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Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture

Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture

Lewin, Ellen

Paperback

Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

AnthropologyGeneral ParentingGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1501728032
ISBN13: 9781501728037
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Within a society that long considered lesbian motherhood a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with their children, relatives, lovers, and friends and with their children's fathers and sperm donors; how they manage child-care arrangements and financial difficulties; and how they deal with threats to custody. Ellen Lewin's unprecedented research on lesbian mothers in the San Francisco area captured a vivid portrait of the moment before gay and lesbian parenting moved into the mainstream of U.S. culture. Drawing on interviews with 135 women, Lewin provided her readers with a new understanding of the attitudes of individual women, the choices they made, and the texture of their daily lives.

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