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Queering Marriage - Challenging Family Formation in the United States

English · Paperback / Softback

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In-depth interviews with participants in non-traditional families are used to argue that same-sex marriage cannot be understood as simply entrenching or contesting heterosexual privilege. Instead, Katrina Kimport contends that these new legally sanctioned relationships can both reinforce as well as disrupt the association of marriage and heterosexuality. She provides a nuanced, accessible, and theoretically grounded framework for understanding the powerful effect of heterosexual expectations on both sexual and social categories.


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Acknowledgments

1. The Winter of Love
2. Marrying for the Movement
3. Marrying for Rights
4. Marrying for Love
5. Gender and Parenthood
6. The Persistent Power of Marriage
7. Exposing Heteronormativity
8. Conclusion

Methodological Appendix
Notes
References
Index


About the author










KATRINA KIMPORT is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and a research sociologist with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research examines the (re)production of social inequality, with a particular focus on gender, health, and reproduction. She is the author of  No Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive (Rutgers University Press) and coauthor of Digitally Enabled Social Change. She is the coauthor of Digitally Enabled Social Change.


Product details

Authors Katrina Kimport
Publisher Rutgers University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.11.2013
 
EAN 9780813562216
ISBN 978-0-8135-6221-6
No. of pages 212
Series Families in Focus (Paperback)
Families in Focus
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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