Gay Men Pursuing Parenthood through Surrogacy: Reconfiguring Kinship

A groundbreaking exploration of gay men navigating parenthood through surrogacy and its impact on kinship.

Dean Murphy analyzes how relatedness is enacted in the context of gay men pursuing parenthood and a 'child of one's own' through both domestic and transnational surrogacy arrangements. Drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews with gay men living in Australia and the United States, and news media, the book explores how gay men 'enact' parenthood and family life in ways that bot...