Kissing Cousins: A New Kinship Bestiary

by Frances Bartkowski

Since DNA has replaced blood as the medium through which we establish kinship, how do we determine with whom we are kin? Who counts among those we care for? The distinction between these categories is constantly in flux. How do we come to decide those we may kiss and those we may kill?

Focusing on narratives of kinship as they are defined in contemporary film, literature, and news media, Frances Bartkowski discusses the impact of "stories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231144520
• ISBN13: 9780231144520
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.8" x 7.1"