"Few words are as steeped in beliefs about gender, sexuality, and social desirability as "motherhood". Drawing on queer, postcolonial, and feminist theory, historical sources, personal narratives, film studies, and original empirical research, the authors in this book offer quee…
"Few words are as steeped in beliefs about gender, sexuality, and social desirability as "motherhood". Drawing on queer, postcolonial, and feminist theory, historical sources, personal narratives, film studies, and original empirical research, the authors in this book offer quee…
On a spring day in 1993, Nancy Abrams helped her daughter dress for day care, packed her lunch, and said good-bye. Next she drove to court, where she learned that in the eyes of the law she was nothing more than a biological stranger to the child she helped bring into the world …
"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 i…
"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 i…
Bridging the gap between feminist studies of motherhood and queer theory, this book 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 philosoph…
Family-making and citizenship: "life, liberty, and the pursuit of freakin' happiness..." -- Reproductive allegories: family trees and national belonging -- Making family: origin narratives and stratified reproduction -- What about the children?: genealogies of illegitimacy and r…
"'Queering Family Trees' explores race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood"--
"'Queering Family Trees' explores race, reproductive justice, and lesbian motherhood"-- Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United StatesOne might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the b…
