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Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Anti-Lesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction [Book Chapter]
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Book Chapter
Description
Chapter from Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State, edited by Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann
More about this title:
This is the first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the broader issues of social movements, politics, and law.
Chapters address the themes of visibility, transgression, and resistance, as well as the intersection between the personal and political in the contexts of relationships, parenthood, and political activism. Giving special attention to families of color, immigrant, and poor families, the authors examine the risks entailed in coming out and the significance of class, race, and sexual and gender identity in this process. Parenting also creates dilemmas of visibility as queer families negotiate malls and schools as well as the medical, legal, and political institutions that regulate their families.
This book explores how heteronormative and class assumptions influence state polices on parenthood, adoption, and relationships between adults, to question whether the law can meet the needs of queer families. Also discussed is how queer family politics are complicated by bisexuality, nonmonagamy, and gender nonconformity.
ISBN
9780231116916
Publication Date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press
City
New York
Keywords
family relationships, family dynamics, LGBTQ parents, discrimination, reproduction
Disciplines
Family, Life Course, and Society | Family Medicine | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Gender and Sexuality | Inequality and Stratification | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Medicine and Health | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Philosophy | Social Justice
Recommended Citation
Murphy, Julien S. “Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Anti-Lesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction.” Queer Families, Queer Politics, edited by Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann, Columbia University Press, 2001, pp. 182-200.
