Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families
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Shelley M. Park., & Shelley M. Park|AUTHOR. (2013). Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families . State University of New York Press.

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Shelley M. Park, and Shelley M. Park|AUTHOR. Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families State University of New York Press, 2013.

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