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No place like home : relationships and family life among lesbians and gay men
- Title
- No place like home : relationships and family life among lesbians and gay men / Christopher Carrington.
- Author
- Carrington, Christopher.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 273 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Worlds of desire
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index.
- 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?
- Call Number
- JFE 00-1802
- ISBN
- 0226094855 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226094863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99019780
- OCLC
- 40821082
- Author
- Carrington, Christopher.
- Title
- No place like home : relationships and family life among lesbians and gay men / Christopher Carrington.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
- Series
- Worlds of desire
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-1802