Queering marriage : challenging family formation in the United States / Katrina Kimport.
In-depth interviews with participants in non-traditional families are used to argue that same-sex marriage cannot be understood as simply entrenching or contesting heterosexual privilege. Instead, the author contends that these new legally-sanctioned relationships can both reinforce as well as disru...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Families in focus.
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| Summary: | In-depth interviews with participants in non-traditional families are used to argue that same-sex marriage cannot be understood as simply entrenching or contesting heterosexual privilege. Instead, the author contends that these new legally-sanctioned relationships can both reinforce as well as disrupt the association of marriage and heterosexuality. She provides a nuanced, accessible, and theoretically grounded framework for understanding the powerful effect of heterosexual expectations on both sexual and social categories. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 199 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461951957 146195195X 9780813562230 0813562236 1306118182 9781306118187 |