Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Families -- History -- 21st century.
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Families. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
21st century |
Subject |
Racially mixed families.
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Racially mixed families. |
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Gay parents.
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Gay parents. |
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Human reproductive technology.
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Human reproductive technology. |
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Kinship.
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Kinship. |
Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Subject |
Gay parents. |
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Assisted reproductive technology. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Gamson, Joshua, 1962- Modern families 9781479842469 (DLC) 2015009609 (OCoLC)905600231 |
ISBN |
9781479842841 (electronic book) |
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1479842842 (electronic book) |
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9781479842469 |
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147984246X |
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