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ISBN10: 0823266036, ISBN13: 9780823266036, [publisher: FORDHAM UNIV PR] Hardcover Gay Fathers, Their Children and the Making of Kinship explores the status of fatherhood when paternity can no longer be tied to procreative sex. It addresses how the anxiety associated with securing the paternal relation is assuaged when the biological an. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2015]
ISBN10: 0823266036, ISBN13: 9780823266036, [publisher: FORDHAM UNIV PR] Hardcover Gay Fathers, Their Children and the Making of Kinship explores the status of fatherhood when paternity can no longer be tied to procreative sex. It addresses how the anxiety associated with securing the paternal relation is assuaged when the biological an. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2015]
ISBN10: 0823266036, ISBN13: 9780823266036, [publisher: Fordham University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be popular in the media, few scholarly works focus on gay men with children. Based on ten years of fieldwork among gay families living in the rural, suburban, and urban area of the eastern United States, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship presents a beautifully written and meticulously argued ethnography of gay men and the families they have formed.In a culture that places a premium on biology as the founding event of paternity, Aaron Goodfellow poses the question: Can the signing of legal contracts and the public performances of care replace biological birth as the singular event marking the creation of fathers? Beginning with a comprehensive review of the relevant literature in this field, four chapterseach presenting a particular picture of paternityexplore a range of issues, such as interracial adoption, surrogacy, the importance of physical resemblance in familial relationships, single parenthood, delinquency, and the ways in which the state may come to define the norms of health. The author deftly illustrates how fatherhood for gay men draws on established biological, theological, and legal images of the family often thought oppressive to the emergence of queer forms of social life.Chosen with care and described with great sensitivity, each carefully researched case examines ...
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