Everybody's Family Romance

This is one of the smartest, most lively books I've seen this year: I really love how Harkins takes an issue traditionally framed in terms of gender studies (incest--and "framed" is likely too weak a term for the polarizing, energizing role that sexual abuse plays in feminist studies), maintains the force of the gender studies account of incest, but shows its limitations, then proceeds to expand, contextualize, and rework this account within the broad historical arc of the economic and cultural changes usefully grafted together as neoliberalism. She builds on the groundwork laid by Wendy Brown and Lisa Duggan in demonstrating the critical usefulness of the neoliberal idea for a range of cultural studies, showing that neoliberalism is far from a liberal catchword.