LGBT Families

✍ Scribed by Nancy J. Mezey

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Series: Contemporary Family Perspectives
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Part of the SAGE Contemporary Family Perspective series, this book presents a comprehensive yet accessible understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families today by drawing upon and making sense of the burgeoning scholarly literature about LGBT families from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It pays particular attention to how structures of race, class, gender, sexuality, and age shape LGBT families, and how members of such families negotiate the social landscapes within which they exist. The book will help readers better understand the formation, experiences, challenges, and strengths of LGBT families, and address two main questions: Why are new family forms so threatening to certain groups of people in society? and How are new family forms beneficial to the society in which they exist?

Here is what author Nancy Mezey had to say in a recent interview:

“LGBT people are creating families in a society that simultaneously demonizes and embraces them. With a desire to understand and perhaps deconstruct this rocky terrain, I decided to write LGBT Families, a comprehensive overview based on solid research so that readers can form their own opinions.”

“This book stands in solidarity with all diverse family forms – families that developed out of particular social and economic contexts, and that contribute to the society around them, despite the hardships that some in society may level at them.”

✦ Table of Contents

LGBT FAMILIES-FRONT COVER......Page 1
LGBT FAMILIES......Page 2
CONTENTS......Page 6
SERIES PREFACE......Page 8
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 16
CHAPTER 1: LGBT FAMILIES......Page 18
CHAPTER 2: MARRIAGE......Page 44
CHAPTER 3: LGBT PARENTS......Page 88
CHAPTER 4: LGBT YOUTH......Page 130
CHAPTER 5: INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE......Page 158
CHAPTER 6: LEARNING FROM LGBT FAMILIES......Page 180
REFERENCES......Page 192
INDEX......Page 222