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Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship Revised Edition
Author(s): Kath Weston (Author)
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: April 15, 1997
- Edition: Revised
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0231110936
- ISBN-13: 9780231110938
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Graceful.... Valuable for the ways it demonstrates that, like race, gender and sexual identity, the meaning of kinship is culturally relative--and susceptible to change. ― The Women's Review of Books
The first to analyze the historical conditions, social meaning, and political implications of lesbians and gays' appropriating the language of kinship...A fine book. ―
Contemporary SociologyRepresents a new direction in lesbian and gay studies and in the anthropology of American culture. ―
SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and SocietyThis book demands--and deserves--thorough and careful reading....A well-documented work for gay studies collections. ―
Library JournalWeighs in as an important contribution to current debates about family and family values. ―
American Journal of SociologyAbout the Author
Kath Weston is associate professor of anthropology at Arizona State University West in Phoenix.
