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Queering Families

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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 ...
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  • 08 April 2025
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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. 
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Price: $27.95
Pages: 368
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
ISBN: 9780520386211
Format: eBook
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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