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Odd couples : friendships at the intersection of gender and sexual orientation / Anna Muraco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muraco, Anna, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship.
- Sexual orientation.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Muraco studies friendships between straight women and gay men and straight men and lesbians to consider how their relationships both challenge and reinforce conventional notions of sexuality and gender. Based on in-depth interviews, the book considers how people experience gender and sex roles differently within these intersectional relationships.
- Contents:
- Vignette: Frank and Rebecca
- You've got to have friends
- Vignette: Ming and Ben
- Snapshots of the intersectional friendship
- Vignette: Brenda and Dan
- We are family
- Vignette: Mark and Cristina
- Gender cops and robbers
- Vignette: Justine and Antonio
- What's sex got to do with it?
- Vignette: Leyla and Ethan
- The person is political
- The future of intersectional friendships.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record
- ISBN:
- 9786613664280
- 9781280687341
- 1280687347
- 9780822395119
- 0822395118
- OCLC:
- 787876270
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