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

Gamson, Joshua, 1962- author.
2015
306.850905 G194m 2015
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Title
Modern families : stories of extraordinary journeys to kinship / Joshua Gamson ; foreword by Melissa Harris-Perry.
Author
Gamson, Joshua, 1962- author.
ISBN
9781479842469 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
147984246X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781479869732
1479869732
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
40025372688
Call Number
306.850905 G194m 2015
System Control No.
(OCoLC)905600231
(OCoLC)905600231
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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