Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) - Hardcover

Lewin, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801428572 ISBN 13: 9780801428579

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1993

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"Lewin's study of lesbian motherhood, which consisted of interviews of seventy- three lesbian mothers and sixty-two single heterosexual mothers for comparison, confirmed her assumption that the two groups have a great deal in common. It seems that single mothers, whatever their sexuality, tend to relate to their children as partners and count other mothers as better friends than childless people, and that the experience of divorce for heterosexual women often mirrors the experience of coming out for lesbians-both are steps toward autonomy." * Publishers Weekly *

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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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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0801428572
• ISBN 13: 9780801428579
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256