Not in This Family Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America

Name: Not in This Family Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America
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ISBN: 9780812222241

ISBN-10: 0812222245

ISBN-13: 9780812222241

Edition: 2010

Authors: Heather Murray

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Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families.Not in This Familychallenges this myth and shows how kinship ties have been an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.Historian Heather Murray gives voice to gays and their parents through an extensive use of introspective writings, particularly personal correspondence and diaries, as well as through published memoirs, fiction, poetry, song lyrics, movies, and visual and print media. Starting in the late 1940s and 1950s,Not in This Familycovers the entire postwar period, including the gay…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 8/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

HEATHER MURRAY is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.



Introduction



Daughters and Sons for the Rest of Their Lives



Better Blatant Than Latent



What's Wrong with the Boys Nowadays?



Out of the Closets, Out of the Kitchens



''Every Generation Has Its War''


Epilogue: Mom, Dad, I'm Gay


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index