Review by Choice Review
Montegary (Stony Brook) examines the politics of LGBTQ families in the US through the themes of anxiety, visibility, equality, and vitality, as she simultaneously compiles a history of these families. This book challenges several myths in the public imagination about the LGBTQ community, such as the myth of affluence. The conclusions solidify her project. "My hope has been to sharpen our understanding of the familial methods of social control currently at work and, in doing so, to lay the analytic groundwork needed for building broader and more just grassroots movements.... I approached the rise and recent success of family equality advocacy as conditioned by and constitutive of the neoliberal reconfiguration of U.S. racial and sexual politics." Montegary explores the intersections of LGBTQ families and tourism, the financial services industry, and the court battles on which mainstream LGBTQ organizations staked their movement. Deeply researched, Montegary's contextualization of terms like "homonormativity," "homonationalism," and "chosen families," which underpin discussions of LGBTQ politics and family life, will be essential guideposts for readers. This is an indispensable text for all libraries. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.--Caro Pinto, Mount Holyoke College
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Review by Choice Review
