Mothering queerly, queering motherhood : resisting monomaternalism in adoptive, lesbian, blended, and polygamous families /

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Author / Creator:Park, Shelley M., 1961-
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c2013.
Description:xi, 306 p. ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9123701
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ISBN:9781438447179 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1438447175 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
  • Part I. Triangulating Motherhood
  • 1. Querying a Straight Orientation: Becoming a Mother (Twice, Differently)
  • 2. The Adoptive Maternal Body: Queering Reproduction
  • 3. Queer Orphans and Their Neoliberal Saviors: Racialized Intimacy in Adoption
  • 4. Making Room for Two Mothers: Queering Children's Literature
  • Part II. Resisting Domestinormativity
  • 5. Queer Assemblages: The Domestic Geography of Postmodern Families
  • 6. Control Freaks and Queer Adolescents: There's No Place Like Home
  • 7. Queering Familial Solidarity: Polymaternalism and Polygamy
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index