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Queering Motherhood

"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-t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gibson, Margaret F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Demeter Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Notice
  • Table of Contents
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. Queer Conceptions: Where to Begin?
  • 1. The Relationship That Has No Name
  • 2. The Secrets of Touch and the Sexualities of Birth
  • 3. Not a "Medical Miracle"
  • 4. 'Pregnant with Meaning'
  • 5. Stories of Grief and Hope
  • II. Queering Practices, Practicing Queers
  • 6. Queer Mothering or Mothering Queerly
  • 7. Guy-Moms Unite!
  • 8. Shifting Families
  • 9. It Could Be So Different
  • 10. Becoming Papa
  • III. Queer Futures? Yearnings, Alliances, and Struggles
  • 11. Borders, Bodies & Kindred Pleasures
  • 12. Upsetting Expertise
  • 13. Transgender Women, Parenting, and Experiences of Ageing
  • 14. Queering Feminist Antimilitarism
  • 15. Towards a Collective and Materialist Approach to Queer Parenthood
  • Contributors' Biographies