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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vantage Points: Situating Myself | |
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| Vantage Points: Intellectual Traditions and the Study of Domesticity | |
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| Caring and Domesticity among Lesbigay Families | |
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| The Work and Family Lives of Lesbigay People | |
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| Equality, Egalitarianism, and Fairness | |
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| The Organization and Method of the Study | |
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| The Participants | |
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| Characteristics of the Participants | |
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| Domestic Diversity | |
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| Overview | |
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| Feeding Lesbigay Families | |
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| The Character of Feeding Work | |
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| Feeding Work and the Creation of Gender, Class, Ethnic, and Family Identities | |
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| Housework in Lesbigay Families | |
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| The Character of Housework | |
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| Managing and Envisioning Housework | |
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| Variations in Housework among Lesbigay Households | |
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| Housework and the Social Production of Lesbigay Family | |
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| Kin Work among Lesbigay Families | |
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| Kith as Family | |
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| The Lesbigay Family Kin Keepers | |
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| Variations in Kin Work Patterns | |
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| Kin Work and the Creation of Family | |
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| Consumption Work in Lesbigay Families | |
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| The Character of Consumption Work | |
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| Variations in Consumption Work | |
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| Sustaining Lesbigay Families through Consumption Work | |
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| The Division of Domestic Labor in Lesbigay Families | |
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| The Egalitarian Myth | |
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| The Egalitarian Pattern | |
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| The Specialization Pattern | |
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| Pragmatic Choices and the Sense of Fairness | |
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| Conclusion: Domesticity and the Political Economy of Lesbigay Families | |
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| Family Aspirations | |
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| The Political Economy of Constructing Family | |
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| Now You See It, Now You Don't: Gender and Domesticity | |
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| Devalued and Invisible: Lesbigay Domesticity | |
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| Marriage and Lesbigay Domesticity: Who Will Be Bound by the Ties That Bind? | |
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| What Do Lesbigay Families Need to Prosper? | |
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| Interview Guide | |
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| Sample Characteristics | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |