Reproductive Losses
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Reproductive Losses

Challenges to LGBTQ Family-Making

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Reproductive Losses

Challenges to LGBTQ Family-Making

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About This Book

Although there are far more opportunities for LGBTQ people to become parents than there were before the 1990s, attention to the reproductive challenges LGBTQ families face has not kept pace.

Reproductive Losses considers LGBTQ people's experiences with miscarriage, stillbirth, failed adoptions, infertility, and sterility. Drawing on Craven's training as a feminist anthropologist and her experiences as a queer parent who has experienced loss, Reproductive Losses includes detailed stories drawn from over fifty interviews with LGBTQ people (including those who carried pregnancies, non-gestational and adoptive parents, and families from a broad range of racial/ethnic, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds) to consider how they experience loss, grief, and mourning. The book includes productive suggestions and personal narratives of resiliency, commemorative strategies, and communal support, while also acknowledging the adversity many LGBTQ people face as they attempt to form families and the heteronormativity of support resources for those who have experienced reproductive loss.

This is essential reading for scholars and professionals interested in LGBTQ health and family, and for individuals in LGBTQ communities who have experienced loss and those who support them.

See additional material on the companion website: www.lgbtqreproductiveloss.org/

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9780429776809
Edition
1
Topic
Politica e relazioni internazionali
Subtopic
Politica culturale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. List of Boxes
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Abbreviations
  12. Terminology: Politics and Practice
  13. 1. A Political and Personal Commitment
  14. 2. Troubling the ā€œProgressiveā€ Narrative
  15. 3. Methodological Considerations
  16. 4. LGBTQ Stories of Reproductive Loss
  17. 5. Encountering Adversity
  18. 6. Deafening Heteronormativity
  19. 7. Economic Precarity
  20. 8. Malleable Losses
  21. 9. Queer Resiliency
  22. 10. Moving Forward
  23. Appendix A: Invitation to Participate Flyer
  24. Appendix B: Interview Questions
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index