Les sites de coparentalité, entre matching des gamètes et pluralité des projets parentaux

Abstract

This article looks at the steps taken by people who choose coparenting, which is understood as a parenting project that is disconnected from sexuality, parenthood, and biological descent and focused on the importance of intentionality in bringing a child into the world. By focusing on the coparenting project and coparent matchmaking, the research looks at coparenting sites to examine the technical aspects of how potential coparents are matched and analyze how they talk about their coparenting projects. Our dual research method (in digital spaces and offline interviews with people who are in or planning a coparenting project) allowed us to see the inherent power relationships in social gender relations and how they materialize and to identify how gender is signified—and thereby produced—in these relationships.

Keywords

• coparenting
• discourse
• gender
• intentionality
• matchmaking
• digital