Counted Out: Same-Sex Relations and Americans' Definitions of Family

Contents

xiii Contents About the Authors xv Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1 Family Counts 1 Chapter 2 Who Counts as Family? 16 Chapter 3  Family Accounts: How Americans Talk About Family 37 Chapter 4  Family Counts Divided: Social Location and Definitions of Family 71 Chapter 5  Accounting for Sexuality: God, Genes, and Gays with Danielle Fettes 103 Chapter 6  Discounting Sex: Gender, Parenting, and Definitions of Family 137 Chapter 7  Family Names Count: Marital Name Change and Definitions of Family with Laura Hamilton 170 Chapter 8  Changing Counts, Counting Change: Toward a More Inclusive Definition of Family 201 Appendices 219 Notes 267 References 291 Index 309 ...