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.
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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