Queer families, queer politics challenging culture and the state (Columbia University Press, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Queer families and the politics of visibility - Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann -- - Member of the funeral : an introspective ethnography - Nancy A. Naples -- - Weddings without marriage : making sense of lesbian and gay commitment rituals - Ellen Lewin -- - "We can see them, but we can't hear them" : LGBT members of African American families - Michael Bennett and Juan Battle -- - Talking freaks : lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families on daytime talk TV - Joshua Gamson -- - One man's story of being gay and Diné (Navajo) : a study in resiliency - Margaret Ann Waller and Roland McAllen-Walker
Family secrets, or ... how to become a bisexual alien without really trying - Elizabeth Randolph -- - Place called home : a queer political economy of Mexican immigrant men's family experiences - Lionel Cantú -- - Constituting nonmonogamies - R. Jeffrey Ringer -- - Communication in "Asian American" families with queer members : a relational dialectics perspective - Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and Philip C. Ho -- - Affording our families : clan issues in family formation - Terry Boggis -- - Should lesbians count as infertile couples? : antilesbian discrimination in assisted reproduction - Julien S. Murphy
Protecting our parent-child relationships : understanding the strengths and weaknesses of second-parent adoption - Susan E. Dalton -- - "My daddy loves your daddy" : a gay father encounters a social movement - John C. Miller -- - Alma mater : family "outings" and the making of the modern other mom (MOM) - Maureen Sullivan -- - Lesbian mothers at work - Renate Reimann -- - "Aside from one little, tiny detail, we are so incredibly normal" : perspectives of children in lesbian step families - Janet M. Wright -- - Building common ground : strategies for grassroots organizing on same-sex marriage - Irene Javors with Renate Reimann
"What if?" : the legal consequences of marriage and the legal needs of lesbian and gay male couples - David L. Chambers -- - Take my domestic partner, please : gays and marriage in the era of the visible - Suzanna Danuta Walters -- - Defense, morality, civil rights, and family : the evolution of lesbian and gay issues in the U.S. Congress - Donald P. Haider-Markel -- - Political organizing and the limits of civil rights : gay marriage and queer families - Randall Halle -- - Transgenderism and sexual orientation : more than a marriage of convenience? - Mary Coombs -- - Gender, queer family policies, and the limits of law - Mary Bernstein