Anna Muraco

Odd Couples

Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Muraco studies friendships between straight women and gay men and straight men and lesbians to consider how their relationships both challenge and reinforce conventional notions of sexuality and gender. Based on in-depth interviews, the book considers how people experience gender and sex roles differently within these intersectional relationships.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351771
• ISBN-10: 0822351773
• Artikelnr.: 34162245

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