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Same Sex Intimacies

Author : Catherine Donovan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134576498
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Same Sex Intimacies written by Catherine Donovan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser extent, of same sex parenting. Based on extensive interviews with people in a variety of non-traditional relationships, this fascinating new book argues that these developments in the non-heterosexual world are closely linked to wider changes in the meaning of family in society at large, and that each can cast light on the other. Same Sex Intimacies gives vivid accounts of the different ways non-heterosexual people have been able to create meaningful intimate relationships for themselves, and highlights the role of individual agency and collective endeavour in forging these roles: as friends, partners, parents and as members of communities. This topical book will provide compelling reading for students of the family, sexuality and lesbian and gay studies.

Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life

Author : Rebecca Jennings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350358886
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life written by Rebecca Jennings and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on patterns of intimacy, this book traces the historical roots of parenting practices and familial patterns constructed by lesbians and same-sex attracted women living in Britain and Australia between 1945 and 2000. It foregrounds women's unique lived experiences, as they expressed desire, fell in love, and created families against the backdrop of changing cultural, legal, and medical attitudes to female same-sex desire in the late 20th century. Including almost 100 original oral history interviews conducted by the author, Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life reveals the subjective histories of lesbian intimacy during the period, both highlighting the huge variety in women's experiences, and tracing shifting patterns of relationship and family formation. Combined with analysis of representations of lesbian intimacy in literature, press articles, medical texts, and archival material, the book demonstrates the ways in which changing political and cultural concepts of sexuality impacted on individual and collective attitudes. With a unique transnational perspective, Jennings uncovers how feminist and lesbian networks between Britain and Australia promoted knowledge sharing and helped foster change in the familial practices of each country such as through the adoption of reproductive technologies and alternate routes into motherhood. Through considering the rise of divorce and challenges to traditional marriage practices in the period, this book highlights how lesbian relationships provided alternative models of interpersonal relations, impacting on broader patterns of sexuality, and helping redefine notions of the family in the modern era.

Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life

Author : Rebecca Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350372511
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life written by Rebecca Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on patterns of intimacy, this book traces the historical roots of parenting practices and familial patterns constructed by lesbians and same-sex attracted women living in Britain and Australia between 1945 and 2000. It foregrounds women's unique lived experiences, as they expressed desire, fell in love, and created families against the backdrop of changing cultural, legal, and medical attitudes to female same-sex desire in the late 20th century. Including almost 100 original oral history interviews conducted by the author, Lesbian Intimacies and Family Life reveals the subjective histories of lesbian intimacy during the period, both highlighting the huge variety in women's experiences, and tracing shifting patterns of relationship and family formation. Combined with analysis of representations of lesbian intimacy in literature, press articles, medical texts, and archival material, the book demonstrates the ways in which changing political and cultural concepts of sexuality impacted on individual and collective attitudes. With a unique transnational perspective, Jennings uncovers how feminist and lesbian networks between Britain and Australia promoted knowledge sharing and helped foster change in the familial practices of each country - such as through the adoption of reproductive technologies and alternate routes into motherhood. Through considering the rise of divorce and challenges to traditional marriage practices in the period, this book highlights how lesbian relationships provided alternative models of interpersonal relations, impacting on broader patterns of sexuality, and helping redefine notions of the family in the modern era.

The Lesbian Family Life Cycle

Author : Suzanne Slater
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067839
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Lesbian Family Life Cycle written by Suzanne Slater and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the special bonds and stresses, common to lesbian families and provides a five-stage working model for the development of lesbian couple relationships. It provides guidance for friends as well as members of lesbian families and is useful for therapists who wish to design more effective and informed therapies.

How it Feels to Have a Gay Or Lesbian Parent

Author : Judith E. Snow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book How it Feels to Have a Gay Or Lesbian Parent written by Judith E. Snow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their own words, children of different ages talk about how and when they learned of their gay or lesbian parent's sexual orientation, and the effect it has had on them.

Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting

Author : S. Hicks
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230348599
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting written by S. Hicks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies.

