The Social Organization of Sexuality. Sexual Practices in the United States

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ID3673405
AuthorsAlain Giami (0000-0001-7639-3005), R T Michael, Michael (0000-0001-5954-7105), S Michaels, Gina Kolata
Year1997
Volume52
Issue6
Pages1548
Publication date1997-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeREVIEW
Review ofThe social organization of sexuality: Sexual practices in the United States, Edward O Laumann, 1994
VenuePopulation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-4663 • E-ISSN: 1957-7966
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1534637
OpenAlexW2288879222
LanguageEN
Citations received2

PSYCHIATRIC SERVIcES . February 1996 Vol.47 No.2 205 ture, doubting hen adequacy as a parent, and feeling isolated in what she at first believed to be a unique situation, Dew describes an initial attempt to nun away from society and to hide in order to protect her son, her family, and herself. “Our house had taken on the dimensions ofa single closet, and a closet is no place like home.” The author gives exacting attention to her efforts to integrate her son’s newly disclosed identity into a redefined relationship. Mother and son’s ultimately successful attempts to help one another come to terms with Stephen s sexuality, starting from mitial faltering missteps, are chronicled with dialogues that read almost like process recordings, so vivid are they in their detail. Drawing on hen own initial reaction to her son s homosexuality, Dew confronts the homophobia imbued in our culture and the toll it takes on gay children who struggle to keep their stigmatized identity a secret to avoid

Human sexuality · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

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