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11 - “Natural” Achievements: How Lesbian and Gay Families in North America Make Claims to Kinship

from Part II - The (Non)Biological Basis of Relatedness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2019

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Ellen Lewin
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Sandra Bamford
Sandra Bamford
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship , pp. 253 - 276
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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