Luce, Jacquelyne Marie, 1971-

Beyond expectation : lesbian/bi/queer women and assisted conception / Jacquelyne Luce. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2010. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Imagining queer parenthood -- Strategic outings -- Out for the children, or childhood outings? -- Misreadings -- Legal (re)framings -- Figuring anonymity -- Mediating knowing -- Contracting kinship -- Matters of health -- Screening pasts -- Screening futures -- Reflections.

An in-depth study of lesbian, bi, and queer women's experiences of thinking about and trying to become a parent, Beyond Expectation draws on eighty-two narrative interviews conducted during the late 1990s in British Columbia.



9781442685864 9781442610088




Lesbian mothers--Canada.
Lesbian mothers--Canada--Interviews.
Lesbians--Family relationships--Canada.
Lesbians--Social conditions.--Canada
Lesbians--Health and hygiene--Canada.
Reproductive technology--Canada.
Motherhood--Political aspects--Canada.
Mothers.
Human reproductive technology.
Social history.
Female.
Humans
Homosexuality, Female
Mothers
Family Relations
Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
Social Conditions


Electronic Books.

HQ75 / .B496 2010