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Creating a family through surrogacy: negotiating parental positions, familial boundaries and kinship practices

Familiengründung durch Leihmutterschaft - Aushandlungen zu Elternschaft, familialen und verwandtschaftlichen Grenzen
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Teschlade, Julia
Peukert, Almut

Abstract

This article focuses on male same-sex couples who fulfil their wish for a child through gestational surrogacy. As two-father families they must engage with society's expectation that every child has both a mother and a father. Thus, the position of the mother must be filled, or at least accounted fo... view more

This article focuses on male same-sex couples who fulfil their wish for a child through gestational surrogacy. As two-father families they must engage with society's expectation that every child has both a mother and a father. Thus, the position of the mother must be filled, or at least accounted for. The empirical data derive from interviews with male samesex couples from Germany. Following the grounded theory approach, we analyse the couples' 'doing (being) family' from two perspectives. First, we discuss how family roles are negotiated within the family formation process. The fathers employ different strategies to address the issue of the 'absent mother'. Second, we examine how the couples draw boundaries in family formation processes to ensure that they are seen as the child’s only parents. We argue that social discourses lack broader definitions of (family) relations beyond the gendered categorizations of father and mother.... view less


Im Fokus des Artikels stehen gleichgeschlechtliche Männerpaare, die ihren Kinderwunsch durch Leihmutterschaft erfüllen. Als Zwei-Väter-Familie müssen sie auf die gesellschaftliche Erwartung reagieren, dass jedes Kind auch eine Mutter hat und diese vakante Position erklären. Anhand narrativer Intervi... view more

Im Fokus des Artikels stehen gleichgeschlechtliche Männerpaare, die ihren Kinderwunsch durch Leihmutterschaft erfüllen. Als Zwei-Väter-Familie müssen sie auf die gesellschaftliche Erwartung reagieren, dass jedes Kind auch eine Mutter hat und diese vakante Position erklären. Anhand narrativer Interviews mit schwulen Elternpaaren aus Deutschland analysieren wir das 'doing (being) family' aus zwei Perspektiven: Erstens nehmen wir die Aushandlungen von Eltern- und Familienrollen in den Blick. Die Väter verwenden unterschiedliche Strategien, um die Abwesenheit der Mutter zu erklären. Zweitens leisten die Paare Abgrenzungsarbeit, um als die einzigen Eltern des Kindes wahrgenommen zu werden. Wir argumentieren, dass gesellschaftliche Diskurse nur unzulängliche Begrifflichkeiten bereitstellen, um die Diversität von (Familien-) Beziehungen jenseits der Geschlechterdifferenzierung von Vater und Mutter abzubilden.... view less

Keywords
family formation; same-sex cohabitation; desire for children; fatherhood; parenthood; role; heterosexuality; normativity; discourse; Federal Republic of Germany

Classification
Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies

Free Keywords
surrogacy; egg donation; gay fathers; doing family; Leihmutterschaft, Eizellspende

Document language
English

Publication Year
2019

Page/Pages
p. 56-70

Journal
GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 11 (2019) 2

Issue topic
Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse - Geschlechterverhältnisse im 21. Jahrhundert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v11i2.05

ISSN
2196-4467

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0


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