Whats In A Name Perspectives From Non Biological And Non Gestational Queer Mothers

Author : Sherri Martin-Baron
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772583022
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What’s in a Name? Perspectives from Non-Biological and Non-Gestational Queer Mothers written by Sherri Martin-Baron and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer parenthood: It's multifaceted. It's complex. And it is constantly changing, as laws and culture shift around us. What's in a Name? reflects on this complexity through the voices of nonbiological/non-gestational queer mothers/parents who explore our experiences parenting across our different social and familial locations. The authors have all taken different routes to parenting, live in different countries, and understand our relationships to parenting through our own personal experiences. What we share is a commitment to parenting beyond the limits of biology, and of building families that are drawn together and maintained by the love and labour of parenting. The fifteen essays in this book address three key moments in our parenting journeys. First, we examine the routes we took to parenting, with many of us specifically focusing on the experience of being the "other" mother while our partners were pregnant, and the particular fears, anxieties, and triumphs that come with it. Second, we locate ourselves "in the thick of it" as parents, where the experiences shared among parents are colored by our particular experiences as nonbiological/non-gestational mothers/parents. Finally, we reflect on our identities, including the identity of "mother," and how those grow, shift, and develop throughout our parenting journeys.

Author : Sherri Martin-Baron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772583014
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's in a Name? written by Sherri Martin-Baron and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Queer parenthood: It's multifaceted. It's complex. And it is constantly changing, as laws and culture shift around us. What's in a Name? reflects on this complexity through the voices of nonbiological/non-gestational queer mothers/parents who explore our experiences parenting across our different social and familial locations. The authors have all taken different routes to parenting, live in different countries, and understand our relationships to parenting through our own personal experiences. What we share is a commitment to parenting beyond the limits of biology, and of building families that are drawn together and maintained by the love and labour of parenting. The fifteen essays in this book address three key moments in our parenting journeys. First, we examine the routes we took to parenting, with many of us specifically focusing on the experience of being the "other" mother while our partners were pregnant, and the particular fears, anxieties, and triumphs that come with it. Second, we locate ourselves "in the thick of it" as parents, where the experiences shared among parents are colored by our particular experiences as nonbiological/non-gestational mothers/parents. Finally, we reflect on our identities, including the identity of "mother," and how those grow, shift, and develop throughout our parenting journeys."--

Author : Abbie E. Goldberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071891383
Total Pages : 2930 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies, 2nd Edition written by Abbie E. Goldberg and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 2930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, 2nd Edition will be a broad, interdisciplinary product aimed at students and educators interested in an interdisciplinary perspective on LGBTQ issues. This far-reaching and contemporary set of volumes is meant to examine and provide understandings of the lives and experiences of LGBTQ individuals, with attention to the contexts and forces that shape their world. The volume will address questions such as: What are the key theories used to understand variations in sexual orientation and gender identity? How do LGBTQ+ people experience the transition to parenthood? How does sexual orientation intersect with other key social locations (e.g., race) to shape experience and identity? What does LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy look like? How have anti-LGBTQ ballot measures affected LGBTQ people? What are LGBTQ+ people’s experiences during COVID-19? How were LGBTQ+ people impacted by the Trump administration? What is life like for LGBTQ+ people living outside the United States? This encyclopedia will be a unique product on the market: a reference work that looks at LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through the lenses of psychology, human development, and sociology, and emphasizing queer, feminist, and ecological perspectives on this topic. Entries will be written by top researchers and clinicians across multiple fields—psychology, human development, gender/queer studies, sexuality studies, social work, nursing, cultural studies, education, family studies, medicine, public health, and sociology—contributing to approximately 450-500 signed entries. All entries will include cross-references and Further Readings.

