No Place Like Home - Christopher Carrington

No Place Like Home

Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men
Buch | Softcover
285 Seiten
2002
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-09486-1 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
This portrait 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, it unveils the complex and sometimes artful ways that gay people make a family and home for themselves.
In this 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. Based on a careful analysis of interviews and field evidence, "No Place Like Home" demonstrates how gay and lesbian couples attempt to strike a balance between work and family obligations, and how they must also struggle against forces undermining their relationships. Carrington skillfully addresses the conflicts that surround domestic tasks and shows how gay and lesbian couples sometimes hold unspoken or unrealistic expectations about household and family life. Carrington brings such expectations into the open, and in the process he challenges many stereotypes about gay and lesbian family life, from the myth of gay family affluence to the notion that such relationships are beacons of equality. He argues that family life really varies by class, gender, race, occupation, and neighborhood.
Finally, with one eye on the day-to-day domestic lives of diverse gay and lesbian households and the other eye on the public policy options now emerging to address lesbian and gay family life, Carrington makes the case for expanding domestic partnership policies instead of attaining legal marriage as the ideal solution for achieving happiness, equity, and longevity for lesbian and gay families.

Christopher Carrington is an assistant professor in sociology and the Program for Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.6.2002
Reihe/Serie Worlds of Desire
Sprache englisch
Maße 16 x 23 mm
Gewicht 425 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-226-09486-3 / 0226094863
ISBN-13 978-0-226-09486-1 / 9780226094861
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