Families We Keep : : LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents /

Families We Keep : : LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents / / Rin Reczek, Emma Bosley-Smith.

Why LGBTQ adults don’t end troubled ties with parents and why (perhaps) they shouldFamilies We Keep is a surprising look at the life-long bonds between LGBTQ adults and their parents. Alongside the importance of “chosen families” in the queer community, Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith found that ve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Reczek, Rin,
Bosley-Smith, Emma,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 2 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Glossary
  • Introduction: The Parent Trap
  • Part I Why LGBTQ Adults Stay in the Family: The Power of Compulsory Kinship
  • 1 Compulsory Kinship
  • 2 The Rationale of Love and Closeness
  • 3 The Rationale of Growth
  • Part II How LGBTQ Adults Adhere to Compulsory Kinship
  • Introduction
  • 5 The Kin Closet
  • 6 Gender and Sexuality School
  • 7 Out of the Closet, Under the Rug
  • 8 Becoming Normal
  • 9 Out of the Family
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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