Lesbian Motherhood

Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship

Róisín Ryan-Flood (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

217 Seiten

2009
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-54541-0 (ISBN)

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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. This book offers a different approach, contextualising lesbian motherhood in relation to sexual citizenship and hegemonic discourses of kinship

RÓISÍN RYAN-FLOOD is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research interests include gender, sexuality and citizenship. She is co-editor of Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections (Routledge, 2009). Her current research explores identity, diaspora and sexual citizenship

Introduction: Charting the Lesbian Baby Boom Gender, Families and Social Change In Search of Doctors, Donors and Daddies: Lesbian Reproductive Decision-making Queering 'Public' Space Negotiating the Biological 'Tie': Identity, Power and Difference among Lesbian Parents Challenging Heteronormativity? Gender Flexibility and Lesbian Parenting Conclusions: Beyond Assimilation and Transgression Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.5.2009
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; VII, 217 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-230-54541-6 / 0230545416
ISBN-13	978-0-230-54541-0 / 9780230545410
Zustand	Neuware