Families we choose

Kath Weston

Families we choose : lesbians, gays, kinship /Kath Weston - New York : Columbia University Press , ©1991. - xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm. - Between men--between women. .

Exiles from kinship --
Coming out to "blood" relatives --
Kinship and coherence: the stories --
Families we choose --
Lovers through the looking glass --
Parenting in the age of AIDS --
The politics of gay families.

This study draws upon fieldwork and interviews conducted in the San Francisco Bay area to explore the contemporary manner in which 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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Gay men--Family relationships--Kinship

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