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Sexuality studies

kinship networks that lesbians and gay men build from friends, lovers and others, alongside or in place of biological family.

In sexuality studies, chosen family refers to kinship networks that lesbians and gay men build from friends, lovers and others, alongside or in place of biological family. This meaning comes from Weston (1991) in Families we choose.[1]

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References

  1. Weston, K. (1991). Families we choose: Lesbians, gays, kinship. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231072885

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