Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life/Sociology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Cult Health Sex. 2012;14(3):297-311. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2011.639392. Epub 2011 Dec 8.
Donor conception challenges conventional kinship idioms: the involvement of a gamete donor culturally raises questions about parentage and also the meaning of genetic heritage. Although there is now a growing body of literature exploring how people resorting to donor conception negotiate kinship and connectedness, this predominantly focuses on heterosexual couples. Little is yet known about how lesbian couples navigate these processes. This paper builds on a qualitative interview study comprising 25 lesbian couples in England and Wales with experiences of pursuing donor conception in the context of their couple relationship to explore how these couples negotiate the contribution of the donor. It explores how couples negotiate meanings of parenthood, genetic origins and the bodily process of conception. The paper argues that lesbian couples negotiate parental identities, biogenetic relationships and also the meaning of conception by disassembling and reassembling the meaning of kinship, parenthood, creation, origin and originator. Findings suggest that lesbian couples weave together old and new understandings of relatedness in complex patterns and that this enables them to assert authority as parents.
配子供体的参与在文化上引发了关于亲权和遗传遗产意义的问题。尽管现在有越来越多的文献探讨了求助于供体受孕的人们如何协商亲属关系和关联性，但这主要集中在异性恋夫妇身上。关于女同性恋夫妇如何应对这些过程，我们知之甚少。本文以英格兰和威尔士的 25 对有过在伴侣关系中追求供体受孕经历的女同性恋夫妇的定性访谈研究为基础，探讨了这些夫妇如何协商供体的贡献。它探讨了夫妇如何协商父母身份、遗传起源和受孕的身体过程。本文认为，女同性恋夫妇通过分解和重新组合亲属关系、父母身份、创造、起源和起源的意义来协商父母身份、生物遗传关系以及受孕的意义。研究结果表明，女同性恋夫妇以复杂的模式将新旧亲属关系观念编织在一起，这使她们能够作为父母主张权威。
