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Qualitative Sociology
Published in: Qualitative Sociology 3/2006

01-09-2006 | BOOK REVIEW

Maureen Sullivan, The Family of Woman: Lesbian Mothers, their Children, and the Undoing of Gender

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. 312 pages, ISBN: 0-520-23964-4 (paperback).

Author: Tina Fetner

Published in: Qualitative Sociology | Issue 3/2006

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Can lesbian families undo the gender order? Have the changes in social acceptance of same-sex couples, combined with developments in fertility assistance, introduced a new era of gender equality? Maureen Sullivan addresses the multiplicity in family forms made possible by recent social and technological changes in her book, The Family of Woman. …
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Literature
Coontz, Stephanie 2000. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. NY: Basic Books.
Stacey, Judith and Biblarz T. J. 2001. “(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?” American Sociological Review 66(2):159–83.
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Title
Maureen Sullivan, The Family of Woman: Lesbian Mothers, their Children, and the Undoing of Gender
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. 312 pages, ISBN: 0-520-23964-4 (paperback).
Author
Tina Fetner
Publication date
01-09-2006
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Qualitative Sociology / Issue 3/2006
Print ISSN: 0162-0436
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7837
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-006-9023-z

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