1st Edition
Lesbian Step Families An Ethnography of Love
256 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family structures and... Read more
Contents
Complexity and Opportunity
- The Family Gestalt
- We Are (Normal) Family
- The Lesbian Couple as Heads of Household: Attempting Matriarchy in the Shadow of Patriarchy
- Outside/Insight: Creating the Step Mother Role and Redefining the Mother Role
- Forging Families in a Heterosexual Supremacist Environment
- Free to Be You and Me
- Appendices
- References
- Index
Biography
Ellen Cole
