Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State

Table of contents

• Queer Families, Queer Politics *
• Title Page *
• Between Men ˜ between Women - Lesbian and Gay Studies *
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Queer Families, Queer Politics *
• 1 - Queer Families and the Politics of Visibility 1
• Part 1 - Relationships *
• 2 - In/visibility a Member of the Funeral: an Introspective Ethnography 21
• 3 - In/visibility Weddings without Marriage: Making Sense of Lesbian and Gay Commitment Rituals 44
• 4 - In/visibility “we Can See Them, but We Can'T Hear Them:” Lgbt Members of African American Families 53
• 5 - In/visibility Talking Freaks: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families on Daytime Talk TV 68
• 6 - In/visibility One Man's Story of Being Gay and Diné (Navajo): a Study in Resiliency 87
• 7 - Communicating Our Relationships Family Secrets, or … How to Become a Bisexual Alien without Really Trying 104
• 8 - Communicating Our Relationships a Place Called Home: a Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences 112
• 9 - Communicating Our Relationships Constituting Nonmonogamies 137
• 10 - Communicating Our Relationships Communication in “asian American” Families with Queer Members: a Relational Dialectics Perspective 152
• Part 2 - Parenthood *
• 11 - Becoming Parents Affording Our Families: Class Issues in Family Formation 175
• 12 - Becoming Parents Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Antilesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction 182
• 13 - Becoming Parents Protecting Our Parent-Child Relationships: Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Second-Parent Adoption 201
• 14 - Becoming Parents “my Daddy Loves Your Daddy”: a Gay Father Encounters a Social Movement 221
• 15 - Parenthood Alma Mater: Family “outings” and the Making of the Modern Other Mother (Mom) 231
• 16 - Parenthood Lesbian Mothers at Work 254
• 17 - Parenthood “aside from One Little, Tiny Detail, We Are So Incredibly Normal”: Perspectives of Children in Lesbian Step Families 272
• Part 3 - Political Activism *
• 18 - The Marrying Kind? Building Common Ground: Strategies for Grassroots Organizing on Same-Sex Marriage 293
• 19 - The Marrying Kind? What If? the Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Legal Needs of Lesbian and Gay Male Couples 306
• 20 - The Marrying Kind? Take My Domestic Partner, Please: Gays and Marriage in the Era of the Visible 338
• 21 - The Marrying Kind? Defense, Morality, Civil Rights, and Family: the Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Issues in the U.S. Congress 358
• 22 - Gender Transgressions and Queer Family Law Political Organizing and the Limits of Civil Rights: Gay Marriage and Queer Families 379
• 23 - Gender Transgressions and Queer Family Law Transgenderism and Sexual Orientation: More Than a Marriage of Convenience? 397
• 24 - Gender Transgressions and Queer Family Law Gender, Queer Family Policies, and the Limits of Law 420
• Contributors 447
• Index 451
• Between Men ˜ between Women - Lesbian and Gay Studies 459

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