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Queer families, queer politics : challenging culture and the state

Author: Mary Bernstein; Renate Reimann
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001.
Series: Between men--between women.
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The first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the broader issues of social movements, politics, and law.

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Bernstein; Renate Reimann
ISBN: 023111690X 9780231116909 0231116918 9780231116916
OCLC Number: 45356572
Description: xii, 461 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Queer families and the politics of visibility / Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann --
Member of the funeral : an introspective ethnography / Nancy A. Naples --
Weddings without marriage : making sense of lesbian and gay commitment rituals / Ellen Lewin --
"We can see them, but we can't hear them" : LGBT members of African American families / Michael Bennett and Juan Battle --
Talking freaks : lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families on daytime talk TV / Joshua Gamson --
One man's story of being gay and Diné (Navajo) : a study in resiliency / Margaret Ann Waller and Roland McAllen-Walker. Family secrets, or ... how to become a bisexual alien without really trying / Elizabeth Randolph --
Place called home : a queer political economy of Mexican immigrant men's family experiences / Lionel Cantú --
Constituting nonmonogamies / R. Jeffrey Ringer --
Communication in "Asian American" families with queer members : a relational dialectics perspective / Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and Philip C. Ho --
Affording our families : clan issues in family formation / Terry Boggis --
Should lesbians count as infertile couples? : antilesbian discrimination in assisted reproduction / Julien S. Murphy. Protecting our parent-child relationships : understanding the strengths and weaknesses of second-parent adoption / Susan E. Dalton --
"My daddy loves your daddy" : a gay father encounters a social movement / John C. Miller --
Alma mater : family "outings" and the making of the modern other mom (MOM) / Maureen Sullivan --
Lesbian mothers at work / Renate Reimann --
"Aside from one little, tiny detail, we are so incredibly normal" : perspectives of children in lesbian step families / Janet M. Wright --
Building common ground : strategies for grassroots organizing on same-sex marriage / Irene Javors with Renate Reimann. "What if?" : the legal consequences of marriage and the legal needs of lesbian and gay male couples / David L. Chambers --
Take my domestic partner, please : gays and marriage in the era of the visible / Suzanna Danuta Walters --
Defense, morality, civil rights, and family : the evolution of lesbian and gay issues in the U.S. Congress / Donald P. Haider-Markel --
Political organizing and the limits of civil rights : gay marriage and queer families / Randall Halle --
Transgenderism and sexual orientation : more than a marriage of convenience? / Mary Coombs --
Gender, queer family policies, and the limits of law / Mary Bernstein.
Series Title: Between men--between women.
Responsibility: edited by Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann.

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of particular value in this readable book are chapters on Asian American, Mexican immigrant, African American, and Native American Families Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education

 
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