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Author: Damien W. Riggs (Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Academic Press Inc
Weight: 0.320kg
ISBN: 9780128160237
ISBN 10: 0128160233
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 13 September 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
With its focus in diverse and complex stories of pathways not only to parenthood but to production and kinship, this book reflects qualitative research in critical kinship studies at its finest. Drawing on decades of collaborative research in the new book and in a highly pedagogical fashion, Damien Riggs explores and explains urgent and timely topics for practitioners in reproductive and family care by pointing to both conventions and resistances in time of new family forms and increasing use of ARTs. Equally importantly, by reading across several topics not usually analyzed together (such as infertility and reproductive loss, kinship with animals and across generations, straight and queer parenting), Riggs provides strong arguments for why attention not only to norms and deviances, but gender, sexuality and culture remain at the core of kinship and thus of critical kinship studies. --Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies, Uppsala University
With its focus in diverse and complex stories of pathways not only to parenthood but to production and kinship, this book reflects qualitative research in critical kinship studies at its finest. Drawing on decades of collaborative research in the new book and in a highly pedagogical fashion, Damien Riggs explores and explains urgent and timely topics for practitioners in reproductive and family care by pointing to both conventions and resistances in time of new family forms and increasing use of ARTs. Equally importantly, by reading across several topics not usually analyzed together (such as infertility and reproductive loss, kinship with animals and across generations, straight and queer parenting), Riggs provides strong arguments for why attention not only to norms and deviances, but gender, sexuality and culture remain at the core of kinship and thus of critical kinship studies. -- Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies, Uppsala University
"""With its focus in diverse and complex stories of pathways not only to parenthood but to production and kinship, this book reflects qualitative research in critical kinship studies at its finest. Drawing on decades of collaborative research in the new book and in a highly pedagogical fashion, Damien Riggs explores and explains urgent and timely topics for practitioners in reproductive and family care by pointing to both conventions and resistances in time of new family forms and increasing use of ARTs. Equally importantly, by reading across several topics not usually analyzed together (such as infertility and reproductive loss, kinship with animals and across generations, straight and queer parenting), Riggs provides strong arguments for why attention not only to norms and deviances, but gender, sexuality and culture remain at the core of kinship and thus of critical kinship studies."" --Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies, Uppsala University"
Author Information
Damien W. Riggs is a professor in psychology at Flinders University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He is the author of over 200 publications in the areas of gender, family, and mental health, including Working with transgender young people and their families: A critical developmental approach (Palgrave, 2019). He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and a psychotherapist who specialises in working with transgender and non-binary young people.
