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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 centre of the analysis, taking its place as an important influence on the social behaviour of adults.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Odd Couples
• Subtitle: Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation
• Author: Anna Muraco
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780822351771
• ISBN: 0822351773
• ID: 04939497
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 431 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 156 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. April 2012

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