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

by David L. Eng

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822347326
• ISBN13: 9780822347323
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"