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Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World Hardcover – June 14, 2004

by Amy Agigian (Author)
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Each year hundreds of children around the world are born to lesbian mothers who conceived through alternative insemination. This unique form of family-making creates families with no legal or psychological father, and challenges some of our most basic assumptions about what it means to be a family. How and why do lesbians use insemination to build their families? How best could it be protected by law? Is it a feminist issue? Is insemination the ultimate in lesbian liberation or a sell-out to nuclear family norms? How are race, class, and human engineering involved? Drawing on legal findings and personal interviews, as well as medical and psychoanalytic research, sociologist Amy Agigian looks at the impact and potential of this form of reproduction.

Baby Steps is the first in-depth discussion of the issues and questions raised by lesbian insemination, and the book has been designed to serve the interests of general readers and health care providers as well as teachers and students in women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, sociology, legal studies, and bioethics.
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  1. Print length
    284 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Wesleyan University Press
  4. Publication date
    June 14, 2004
  5. Dimensions
    6.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0819566292
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0819566294
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"Baby Steps is a fascinating study of the world of lesbian alternative insemination. " -- Dr. Ruth McNair, Senior Lecturer, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne

"Baby Steps presents a fascinating glance at our cultural and technological possibilities for a more gender-fluid and nurture-centered future." -- Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage

"Patriarchy is a longstanding, durable institution...this book exhilarates any reader heterosexual or lesbian who is weary of living under its mantle." -- Robbie Pfeufer Kahn, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont and author of Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth

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6 x 9 trim.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wesleyan University Press; First Edition (June 14, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0819566292
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0819566294
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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  • Eskilliyah de Quelqeshuuz
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    I think all women should be able to decide how to live their lives and raise their children, whether with another woman, a man, both, or neither. Baby steps provides an alternative way to get pregnant without being penetrated by a man's [...].
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