of subjects and subjectivities, and relations of affect and desire, the concept differs from the traditional notions of diaspora, theories of the nation-state, and principles of neoliberal capitalism upon which queer liberalism thrives. Eng analyzes films, documentaries, ...

Suzanne Braun Levine

Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood

New brain research is proving it: Women at midlife really do start to see the world differently. Some 37 million women now entering their fifties and sixties a unique generation are refashioning their lives, with dramatic results. They have fulfilled all the prescribed roles daughter, wife, mother, employee, but they re not ready to retire. They want to experience more. Suzanne Braun Levine gives us a fun, smart, and tremendously informative road map through the challenging and uncharted territory that lies ahead."

The Cost of Choice: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion

Captures the moral, legal, medical and political complexities surrounding abortion. Page dim. 228 x 153 Weight: 312 grams