Erin Gallagher-Cohoon, PhD student in History.

October 22, 2019 00:33:48
Erin Gallagher-Cohoon, PhD student in History.
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Erin Gallagher-Cohoon, PhD student in History.

Oct 22 2019 | 00:33:48

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Show Notes

Topic: Canadian history of gay and lesbian/queer parenting.

Overview: My research looks at gay parenting from the 1970’s to 2005, looking at custody cases in the 1970s where a parent’s, often a mothers, sexuality was raised as a potential reason for withholding custody and ending with the ways in which a symbolic child and the presumed childlessness of queer couples was raised in the House of Commons debates on same sex marriage.

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