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Opening questions

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  • Colleen Lamos

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Badgett poses crucial questions for feminist economists, arguing that feminists should investigate the diversity of lesbian and gay family structures in order to develop comparative models of the family. Yet she fails to acknowledge that gendered patterns of specialization of labor often persist within same-sex family structures, and relies upon an essentialist distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality. Ironically, Badgett's advocacy of domestic partners benefits for lesbian and gay couples is likely to assimilate such formations to the model of the traditional family, resulting in the loss of the flexibility and complexity that she praises.

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  • Colleen Lamos, 1995. "Opening questions," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 1(2), pages 59-62.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:1:y:1995:i:2:p:59-62
    DOI: 10.1080/714042232
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    1. M.V. Lee Badgett & Prue Hyman, 1998. "Explorations - Introduction: Towards Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Perspectives in Economics: Why and How They May Make a Difference," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(2), pages 49-54.
    2. Lisa Giddings, 1998. "Political Economy and the Construction of Gender: The Example of Housework Within Same-Sex Households," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(2), pages 97-106.

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