Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World

by Amy Agigian

Book Overview

Explores the controversial implications of lesbian insemination.

Each year hundreds of children around the world are born to lesbian mothers who conceived through alternative insemination. This unique form of family-making creates families with no legal or psychological father, and challenges some of our most basic assumptions about what it means to be a family. How and why do lesbians use insemination to build their families? How...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819566306
• ISBN13: 9780819566300
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

Lesbians

I think all women should be able to decide how to live their lives and raise their children, whether with another woman, a man, both, or neither. Baby steps provides an alternative way to get pregnant without being penetrated by a man's [...].