New Kinship Practices of Lesbians in Mainland China

本研究运用批判民族志、女性主义家庭理论和孔氏的跨国酷儿社会学来调查中国大陆已经使用或计划使用辅助生殖技术（ART）生育孩子的女同性恋父母家庭的经历。我将与两个为女同性恋者提供ART咨询的非政府组织（Relax LGBT Center和Rainbow Babies）的客户和工作人员接触，探讨生殖决策，代际互动和育儿实践。本研究将集中于三个研究问题：在当代中国，女同性恋者如何获得辅助受孕？与大家庭和友谊网络的关系如何影响他们的生育决定？这种新的艺术实践与西方艺术观有何异同？我将扩展亲属关系的研究，并帮助降低西方在生殖技术，女同性恋和家庭的社会学观点。

This study utilises critical ethnography, feminist family theory and Kong's transnational queer sociology toinvestigate the experience of lesbian parent families in mainland China who have used or plan to use AssistedReproductive Technology (ART) to have children together. Engaging with clients and staff at two NGOs thatprovide ART counselling to lesbians (Relax LGBT Center and Rainbow Babies), I will explore reproductive decisionmaking,intergenerational interactions and parenting practices. The study will focus on three research questions:How do lesbians accessing assisted conception practise kinship in contemporary China? How do relations withextended family and friendship networks shape their fertility decisions? What are the similarities and differencesbetween this new practice and Western perspectives on ART? I will extend kinship studies and help to de-centreWestern-perspectives in the sociology of reproductive technology, lesbianism and the family.