Author : Christa Craven
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429776810
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reproductive Losses written by Christa Craven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are far more opportunities for LGBTQ people to become parents than there were before the 1990s, attention to the reproductive challenges LGBTQ families face has not kept pace. Reproductive Losses considers LGBTQ people’s experiences with miscarriage, stillbirth, failed adoptions, infertility, and sterility. Drawing on Craven’s training as a feminist anthropologist and her experiences as a queer parent who has experienced loss, Reproductive Losses includes detailed stories drawn from over fifty interviews with LGBTQ people (including those who carried pregnancies, non-gestational and adoptive parents, and families from a broad range of racial/ethnic, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds) to consider how they experience loss, grief, and mourning. The book includes productive suggestions and personal narratives of resiliency, commemorative strategies, and communal support, while also acknowledging the adversity many LGBTQ people face as they attempt to form families and the heteronormativity of support resources for those who have experienced reproductive loss. This is essential reading for scholars and professionals interested in LGBTQ health and family, and for individuals in LGBTQ communities who have experienced loss and those who support them. See additional material on the companion website: www.lgbtqreproductiveloss.org/

Author : Abbie E. Goldberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071891405
Total Pages : 1657 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies, 2nd Edition written by Abbie E. Goldberg and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 1657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, 2nd Edition will be a broad, interdisciplinary product aimed at students and educators interested in an interdisciplinary perspective on LGBTQ issues. This far-reaching and contemporary set of volumes is meant to examine and provide understandings of the lives and experiences of LGBTQ individuals, with attention to the contexts and forces that shape their world. The volume will address questions such as: What are the key theories used to understand variations in sexual orientation and gender identity? How do LGBTQ+ people experience the transition to parenthood? How does sexual orientation intersect with other key social locations (e.g., race) to shape experience and identity? What does LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy look like? How have anti-LGBTQ ballot measures affected LGBTQ people? What are LGBTQ+ people’s experiences during COVID-19? How were LGBTQ+ people impacted by the Trump administration? What is life like for LGBTQ+ people living outside the United States? This encyclopedia will be a unique product on the market: a reference work that looks at LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through the lenses of psychology, human development, and sociology, and emphasizing queer, feminist, and ecological perspectives on this topic. Entries will be written by top researchers and clinicians across multiple fields—psychology, human development, gender/queer studies, sexuality studies, social work, nursing, cultural studies, education, family studies, medicine, public health, and sociology—contributing to approximately 450-500 signed entries. All entries will include cross-references and Further Readings.

Author : Lora Liegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087925325
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Parent written by Lora Liegel and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret F Gibson
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1926452453
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queering Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives written by Margaret F Gibson and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 queer re-tellings and reexaminations of reproduction, family, politics, and community. The list of contributors includes emerging writers as well as established scholars and activists such as Gary Kinsman, Damien Riggs, Christa Craven, Cary Costello, Elizabeth Peel, and Rachel Epstein.

Author : Morgan F. Paldron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Mother written by Morgan F. Paldron and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amie Klempnauer Miller
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780807004692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She Looks Just Like You written by Amie Klempnauer Miller and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an 18 year partnership, which included 10 years of talking about children and nearly two years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive, Amie Miller called it quits. But after just one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the Mom-to-Be, Miller became . . . what? Mommy's little helper? A faux dad? A spectator? After Hannah's birth, Miller continued to search for a role that would fit her experience, somewhere in the unexplored zone between mother and father, gay and straight. As a Midwestern, station wagon-driving, stay-at-home mom-and as a non-biological lesbian mother-Miller's experience both defines and defies the norm. Like new parents everywhere, she wrestled with the neurotic anxieties that accompany caring for an infant. She fantasized about sleep. She watched as the presence of a baby transformed her 18-year relationship with her partner. But unlike most mothers, she experienced pregnancy only vicariously. She felt like a dad in drag at library story time. She stood before a judge to adopt her own daughter. She wondered just how to respond when strangers commented, "I bet Daddy's proud". Part love story, part comedy, part quest, She Looks Just Like You explores what it means to become a mother when the categories of motherhood don't quite fit.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.