{"product_id":"queering-marriage-challenging-family-formation-in-the-united-states-families-in-focus-9780813562216","title":"Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States (Families in Focus)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCo-Winner of the 2015 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section from the American Sociological Association  Over four thousand gay and lesbian couples married in the city of San Francisco in 2004. The first large-scale occurrence of legal same-sex marriage  these unions galvanized a movement and reignited the debate about whether same-sex marriage  as some hope  challenges heterosexual privilege or  as others fear  preserves that privilege by assimilating queer couples. In Queering Marriage  Katrina Kimport uses in-depth interviews with participants in the San Francisco weddings to argue that same-sex marriage cannot be understood as simply entrenching or contesting heterosexual privilege. Instead  she contends  these new legally sanctioned relationships can both reinforce as well as disrupt the association of marriage and heterosexuality. During her deeply personal conversations with same-sex spouses  Kimport learned that the majority of respondents did characterize their marriages as an opportunity to contest heterosexual privilege. Yet  in a seeming contradiction  nearly as many also cited their desire for access to the normative benefits of matrimony  including social recognition and legal rights. Kimports research revealed that the pattern of ascribing meaning to marriage varied by parenthood status and  in turn  by gender. Lesbian parents were more likely to embrace normative meanings for their unions; those who are not parents were more likely to define their relationships as attempts to contest dominant understandings of marriage. By posing the questioncan queers queer marriage?Kimport provides a nuanced  accessible  and theoretically grounded framework for understanding the powerful effect of heterosexual expectations on both sexual and social categories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45656275779637,"sku":"ByrdShop_081356221X","price":33.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813562216.jpg?v=1781968017","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/queering-marriage-challenging-family-formation-in-the-united-states-families-in-focus-9780813562216","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}