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Families we choose : lesbians, gays, kinship /

Winner of a Ruth Benedict Prize in Anthropology 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weston, Kath, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [1991]
Colección:Between men--between women.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents13;
  • Preface to the PB Edition13;
  • Acknowledgments13;
  • One13;
  • Two13;
  • Is "Straight" to "Gay" as "Family" is to "No Family"?13;
  • Deck the Halls13;
  • Kinship and Procreation13;
  • From Biology to Choice13;
  • Three13;
  • Disclosing Sexual Identity13;
  • Categorical Understandings (or, It's All Relative)13;
  • Family
  • Which Family?13;
  • Conditional Love13;
  • Discursive Locations13;
  • Taking Identity, Talking Kinship13;
  • Selection and Rejection13;
  • Four13;
  • Five13;
  • Building Gay Families13;
  • Substitute for Biological Family?13;
  • Friends and Lovers13;
  • From Friendship to Community13;
  • Deliberating Difference13;
  • Six13;
  • The Looking-Glass Other13;
  • Power "Differentials," Relationship "Roles"13;
  • Untitled
  • Narcissism, Kinship, and Class Convictions13;
  • Couples Versus Community13;
  • Reflections on Metaphor13;
  • Seven13;
  • The Lesbian Mother as Icon13;
  • Male-Female Revisited, Insemination and AIDS13;
  • Of Death and Birth13;
  • Blood Relatives Respond13;
  • Parents and Persons13;
  • Eight13;
  • Assimilation or Transformation13;
  • Common Ground13;
  • The Big Picture13;
  • Reengineering Biogenetics13;
  • Appendix13;
  • Notes13;
  • References13;
  • Index.