Families we choose : lesbians, gays, kinship /
This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[1997], ©1997
New York : c1997 New York : [1997] |
| Edition: | Rev. ed. with a new preface |
| Series: | Between men--between women
Between men--between women |
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Table of Contents:
- The monkey cage and the red DeSoto
- Exiles from kinship
- Coming out to "blood" relatives
- Kinship and coherence : ten stories
- Families we choose
- Lovers through the looking glass
- Parenting in the age of AIDS
- The politics of gay families
- 1 The Monkey Cage and the Red Desoto
- 2. Exiles from Kinship. Is Straight to Gay as Family Is to No Family? Deck the Halls. Kinship and Procreation. From Biology to Choice
- 3. Coming Out to "Blood" Relatives. Disclosing Sexual Identity. Categorical Understandings (Or, It's All Relative). Family - Which Family? Conditional Love. Discursive Locations. Taking Identity, Talking Kinship. Selection and Rejection
- 4. Kinship and Coherence: Ten Stories
- 5. Families We Choose. Building Gay Families. Substitute for Biological Family? Friends and Lovers. From Friendship to Community. Deliberating Difference
- 6. Lovers through the Looking Glass. The Looking-Glass Other. Power "Differentials," Relationship "Roles" The Urge to Merge. Narcissism, Kinship, and Class Convictions. Couples Versus Community. Reflections on Metaphor
- 7. Parenting in the Age of AIDS. The Lesbian Mother as Icon. Male-Female Revisited: Insemination and AIDS. Of Death and Birth.
- Blood Relatives Respond Parents and Persons
- 8. The Politics of Gay Families. Assimilation or Transformation? Common Ground. The Big Picture. Reengineering Biogenetics.