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Modern families : stories of extraordinary journeys to kinship / Joshua Gamson ; foreword by Melissa Harris-Perry.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiii, 235 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781479842469
  • 147984246X
  • 9781479869732
  • 1479869732
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ519 .G36 2015
Contents:
Introduction : Impertinent questions -- Reba, 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.
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Anime Films of Hayao Miyazaki
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode Course reserves
Reserve - 24 Hour Reserve - 24 Hour Albright College Library Reserve Desk 306.85 G194m 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002490793

SOC 261 THE FAMILY Fall 2023

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Impertinent questions -- Reba, 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.

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.

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