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Staff and Students
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society
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Deb Dempsey - PhD |
| Disciplinary expertise |
Sociology, gender studies |
| Broad approach |
Social and legal parameters of kinship in the era of assisted reproduction; qualitative research methodologies; family/kinship theory; sexuality and rights discourse; young people and sexual health |
| Current projects |
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Ph D topic: Conceiving family and kinship in the Australian lesbian and gay ‘baby boom'. |
| Publications |
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Dempsey, D. (in press) ‘Lesbians' right-to-choose, children's right-to-know' in Jones, H. G. and Kirkman, M. (eds.) Sperm Wars, ABC books, Melbourne. |
| Refereed articles |
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Dempsey, D. 2004, ‘Donor, Father or Parent?: Conceiving Paternity in the Australian Family Court', International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol. 18, pp. 76-102.
Dempsey, D. 2002, ‘Reproducing intimacy and kinship beyond intercourse: lesbians practising self-insemination', Meridian, (special issue: The Fertile Imagination), Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 103-121.
Dempsey, D., Hillier, L. and Harrison, L. 2001, ‘Gendered (s)explorations among Same-Sex Attracted Young People in Australia, Journal of Adolescence, Vol. 24, No. 1, February, pp.67-81 |
| Conference presentations |
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Dempsey, D. 2005, ‘Equalising mothers and parents', paper presented at Health in Difference 5, La Trobe University, January 20-22.
Dempsey, D .and McNair, R. 2003, ‘Paternity and Lesbian-parented families' paper presented at eighth Australian Institute for Family Studies conference, 12-14 th February, Melbourne.
Dempsey, D. 2002, 'Donors, Daddies, Uncles, Fathers and Parents: Australian gay men and the lesbian and gay "baby boom", paper presented at Sex and Society: History, Politics, Intimacy with Jeffrey Weeks, University of Sydney , March 1.
McNair, R . and Dempsey, D. 2003, ‘Family Formation and Women's Roles' paper presented to eighth Australian Institute for Family Studies conference, 12-14 th February, Melbourne. |
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