Families We Choose

Families We Choose

Lesbians, Gays, Kinship

  • Autor: Weston, Kath
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780585380902
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780585380902
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 1997
  • Mes: Octubre
  • Idioma: Anglés
  • Contents
  • Preface to the PB Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • One
  • Two
  • Is "Straight" to "Gay" as "Family" is to "No Family"?
  • Deck the Halls
  • Kinship and Procreation
  • From Biology to Choice
  • Three
  • Disclosing Sexual Identity
  • Categorical Understandings (or, It's All Relative)
  • Family - Which Family?
  • Conditional Love
  • Discursive Locations
  • Taking Identity, Talking Kinship
  • Selection and Rejection
  • Four
  • Five
  • Building Gay Families
  • Substitute for Biological Family?
  • Friends and Lovers
  • From Friendship to Community
  • Deliberating Difference
  • Six
  • The Looking-Glass Other
  • Power "Differentials," Relationship "Roles"
  • Untitled
  • Narcissism, Kinship, and Class Convictions
  • Couples Versus Community
  • Reflections on Metaphor
  • Seven
  • The Lesbian Mother as Icon
  • Male-Female Revisited, Insemination and AIDS
  • Of Death and Birth
  • Blood Relatives Respond
  • Parents and Persons
  • Eight
  • Assimilation or Transformation
  • Common Ground
  • The Big Picture
  • Reengineering Biogenetics
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index