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While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be
popular in the media, few scholarly works focus on gay men with
children. Based on ten years of fieldwork among gay families living
in the rural, suburban, and urban area of the eastern United
States, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
presents a beautifully written and meticulously argued ethnography
of gay men and the families they have formed. In a culture that
places a premium on biology as the founding event of paternity,
Aaron Goodfellow poses the question: Can the signing of legal
contracts and the public performances of care replace biological
birth as the singular event marking the creation of fathers?
Beginning with a comprehensive review of the relevant literature in
this field, four chapters-each presenting a particular picture of
paternity-explore a range of issues, such as interracial adoption,
surrogacy, the importance of physical resemblance in familial
relationships, single parenthood, delinquency, and the ways in
which the state may come to define the norms of health. The author
deftly illustrates how fatherhood for gay men draws on established
biological, theological, and legal images of the family often
thought oppressive to the emergence of queer forms of social life.
Chosen with care and described with great sensitivity, each
carefully researched case examines gay fatherhood through life
narratives. Painstakingly theorized, Gay Fathers, Their Children,
and the Making of Kinship contends that gay families are one of the
most important areas to which social scientists might turn in order
to understand how law, popular culture, and biology are
simultaneously made manifest and interrogated in everyday life. By
focusing specifically on gay fathers, Goodfellow produces an
anthropological account of how paternity, sexuality, and
masculinity are leveraged in relations of care between gay fathers
and their children.
While the topic of gay marriage and families continues to be
popular in the media, few scholarly works focus on gay men with
children. Based on ten years of fieldwork among gay families living
in the rural, suburban, and urban area of the eastern United
States, Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship
presents a beautifully written and meticulously argued ethnography
of gay men and the families they have formed. In a culture that
places a premium on biology as the founding event of paternity,
Aaron Goodfellow poses the question: Can the signing of legal
contracts and the public performances of care replace biological
birth as the singular event marking the creation of fathers?
Beginning with a comprehensive review of the relevant literature in
this field, four chapters-each presenting a particular picture of
paternity-explore a range of issues, such as interracial adoption,
surrogacy, the importance of physical resemblance in familial
relationships, single parenthood, delinquency, and the ways in
which the state may come to define the norms of health. The author
deftly illustrates how fatherhood for gay men draws on established
biological, theological, and legal images of the family often
thought oppressive to the emergence of queer forms of social life.
Chosen with care and described with great sensitivity, each
carefully researched case examines gay fatherhood through life
narratives. Painstakingly theorized, Gay Fathers, Their Children,
and the Making of Kinship contends that gay families are one of the
most important areas to which social scientists might turn in order
to understand how law, popular culture, and biology are
simultaneously made manifest and interrogated in everyday life. By
focusing specifically on gay fathers, Goodfellow produces an
anthropological account of how paternity, sexuality, and
masculinity are leveraged in relations of care between gay fathers
and their children.
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