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Tables of Contents for Queer Families, Queer Politics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Queer Families and the Politics of Visibility
1
20
Mary Bernstein
Renate Reimann
PART 1 Relationships
In/Visibility
A Member of the Funeral: An Introspective Ethnography
21
23
Nancy A. Naples
Weddings Without Marriage: Making Sense of Lesbian and Gay Commitment Rituals
44
9
Ellen Lewin
``We Can See Them, But We Can't Hear Them'': LGBT Members of African American Families
53
15
Michael Bennett
Juan Battle
Talking Freaks: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families on Daytime Talk TV
68
19
Joshua Gamson
One Man's Story of Being Gay and Dine (Navajo): A Study in Resiliency
87
17
Margaret Ann Waller
Roland McAllen-Walker
Communicating Our Relationships
Family Secrets, or...How to Become a Bisexual Alien Without Really Trying
104
8
Elizabeth Randolph
A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences
112
25
Lionel Cantu
Constituting Nonmonogamies
137
15
R. Jeffrey Ringer
Communication in ``Asian American'' Families with Queer Members: A Relational Dialectics Perspective
152
23
Gust A. Yep
Karen E. Lovaas
Philip C. Ho
PART 2 Parenthood
Becoming Parents
Affording Our Families: Class Issues in Family Formation
175
7
Terry Boggis
Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Antilesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction
182
19
Julien S. Murphy
Protecting Our Parent-Child Relationships: Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Second-Parent Adoption
201
20
Susan E. Dalton
Parenthood
``My Daddy Loves Your Daddy'': A Gay Father Encounters a Social Movement
221
10
John C. Miller
Alma Mater: Family ``Outings'' and the Making of the Modern Other Mother (MOM)
231
23
Maureen Sullivan
Lesbian Mothers at Work
254
18
Renate Reimann
``Aside From One Little, Tiny Detail, We Are So Incredibly Normal'': Prespectives of Children in Lesbian Step Families
272
21
Janet M. Wright
PART 3 Political Activism
The Marrying Kind?
Building Common Ground: Strategies for Grassroots Organizing on Same-Sex Marriage
293
13
Irene Javors
Renate Reimann
``What If?'' The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Legal Needs of Lesbian and Gay Male Couples
306
32
David L. Chambers
Take My Domestic Partner, Please: Gays and Marriage in the Era of the Visible
338
20
Suzanna Danuta Walters
Defense, Morality, Civil Rights, and Family: The Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Issues in the U.S. Congress
358
21
Donald P. Haider-Markel
Gender Transgression and Queer Family Law
Political Organizing and the Limits of Civil Rights: Gay Marriage and Queer Families
379
18
Randall Halle
Transgenderism and Sexual Orientation: More Than a Marriage of Convenience?
397
23
Mary Coombs
Gender, Queer Family Policies, and the Limits of Law
420
27
Mary Bernstein
List of Contributors
447
4
Index
451