Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State

1. Queer Families and the Politics of Visibility, by Mary Bernstein and Renate ReimannPart 1. Relationships 2. A Member of the Funeral, by Nancy Anne Naples3. Weddings Without Marriage: Making Sense of Lesbian and Gay Commitment Rituals, by Ellen Lewin4. We Can See Them, But We Can't Hear Them: LGBT Members of African American Families, by Michael Bennett and Juan Battle5. Talking Freaks: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families on Daytime Talk TV, by Joshua Gamson6. One Man's Story of Being Gay and Din (Navajo): A Study in Resiliency, by Margaret A. Waller and Ronald McAllen-Walker7. Family Secrets, or How to Become a Bisexual Alien Without Really Trying, by Elizabeth Randolph8. A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences, by Lionel Cant 9. Constituting Nonmonogamies, by R. Jeffrey Ringer10. Communication in Asian American Families with Queer Members: A Relational Dialectics Perspective, by Gus A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and Phillip C. HoPart 2. Parenthood 11. Affording our Families: Class Issues in Family Formation, by Terry Boggis12. Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples?: Antilesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction, by Julien S. Murphy13. Protecting our Parent-Child Relationships: Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Second-Parent Adoption, by Susan Dalton14. My Daddy Loves Your Daddy: A Gay Father Encounters a Social Movement, by John Miller15. Alma Mater: Family 'Outings' and the Making of the Modern Other Mother (MOM), by Maureen Sullivan16. Lesbian Mothers at Work, by Renate Reimann17. Aside from one little tiny detail, we are so incredibly normal: Perspectives of Children in Lesbian Stepfamilies, by Janet M. WrightPart 3. Political Activism 18. Building Common Ground: Strategies for Grassroots Organizing on Same-Sex Marriage, by Irene Javors with Renate Reimann19. What if?: The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Legal Needs of Lesbian and Gay Male Couples, by David Chambers20. Take My Domestic Partner, Please: Gays and Marriage in the Era of the Visible, by Suzanna Walters21. Defense, Morality, Civil Rights, and Family: The Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Issues in the U.S. Congress, by Donald P. Haider-Markel22. Political Organizing and the Limits of Civil Rights: Gay Marriage and Queer Families, by Randall Halle23. Transgenderism and Sexual Orientation: More than a Marriage of Convenience?, by Mary Coombs24. Gender, Queer Family Policies, and the Limits of Law, by Mary Bernstein