Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America
ISBN: 9780812207408
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



Not in This Family shows how gays and their heterosexual parents both have animated each other's sensibilities, consciousness, and even culture and politics. Author Heather Murray suggests a reciprocal family life and complicates the notion of gay banishment.


Heather Murray teaches history at the University of Ottawa.
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