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

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Shelley M. Park
2013
Published by: State University of New York Press
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Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. 1-1

Title Page, Copyright Page

pp. 2-7

Contents

pp. 8-9

Acknowledgments

pp. 10-13

Introduction: Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood

pp. 14-30

Part I: Triangulating Motherhood

Chapter 1: Querying a Straight Orientation: Becoming a Mother (Twice, Differently)

pp. 33-56

Chapter 2: The Adoptive Maternal Body: Queering Reproduction

pp. 57-84

Chapter 3: Queer Orphans and Their Neoliberal Saviors: Racialized Intimacy in Adoption

pp. 85-118

Chapter 4: Making Room for Two Mothers: Queering Children’s Literature

pp. 119-150

Part II: Resisting Domestinormativity

Chapter 5: Queer Assemblages: The Domestic Geography of Postmodern Families

pp. 153-186

Chapter 6: Control Freaks and Queer Adolescents: There’s No Place Like Home

pp. 187-218

Chapter 7: Queering Familial Solidarity: Polymaternalism and Polygamy

pp. 219-252

Epilogue

pp. 253-258

Notes

pp. 259-266

References

pp. 267-288

Index

pp. 289-BC
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