No place like home : relationships and family life among lesbians and gay men /

In the rich, often surprising portrait of the everyday world of lesbian and gay relationships, Christopher Carrington captures the experiences of creating and maintaining a home and a "chosen" family. Observing lesbians and gay men as they go about their daily routines, Carrington unveils...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carrington, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Colección:Worlds of desire.
Temas:
Gay couples > California > San Francisco.
Gay people > Family relationships > California > San Francisco.
Households > California > San Francisco.
Housekeeping > California > San Francisco.
Personnes homosexuelles > Relations familiales > Californie > San Francisco.
Ménages (Statistique) > Californie > San Francisco.
Travail domestique > Californie > San Francisco.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
Gay couples
Gays > Family relationships
Households
Housekeeping
California > San Francisco
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Vantage points: situating myself
  • Vantage points: intellectual traditions and the study of domesticity
  • Caring and domesticity among lesbigay families
  • The work and family lives of lesbigay people
  • Equality, egalitarianism, and fairness
  • The organization and method of the study
  • The participants
  • Characteristics of the participants
  • Domestic diversity
  • Overview
  • pt. 1. Feeding lesbigay families. The character of feeding work
  • Feeding work and the creation of gender, class, ethnic, and family identities
  • pt. 2. Housework in lesbigay families. The character of housework
  • Managing and envisioning housework
  • Variations in housework among lesbigay households
  • Housework and the social production of lesbigay family
  • pt. 3. Kin work among lesbigay families. Kith as family
  • The lesbigay family kin keepers
  • Variations in kin work patterns
  • Kin work and the creation of family
  • pt. 4. Consumption work in lesbigay families. The character of consumption work
  • Variations in consumption work
  • Sustaining lesbigay families through consumption work
  • pt. 5. The division of domestic labor in lesbigay families. The egalitarian myth
  • The egalitarian pattern
  • The specialization pattern
  • Pragmatic choices and the sense of fairness
  • Conclusion. Domesticity and the political economy of lesbigay families. Family aspirations
  • The political economy of constructing family
  • Now you see it, now you don't: gender and domesticity
  • Devalued and invisible: lesbigay domesticity
  • Marriage and lesbigay domesticity: who will be bound by the ties that bind?
  • What do lesbigay families need to prosper?

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