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- Title
Lesbian M/Otherhood: Strategies of Familial- linguistic Management in Lesbian Parent Families.
- Authors
Gabb, Jacqui
- Abstract
In this article I examine how parental identities are negotiated in lesbian parent families. I argue that lesbian mothers' extraordinary maternity is not dependent on a feminist egalitarian ethic but instead comes from families' strategic articulation of same-sex parenthood, whereby gender is done and undone in multiple and contradictory ways. Focusing attention onto the `other (non-biological) mother', I suggest that her lack of social status and (progenitor) maternal role disrupts simple readings of gendered parenthood. I demonstrate that children's creative familial-linguistic management of `family' facilitates an inclusive conceptual framework, representing families as process. The data cited in this article comes from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 18 lesbian mothers and 13 of their children, who live across the Yorkshire region in the UK.
- Subjects
LESBIANISM; MOTHERHOOD; LESBIAN mothers; LESBIAN families; IDENTITY (Psychology); FEMINISM; SOCIAL status
- Publication
Sociology, 2005, Vol 39, Issue 4, p585
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0038038505056025