@inbook{5dc769e258e746a095d1a8c0085d2734,
title = "Display Work: Lesbian Parent Couples and Their Families of Origin Negotiating New Kin Relationships",
abstract = "This chapter draws upon data from a qualitative study of the family lives of same-sex (female) couples in England who had their first and subsequent children in the context of their current relationship. I examine respondents{\textquoteright} accounts about how they negotiate coming out as lesbian parents within their family of origin, and their perspectives on how their families of origin {\textquoteleft}come out{\textquoteright} (or not) within their own social networks in order to claim new kin relationships with the lesbian parent family. These new forms of {\textquoteleft}coming out{\textquoteright} resonate with Finch{\textquoteright}s (2007) notion of {\textquoteleft}displaying families{\textquoteright}—in which narratives around coming out as lesbian parents display meanings of family and contribute to ways in which these meanings are conveyed, recognised and understood as {\textquoteleft}family-like{\textquoteright} relationships.",
keywords = "Civil Partnership, Family Life, Front Room, Heterosexual Family, Lesbian Identity",
author = "Kathryn Almack",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2011 Kathryn Almack. ",
year = "2011",
month = nov,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1057/9780230314306_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-349-31931-2",
series = "Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "102--118",
booktitle = "Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life",
}