Homosexuality and Family Relations (Marriage & Family Review Series) - Softcover

Sussman, Marvin B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0918393701 ISBN 13: 9780918393708

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

The first book of its kind, Homosexuality and Family Relations focuses on the effects of homosexuality and being homosexual on individuals in families and on the family as a group. Edited by Frederick W. Bozett, RN, DNS, and Marvin B. Sussman, PhD, this informative and enlightening volume examines the multiple varieties of family forms in which gay men and lesbians live, addresses the ramifications of homosexuality on family relationships, and explores the countless aspects of parenthood as they are experienced by gay men and lesbians, including adoption and foster care by lesbians and gay men, and the choice of increasing numbers of lesbians to bear children through artificial fertilization. Any professional who is interested in the family--educators, clinicians, academicians, researchers, and students, as well as others interested in families and in human sexuality and men’s and women’s studies--family science, gay studies, nursing, medicine, law, psychology, sociology, social work--will find this book useful, insightful, and unique.

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Review

AIDS has been the overriding concern of the gay community for almost a decade now, but the past few years have also been a time when psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies of all aspects of lesbian and gay life have flourished. This book is probably the most eclectic and wide-ranging exploration of these studies available anywhere. Defining "family relations" in the broadest possible sense, the book's fifteen articles cover an unprecedentedly broad spectrum of the gay and lesbian expenence, from childhood to parenting to intimate relations to AIDS. Lesbians in heterosexual marriages, homosexuality in ethnic subcultures and the effects of aging on lesbians and gay men are just a few of the rarely addressed topics the book covers in some depth. Each chapter ends with a bibliography that includes unpublished dissertations and articles in scholarly publications. Marred only by its lack of an index and a final chapter that abandons science (and common sense) to discuss "The Shaman: The Gay and Lesbian Ancestor of Mankind," this is an invaluable reference work that can be recommended for all serious libraries and bookstores. -- From Independent Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0918393701
• ISBN 13: 9780918393708
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352