ABSTRACT
BADGETT'S GROUND-BREAKING ESSAY is an excellent introduction to the issues that lesbian and gay family structures raise for feminist economists. Lucidly written, her article explains the ways in which feminist theory, insofar as it relies upon a gender-based analysis, excludes specific consideration of sexual orientation. Badgett's impressive discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the familial or marital model of lesbian and gay relationships concludes in a call for further thought regarding the economic functions of the institution of marriage and for its extension to other, namely homosexual, family formations.
