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Family as a Site of Contestation:

Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer?

From: In a Queer Country

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Michelle K. Owen’s essay looks at what recently has become the most prominent aspect of this struggle for recognition. Owen ‘s response is informed and polemical; a scholarship that wears its opinion proudly.

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Michelle K. Owen

Michelle K. Owen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Department of Sociology. Sections of her dissertation, "We Are Family?": The Struggle for Same-Sex Spousal Recognition in Ontario and the Conundrum of "Family." (University of Toronto, 1999) have been previously published in RFR: Special Issue on Feminist Practice in Qualitative Research (28:1/2) and Inter/National Intersections: Law's Changing Territories (UBC Press, 1998), edited by L. Campbell. Her current research interests include bisexuality in the Canadian context and the construction of gender in cyberspace.Michelle K. Owen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg in the Department of Sociology. Sections of her dissertation, "We Are Family?": The Struggle for Same-Sex Spousal Recognition in Ontario and the Conundrum of "Family." (University of Toronto, 1999) have been previously published in RFR: Special Issue on Feminist Practice in Qualitative Research (28:1/2) and Inter/National Intersections: Law's Changing Territories (UBC Press, 1998), edited by L. Campbell. Her current research interests include bisexuality in the Canadian context and the construction of gender in cyberspace.