Not in This Family : : Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America / / Heather Murray.

Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. Not in This Family challenges this myth and shows how kinship ties were an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of th...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2011
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 25 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Daughters and Sons for the Rest of Their Lives
  • 2. Better Blatant Than Latent
  • 3. What's Wrong with the Boys Nowadays?
  • 4. Out of the Closets, Out of the Kitchens
  • 5. ''Every Generation Has Its War''
  • EPILOGUE. Mom, Dad, I'm Gay
  • NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX