Margaret K. Nelson

Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship

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Produktbeschreibung

For decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States.  In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be “like family” among the white middle-class.

Produktdetails

• Families in Focus
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780813564067
• ISBN-10: 0813564069
• Artikelnr.: 57583396

Autorenporträt

Margaret K. Nelson is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology Emerita at Middlebury College in Vermont.  She is the author of Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times and the co-author, with Rosanna Hertz, of Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin.  

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE     
INTRODUCTION    
PART I: TRUE LIFE STORIES
            Chapter 1: The Texture and Dynamics of Like Sibling Bonds
            Chapter 2: The Limits of  Like Sibling Bonds
PART II: ONE-ACT PLAYS
            Chapter 3: Guest Teens: Learning Boundaries
            Chapter 4: Host Families: Inclusion and Exclusion
PART III: FAIRY TALES    
            Chapter 5: Unofficial Children: If the Shoe Fits
            Chapter 6: Informal Parents: Promises Broken, Promises Kept
CONCLUSION: RECONSIDERING KINSHIP
APPENDICES
            Appendix A: Information about Respondents; Cast of Characters
            Appendix B: Studying Fictive Kinship and Informal Adoption