"An important contribution to the anthropology of gay kinship, ten years in the making. While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be popular in the media, few scholarly works focus on gay men with children. Based on ten years of fieldwork among gay families living in the rural, suburban, and urban area of the eastern United States, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship presents a beautifully written and meticulously argued ethnography of gay men and the families they have formed. In a culture that places a premium on biology as the founding event of paternity, Aaron Goodfellow poses the question: Can the signing of legal contracts and the public performances of care replace biological birth as the singular event marking the creation of fathers? Beginning with a comprehensive review of the relevant literature in this field, four chapters--each presenting a particular picture of paternity--explore a range of issues, such as interracial adoption, surrogacy, the importance of physical resemblance in familial relationships, single parenthood, delinquency, and the ways in which the state may come to define the norms of health. The author deftly illustrates how fatherhood for gay men draws on established biological, theological, and legal images of the family often thought oppressive to the emergence of queer forms of social life. Chosen with care and described with great sensitivity, each carefully researched case examines gay fatherhood through life narratives. Painstakingly theorized, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship contends that gay families are one of the most important areas to which social scientists might turn in order to understand how law, popular culture, and biology are simultaneously made manifest and interrogated in everyday life. By focusing specifically on gay fathers, Goodfellow produces an anthropological account of how paternity, sexuality, and masculinity are leveraged in relations of care between gay fathers and their children"--
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"Gay Fathers, Their Children and the Making of Kinship' explores the status of fatherhood when paternity can no longer be tied to procreative sex. It addresses how the anxiety associated with securing the paternal relation is assuaged when the biological anchors that commonly assure paternity are not readily available"--
یادداشتهای مربوط به سفارشات
منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
JSTOR
شماره انبار
22573/ctt14g3d8v
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9780823266067
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Children of gay parents.
موضوع مستند نشده
Gay fathers-- Family relationships.
موضوع مستند نشده
Gay fathers.
موضوع مستند نشده
Parenting.
موضوع مستند نشده
Children of gay parents.
موضوع مستند نشده
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Adoption & Fostering.
موضوع مستند نشده
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Parenting-- Fatherhood.
موضوع مستند نشده
Gay fathers-- Family relationships.
موضوع مستند نشده
Gay fathers.
موضوع مستند نشده
Parenting.
موضوع مستند نشده
PSYCHOLOGY-- General.
موضوع مستند نشده
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gay Studies.
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
FAM-- 000000
موضوع مستند نشده
FAM-- 004000
موضوع مستند نشده
FAM000000
موضوع مستند نشده
FAM004000
موضوع مستند نشده
PSY-- 000000
موضوع مستند نشده
PSY000000
موضوع مستند نشده
SOC-- 012000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
306
.
874/208664
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
HQ76
.
13
نشانه اثر
.
G66
2015
سایر رده بندی ها
شماره رده
FAM004000
.
شماره رده
FAM004000
کد سيستم
bisacsh
کد سيستم
bisacsh
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )