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Making Gaybies Jaya Keaney

Making Gaybies By Jaya Keaney

Making Gaybies by Jaya Keaney


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Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia who must navigate varied transnational reproductive markets and policies, Jaya Keaney demonstrates how queer family making fosters a queer multiracial imaginary of kinship.

Making Gaybies Summary

Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling by Jaya Keaney

In Making Gaybies Jaya Keaney explores queer family making as a site of racialized intimacy. Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia, Keaney traces the lived experiences of choice and constraint as these families seek to craft likeness with their future children and tell stories of chosen family made through love. Queer family building often involves multiracial and multicultural encounters, as intending parents take part in the global fertility industry. Keaney follows queer family making through reproductive technologies and highlights the confines of varied transnational reproductive markets and policies as well as changing formations of race, gender, sexuality, and kinship. Whether sharing the story of white gay men choosing Indian and Thai egg donors to make their surrogate-born childrens ethnicities visually distinct from their own or that of an Aboriginal lesbian and her white partner choosing a Cherokee donor from the United States to articulate a global Indigeneity, Keaney foregrounds the entwinement of reproduction, race, and affect. By focusing on queer family making, Keaney demonstrates how reproduction fosters a queer multiracial imaginary of kinship.

Making Gaybies Reviews

In Making GaybiesJaya Keaney offers an empirically and conceptually rich account of racialization in contemporary queer family making. Through insightful exploration of how lesbian and gay couples navigate choice and constraint in their paths to parenthood in contemporary multicultural Australia, Making Gaybies makes vital contributions to transnational scholarly conversations in feminist science studies, queer studies, and critical race studies. A highly engaging book written with great candor and care, it deserves a wide readership. -- Anne Pollock, author of * Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States *
This astonishing book brilliantly reconfigures how we understand race, reproduction, and desire by investigating queer kinship as a terrain of feeling and the intimate bonds forged in the name of family as a site of radical transformation. JayaKeaneys book is an instant classicas beautifully written as it is forcefully and sensitively argued. -- Sarah Franklin, author of * Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception *
"Making Gaybies will be of interest to a wide range of readers, spanning from those who are working in the field of LGBTQ+studies, social studies of reproduction, and gender studies to race and identity studies. Making Gaybies raises important questions around queerness, heteronormativity, kinship, an racism, from my understanding, by telling the readers how multiple facets of 'choices' both contribute to the resistance of normalcy as well as to the reproduction of existing norms in society. I also believe that Making Gaybies comes in handy for people who work in fertility clinics and LGBTQ+organizations to understand more about queer intended parents feelings, concerns, and decision-making in their reproductive journeys." -- Jung Chen * LGBTQ+ Family *

About Jaya Keaney

Jaya Keaney is Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Origin Stories 1
1. Assembling Queer Fertility 31
2. Making Do 45
3. Crafting Likeness 72
4. Racializing Wombs 110
5. Love Makes a Family? 141
Conclusion: Manifest Care 169
Notes 181
Bibliography 199
Index 219

Additional information

NGR9781478025368
9781478025368
1478025360
Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling by Jaya Keaney
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2023-11-03
240
N/A
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