Queer Parenting Book Club: Dykes and Tykes
A look at the growth lesbian mothers activism in the 1970s.
Welcome back to the paid suscriber-only Queer Parenting Book Club. Last time I discussed chapters 1 and 2 of Daniel Winunwe Rivers’ Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, & Their Children in the United States since World War II. Today we dive into Chapter 3, which tracks the slow, uneven development of of queer parents’ rights from 1967-1985. During this period, the work of legal activists, the slow acceptance of the psychiatric community that homosexuality was not a mental illness, and the tireless advocacy of individual gay and lesbian parents helped give gay parents more recognition of their parental rights in the family court system.
And then we move to Chapter 4, which dives deeper into the work of activist groups by looking at the development of lesbian mothers’ organizations in the 1970s, and how these groups developed an intersectional feminist idea of family rights that would influence what we today call reproductive justice.
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