Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State

Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

by Mary Bernstein (Editor), Renate Reimann (Editor)

This is the first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the broader issues of social movements, politics, and law.

Chapters address the themes of visibility, transgression, and resistance, as well as the intersection between the personal and political in the contexts of relationships, parenthood, and political activism. Giving special attention to families of color, immigrant, and poor families, the authors examine the risks entailed in coming out and the significance of class, race, and sexual and gender identity in this process. Parenting also creates dilemmas of visibility as queer families negotiate malls and schools as well as the medical, legal, and political institutions that regulate their families.

This book explores how heteronormative and class assumptions influence state polices on parenthood, adoption, and relationships between adults, to question whether the law can meet the needs of queer families. Also discussed is how queer family politics are com-plicated by bisexuality, nonmonagamy, and gender nonconformity.

Genres: Nonfiction, LGBT

336 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

Reviews

[Jessie Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Attempted to skim through for thesis research — got captured by multiple essays that have nothing to do with my thesis but were SO GOOD I had to devour them

2. A Member of the Funeral: An Introspective Ethnography by Nancy A. Naples = 5 stars

7. Family Secrets, or… How to Become a Bisexual Alien Without Really Trying by Elizabeth Randolph = 5 stars

Intro by the editors was super solid too!!