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Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with their children, relatives, lovers, and friends and with their children's fathers and sperm donors; how they manage child-care arrangements and financial difficulties; and how they deal with threats to custody. Ellen Lewin's unprecedented research on lesbian mothers in the San Francisco area captured a vivid portrait of the moment before gay and lesbian parenting moved into the mainstream of U.S. culture. Drawing on interviews with 135 women, Lewin provided her readers with a new understanding of the attitudes of individual women, the choices they made, and the texture of their daily lives.
Lesbian mothers --- Single mothers --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- United States --- Gay & Lesbian studies / LGBTQ studies
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Amigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creation and maintenance of families. It is based on forty-two in-depth ethnographic interviews with women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, or queer (LBQ). Additionally, it draws from fourteen months of participant observation at LBQ Latina events that Katie L. Acosta conducted in 2007 and 2008 in a major northeast city. With this data, Acosta examines how LBQ Latinas manage loving relationships with the families who raised them, and with their partners, their children, and their friends. Acosta investigates how sexually nonconforming Latinas negotiate cultural expectations, combat compulsory heterosexuality, and reconcile tensions with their families. She offers a new way of thinking about the emotion work involved in everyday lives, which highlights the informal, sometimes invisible, labor required in preserving family ties. Acosta contends that the work LBQ Latinas take on to preserve connections with biological families, lovers, and children results in a unique way of doing family. Paying particular attention to the negotiations that LBQ Latinas undertake in an effort to maintain familial order, Amigas y Amantes explores how they understand femininity, how they negotiate their religious faiths, how they face the unique challenges of being in interracial/interethnic relationships, and how they raise their children while integrating their families of origin.
Hispanic American lesbians. --- Lesbian mothers. --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- Lesbians, Hispanic American --- Lesbians --- lesbian, bisexual and queer Latina family relationships.
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New Choices, New Families provides thoughtful insights into questions about sexual identity, social and cultural expectations, and what and who constitute a family.
Lesbian mothers. --- Lesbians. --- Motherhood. --- Lesbians --- Family relationships. --- Female gays --- Female homosexuals --- Gay females --- Gay women --- Gayelles --- Gays, Female --- Homosexuals, Female --- Lesbian women --- Sapphists --- Women, Gay --- Women homosexuals --- Maternity --- Lesbian parents --- Gays --- Women --- Mothers --- Parenthood
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"Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender perpetuates, both made visible by psychoanalysis, this book asks: Is gender always fixed? Can the system which is produced by, and which produces, gender be altered? Can gender be fixed? The work begins by sketching the implications of gender as elucidated by feminist thinkers in general and feminist psychoanalytic thinkers in particular. Moving to Freud's theory of the subject, the work examines the logic of the Oedipus complex, and from there it looks at what feminist object relations theorists have done with and to the logic of the Oedipus complex. The book then moves to the literature on lesbian family functioning; and finally the work ends with a radical interrogation into the possibilities enabled by paying attention to form, and highlighting its constitutive possibilities."--Provided by publisher.
Lesbian mothers. --- Gender identity. --- Sex (Psychology) --- Oedipus complex. --- Edipus complex --- Complexes (Psychology) --- Electra complex --- Mothers and sons --- Parent and child --- Psychoanalysis --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- Psychological aspects --- Gender dysphoria
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Bridging the gap between feminist studies of motherhood and queer theory, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood articulates a provocative philosophy of queer kinship that need not be rooted in lesbian or gay sexual identities. Working from an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates feminist philosophy and queer, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories, Shelley M. Park offers a powerful critique of an ideology she terms monomaternalism. Despite widespread cultural insistence that every child should have one—and only one—"real" mother, many contemporary family constellations do not fit this mandate. Park highlights the negative consequences of this ideology and demonstrates how families created through open adoption, same-sex parenting, divorce, and plural marriage can be sites of resistance. Drawing from personal experiences as both an adoptive and a biological mother and juxtaposing these autobiographical reflections with critical readings of cultural texts representing multi-mother families, Park advocates a new understanding of postmodern families as potentially queer coalitional assemblages held together by a mixture of affection and critical reflection premised on difference.
