Introduction: the Bunge family : queerness, kinship, and modernity -- Carlos Octavio Bunge : queer desire and family fictions -- Sisters writing, sisters reading : the diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge -- Spectral desires : queering the family album -- Family pedagogy : the institutionalization of kinship -- National essays, home economics : the Argentine oligarchy in decline -- Epilogue. Toward a queer Latin American studies -- Notes -- Index