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Product Description: Our Families, Our Values challenges both the gay community and American society to examine carefully the meaning of family values and the nature of social institutions such as marriage and the family. It asks you provoking, even disturbing, questions such as: âIs it prudent for members of the Lavender community to mimic heterosexual marriage or define personal relations networks as families, when these institutions are rapidly collapsing?â âAre we attempting to mainstream American society into accepting different views of marriage and families?â âAre we subscribing to notions of sexual property that are inherent to the marriage ceremony and the institution of marriage, when we choose to be married?â Despite the complexities of this issue, marriage constitutes a privileged position in western society, and, as this book shows you, without the legal recognition of same-sex marriages, there are many fundamental rights, as well as privileges, denied to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780789002341 | Routledge, November 1, 1997, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Our Families, Our Values challenges both the gay community and American society to examine carefully the meaning of family values and the nature of social institutions such as marriage and the family.
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9781560239109 | Routledge, October 1, 1997, cover price $52.95
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