Queer theory. --- Families. --- Interracial adoption. --- Adoptive parents. --- Lesbian mothers. --- Motherhood. --- Gender identity --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Mixed race adoption --- Trans-racial adoption --- Adoption --- Intercountry adoption --- Race relations --- Adopting parents --- Parents --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- Maternity --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Transracial adoption --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality
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An in-depth study of lesbian, bi, and queer women's experiences of thinking about and trying to become a parent, Beyond Expectation draws on eighty-two narrative interviews conducted during the late 1990s in British Columbia.
Lesbian mothers --- Lesbians --- Reproductive technology --- Motherhood --- Female gays --- Female homosexuals --- Gay females --- Gay women --- Gayelles --- Gays, Female --- Homosexuals, Female --- Lesbian women --- Sapphists --- Women, Gay --- Women homosexuals --- Gays --- Women --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- Maternity --- Parenthood --- ART (Assisted reproductive technology) --- Assisted reproduction --- Assisted reproductive technology --- Reproduction --- Reproductive techniques --- Biotechnology --- Family relationships --- Social conditions. --- Health and hygiene --- Political aspects --- Technological innovations --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey
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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 lives, the book provides rare insight into the workings of emerging family forms and their significance for our understanding of "family"-and our culture itself.
Sex role --- Children of gay parents --- Lesbian mothers --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Children of gay men --- Children of homosexual parents --- Children of lesbians --- Gay parents' children --- Gay parents --- Lesbian parents --- Mothers --- Mères lesbiennes --- Enfants de parents homosexuels --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Case studies. --- Cas, Etudes de --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- america. --- american families. --- contemporary debates. --- coparent families. --- cultural study. --- donor insemination. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- family culture. --- family dynamics. --- family relationships. --- family. --- feminism. --- gender norms. --- gender roles. --- lesbian children. --- lesbian mothers. --- lesbian parenting. --- lesbians. --- lgbt parents families. --- lgbtq. --- modern families. --- mothering. --- new family forms. --- nonfiction. --- observation. --- parenthood. --- parenting. --- personal interviews. --- public lives. --- queer feminist. --- social science. --- women.
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Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include: * the recent backlash against single mothers * lesbian and gay families and the law * men's changing roles within the family * the future of the nuclear family. This book is ideal for courses covering the family, a central topic in sociology and women's studies.
Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Eenoudergezin --- Familie --- Families --- Famille --- Famille -- Aspects sociaux --- Famille et travail --- Famille monoparentale --- Familles --- Family --- Family -- Social aspects --- Family -- Social conditions --- Family and state --- Family and work --- Family life --- Family policy --- Family structure --- Feminism--Philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Feminist theory --- Feministische theorie --- Gezin --- Gezin -- Sociale aspecten --- Gezin en werk --- Gezinsbeleid --- Gezinspolitiek --- One-parent family --- Parents without partners --- Politiek [Gezins] --- Politique familiale --- Single-parent family --- State and family --- Structure [Family ] --- Theory of feminism --- Théorie féministe --- Work and family --- Gay fathers --- Lesbian mothers --- Fathers --- Family relationships --- psychology --- -Feminist theory --- -Lesbian mothers --- -Single-parent families --- #PBIB:2000.1 --- Families and work --- Dual-career families --- Work-life balance --- One-parent families --- Lesbian parents --- Gay parents --- Mothers --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Dads --- Men --- Parents --- Househusbands --- Families and state --- State and families --- Public welfare --- Social security --- Social policy --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Psychology --- Philosophy --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Families. --- Family policy. --- Feminist theory. --- Single-parent families. --- Work and family. --- Psychology. --- Family relationships. --- Single-parent families --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Family & Marriage --- Gay fathers - Family relationships --- Lesbian mothers - Family relationships --- Fathers - psychology
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