No place like home : relationships and family life among lesbians and gay men /

No place like home : relationships and family life among lesbians and gay men /

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Author / Creator:Carrington, Christopher.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 273 pages)
Language:English
Series:Worlds of desire
Worlds of desire.
Subject:
Gay couples -- California -- San Francisco.
Gays -- Family relationships -- California -- San Francisco.
Households -- California -- San Francisco.
Housekeeping -- California -- San Francisco.
Gay couples.
Gays -- Family relationships.
Households.
Housekeeping.
California -- San Francisco.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11207711
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780226094847
0226094847
9780226094854
0226094855
1282426222
9781282426221
9786612426223
6612426225
9780226094861
0226094855
0226094863
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:In the rich, often surprising 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.
Other form:Print version: Carrington, Christopher. No place like home. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999 9780226094861
Standard no.:10.7208/9780226094847
Table of 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?

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