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082 _a306.87 WES
100 _aKath Weston
245 _aFamilies we choose
_b: lesbians, gays, kinship
_c/Kath Weston
260 _aNew York
_b: Columbia University Press
_c, ©1991.
300 _axi, 261 pages
_c ; 24 cm.
490 _aBetween men--between women.
505 _a 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aSocial Science
655 _aGay men--Family relationships
_bKinship
700 _aKath Weston
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