Queering Marriage - Challenging Family Formation in the United States

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.

List of contents

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

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