Parenting and Parting in Lesbian and Gay Households

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“Drawing from her interviews with lesbian/gay Israeli middle-class respondents, Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli offers compelling first-person accounts of “parenting and parting.” People tell intimate and sad stories to this skilled sociologist; she analyzes the profound role of genetic connection, family law, and kinship support in the making and unmaking of gay/ lesbian domestic life with kids. This is an eye-opening and moving book.”
—Rayna Rapp, Professor Emerita, New York University, USA

"This is a very timely book, approaching a topic that has received scant, if any, attention in the literature on LGBT family life. The lengthy interview segments give a particularly textured view of the lesbian and gay couples whose lives we explore. Ambivalence, regret, and other emotions are given full expression in this form of presentation and interactions with other relatives, especially parents, are fully described. This book will be a very welcome addition to the literature on lesbian and gay families and their reproductive strategies."
—Ellen Lewin, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa, USA

This book provides a social anthropological analysis of how same-sex couples navigate family founding, family disassembling and post-divorce parenting. Offering a collection of 20 personal accounts of lesbian and gay individuals describing how they partnered, became parents—through adoption, gamete donation, gestational surrogacy or co-parenthood—and eventually disassembled their families, the book explores how same-sex couples, in collaboration with relatives, friends, policymakers, and judges, form and transform their parenting while negotiating custody arrangements. Investigating how genetics, law and perpetuity emerge as the central pillars of post-separation same-sex parenting, chapters elucidate foundational issues that span a wide variety of families’ dynamics. The book will be of interest to researchers in gender studies, politics and gender, family studies, family law, and social policy as well as to interested lay readers.

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her main research interests are the politics of reproduction, genetic relatedness and assisted reproduction technologies and their national significance. More generally, Birenbaum-Carmeli is interested in the interface of gender, policy and health, also in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This book provides a social anthropological analysis of how same-sex couples navigate family founding, family disassembling and post-divorce parenting. Offering a collection of 20 personal accounts of lesbian and gay individuals describing how they partnered, became parents—through adoption, gamete donation, gestational surrogacy or co-parenthood—and eventually disassembled their families, the book explores how same-sex couples, in collaboration with relatives, friends, policymakers, and judges, form and transform their parenting while negotiating custody arrangements. Investigating how genetics, law and perpetuity emerge as the central pillars of post-separation same-sex parenting, chapters elucidate foundational issues that span a wide variety of families’ dynamics. The book will be of interest to researchers in gender studies, politics and gender, family studies, family law, and social policy as well as to interested lay readers.

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