She Looks Just Like You : A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

English

ISBN: 0807004693

EAN: 9780807004692

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Women/Social Science / Gender Studies/Family & Relationships / Alternative Family/

Publisher: Beacon Press

Release Date: 10/11/2011

Synopsis: Part love story, part comedy, part quest: this is the first memoir by a nonbiological lesbian mom. After ten years of talking about children, two years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm to her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that.As a midwestern, station wagon-driving, stay-at-home mom-and as a nonbiological lesbian mother-Millers experience both defines and defies the norm. Like new parents everywhere, she wrestled with the anxieties that accompany parenthood, fantasized about sleep, and watched as the presence of a baby transformed her eighteen-year relationship with her partner. As her partner became the mom-to-be, Miller searched for a role that would fit her own experience, somewhere in the unexplored zone between mother and father, gay and straight. She stood before a judge to adopt her own daughter and wondered how to respond when strangers gushed, I bet Daddys proud.Given the current gayby boom, Millers candid and often humorous memoir is a much-needed cultural roadmap of what it means to be a parent when the usual categories no longer fit.

Awards: Lambda Literary Awards – null  Lambda Literary Awards – null 

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She Looks Just Like You : A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.89 inches

Width: 5.83 inches

Length: 8.77 inches

Weight: 17.04 oz

Pages: 256