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OverviewEach year hundreds of children around the world are born to lesbian mothers who conceived through alternative insemination. This unique form of family-making creates families with no legal or psychological father, and challenges some of our most basic assumptions about what it means to be a family. How, and why, do lesbians use insemination to build their families? How could it best be protected by law? Is it a feminist issue? Is insemination the ultimate in lesbian liberation, or a sell-out to nuclear family norms? How are race, class and human engineering involved? Drawing on legal findings and personal interviews, as well as medical and psychoanalytic research, sociologist Amy Agigian looks at the impact and potential of this form of reproduction. Baby Steps is the first in-depth discussion of the issues and questions raised by lesbian insemination, and the book has been designed to serve the interests of general readers and health care providers as well as teachers and students in women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, sociology, legal studies, and bioethics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy AgigianPublisher: University Press of New England Imprint: Wesleyan University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.562kg ISBN: 9780819566294ISBN 10: 0819566292 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 30 June 2004 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsPatriarchy is a longstanding, durable institution and this book exhilarates any reader--heterosexual or lesbian--who is weary of living under its mantle. -- Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, author of Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth Author InformationAmy Agigian is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston where she is also a sfounder and director of the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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