Lesbian mothers in twenty-first century Australia: creating a political subject position.
The creation of a political subject position based on the identity 'lesbian mother' was central to the achievement of law reform regarding reproduction and family matters in Australia in the twenty-first century. Authors identifying as lesbian mothers wrote submissions to a range of public inquiries...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 292 - 312 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=163408895&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 163408895 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 09612025 GP6 jtl: Women's History Review issn: 09612025 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2023 vid: 32 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 163408895 10.1080/09612025.2022.2116831 ppf: 292 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Lesbian mothers in twenty-first century Australia: creating a political subject position. aug: au: Baird, Barbara affil: Women's & Gender Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia su: Lesbian mothers Law reform Citizenship Practical politics Discrimination (Sociology) sug: subj: Lesbian mothers Law reform Citizenship Practical politics Discrimination (Sociology) keyword: Australia political subjectivity public inquiries queer politics reproductive justice sexual citizenship submissions twenty-first century ab: The creation of a political subject position based on the identity 'lesbian mother' was central to the achievement of law reform regarding reproduction and family matters in Australia in the twenty-first century. Authors identifying as lesbian mothers wrote submissions to a range of public inquiries, crafting detailed self-representations and often telling intimate stories of everyday experience of discrimination and marginalisation. This article understands the submissions as constrained by the practices of political subjectivity. They are governed by the rules of the authority to which submissions are addressed, even as they make claims for change. Investigation of available submissions from lesbian mothers from nine inquiries points to the classed and raced limits of the normative political subject which emerges and to the presence of historically dominant discourses of the good mother and the narrowed imagination of the marriage equality movement. Diversity in the submissions, however, also challenges the boundaries of the rules and avoids universal conformity to respectability. This analysis contributes to the scant historiography of lesbian mother politics in Australia and to the international literature on queer politics and sexual citizenship. It cautions against simple liberal readings of progress based in the achievement of rights and recognition for newly normative political subjects. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Women's History Review is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Women's History Review holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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