Lesbian parents: Redefining the family.
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Title
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Lesbian parents: Redefining the family.
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Identifier
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AAI9136794
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identifier
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9136794
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Creator
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Benkov, Laura Elizabeth.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Paul Wachtel
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Date
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1990
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical | Women's Studies | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
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Abstract
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This study focuses on the family formation process of lesbians choosing to have children. In the past decade, an increasing number of lesbians have chosen to form families including children, prompting the popular media to coin the term, "lesbian baby boom." At this time, relatively little research has focused on these families. This study addresses gaps in the literature by providing descriptive material on a range of issues including family structure decisions, coparenting roles, naming within families, and responses to homophobia.;Twenty lesbians who have chosen to raise children were interviewed in a semi-structured format. The sample includes women who adopted children, women who conceived biologically, and women who are non-biological coparents. The methodology for data collection and analysis is based on social constructionist and feminist theories. Interpretive social sciences (such as symbolic anthropology), are used as a model for the research. The analytic emphases are the changing definition of "family" in American culture at this time, and the mutual embeddedness of individuals and cultural contexts.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
