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Gay fatherhood : narratives of family and citizenship in America

Author: Ellen Lewin
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Ellen Lewin sets out to debunk the commonly held view that good gay fatherhood is a rarity, showing how stereotypes have been allowed to obscure the successful efforts of a growing number of gay men to rear well-adjusted children.
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ellen Lewin
ISBN: 9780226476568 9780226476582 0226476561 0226476588
OCLC Number: 299277989
Description: xiii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "How can you study such yucky people?" --
Family values : new questions about lesbian and gay peoples in the U.S. --
Consuming fatherhood --
"Something inside me" : gay fathers and nature --
Our own families --
Do the right thing --
"We're not gay anymore" --
Corrective lenses, or revisioning yuckiness.
Responsibility: Ellen Lewin.

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Chronicles the lives of gay men, exploring how they cope with political attacks from both the 'family values' right and the 'radical queer' left - while also shedding light on the evolving meanings  Read more...

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