Author : A.J. Lowik
Release : 2021-12-24
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 685/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary by : A.J. Lowik
Download or read book The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary written by A.J. Lowik. This book was released on 2021-12-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary is an edited collection that works to identify and deconstruct many of the countless binaries that operate within the realms of parenting and reproduction. Weaving poetry, speculative fiction, and autobiography with interviews, critical analysis, and research, the authors take as their starting place that there is magical potential and possibility in the ambiguous, disorienting spaces of the in-between and the beyond. The collection challenges the constructedness of binaries connected to sex, gender, sexuality, and parenting roles, as well as the cis-, hetero-, repro-, trans-, and amatonormativities which pervasively circulate and inform how we think about parenting and reproductive life. The collection amplifies the voices of non-binary authors among others, and tells stories of menstruation, pregnancy, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, fertility preservation, parenthood, and activism in the face of violent binaries and reproductive injustices.