The family of woman : lesbian mothers, their children, and the undoing of gender /
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 e...
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Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2004.
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On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp6bn |
Shrnutí: | 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 pub. |
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Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xi, 312 pages) |
Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-303) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520937413 0520937414 1597349372 9781597349376 1282762974 9781282762978 0520239636 9780520239630 0520239644 9780520239647 |