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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. |
Abstract:
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 of family in twenty-first-century America.
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"Gay Fatherhood is doubly a magnificient achievement: it not only offers an exemplary investigation into the lived experience of gay parenting, but also shows how the struggles and triumphs of these gay men and their children can act as a kind of lens into how American cultures more broadly understand family, love, responsibility, and belonging." - Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine" Read more...
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