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636463
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Stacey, Judith.
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| Title & Author
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Unhitched : : love, marriage, and family values from West Hollywood to western China /\ Judith Stacey
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| Series Statement
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NYU series in social and cultural analysis
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xi, 275 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780814783825 (cl : alk. paper)
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: 0814783821 (cl : alk. paper)
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: 9780814783832 (ebook : alk. paper)
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: 081478383X (ebook : alk. paper)
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: 9780814737859 (pb : alk. paper)
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: 0814737854 (pb : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-259) and index
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| Contents
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Tolstoy was wrong -- Love, sex, and kinship in Gay El Lay -- Gay parenthood and the end of paternity as we knew it -- A South African slant on the slippery slope -- Paradoxes of polygamy and modernity -- Unhitching the horse from the carriage : love without marriage among the Mosuo -- Conclusion: forsaking no others -- Appendix. A Co-parenting Agreement
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| Abstract
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Discusses both sides of the debate over same-sex marriage, describes diverse families from California, South Africa, and China, and examines twenty-first-century interpretations on polygamy and the benefits it poses to women and children, the rejection of marriage in multigenerational households among the Mosuo people of southwest China, and related topics
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Gay parents, Case studies.
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Same-sex marriage, Case studies.
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Marriage, Case studies.
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Families, Case studies.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.8109
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HQ75.27.S73 2011
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