03658nam 2200673Ia 450 991082723110332120200520144314.01-4384-4718-3(CKB)2550000001042616(EBL)3408719(SSID)ssj0000835773(PQKBManifestationID)11458161(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835773(PQKBWorkID)10990602(PQKB)10669285(MiAaPQ)EBC3408719(OCoLC)834604201(MdBmJHUP)muse26965(Au-PeEL)EBL3408719(CaPaEBR)ebr10676836(DE-B1597)683610(DE-B1597)9781438447186(EXLCZ)99255000000104261620120725d2013 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrMothering queerly, queering motherhood resisting monomaternalism in adoptive, lesbian, blended, and polygamous families /Shelley M. Park1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20131 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4384-4717-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Querying a straight orientation: becoming a mother (twice, differently) -- The adoptive maternal body: queering reproduction -- Queer orphans and their neo-liberal saviors: racialized intimacy in adoption -- Making room for two mothers: queering children's literature -- Queer assemblages: the domestic geography of postmodern families -- Control freaks and queer adolescents: there's no place like home -- Queering familial solidarity: polymaternalism and polygamy.Bridging the gap between feminist studies of motherhood and queer theory, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood articulates a provocative philosophy of queer kinship that need not be rooted in lesbian or gay sexual identities. Working from an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates feminist philosophy and queer, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories, Shelley M. Park offers a powerful critique of an ideology she terms monomaternalism. Despite widespread cultural insistence that every child should have one—and only one—"real" mother, many contemporary family constellations do not fit this mandate. Park highlights the negative consequences of this ideology and demonstrates how families created through open adoption, same-sex parenting, divorce, and plural marriage can be sites of resistance. Drawing from personal experiences as both an adoptive and a biological mother and juxtaposing these autobiographical reflections with critical readings of cultural texts representing multi-mother families, Park advocates a new understanding of postmodern families as potentially queer coalitional assemblages held together by a mixture of affection and critical reflection premised on difference.MotherhoodLesbian mothersAdoptive parentsInterracial adoptionFamiliesQueer theoryMotherhood.Lesbian mothers.Adoptive parents.Interracial adoption.Families.Queer theory.306.874/3Park Shelley M.1961-1627434MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827231103321Mothering queerly, queering motherhood3964039UNINA