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Radical relations : lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and their children in the United States since World War II

Author: Daniel Winunwe Rivers
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013] ©2013
Series: Gender & American culture.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Based on extensive archival research and 130 interviews conducted nationwide, the author looks at lesbian and gay parenthood from the early 1950s through today. He offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, a period marked by both intense repression and dynamic change for lesbians and gay  Read more...
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Rivers, Daniel Winunwe.
Radical relations : lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and their children in the United States since World War II.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel Winunwe Rivers
ISBN: 9781469607184 1469607182 9781469626451 1469626454
OCLC Number: 811602977
Awards: Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2014
Description: xii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents: Families in hiding: lesbian and gay parents and their children, 1945-1969 --
The seeds of change: forging lesbian and gay families, 1950-1969 --
In the best interests of the child: lesbian and gay parenting custody cases, 1967-1985 --
Lesbian mother activist organizations, 1971-1980 --
Gay fathers groups, 1975-1992 --
The culture of lesbian feminist households with children in the 1970s --
She does not draw distinctions based on blood or law: the lesbian/gay-baby boom, 1980-2003 --
Epilogue: lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and their children after Lawrence v. Texas.
Series Title: Gender & American culture.
Responsibility: Daniel Winunwe Rivers.

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Offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, Rivers argues that by  Read more...

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