Beyond Loving

Author : Amy C. Steinbugler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199995842
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Loving written by Amy C. Steinbugler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Loving provides a critical examination of interracial intimacy in the beginning decades of the twenty-first century-an era rife with racial contradictions, where interracial relationships are increasingly seen as symbols of racial progress even as old stereotypes about illicit eroticism persist. Drawing on extensive qualitative research, Amy Steinbugler examines the racial dynamics of everyday life for lesbian, gay, and heterosexual Black/White couples. She disputes the notion that interracial partners are enlightened subjects who have somehow managed to "get beyond" race. Instead, for many partners, interracial intimacy represents not the end, but the beginning of a sustained process of negotiating racial differences. Her research reveals the ordinary challenges that partners frequently face and the myriad ways that race shapes their interactions with each other as well as with neighbors, family members, co-workers and strangers. Steinbugler analyzes the everyday actions and strategies through which individuals maintain close relationships in a society with deeply-rooted racial inequalities-what she calls "racework." Beyond Loving reveals interracial intimacy as an ongoing process rather than a singular accomplishment. This analytic shift helps us reach a new understanding of how race "works"-not just in intimate spheres, but across all facets of contemporary social life.

A Sociology of Family Life

Author : Deborah Chambers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509541373
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book A Sociology of Family Life written by Deborah Chambers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on 'family', parenting, childhood and interpersonal ties. A Sociology of Family Life queries assumptions about a disintegration of 'the family' by revealing a remarkable persistence of commitment and reciprocity across cultures, within new as well as traditional family forms. Yet, while new kinds of intimate relationships such as 'friends as family' and LGBTQ+ intimacies become commonplace, such personal relationships can still be difficult to negotiate in the face of wider structural norms. With a focus on factors such as class, gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality, this new edition highlights inequalities that influence and curb families and personal life transnationally. Alongside substantial new material on cultural and digital transformations, the book features extensive updates on issues ranging from demography, migration, ageing and government policies to reproductive technologies, employment and care. With a global focus, and blending theory with real-life examples, this insightful and engaging book will remain indispensable to students across the social sciences.

The Family of Woman

Author : Maureen Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520937413
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Family of Woman written by Maureen Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up—or breakdown—of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, The Family of Woman chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination.With its intimate perspective on the interior dynamics of these families and its penetrating view of their public lives, the book provides rare insight into the workings of emerging family forms and their significance for our understanding of "family"—and our culture itself.

Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families

Author : Joan Laird
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families written by Joan Laird and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996-06-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to focus on clinical work with lesbians and gays in family relationships This groundbreaking resource provides you with a wealth of fascinating research and case examples, as well as recommAndations and suggestions for working with gay couples and families. Joan Laird and Robert-Jay Green have gathered a distinguished panel of practitioners to create this comprehensive collection. The contributors address the experiences of lesbians and gay men as couples and as parents?and examine their relationships with the families in which they were raised.

Intimacies and Cultural Change

Author : Daniel Nehring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317113357
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Intimacies and Cultural Change written by Daniel Nehring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring cultural transformations of intimacy in contemporary Mexico, Intimacies and Cultural Change examines the ways in which globalization and rapid cultural change have transformed the cultural meanings of couple relationships, sexuality, and personal life in Mexican society. Through a range of contemporary case studies, the book sheds light on the ways in which people draw on these cultural meanings in everyday life to account for their experiences and practices of intimacy in different social settings. An interdisciplinary volume, presenting the latest research on the region from experts working in diverse fields within the social sciences, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and social psychology with interests in gender and sexuality, social change and contemporary intimate relationships.

Lesbian Family Life, Like the Fingers of a Hand

Author : Valory Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317992199
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Family Life, Like the Fingers of a Hand written by Valory Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, an array of approaches - first person and theoretical accounts, clinical understandings, qualitative and quantitative research - are brought to bear on controversial or under-discussed topics in lesbian family life. From conception all the way to care for elderly parents, this book takes a fresh look at lesbian family relationships. Topics include: butch/femme couples, infidelity, the psychological meaning of family for lesbians, age-discrepant couples, lesbian nuns as family, Listservs as family, intentional family for aging women, women raising sons, mothers who come out late in life, mothers and children in situations of domestic violence, lack of support for lesbian domestic violence survivors, death of a partner, psychological issues in the use of sperm donors or surrogates, and middle-aged lesbians caring for homophobic elderly parents. Some authors use self psychology and Jungian psychology to describe aspects of family life. The richness and diversity of topics makes it a text on "lesbian lives". Therapists and academics from throughout the U.S. have contributed to this collection. Many lesbian women, as well as teachers (it can be a text) and mental health professionals who work with children, families, couples and elderly will find useful material here. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Queering Desire

