{"product_id":"not-in-this-family-gays-and-the-meaning-of-kinship-in-postwar-north-america-paperback","title":"Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather Murray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often than not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. \u003cem\u003eNot in This Family\u003c\/em\u003e challenges this myth and shows how kinship ties were an animating force in gay culture, politics, and consciousness throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorian Heather Murray gives voice to gays and their parents through an extensive use of introspective writings, particularly personal correspondence and diaries, as well as through published memoirs, fiction, poetry, song lyrics, movies, and visual and print media. Starting in the late 1940s and 1950s, \u003cem\u003eNot in This Family\u003c\/em\u003e covers the entire postwar period, including the gay liberation and lesbian feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the establishment of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. Ending her story with an examination of contemporary coming-out rituals, Murray shows how the personal that was once private became political and, finally, public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn exploring the intimate, reciprocal relationship of gay children and their parents, \u003cem\u003eNot in This Family\u003c\/em\u003e also chronicles larger cultural shifts in privacy, discretion and public revelation, and the very purpose of family relations. Murray shows that private bedrooms and consumer culture, social movements and psychological fashions, all had a part to play in transforming the modern family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Murray teaches history at the University of Ottawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722560376895,"sku":"9780812222241","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/64bfbe403036fb49e0f3760bbfb7f355.webp?v=1765096170","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/not-in-this-family-gays-and-the-meaning-of-kinship-in-postwar-north-america-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}