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Family of Woman Lesbian Mothers, Their Children, and the Undoing of Gender

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ISBN-10: 0520239644

ISBN-13: 9780520239647

Edition: 2005

Authors: Maureen Sullivan

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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 Womanchronicles 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…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 323
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Maureen Sullivan, who holds a doctorate in theology from Fordham University, is associate professor of theology at St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, and is a national theological consultant for Sadlier, Inc. She gives workshops and keynote speeches across the country on contemporary theological issues, especially those concerning the Vatican II.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Emergence of Lesbian-Coparent Families in Postmodern Society
Becoming Parents: Baby Making in the Age of Assisted Procreation
Being Parents: The End of Oedipus and the Expansion of Intimacy
Undoing the Gender Division of Labor
Truth and Reconciliation: Families of Origin Come Around and Come Out
Becoming Familiar in the Community of Strangers
The Structure of Donor-Extended Kinship
The Theoretical Future of a Conscious Feminist Kinship
Families by the Bay: The Study Design, Method, and Participants
Notes
Bibliography
Index