Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship

This book studies the growing number of lesbian women embarking on parenthood after coming out. Theoretical debates about lesbian motherhood often consider its assimilative or transgressive dimensions. This book offers a different approach, contextualising lesbian motherhood in relation to sexual citizenship and hegemonic discourses of kinship

Author: Róisín Ryan-Flood
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/27/2009
Pages: 217
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230545410

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/24/2009 pg. 17

About the Author
RÓISÍN RYAN-FLOOD is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research interests include gender, sexuality and citizenship. She is co-editor of Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections (Routledge, 2009). Her current research explores identity, diaspora and sexual citizenship