Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State
This is 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.\ Chapters address the themes of visibility, transgression, and resistance, as well as the intersection between the personal and political in the contexts of relationships, parenthood, and political activism. Giving special attention to families of color, immigrant, and poor families, the authors...
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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, Queer Families, Queer Politics addresses the themes of visibility, transgression, and resistance, as well as the intersection between the personal and Booknews Linking the microdynamics of family, gender, and sexuality to the macrodynamics of politics and the law, 24 contributions address such topics as the creation of intimate relationships among queer adults and with families of origin; queer parents' disparate access to institutions that support families and the ways in which children force the issue of being visible; and the connection between the visibility and aspirations of queer families, and political and legal change. The articles argue that queer families not only challenge culture and the state but also, because of their diversity, complicate lesbian and gay politics. Edited by Bernstein (justice studies, Arizona State U.) and Reimann, who is currently conducting a cross-cultural study of dance and club cultures and the popular music industry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgments1Queer Families and the Politics of Visibility12A Member of the Funeral: An Introspective Ethnography213Weddings Without Marriage: Making Sense of Lesbian and Gay Commitment Rituals444"We Can See Them, But We Can't Hear Them": LGBT Members of African American Families535Talking Freaks: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families on Daytime Talk TV686One Man's Story of Being Gay and Dine (Navajo): A Study in Resiliency877Family Secrets, or ... How to Become a Bisexual Alien Without Really Trying1048A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences1129Constituting Nonmonogamies13710Communication in "Asian American" Families with Queer Members: A Relational Dialectics Perspective15211Affording Our Families: Class Issues in Family Formation17512Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Antilesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction18213Protecting Out Parent-Child Relationships: Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Second-Parent Adoption20114"My Daddy Loves Your Daddy": A Gay Father Encounters a Social Movement22115Alma Mater: Family "Outings" and the Making of the Modern Other Mother (MOM)23116Lesbian Mothers at Work25417"Aside From One Little, Tiny Detail, We Are So Incredibly Normal": Perspectives of Children in Lesbian Step Families27218Building Common Ground: Strategies for Grassroots Organizing on Same-Sex Marriage29319"What If?" The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Legal Needs of Lesbian and Gay Male Couples30620Take My Domestic Partner, Please: Gays and Marriage in the Era of the Visible33821Defense, Morality, Civil Rights, and Family: The Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Issues in the U.S. Congress35822Political Organizing and the Limits of Civil Rights: Gay Marriage and Queer Families37923Transgenderism and Sexual Orientation: More Than a Marriage of Convenience?39724Gender, Queer Family Policies, and the Limits of Law420List of Contributors447Index451
\ Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Educationof particular value in this readable book are chapters on Asian American, Mexican immigrant, African American, and Native American Families\ \ \ \ \ \ BooknewsLinking the microdynamics of family, gender, and sexuality to the macrodynamics of politics and the law, 24 contributions address such topics as the creation of intimate relationships among queer adults and with families of origin; queer parents' disparate access to institutions that support families and the ways in which children force the issue of being visible; and the connection between the visibility and aspirations of queer families, and political and legal change. The articles argue that queer families not only challenge culture and the state but also, because of their diversity, complicate lesbian and gay politics. Edited by Bernstein (justice studies, Arizona State U.) and Reimann, who is currently conducting a cross-cultural study of dance and club cultures and the popular music industry. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
