Lesbian mothers internationally have negotiated informal donor insemination arrangements with gay men since the earliest days of planned lesbian parenthood. In recent years, the relational status to children of these men has been subject to increasing legal and research scrutiny. In this article, based on interviews with Australian gay men, the various meanings of biological relatedness to children are explored from the men's perspective. Of particular interest is the difference between a 'donor' and a 'fathe'' for the men, and the extent of their complicity with patriarchal discourses about fatherhood. I argue that, on one level, it is important to distinguish between patriarchal concepts of relatedness that connote entitlement to authorit...
In this exploratory qualitative study of 11 young adults, ages 19-29 years, we examine how young peo...
Gay men are becoming increasingly involved in reproduction despite significant barriers limiting the...
Abstract In the last decades of the twentieth century in Britain there has emerged a public understa...
Australian gay men often assist lesbian friends and acquaintances to have families through known don...
Planned parenthood within the international lesbian and gay communities has attracted considerable a...
This thesis explores how kinship is enacted in the context of gay men pursuingparenthood through sur...
This paper draws together the views about parenting and family formation from sperm donors and from ...
As Australian reproductive health continues to be shaped by legal and social heterosexism, lesbian w...
As growing numbers of gay men enter into the reproductive realm, opportunities emerge for the rewrit...
Abstract: Planned parenthood within the lesbian and gay communities attracts considerable attention ...
Within Australia, a diverse range of social and legislative contexts may be seen to either widen or ...
In media coverage of lesbian families there is often a pre-occupation with ‘absent’ fathers. Today I...
Whilst there exists a considerable body of research documenting heterosexual couples’ use of donor s...
Gay fathers are creating family forms and parenting practices that reach beyond the nuclear family m...
© 2018 The Author. Published by Elsevier Inc.This is an Open Access article, distributed under the t...
In this exploratory qualitative study of 11 young adults, ages 19-29 years, we examine how young peo...
Gay men are becoming increasingly involved in reproduction despite significant barriers limiting the...
Abstract In the last decades of the twentieth century in Britain there has emerged a public understa...
Australian gay men often assist lesbian friends and acquaintances to have families through known don...
Planned parenthood within the international lesbian and gay communities has attracted considerable a...
This thesis explores how kinship is enacted in the context of gay men pursuingparenthood through sur...
This paper draws together the views about parenting and family formation from sperm donors and from ...
As Australian reproductive health continues to be shaped by legal and social heterosexism, lesbian w...
As growing numbers of gay men enter into the reproductive realm, opportunities emerge for the rewrit...
Abstract: Planned parenthood within the lesbian and gay communities attracts considerable attention ...
Within Australia, a diverse range of social and legislative contexts may be seen to either widen or ...
In media coverage of lesbian families there is often a pre-occupation with ‘absent’ fathers. Today I...
Whilst there exists a considerable body of research documenting heterosexual couples’ use of donor s...
Gay fathers are creating family forms and parenting practices that reach beyond the nuclear family m...
© 2018 The Author. Published by Elsevier Inc.This is an Open Access article, distributed under the t...
In this exploratory qualitative study of 11 young adults, ages 19-29 years, we examine how young peo...
Gay men are becoming increasingly involved in reproduction despite significant barriers limiting the...
Abstract In the last decades of the twentieth century in Britain there has emerged a public understa...