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Women's Review of Books

Graceful. . . . Valuable for the ways it demonstrates that, like race, gender and sexual identity, the meaning of kinship is culturally relative—and susceptible to change.

Contemporary Sociology

The first to analyze the historical conditions, social meaning, and political implications of lesbians and gays' appropriating the language of kinship...A fine book.

American Journal of Sociology

Weighs in as an important contribution to current debates about family and family values.

The Women's Review of Books

Graceful.... Valuable for the ways it demonstrates that, like race, gender and sexual identity, the meaning of kinship is culturally relative--and susceptible to change.

SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Represents a new direction in lesbian and gay studies and in the anthropology of American culture.

Booknews

Weston draws upon fieldwork and interviews conducted in the San Francisco Bay area to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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