This book studies the growing number of lesbian women embarking on parenthood after coming out. Theoretical debates about lesbian motherhood often consider its assimilative or transgressive dimensions. This book offers a different approach, contextualising lesbian motherhood in relation to sexual citizenship and hegemonic discourses of kinship

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RÓISÍN RYAN-FLOOD is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research interests include gender, sexuality and citizenship. She is co-editor of Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections (Routledge, 2009). Her current research explores identity, diaspora and sexual citizenship

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Introduction: Charting the Lesbian Baby Boom Gender, Families and Social Change In Search of Doctors, Donors and Daddies: Lesbian Reproductive Decision-making Queering 'Public' Space Negotiating the Biological 'Tie': Identity, Power and Difference among Lesbian Parents Challenging Heteronormativity? Gender Flexibility and Lesbian Parenting Conclusions: Beyond Assimilation and Transgression Bibliography