Bringing Kinship into Being: Connectedness, Donor Conception and Lesbian Parenthood

Sociology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 268-283

  Nordqvist, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

donor conception; kinship; lesbian; parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898927106     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038513477936     Document Type: Article

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