Lyceum Books
Lesbian and gay couples; lives, issues, and practice.
Hunter (social work, U. of Texas at Arlington) provides counselors, social workers, mental health therapists, and undergraduate and graduate students with a reference on lesbian and gay couples that describes basic issues they deal with, their differences from and similarities to heterosexual couples, and how they deal with heterosexism and the marriage issue, as well as interventions. She discusses their demographics, research history, and postmodern and queer theory, then describes how these couples meet; those who have or want children; their relationship satisfaction, benefits, maintenance, dissatisfaction, and breakup; and practice issues such as bias, behaviors, gender issues, battering, interracial couples, relationship ambiguity, conflicts over disclosure, sexual issues, nonmonogamy, and safe sex. Practice models are not suggested. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
