LGBT families
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LGBT families
（Contemporary family perspectives）
Sage, 2015
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-204) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Part of the SAGE Contemporary Family Perspective series, this book presents a comprehensive yet accessible understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families today by drawing upon and making sense of the burgeoning scholarly literature about LGBT families from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It pays particular attention to how structures of race, class, gender, sexuality, and age shape LGBT families, and how members of such families negotiate the social landscapes within which they exist. The book will help readers better understand the formation, experiences, challenges, and strengths of LGBT families, and address two main questions: Why are new family forms so threatening to certain groups of people in society? and How are new family forms beneficial to the society in which they exist?
Here is what author Nancy Mezey had to say in a recent interview:
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"LGBT people are creating families in a society that simultaneously demonizes and embraces them. With a desire to understand and perhaps deconstruct this rocky terrain, I decided to write LGBT Families, a comprehensive overview based on solid research so that readers can form their own opinions."
"This book stands in solidarity with all diverse family forms - families that developed out of particular social and economic contexts, and that contribute to the society around them, despite the hardships that some in society may level at them."
Table of Contents
Series Preface
Preface and Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1. LGBT Families
Chapter 2. Marriage
Chapter 3. LGBT Parents
Chapter 4. LGBT Youth
Chapter 5. Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 6. Learning From LGBT Families
References
Index
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