Róisín Ryan-Flood, Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship.
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Abstract
C urrent scholarship on lesbian motherhood primarily focuses on the experiences couples face in challenging heteronormativity.However, little attention has been paid to lesbians who choose to become parents with an openly lesbian lifestyle and how their choices reflect broader understandings of kinship, everyday interactions and social policy.Róisín Ryan-Flood interviewed 68 primarily white and professional lesbian parents in Sweden and Ireland in 2000 and 2001, exploring their experiences of sexual citizenship, reproductive healthcare, and child-centred spaces.Three major themes are addressed: the role of social policy on lesbian reproduction, state regulation of kinship, and to heteronormativity.This work contributes to new understandings of contemporary kinship and constructions of motherhood.Research on lesbian parents often overlooks the effect of social policy on women's ability to form autonomous households.Heteronormative assumptions influence the provision of assisted contraception, kinship possibilities for adoption and formal recognition of co-parents.Ryan-Flood's cross-national comparison shows that there is more support for women's autonomous households in Sweden, which is evident in women's participation in the labour market and availability of parental leave and subsidized childcare.In Ireland gays and lesbians have fewer legal rights, less recognition and are more marginalized from mainstream discourses."Blood ties" are an intrinsic part of family in both countries, exacerbated in Sweden by their paternal rights policy.Consequently, in both welfare states, lesbian couples face challenges to equal reproductive technologies, access to donors and adoption.As the result of having to navigate around heterosexual policies their path to parenthood is long and complex.Ryan-Flood also explores the role of state legislation on kinship in regulating intimate relationships.This has become increasingly prevalent with the challenging of traditional family forms through increased control of reproductive decision-making and broader interpretations of 'mother' and 'parent' in contemporary society.She uses the example of 'family discounts' being available to only heterosexual nuclear families and be-
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".