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Odd Couples: Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation
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Odd Couples: Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation Paperback - 2012

by Muraco, Anna

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Duke University Press, 2012. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly regarding gender and sexual orientation. Based on author Anna Muraco's interviews, the work challenges two widespread assumptions: that men and women are fundamentally different and that men and women can only forge significant bonds within romantic relationships. Intersectional friendships challenge a variety of social norms, Muraco says, including the limited roles that men and women are expected to play in one another's lives. Each chapter uses these boundary-crossing relationships to highlight how key social constructs such as family, politics, gender, and sexuality shape everyday interactions. Friendship itself--whether intersectional or not--becomes the center of the analysis, taking its place as an important influence on the social behavior of adults.

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Anna Muraco is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University.