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...Julie Shapiro Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law Kimberly D. Richman New York: New York University Press , 2009 . xi + 265 pp . Duke University Press 2010 Julie Shapiro is a professor of law at Seattle University School...

...Jason Jacobs Taking critical aim at an emergent cultural demand for family “acceptance” of queer youth and at the trope of parental love offered “no matter what,” this essay resists the occlusion of long-standing traditions of queer pedagogy and acculturation in contemporary “pro-LGBT” discourses...

...Alison Shonkwiler This essay analyzes the affect of entitlement in two memoirs by gay men about their experiences as adoptive parents. Although to lay claim to the role of the “selfish father” can be seen in these texts as a way to resist the presumptive privileges of motherhood, it is ultimately...

... and conservative (even if accepting) perspectives on gay parenting. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Israel gay fatherhood fertility ethnicity References Allan James . 2007 . “And Baby Makes Three …: Gay Men, Straight Women, and Parental Imperative in Film and Television...

... romance is portrayed in and against parent-child bonds, while the employment of a mother-daughter erotic reinscribes racial and gender norms. In contrast to Highsmith’s pulp novel, which eventually satirizes the mother-daughter bond in its camp machinations, Haynes’s lyric period film inspires feelings...

...Ryan Patrick Murphy This essay offers a genealogy of lifestyle, a category widely used in the 1960s to mark dissident kinship networks and sexual practices: single parenting, bisexuality, gender nonconformity, polyamory, cohabitation, and communal living, among many others. I argue that the concept...

... to simultaneously produce legitimate citizens out of commissioning parents and children, as well as a superior and exceptional nation-state. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 surrogacy homonationalism exceptionalism fatherhood assemblage References Aalborg Berit Strøyer . 2011 . “Vil...

... of information, for example, occurs in a range of medi- cal settings — in particular, pediatric care. And perhaps more disturbing still is the existence of “normalizing” surgeries routinely performed on otherwise healthy children, surgeries that in many cases parents and medical...

... organized pep rallies for civilian parents and their children in Iowa, Texas, and Florida. Shortly after an event held in Orlando, the Let s Move! blog featured a picture of the First Lady meeting an infant and his mother, Andrea Smith, the executive director of a nonprofit that organizes community gar...

... , no. 106 : 2313 – 74 . Benkov Laura . 1994 . Reinventing the Family: The Emerging Story of Lesbian and Gay Parents . New York : Crown . Berlant Lauren . 1997 . The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship . Durham, NC : Duke University Press...

... understandings of sex become simultaneously confounded and consolidated at the site of sexual indeterminacy. Katrina Karkazis’s excellent Fixing Sex is an anthropological investigation into the triangulation of clinical medicine, intersexed persons, and parents. Written in three parts...

... understandings of sex become simultaneously confounded and consolidated at the site of sexual indeterminacy. Katrina Karkazis’s excellent Fixing Sex is an anthropological investigation into the triangulation of clinical medicine, intersexed persons, and parents. Written in three parts...

... into the triangulation of clinical medicine, intersexed persons, and parents. Written in three parts, Karkazis offers the reader a succinct history of the medical management of intersex since the late nineteenth century, an ethnographic account of intersex treatment in the contem...

... understandings of sex become simultaneously confounded and consolidated at the site of sexual indeterminacy. Katrina Karkazis’s excellent Fixing Sex is an anthropological investigation into the triangulation of clinical medicine, intersexed persons, and parents. Written in three parts...

... and consolidated at the site of sexual indeterminacy. Katrina Karkazis’s excellent Fixing Sex is an anthropological investigation into the triangulation of clinical medicine, intersexed persons, and parents. Written in three parts, Karkazis offers the reader a succinct history...

... entitled to pro- tection from discrimination.9 The court recognized that subjecting an intersex child to surgery may violate the child’s right to autonomy and bodily integrity. It also acknowledged, however, that parents have rights to privacy and family auton- omy that must be considered...

..., and the adopted brothers have none. Some of the variance is due to heritability, some to shared environment-that is, that you shared the same house and had the same parents-and some to unshared environment. And it turns out that heritability gets a substantial chunk. But unshared environments gets a fair...

.... Most important, she focuses not just on what gay men and lesbians said about fam- ily but on what their families, especially their parents, said about them and thus on how having a gay or lesbian child shaped parental notions of responsibility and love. Her account parallels...

... kin relations during this period. Most important, she focuses not just on what gay men and lesbians said about fam- ily but on what their families, especially their parents, said about them and thus on how having a gay or lesbian child shaped parental notions...

.... Most important, she focuses not just on what gay men and lesbians said about fam- ily but on what their families, especially their parents, said about them and thus on how having a gay or lesbian child shaped parental notions of responsibility and love. Her account parallels...