TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carrington,Christopher
TI  - No place like home: relationships and family life among lesbians and gay men 
T2  - Worlds of desire
SN  - 9780226094847 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
AV  - HQ76.3.U53 S253 1999eb
U1  - 306.84/8 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Gay couples
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco
KW  - Gays
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Households
KW  - Housekeeping
KW  - Homosexuales
KW  - Relaciones familiares
KW  - Hogar
KW  - Economía doméstica
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Marriage & Family
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index; Introduction. Vantage points: situating myself -- Vantage points: intellectual traditions and the study of domesticity -- Caring and domesticity among lesbigay families -- The work and family lives of lesbigay people -- Equality, egalitarianism, and fairness -- The organization and method of the study -- The participants -- Characteristics of the participants -- Domestic diversity -- Overview -- pt. 1. Feeding lesbigay families. The character of feeding work -- Feeding work and the creation of gender, class, ethnic, and family identities -- pt. 2. Housework in lesbigay families. The character of housework -- Managing and envisioning housework -- Variations in housework among lesbigay households -- Housework and the social production of lesbigay family -- pt. 3. Kin work among lesbigay families. Kith as family -- The lesbigay family kin keepers -- Variations in kin work patterns -- Kin work and the creation of family -- pt. 4. Consumption work in lesbigay families. The character of consumption work -- Variations in consumption work -- Sustaining lesbigay families through consumption work -- pt. 5. The division of domestic labor in lesbigay families. The egalitarian myth -- The egalitarian pattern -- The specialization pattern -- Pragmatic choices and the sense of fairness -- Conclusion. Domesticity and the political economy of lesbigay families. Family aspirations -- The political economy of constructing family -- Now you see it, now you don't: gender and domesticity -- Devalued and invisible: lesbigay domesticity -- Marriage and lesbigay domesticity: who will be bound by the ties that bind? -- What do lesbigay families need to prosper?
N2  - In the rich, often surprising portrait of the everyday world of lesbian and gay relationships, Christopher Carrington captures the experiences of creating and maintaining a home and a "chosen" family. Observing lesbians and gay men as they go about their daily routines, Carrington unveils the complex, frequently hidden, and sometimes artful ways that gay people make a family and home for themselves
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