Lesbians Raising Sons
Lesbians are having babies left and right, and, as Jess Wells  points out in her introduction, lesbians who conceive via donor  insemination have a 65 percent chance of bearing a son. Times have  changed from the radical lesbian separatist days of the '70s and '80s  when male children were unwelcome at some lesbian events and  communities. Still, raising a man-child in this culture is not an easy  thing for lesbians to do. Wells, who has a son, has gathered a wide  range of personal essays by lesbian moms including Jenifer Levin,  Robin Morgan, Lillian Faderman, and Merril Mushroom that describe the  rewards and problems of being a lesbian mom.