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New title from Policy Press
‘Diversity in family life: Gender, relationships and social change’
By Elisabetta Ruspini
Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4473-0093-9, £65.00
"This is an interesting and innovative text which provides very useful coverage of the main dimensions of change in intimacies and family relations.” Professor Kath Woodward, Open University
As new forms of family and 'non-traditional' families grow in number, there is a need to understand these 'new' arrangements and models of parenthood.
This ground-breaking book discusses, using a comparative and a sociological perspective, examples of the relationship between changing gender identities and processes of family formation in the Western experience. It aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to form a family without sex, without children, without a shared home, without a partner, without a working husband, without a heterosexual orientation or without a 'biological' sexual body.
Diversity in family life will help readers discover and understand the characteristics, advantages and drawbacks of these new models of parenthood, and their political implications in terms of social movements, characteristics and demands.
Contents: Asexual men and women: living without sex; Childfree women and men: living without children; Couples together yet apart (I love you but do not want to live with you); Househusbands: Stay-at-home dads; Lone mothers and lone fathers; Homosexual and trans parents; Conclusions.
This title can be ordered from the Policy Press website at a 20% discount: http://bit.ly/12KHLkR
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