ISBN:
9781479842841
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 235 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Modern families
DDC:
306.8509730905
Keywords:
Kinship
;
Human reproductive technology
;
Families History 21st century
;
Gay parents
;
Racially mixed families
;
Families ; History ; 21st century
;
Racially mixed families
;
Gay parents
;
Human reproductive technology
;
Kinship
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago as paths to parenthood have been rejiggered by technology, activism, and law. Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. He tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales-- adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families-- set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Impertinent questionsReba, live! -- Stranger things have happened -- Birth control -- The kids in the pictures -- My new Kentucky baby -- Queer conceptions -- Conclusion: Bedtime stories for a new generation.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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