"Family Bonds inspires as much as it engrosses, inviting its readers to craft stories that speak to the exclusions and silences that characterize everyday narratives around race, gender, sex, and sexuality." --Philosophia
"Feder offers a comprehensive, well-researched look at the history of race and gender issues.... She adds the dimension of family and an insightful discussion involving the construction of race and gender issues using the paradigm of the family. For advanced students and scholars, many aspects of this book will be invaluable to the discussion of race and gender. The book offers discussions of studies, histories, and theories likely to be overlooked in similar works. The author's use of current cases will allow for lively class discussion based on theory as applicable to current events. Highly recommended."--L.L. Lovern, CHOICE
"Intersectionality is all the rage, but it lacks an overarching theory that would genuinely elucidate (rather than merely gesture at) the ways we develop as both raced and gendered beings. In this provocative Foucauldian treatment, Ellen Feder makes a challenging case that--albeit in different ways, through 'biopower' and 'discipline'--the family should be seen as the key site for the production of both."--Charles Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University
