Odd couples : friendships at the intersection of gender and sexual orientation / / Anna Muraco.

Muraco studies friendships between straight women and gay men and straight men and lesbians to consider how their relationships both challenge and reinforce conventional notions of sexuality and gender. Based on in-depth interviews, the book considers how people experience gender and sex roles diffe...

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Physical Description:1 online resource (210 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Vignette: Frank and Rebecca
  • You've got to have friends
  • Vignette: Ming and Ben
  • Snapshots of the intersectional friendship
  • Vignette: Brenda and Dan
  • We are family
  • Vignette: Mark and Cristina
  • Gender cops and robbers
  • Vignette: Justine and Antonio
  • What's sex got to do with it?
  • Vignette: Leyla and Ethan
  • The person is political
  • The future of intersectional friendships.