{"product_id":"making-gaybies-9781478025368","title":"Making Gaybies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMaking Gaybies\u003c\/i\u003e Jaya Keaney explores queer family making as a site of racialized intimacy. Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia, Keaney traces the lived experiences of choice and constraint as these families seek to craft likeness with their future children and tell stories of chosen family made through love. Queer family building often involves multiracial and multicultural encounters, as intending parents take part in the global fertility industry. Keaney follows queer family making through reproductive technologies and highlights the confines of varied transnational reproductive markets and policies as well as changing formations of race, gender, sexuality, and kinship. Whether sharing the story of white gay men choosing Indian and Thai egg donors to make their surrogate-born children’s ethnicities visually distinct from their own or that of an Aboriginal lesbian and her white partner choosing a Cherokee donor from the United States to articulate a g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eMaking Gaybies\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMaking Gaybies\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Origin Stories  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Assembling Queer Fertility  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Making Do  45\u003cbr\u003e 3. Crafting Likeness  72\u003cbr\u003e 4. Racializing Wombs  110\u003cbr\u003e 5. Love Makes a Family?  141\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Manifest Care  169\u003cbr\u003e Notes  181\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  199\u003cbr\u003e Index  219","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409017807191,"sku":"9781478025368","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025368.jpg?v=1730505112","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-gaybies-9781478025368","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}