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About this book
This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology.
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Table of contents
- 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