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Modern Families

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Description for Modern Families Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; JFSK2; VFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .

A personal, intimate account of the extraordinary ways that today’s families are being created.

From adoption and assisted reproduction, to gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families, the stories in Modern Families explain how individuals make unconventional families by accessing a broad range of technological, medical and legal choices that expand our definitions of parenting and kinship. Joshua Gamson introduces us to a child with two mothers, made with one mother’s egg and the sperm of a man none of them has ever met; another born in Ethiopia, delivered by his natural grandmother ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479869732
SKU
V9781479869732
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Joshua Gamson
Joshua Gamson is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America, Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity, and The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco. Melissa Harris-Perry is Presidential Chair and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake ... Read more

Reviews for Modern Families
"These 'bedtime stories' should expand the hearts and minds of readers. Josh Gamson's exquisitely rendered tales of brave new family-making routes to contemporary parenthood and kinship aim to advance the dream of reproductive freedom."
Judith Stacey,author of Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China "Modern Families is about people who attempt to create an ... Read more

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