Second-Class Daughters examines the lives of 'adoptive daughters' in Brazil: the marginalized informal domestic workers who live in slave-like conditions in the homes of their adoptive families. This powerful account will interest readers invested in the colonial legacies of slavery, as it questions standard ideas about love, family and freedom.
Elizabeth Freeman expands bipolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century and showing how time became a social and sensory means by which people resisted disciplinary regimes and assembled into groups in ways that created new forms of sociality.
Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and observations within ten core families, this study of intimate relationships as sites of racial socialization reveals a new facet of race-based differential treatment and its origins-and the mechanisms that p
By foregrounding bodily pleasure in the experience of time and its representation in queer literature, film, video, and art, Elizabeth Freeman challenges queer theorys recent emphasis on loss and trauma.