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Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family-Making

Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family-Making

Craven, Christa

Paperback

Series: Gender and Sexualities in Psychology

AnthropologyDeath & DyingGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138363251
ISBN13: 9781138363250
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 13 2019
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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