I get this Thursday, march 24 at 18h, Martine Gross, in the framework of the cycle of conferences ” in The course of the work of the social sciences “. Engineer of research in the social sciences at the CNRS, she has devoted most of its work to the same-sex parenting. She has published or edited several books on the topic.
The realities covered by the term “same-sex families” multiplied with the evolution of the social vision focused on homosexuality. These realities are questioning the definitions of what are a parent, a mother, a father, a family, kinship, etc., We will see how these families, at the same time are violating certain norms and social representations in and comply with others, illustrate the issues posed by the diversity of configurations contemporary family. The challenge cast by the parents of the same sex is that they may not slip in our model naturalist of kinship that confuses paternity, and procreation, and assigns to each of us to be a single father and a single mother, supposed to be our parents.
His most recent publications on the issue :
– M. Gross (ed), Homoparentalités, state of the premises, Eres, 2005
– Mr Gross, Mr Peyceré, Build a family with same-sex parents, 2005, I read
– A. Cadoret, M. Gross, C. Mécary, B. Perreau (dir), Homoparentalités, scientific approaches and policies, PUF, 2006
– M. Gross / E. Antier, Two dads, two moms, what to think? Debate on same-sex parenting. Calman-Lévy, 2007
– Mr. Gross, The same-sex parenting, the received ideas, the Blue Rider, 2009
Recent Articles
Gross, M. (2006). Desire for children among gays and lesbians. Field (46 ), 151-164.
Gross, M. (2007). When and how same-sex parenting has become an object of “legitimate” research in the humanities and social sciences? . Socio-logos, 2. Retrieved from http://socio-logos.revues.org/document803.html
Gross, M. (2007). The rabbis French and gay parenting.Speech and attitudes. It Archives de sciences sociales des religions.
Gross, M. (2008). Be gay and christian in France, . In contemporary societies, 71(3), 67-93.
Gross, M. (2008). Two moms or two parents. Evolution of the designation of the links in the families lesboparentales. In D. L. Gall (Ed.), Identities and ways of life. Chronicles of a other France (pp. 199-216). Paris: L’harmattan, coll. “Sociologies and the environment”
Gross, M. (2009). Homoparental families: between conformity and innovation. Social information, 154 (July-August 2009), 106-114.
Gross, M. (2009). The grand-parents in same-sex families: between biological ties and social bonds. Social and family policies, 97, 41-50.