Rebekah & Sophie

About this book

"Oak Park Stories is a series of reflexive ethnographic explorations of a Chicago suburb -- one of the most successfully integrated places in the U.S. Employing interactive and digital technologies four portraits present an anthropological perspective of this 'social experiment' through written and video portraits of African American, lesbian and WASP families and an institutional portrait of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, the core of the community's integration maintenance polices. Rebekah and Sophie -- a lesbian family is an Oak Park story that portrays people living in one of the most 'gay-friendly' suburbs in the U.S. The family lived through the gay civil rights battles of the 1980s and 1990s and have settled into raising a family and being part of the middle-class life of the village."--Container.