Anna Muraco

Odd Couples

Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation

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Produktbeschreibung

Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly regarding gender and sexual orientation. Based on author Anna Muraco's interviews, the work challenges two widespread assumptions: that men and women are fundamentally different and that men and women can only forge significant bonds within romantic relationships. Intersectional friendships challenge a variety of social norms, Muraco says, including the limited roles that men and women are expected to play in one another's lives. Each chapter uses these boundary-crossing relationships to highlight how key social constructs such as family, politics, gender, and sexuality shape everyday interactions. Friendship itself-whether intersectional or not-becomes the center of the analysis, taking its place as an important influence on the social behavior of adults.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351924
• ISBN-10: 0822351927
• Artikelnr.: 34161451

Autorenporträt

Anna Muraco is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. You've Got to Have Friends
> 2. Snapshots of the Intersectional Friendship
> 3. We Are Family
> 4. Gender Cops and Robbers
> 5. What's Sex Got to Do with It?
> 6. The Personal Is Political
> 7. The Future of Intersectional Friendships 145
Appendix 1 155
Appendix 2 157
Appendix 3 163
Notes 167
References 173
Index 187