Author : Róisín Ryan-Flood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100385804X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Queering Desire written by Róisín Ryan-Flood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queering Desire explores, with unprecedented interdisciplinary scope, contemporary configurations of lesbian, bi, queer women’s, and non-binary people’s experiences of identity and desire. Taking an intersectional feminist and trans-inclusive approach, and incorporating new and established identities such as non-binary, masculine of centre (MOC), butch, and femme, this collection examines how the changing landscape for gender and sexual identities impacts on queer culture in productive and transformative ways. Within queer studies, explorations of desire, longing, and eroticism have often neglected AFAB, transfeminine, and non-binary people’s experiences. Through 25 newly commissioned chapters, a diverse range of authors, from early career researchers to established scholars, stage conversations at the cutting edge of sexuality studies. Queering Desire advances our understanding of contemporary lesbian and queer desire from an inclusive perspective that is supportive of trans and non-binary identities. This innovative interdisciplinary collection is an excellent resource for scholars, undergraduate, and postgraduate students interested in gender, sexuality, and identity across a range of fields, such as queer studies, feminist theory, anthropology, media studies, sociology, psychology, history, and social theory. In foregrounding female and non-binary experiences, this book constitutes a timely intervention.

Lesbian Love Addiction

Author : Lauren D. Costine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442248092
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Love Addiction written by Lauren D. Costine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone makes mistakes in relationships at one time or another. Sometimes they learn from those mistakes. Other times, they return to those behaviors and cycle through failed relationship after failed relationship. Sometimes those behaviors become an addiction to love that may leave a person feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, lonely, or worse. Lesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things go Wrong makes visible the elements of love addiction that many lesbians suffer from. Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don’t know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even addicted to fantasy and intrigue, while others are love avoidants and sexual anorexics. Love avoidants may be able to get into a relationship but once they are fully committed, struggle with feeling smothered. Others may avoid intimate or sexual relationships all together, becoming sexually anorexic. Some may even vacillate between all of these. The underlying component and common denominator in all of these scenarios is the “Urge to Merge.” Lesbian Love Addiction is designed to help ameliorate at least part of this problem. Lauren D. Costine offers insight for lesbians, bisexual women in relationships with women, queer women, and more specifically, any woman who loves women, as well as their family and friends, and health care professionals, into the psychology of lesbian love addiction. It will give those who struggle with and suffer from love addiction ways to understand, cope, and heal from this debilitating addiction. It will give those who work with this population new tools to use to do this more effectively. Mostly, it will help lesbians understand their relationship failures and how to heal from problems associated with them, so they may grow and cultivate happier, more fulfilling connections in the future.

Gay and Lesbian Couples

Author : Richard Mackey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313019096
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Gay and Lesbian Couples written by Richard Mackey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-11-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices in this book come from the stories of gay and lesbian partners who talk about their struggles over the years in building a life together. The stories reach beyond the obvious realities of sexual orientation to speak to the joys, sorrows, hopes, and fears of human beings who are committed to making their relationships work. Based on a life-span perspective, in-depth interviews of people whose relationships have lasted more than 15 years explored how partners adapted over the years. Each interview consisted of questions that focused upon dimensions of these relationships over time from the unique perspective of each partner. They were asked about conflict over the years, decision-making styles, ways of working out roles, the importance of social supports, and sexual and psychological intimacy. The research upon which the book is based has continuity with the authors' earlier work on lasting relationships among heterosexual couples, including Lasting Marriages: Men and Women Growing Together (Praeger, 1995). Compared to marriages, relatively little research has been done on the development of same sex relationships. This book will be of great interest to all researchers and students of gender differences, marriage and family therapy, human sexuality, and interpersonal relationships.

Love, Marriage and Intimacy among Gujarati Indians

Author : Katherine Twamley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137294302
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Love, Marriage and Intimacy among Gujarati Indians written by Katherine Twamley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group – Gujarati Indians – born and brought up in two different countries. In a rapidly globalizing world, this comparative ethnographic study explores how the context in which we are brought up shapes our most intimate attachments and family lives.

Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life

Author : Iris Erh-Ya Pai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811040052
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Identity and Lesbian Family Life written by Iris Erh-Ya Pai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries. This ambivalence has a strong influence on their relational decisions as they deal with contradictions between family ties, filial piety and lesbianism. Based on individual and couple interviews with self-identified lesbian couples in stable relationships, the book offers vivid narratives of different ways in which Taiwanese lesbians have been able to make sense of their families without recognition by legislation or their families of origin. Specific issues in Taiwan raised in the book challenge the taken-for-granted understandings of same-sex relationships and review the dramatic transformations that have profoundly changed womens' position. It also offers a sensitive analysis of GLBT issues and heteronormativity, arguing that Chinese familialism can cohabite with lesbianism in the context of contemporary Taiwan.