My Account Log in

1 option

Making gaybies : queer reproduction and multiracial feeling / Jaya Keaney.

Van Pelt Library HQ75.27 .K436 2023
Loading location information...

Available This item is available for access.

Log in to request item
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Keaney, Jaya, 1992- author.
Contributor:
Commins-Holman Family Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gay-parent families.
Race relations.
Race awareness.
Children of gay parents.
Sexual minorities' families.
Human reproductive technology--Social aspects.
Human reproductive technology.
Surrogate motherhood.
Sperm donors.
LGBTQ+ families.
LGBTQ+ people.
Physical Description:
ix, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Summary:
"In Making Gaybies Jaya Keaney explores queer family making as a site of racialized intimacy. Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia, Keaney traces the lived experiences of choice and constraint as these families seek to craft likeness with their future children and tell stories of chosen family made through love. Queer family building often involves multiracial and multicultural encounters, as intending parents take part in the global fertility industry. Keaney follows queer family making through reproductive technologies and highlights the confines of varied transnational reproductive markets and policies, and changing formations of race, gender, sexuality, and kinship. Whether sharing the story of white gay men choosing Indian and Thai egg donors to make their surrogate-born children's ethnicity visually distinct from their own or that of an Aboriginal lesbian and her white partner choosing a Cherokee donor from the United States to articulate a global Indigeneity, Keaney foregrounds the entwinement of reproduction, race, and affect. By focusing on queer family making, Keaney demonstrates how reproduction fosters a queer multiracial imaginary of kinship"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Origin Stories
Assembling Queer Fertility
Making Do
Crafting Likeness
Racializing Wombs
Love Makes a Family?
Manifest Care.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Commins-Holman Family Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Keaney, Jaya, 1992- Making gaybies
ISBN:
9781478025368
1478025360
9781478020554
1478020555
OCLC:
1375550865
Publisher Number:
99996011746

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Library Catalog Using Articles+ Library Account