ISBN:
9781560236863
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (192 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lesbian Motherhood : Stories of Becoming
DDC:
306.8743086643
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A unique practical application of poststructuralist theory to lesbian mothers' narratives, Lesbian Motherhood: Stories of Becoming analyzes the personal stories of 40 lesbian mothers to discover the complex ways their sense of self is constructed in the current legal, political, and social climate. These intimate narratives are examined by using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's conceptual framework to understand subjectivities by focusing on the many flexible lines of movement that constitute subjectivities, or 'becomings.' This unique source reveals deep insight into a lesbian's constructi
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Lesbian Motherhood; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Academic and Legal Depictions of Lesbian Motherhood: A Critique; Resistance, Assimilationism, or Both?; Legal Structures: The Sedimentation of Academic Discourses into Institutional Structures; Chapter 2. Eliciting Stories of Lesbian Parenting; The Procedure; The Communities; Chapter 3. Analyzing Lesbian Mothers' Subjectivities; Monica and Teresa: "Just 'Mom' and 'Dad' "; "Becoming"; Chapter 4. Ideologies of Motherhood; Essential Motherhood; Controversies Over Biology, Motherhood, and Family
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5. Lines and Flows of Lesbian MotherhoodThe (Non)Intersectionality of Lesbianism and Motherhood; Discourses of Normalization and Their Instabilities; Becoming a Mother; Chapter 6. Coming-Out; Hillary and Vicky: Disrupting Categories; Difference + Biology (Must) = Lesbianism; The Sexualization of Motherhood: "When She Grows Up and Gets Married"; Chapter 7. Shifting Boundaries and Interrogating Categories; Tyler; Michelle; Chapter 8. Concluding Thoughts; Implications; Appendix; Notes; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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