
Diverse Pathways to Parenthood
From Narratives to Practice
Description
Key Features
- Includes over 70 narratives representative of hundreds of interviews collected as a part of 15 research projects undertaken over the past decade
- Supported by a companion website that provides further materials and information: www.diversepathways.com
- Translates critical kinship studies theory into applied tools for practice in the fields of reproduction and parenthood
Readership
Researchers in psychology, sociology, family studies, and other social sciences; mental health practitioners working with parents/expectant parents
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Reproducing our selves through stories
Section I: Imaginations
2. Planning for a possible future: Transgender people and fertility preservation
3. Dreams of motherhood: Women in heterosexual couples planning for a first child
4. Animal companions as kin: The significance of animals to women of diverse sexualitiesSection II: Interruptions
5. Assisting reproduction: Heterosexual women’s experiences with infertility and fertility-related challenges
6. A profound grief: Heterosexual women’s experiences of pregnancy loss
7. Disenfranchised grief: Foster parent experiences of an unplanned placement terminationSection III: Conceptions
8. Donor conception: Creating new possibilities?
9. Baby desired, travel required: Negotiating international commercial surrogacy arrangements
10. Conception narratives: Journeys to family for adoptive and foster parentsSection IV: Reproductions
11. Wearing the pants?: Men’s accounts of becoming fathers
12. An act of resistance: Lesbian women becoming parents
13. Generations: Parent views on becoming grandparents
14. Conclusion: From stories to practice
Product details
- No. of pages: 194
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: September 12, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128162903
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128160237
About the Author
Damien Riggs
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