Description
Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Trade Review“In
Making Gaybies Jaya 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. Jaya Keaney’s book is an instant classic—as beautifully written as it is forcefully and sensitively argued.” -- Sarah Franklin, author of * Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
