Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling - Hardcover

Keaney, Jaya

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1478020555 ISBN 13: 9781478020554

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In Making Gaybies 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 global Indigeneity, Keaney foregrounds the entwinement of reproduction, race, and affect. By focusing on queer family making, Keaney demonstrates how reproduction fosters a queer multiracial imaginary of kinship.

About this title

About the Author

Jaya Keaney is Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478020555
• ISBN 13: 9781478020554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240