Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood 1 PART I: TRIANGULATING MOTHERHOOD 1. Querying a Straight Orientation: Becoming a Mother (Twice, Differently) 33 2. The Adoptive Maternal Body: Queering Reproduction 57 3. Queer Orphans and Their Neoliberal Saviors: Racialized Intimacy in Adoption 85 4. Making Room for Two Mothers: Queering Children’s Literature 119 PART II: RESISTING DOMESTINORMATIVITY 5. Queer Assemblages: The Domestic Geography of Postmodern Families 153 6. Control Freaks and Queer Adolescents: There’s No Place Like Home 187 7. Queering Familial Solidarity: Polymaternalism and Polygamy 219 viii Contents Epilogue 253 Notes 259 References 267 Index 289 ...