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The paper examines the assessment of lesbians who apply to foster or adopt, using data generated from 30 interviews with local authority social workers. Using feminist and queer theories, the author suggests that lesbian applicants pose a challenge to the discourse of 'compulsory gender and heterosexuality' which structures fostering and adoption work. It is argued that this discourse relies upon a series of assumptions about the automatic fitness of heterosexual applicants, especially concerning the idea of gender and sexuality role models needed for children's development. Further, this 'heteronormative' discourse relies upon the continuing need to make 'other' the categories 'lesbian' or 'gay'. The article considers how 'the lesbian' is constructed as a 'threat', as 'militant', or as 'automatically safe' in assessments, and makes the point that social work is productive of versions of the lesbian subject. The author argues that only certain versions are likely to be approved to foster or adopt, particularly that which is termed 'the good lesbian'.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Bastard Feudalism: Society and Politics in Fifteenth-Century England -- 2 Idealism in Late Medieval English Politics -- 3 Attainder, Resumption and Coercion, 1461-1529 -- 4 Chantries, Obits and Almshouses: The Hungerford Foundations, 1325-1478 -- 5 The Piety of Margaret, Lady Hungerford (d. 1478) -- 6 St. Katherine's Hospital, Heytesbury: Prehistory, foundation and Re-foundation, 1409-78 -- 7 Restraint, Mediation and Private Justice: George, Duke of Clarence as 'Good Lord' -- 8 Edward IV, the Duke of Somerset and Lancastrian Loyalism in the North -- 9 Piety and Lineage in the Wars of the Roses: The Hungerford Experience -- 10 Counting the Cost of War: The Moleyns Ransom and the Hungerford Land-Sales, 1453-87 -- 11 The Changing Role of the Wydevilles in Yorkist Politics to 1483 -- 12 Lord Hastings' Indentured Retainers? -- 13 Richard III as Duke of Gloucester: A Study in Character -- 14 Richard Ill's Cartulary in the British Library MS Cotton Julius BXII -- 15 What Might Have Been: George Neville, Duke of Bedford, 1465-83: His Identity and Significance -- 16 The Last Days of Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford -- 17 Richard III and Romsey -- 18 Descent, Partition and Extinction: The Warwick Inheritance -- 19 The Beauchamp Trust, 1439-87 -- 20 The Neville Earldom of Salisbury, 1429-71 -- 21 Dynastic Change and Northern Society: The Fourth Earl of Northumberland, 1470-89 -- 22 The Yorkist Rebellion of 1489 Reconsidered -- 23 The Case of Sir Thomas Cook, 1468 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

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