Editors:
- Examines central topics in family and kinship studies, combining perspectives from humanities and social sciences
- Demonstrates close relations' pervasiveness and their mutability across cultures in contemporary contexts
- Investigates close relations from multiple disciplinary perspectives using diverse theoretical and methodological approaches
Part of the book series: Crossroads of Knowledge (CROKNOW)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualizing Close Relations
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Negotiating Trans/National Kinship
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Theorizing Parenting Practices and Parent-Child Relations
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About this book
Grounded in a number of academic areas and disciplines, ranging from legal studies, sociology and social work to literary studies and ethnology, this volume also highlights the value of using inter- and multidisciplinary scholarly approaches in research about close relations.
Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Keywords
- close relations
- collaborative co-parenting
- non-biological parenthood
- queer kinship
- lesbian fatherhood
- lesbian families
- heteronormativity and friendship
- narrative kinning
- adoption reunions and kinship
- transracial adoption
- adoptee identity
- migration and motherhood
- motherhood ideology
- motherhood and ADHD
- female masculinity
Editors and Affiliations
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Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Helena Wahlström Henriksson
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Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Klara Goedecke
About the editors
Klara Goedecke is a postdoc at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research focuses on men and masculinities from intersectional perspectives, and includes work on homosociality, men’s friendships, postfeminism and gender equality. Her current project, “High stakes. Men, masculinities and gambling as cultural phenomena,” investigates gender constructions, affectsand class politics in Swedish gambling.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Close Relations
Book Subtitle: Family, Kinship, and Beyond
Editors: Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Klara Goedecke
Series Title: Crossroads of Knowledge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0792-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0791-2Published: 31 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0794-3Published: 18 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0792-9Published: 30 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2197-9634
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9642
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Gender Studies, Queer Studies