Same sex intimacies : families of choice and other life experiments /
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| Author / Creator: | Weeks, Jeffrey, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. |
| Description: | x, 245 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4489236 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Happy families?
- 'Pick and mix' relationships
- Stories we tell each other
- About the book
- 1. Families of choice: the changing context of non-heterosexual relationships
- The emergence of families of choice
- From identity to relational rights
- The politics of intimate life
- Living 'connected lives'
- 2. Life experiments: the meanings of non-heterosexual relationships
- Life stories
- A 'queer construct family'
- The heterosexual assumption
- Self-invention
- Everyday experiments
- 3. The friendship ethic
- The power of friendship
- Patterns of friendship
- Facing fateful moments
- The complexities of friendship
- Differences
- The value of commitment
- The significance of the friendship ethic
- 4. In search of home
- The different meaning of 'home'
- First home
- Tales of the city
- Reflexive community
- Multiple belongings
- Ways of living
- Everyday practices
- Home, community and care
- 5. Partnership rites
- Couples
- The egalitarian ideal
- Living with power
- Intimacy and love
- Affirming commitment
- 6. Sexual pleasures
- The value of sex
- Doing gender?
- Undoing gender?
- Ethics of relating
- Erotics and ethical practice
- 7. Parenting
- The 'gayby' boom
- Parenting stories
- Parenting practices
- Caring practices
- Hazards
- The needs of children
- 8. Towards intimate citizenship
- The unfinished revolution
- The possibilities
- The risks
- Practices of freedom
- Assimilation or difference?
- Intimate citizenship
- Appendix 1. Researching Same Sex Intimacies
- Appendix 2. Biographies of interviewees
- Bibliography
- Index