Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman's AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist.

Jaroslaw Milewski holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Lódz, where he currently works as a teaching assistant at the Department of American Literature. He is also an editorial secretary of InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies.

Introduction

Queer Kinship and the Culture Industry

Biopolitics of The Culture Industry

Sex and Kinship

The Scapegoating of Patient O

Thicker Than Blood

Monogamy as a Cure

A Simulacrum of Diversity

A Lifetime of Resistance

Activists and Bohemians

Forgetful Bohemians

Meaningful Kinship

Acting up for Justice

Witnessing Among Rats

"Familial Homophobia..."

"...and Its Consequences"

Unbearable Witnessing

No Country for the Rats

Towards Queer Kinship

Queer Fractures

One of Us

The Normal Love

Conclusion