More like a donor or more like a father? Gay men's concepts of relatedness to children

Sexualities

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-174

  Dempsey, Deborah ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Donor insemination; fatherhood; gay men; lesbian mothers; patriarchy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857947385     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460711433735     Document Type: Article

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