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The Family of Woman : Lesbian Mothers, Their Children, and the Undoing of Gender by Maureen Sullivan is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up—or breakdown—of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, <i>The Family of Woman </i>chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination.With its
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- Author
- Maureen Sullivan
- Publisher
- Berkeley: University of California Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781597349376
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Anthropology
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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