Diversity in Family Life: Gender, Relationships and Social Change

ISBN-13: 9781447300922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str.

Elisabetta Ruspini

Opis

As the variety and number of nontraditional families grow, so does the need for new models of family and parenthood. "Diversity in Family Life" discusses the relationship between shifting gender identities and the processes of family formation, examining non-traditional family structures, including asexual couples, child-free couples, living-apart-together couples, single parents, and homosexual and transsexual parents. Calling for bold reformulations, it argues that it is possible to live, love, and form a family in an astounding variety of ways.

Spis treści

Introduction: Gender, family and social change: from modernity to the Millennial generation; Family, family change, modernity; Family, family change, contemporary modernities; The book; Section One: Gender change and challenges to intimacy and sexual relations Asexual women and men: living without sex; Asexuality: a complex concept; Research on asexuality; Asexuality, couples, children; The asexual movement; Childfree women and men: living without children; The term ‘childfree’; Research on childfree women and men; Reasons to be childfree; The childfree movement; Couples together yet apart:‘I love you but do not want to live with you’; The term ‘living apart together’; Research on living apart together couples; Reasons for living apart; Invisible living apart together people?; Section Two: Gender change and challenges to traditional forms of parenthood Stay-at-home husbands and fathers; Stay-at-home men; Research on stay-at-home husbands and fathers; Male carers, couples and children; The househusbands’/stay-at-home fathers’ movement; Lone mothers and lone fathers; Lone mothers and lone fathers through history; Research on lone parenting; Lone parenting and children; The lone parenthood movement: from marginalisation to empowerment Homosexual and trans parents; Homosexual and transgender parenting; Research on homosexual parenting; Research on transgender parenting; The homosexual and trans parents rights movement; Conclusions: what can we learn?; Glossary of key concepts; Index