LEADER 04214nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910969166403321 005 20250923224243.0 010 $a9781438447186 010 $a1438447183 035 $a(CKB)2550000001042616 035 $a(EBL)3408719 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835773 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11458161 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835773 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10990602 035 $a(PQKB)10669285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408719 035 $a(OCoLC)834604201 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26965 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408719 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676836 035 $a(DE-B1597)683610 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438447186 035 $a(Perlego)2674748 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001042616 100 $a20120725d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMothering queerly, queering motherhood $eresisting monomaternalism in adoptive, lesbian, blended, and polygamous families /$fShelley M. Park 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781438447179 311 08$a1438447175 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aQuerying 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. 330 $aBridging 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. 606 $aMotherhood 606 $aLesbian mothers 606 $aAdoptive parents 606 $aInterracial adoption 606 $aFamilies 606 $aQueer theory 606 $aLGBTQ+ co-mothers$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0000838 606 $aLGBTQ+ mothers$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0002343 606 $aLGBTQ+ families$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0000420 606 $aPolyamorous families$2homoit$3https://homosaurus.org/v4/homoit0003920 615 0$aMotherhood. 615 0$aLesbian mothers. 615 0$aAdoptive parents. 615 0$aInterracial adoption. 615 0$aFamilies. 615 0$aQueer theory. 615 7$aLGBTQ+ co-mothers. 615 7$aLGBTQ+ mothers. 615 7$aLGBTQ+ families. 615 7$aPolyamorous families. 676 $a306.874/3 700 $aPark$b Shelley M.$f1961-$01810019 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969166403321 996 $aMothering queerly, queering motherhood$94361107 997 $aUNINA