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Mediated Kinship : Gender, Race and Sexuality in Donor Families / by Rikke Andreassen.

By: Andreassen, Rikke [author.]Contributor(s): Taylor and FrancisMaterial type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Routledge Studies in Family Sociology: Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (198 pages) : 5 illustrations, text file, PDFContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781351233439Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General | Lesbian couples as parents | Children of gay parents | Single mothers | Sperm donors | Internet -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleOnline resources: Click here to view. Also available in print format.

Contents:

Acknowledgements -- Previously published work -- 1. Introduction: Motherhood and the Web 2.0 -- 2. Creating family -- 3. The Missing Father -- 4. Race and Reproduction -- 5. Community and New Scripts of Family -- 6. Conclusion: Expansion within Limits -- References -- Index

Abstract: Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm. It explores how they connect with each other online, develop intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their children’s hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large numbers of ‘donor siblings’. The new familieschallenge previous understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and maintained in contemporary times.A crucial study of contemporary formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses the racial aspects of the world’s largest sperm bank exporting Danish sperm (termed ‘Viking sperm’), and explores the narratives of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of donor-conceived children in the context of legislation, reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology of the family.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm. It explores how they connect with each other online, develop intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their children’s hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large numbers of ‘donor siblings’. The new familieschallenge previous understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and maintained in contemporary times.A crucial study of contemporary formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses the racial aspects of the world’s largest sperm bank exporting Danish sperm (termed ‘Viking sperm’), and explores the narratives of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of donor-conceived children in the context of legislation, reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology of the family.

Also available in print format.