| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) |
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Haworth innovations in feminist studies |
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Haworth innovations in feminist studies
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| Contents |
Foreword / Linda Thompson -- Complexity and Opportunity -- Beginning -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Method: The Complex Relationship of Researcher to Researched -- Study Design -- The Participant Families -- Data Analysis -- Validity -- Ethical Considerations -- Back to the Beginning -- The Family Gestalt -- Description of the Participant Families -- The Norden/Westby/Engleking Family -- The Iliff/Dubrovsky/Iliff-Hernandez Family -- The Uphoff/Dillard Family -- The Peterson/Timms/Taylor Family -- The Stark Family -- We are (Normal) Family -- Discipline Disagreements -- The Other Parent -- The Children as Active Agents in Family Creation -- The Impact of Herstory--Families of Origin -- Job Stress -- The Lesbian Couple as Heads of Household: Attempting Matriarchy in the Shadow of Patriarchy -- Female Coupling -- Household Tasks Degendered -- Mothering and Fathering Degendered -- We Can Father but We Can Never Be Male -- Outside/Insight: Creating the Step Mother Role and Redefining the Mother Role -- Commitment of Step Mother to Child -- The Nature versus Nurture Debate -- Step Parents Develop Unique Relationships with the Children -- Defining the Step Parent Role: Three Stances -- Forging Families in a Heterosexual Supremacist Environment -- Children -- Parenting in the Mouth of a Dragon -- It Takes a Whole Village -- Free to Be You and Me -- Modeling Gender Flexibility -- Shared Parenting -- The Impact of Heterosexual Supremacy -- Theoretical Implications -- Implications for Research and Policy -- First Interview--Couple |
| Summary |
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families'definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family structures and environments. It is the first book to concentrate exclusively on lesbian step families rather than on lesbian mothering in general. In Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love, you'll explore in d |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Lesbian mothers
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Lesbian couples -- Family relationships
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Stepmothers.
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Stepfamilies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Lesbian couples -- Family relationships
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Lesbian mothers
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Stepfamilies
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Stepmothers
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Parents homosexuels.
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Lesbiennes.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317790518 |
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1317790510 |
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9781317790525 |
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1317790529 |
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