Same Sex Intimacies Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments

Name: Same Sex Intimacies Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments
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ISBN: 9780415254762

ISBN-10: 0415254760

ISBN-13: 9780415254762

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jeffrey Weeks, Brian Heaphy, Catherine Donovan

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This text offers vivid accounts of the different ways non-heterosexual people have been able to create meaningful intimate relationships for themselves.

Book details

List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/18/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Catherine Donovan is professor of social relations at the University of Sunderland. She is coauthor of "Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments".



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Happy families?


'Pick and mix' relationships


Stories we tell each other


About the book



Families of choice: the changing context of non-heterosexual relationships


The emergence of families of choice


From identity to relational rights


The politics of intimate life


Living 'connected lives'



Life experiments: the meanings of non-heterosexual relationships


Life stories


A 'queer construct family'


The heterosexual assumption


Self-invention


Everyday experiments



The friendship ethic


The power of friendship


Patterns of friendship


Facing fateful moments


The complexities of friendship


Differences


The value of commitment


The significance of the friendship ethic



In search of home


The different meaning of 'home'


First home


Tales of the city


Reflexive community


Multiple belongings


Ways of living


Everyday practices


Home, community and care



Partnership rites


Couples


The egalitarian ideal


Living with power


Intimacy and love


Affirming commitment



Sexual pleasures


The value of sex


Doing gender?


Undoing gender?


Ethics of relating


Erotics and ethical practice



Parenting


The 'gayby' boom


Parenting stories


Parenting practices


Caring practices


Hazards


The needs of children



Towards intimate citizenship


The unfinished revolution


The possibilities


The risks


Practices of freedom


Assimilation or difference?


Intimate citizenship



Researching Same Sex Intimacies



Biographies of interviewees


Bibliography


Index