Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America - Brossura

Lewin, Ellen

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ISBN 10: 0226476588 ISBN 13: 9780226476582

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2009

Riassunto

Men are often thought to have less interest in parenting than women, and gay men are generally assumed to prefer pleasure over responsibility. The toxic combination of these two stereotypical views has led to a lack of serious attention being paid to the experiences of gay fathers. But the truth is that more and more gay men are setting out to become parents and succeeding—and Gay Fatherhood aims to tell their stories.

Ellen Lewin takes as her focus people who undertake the difficult process of becoming fathers as gay men, rather than having become fathers while married to women. These men face unique challenges in their quest for fatherhood, negotiating specific bureaucratic and financial conditions as they pursue adoption or surrogacy and juggling questions about their future child’s race, age, sex, and health. Gay Fatherhood chronicles the lives of these men, exploring how they cope with political attacks from both the "family values" right and the "radical queer" left—while also shedding light on the evolving meanings of family in twenty-first-century America.

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L'autore:

Ellen Lewin is professor in the departments of Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is the author ofRecognizing Ourselves: Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment and Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture.

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Book by Lewin Ellen

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0226476588
• ISBN 13: 9780226476582
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 246