Queer families, queer politics : challenging culture and the state / edited by Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernstein, Mary.

Reimann, Renate.

Series:

Between men--between women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay and lesbian studies.

Bisexuality.

Gay men--Family relationships.

Gay men.

Lesbians--Family relationships.

Lesbians.

Physical Description:

xii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]

Summary:

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 political in the contexts of relationships, parenthood, and political activism.

Contents:

1. Queer Families and the Politics of Visibility / Mary Bernstein, Renate Reimann 1

Part 1 Relationships

In/Visibility

2. A Member of the Funeral: An Introspective Ethnography / Nancy A. Naples 21

3. Weddings Without Marriage: Making Sense of Lesbian and Gay Commitment Rituals / Ellen Lewin 44

4. "We Can See Them, But We Can't Hear Them": LGBT Members of African American Families / Michael Bennett, Juan Battle 53

5. Talking Freaks: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families on Daytime Talk TV / Joshua Gamson 68

6. One Man's Story of Being Gay and Dine (Navajo): A Study in Resiliency / Margaret Ann Waller, Roland McAllen-Walker 87

Communicating Our Relationships

7. Family Secrets, or ... How to Become a Bisexual Alien Without Really Trying / Elizabeth Randolph 104

8. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences / Lionel Cantu 112

9. Constituting Nonmonogamies / R. Jeffrey Ringer 137

10. Communication in "Asian American" Families with Queer Members: A Relational Dialectics Perspective / Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, Philip C. Ho 152

Part 2 Parenthood

Becoming Parents

11. Affording Our Families: Class Issues in Family Formation / Terry Boggis 175

12. Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Antilesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction / Julien S. Murphy 182

13. Protecting Our Parent-Child Relationships: Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Second-Parent Adoption / Susan E. Dalton 201

Parenthood

14. "My Daddy Loves Your Daddy": A Gay Father Encounters a Social Movement / John C. Miller 221

15. Alma Mater: Family "Outings" and the Making of the Modern Other Mother (MOM) / Maureen Sullivan 231

16. Lesbian Mothers at Work / Renate Reimann 254

17. "Aside From One Little, Tiny Detail, We Are So Incredibly Normal": Perspectives of Children in Lesbian Step Families / Janet M. Wright 272

Part 3 Political Activism

The Marrying Kind?

18. Building Common Ground: Strategies for Grassroots Organizing on Same-Sex Marriage / Irene Javors, Renate Reimann 293

19. "What If?" The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Legal Needs of Lesbian and Gay Male Couples / David L. Chambers 306

20. Take My Domestic Partner, Please: Gays and Marriage in the Era of the Visible / Suzanna Danuta Walters 338

21. Defense, Morality, Civil Rights, and Family: The Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Issues in the U.S. Congress / Donald P. Haider-Markel 358

Gender Transgressions and Queer Family Law

22. Political Organizing and the Limits of Civil Rights: Gay Marriage and Queer Families / Randall Halle 379

23. Transgenderism and Sexual Orientation: More Than a Marriage of Convenience? / Mary Coombs 397

24. Gender, Queer Family Policies, and the Limits of Law / Mary Bernstein 420.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

023111690X

0231116918

OCLC:

45356572