| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) |
| Series |
Worlds of desire |
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Worlds of desire
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| Contents |
Introduction. Vantage points: situating myself -- Vantage points: intellectual traditions and the study of domesticity -- Caring and domesticity among lesbigay families -- The work and family lives of lesbigay people -- Equality, egalitarianism, and fairness -- The organization and method of the study -- The participants -- Characteristics of the participants -- Domestic diversity -- Overview -- pt. 1. Feeding lesbigay families. The character of feeding work -- Feeding work and the creation of gender, class, ethnic, and family identities -- pt. 2. Housework in lesbigay families. The character of housework -- Managing and envisioning housework -- Variations in housework among lesbigay households -- Housework and the social production of lesbigay family -- pt. 3. Kin work among lesbigay families. Kith as family -- The lesbigay family kin keepers -- Variations in kin work patterns -- Kin work and the creation of family -- pt. 4. Consumption work in lesbigay families. The character of consumption work -- Variations in consumption work -- Sustaining lesbigay families through consumption work -- pt. 5. The division of domestic labor in lesbigay families. The egalitarian myth -- The egalitarian pattern -- The specialization pattern -- Pragmatic choices and the sense of fairness -- Conclusion. Domesticity and the political economy of lesbigay families. Family aspirations -- The political economy of constructing family -- Now you see it, now you don't: gender and domesticity -- Devalued and invisible: lesbigay domesticity -- Marriage and lesbigay domesticity: who will be bound by the ties that bind? -- What do lesbigay families need to prosper? |
| Summary |
In the rich, often surprising portrait of the everyday world of lesbian and gay relationships, Christopher Carrington captures the experiences of creating and maintaining a home and a "chosen" family. Observing lesbians and gay men as they go about their daily routines, Carrington unveils the complex, frequently hidden, and sometimes artful ways that gay people make a family and home for themselves |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gay couples -- California -- San Francisco
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Gays -- Family relationships -- California -- San Francisco
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Households -- California -- San Francisco
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Housekeeping -- California -- San Francisco
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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Gay couples.
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Gays -- Family relationships.
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Households.
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Housekeeping.
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California -- San Francisco.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99019780 |
| ISBN |
9780226094847 |
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0226094847 |
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9780226094854 |
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0226094855 |
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1282426222 |
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9781282426221 |
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9786612426223 |
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6612426225 |
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