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This dissertation examines how public funeral rituals in the US construct and reinforce social norms around sexuality and the family. The author analyzes state and military funerals as well as alternative mourning practices to argue that funerals both expose instability in traditional concepts and simultaneously establish heterosexuality and the nuclear family as norms. The dissertation has two parts, first comparing mainstream funerals to LGBT and minority practices, then analyzing two examples that frame

Author

Gabriel David Lievano

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