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The family of woman : lesbian mothers, their children, and the undoing of gender / Maureen Sullivan

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004

Online-Ressource (xi, 312 p) ; 24 cm

Englisch

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Emergence of Lesbian-Coparent Families in Postmodern Society; 2. Becoming Parents: Baby Making in the Age of Assisted Procreation; 3. Being Parents: The End of Oedipus and the Expansion of Intimacy; 4. Undoing the Gender Division of Labor; 5. Truth and Reconciliation: Families of Origin Come Around and Come Out; 6. Becoming Familiar in the Community of Strangers; 7. The Structure of Donor-Extended Kinship; 8. The Theoretical Future of a Conscious Feminist Kinship; Appendix: Families by the Bay: The Study Design, Method, and Participants

NotesBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-303) and index

Print version: The Family of Woman : Lesbian Mothers, Their Children, and the Undoing of Gender

0-520-23964-4 ; 0-520-23963-6

978-0-520-23964-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2005

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

HQ75.53

306.874/3/08664     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Sex role -- United States -- Case studies ; Lesbian mothers -- United States -- Case studies ; Children of gay parents -- United States -- Case studies

Children of gay parents - United States - Case studies ; Electronic books

Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up-or breakdown-of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, The Family of Woman chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination.With its intimate perspective on the interior dynamics of these families and its penetrating view of their public l