Lesbian Motherhood Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship

by Ryan-Flood, Risn

• ISBN13: 9780230545410
• ISBN10: 0230545416
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230234444
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book studies the growing number of lesbian women embarking on parenthood after coming out. Theoretical debates about lesbian motherhood often consider its assimilative or transgressive dimensions. The author proposes a different approach, contextualising lesbian motherhood in relation to sexual citizenship and hegemonic discourses of kinship.

Author Biography

RISN RYAN-FLOOD is Academic Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction - Charting the Lesbian Baby Boom	p. 1
Gender, Families and Social Change	p. 18
In Search of Doctors, Donors and Daddies: Lesbian Reproductive Decision-Making	p. 43
Queering 'Public' Space	p. 78
Negotiating the Biological 'Tie': Identity, Power and Difference Among Lesbian Parents	p. 110
Challenging Heteronormativity?: Gender Flexibility and Lesbian Parenting	p. 149
Conclusions: Beyond Assimilation and Transgression	p. 179
Notes	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 198
Index	p. 209
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