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Families we choose: lesbians, gays, kinship
title
Families we choose: lesbians, gays, kinship
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publisher
Columbia University Press
publication year
1991
description
Families We Choose explores the discourse on gay families that emerged in the 1980s. After the gay and lesbian movement made significant gains and in the midst of an AIDS epidemic, gays and lesbian borrowed and remade ideas of kinship, belonging, and family. West explores the lives of gay and lesbians in San Francisco through anthropological participant observation approach and in depth interviews. A fascinating study, Families We Choose will help readers understand how queer people have fought back against their oppression challenged representations and common practices that denied gays and lesbians access to kinship.
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reviewer
Leo Valdes
was created by
Weston, Kath