| Description |
1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Contents |
Any other name : why we edited this book / Sherri Martin-Baron, Raechel Johns, and Emily Regan Wills -- Little arrows / J. Ryann Peyton -- Big little love / Jacki Jax Brown -- Family recipe / Leah Oppenzato -- Redefining [M]other / Beth Cronin -- Becoming mommy / Louise Silver -- Love is all you need / Sherri Martin-Baron -- Vinzi is the name of my son / Nadja Miko-Schefzig -- Making a mama bear / Melissa Boyce -- From ambivalence to all in : biology does not matter, love is all that counts! / Raechel Johns -- Of children and choices / Claire Candland -- Unnatural parenting / Emily Regan Wills -- All the ways we didn't have a baby (and a couple of ways we did) / Stacy Cannatella -- "Are you having the next one?" : or, How I learned to stop worrying and love my (empty) womb / Patricia Curmi -- No, that's mom / Allie Robbins -- Queering biology through the "glue of love" / Sonja Mackenzie |
| Summary |
"Queer parenthood: It's multifaceted. It's complex. And it is constantly changing, as laws and culture shift around us. What's in a Name? reflects on this complexity through the voices of nonbiological/non-gestational queer mothers/parents who explore our experiences parenting across our different social and familial locations. The authors have all taken different routes to parenting, live in different countries, and understand our relationships to parenting through our own personal experiences. What we share is a commitment to parenting beyond the limits of biology, and of building families that are drawn together and maintained by the love and labour of parenting. The fifteen essays in this book address three key moments in our parenting journeys. First, we examine the routes we took to parenting, with many of us specifically focusing on the experience of being the "other" mother while our partners were pregnant, and the particular fears, anxieties, and triumphs that come with it. Second, we locate ourselves "in the thick of it" as parents, where the experiences shared among parents are colored by our particular experiences as nonbiological/non-gestational mothers/parents. Finally, we reflect on our identities, including the identity of "mother," and how those grow, shift, and develop throughout our parenting journeys."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
Nonbiological mothers.
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Nonbiological mothers -- Psychology
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Sexual minority parents.
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Sexual minority parents -- Psychology
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Parenthood.
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Parenthood -- Psychological aspects
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Motherhood.
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Motherhood -- Psychological aspects
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maternity.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General.
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Motherhood
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Motherhood -- Psychological aspects
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Nonbiological mothers
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Parenthood
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Parenthood -- Psychological aspects
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Sexual minority parents
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LGBTQ parents.
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LGBTQ+ parents.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin-Baron, Sherri, 1977- editor.
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Johns, Raechel, 1976- editor.
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Wills, Emily Regan, editor.
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| ISBN |
1772583014 |
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9781772583014 |
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9781772583021 |
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1772583022 |
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