Title:	Family bonds: genealogies of race and gender
Authors:	K. Feder, Ellen Cheshire Calhoun
Keywords:	Political and social views
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Description:	Feminist and critical race theorists alike have long acknowledged the ‘‘intersection’’ of gender and race difference; it is by now a truism that the ways that we become boys and girls, men and women cannot be disentangled from the ways in which we become white or black men and women, Asian or Latinoboys andgirls.Suchtheoretical analyseshavecontributedinimportant ways to discussions of how gender is ‘‘raced’’ and how race is ‘‘gendered.’’ And yet, there has been little comparative analysis of the specific mechanisms that are at work in the ‘‘production’’ of each, that is, how they are intelligible as categories, together with the ways these categories come to make sense of us—as raced and gendered human beings. Recognizing important differences between the production of gender and race can help feminist and critical race theorists ‘‘think together’’ these categories without conflating and thus misunderstanding the specific mechanisms of each
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/46499
ISBN:	978-0-19-531475-5
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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