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OverviewLesbian 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 detail the different kinds of step relationships that are developed and what factors may lead to the different types of step mothering in lesbian step families. The book helps you understand these relationships and parent roles through in-depth discussions of: how a step mother and legal mother who live together negotiate and organize parenting and homemaking tasks how members of lesbian step families define and create the step mother role strategies family members use to define and cope with oppression how sexism is transmitted within the family and how mothering may limit and/or contribute to female liberation the opinions and viewpoints of the children of these families The findings in Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love challenge traditional views of mothering and fathering as gender and biologically based activities; they indicate that lesbian step families model gender flexibility and that the mothers and step mothers share parenting--both traditional mothering and fathering--tasks. This allows the biological mother some freedom from motherhood as well as support in it. With insight such as this, you will be prepared to help a client, a loved one, or yourself develop and maintain healthy family relationships. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ellen Cole (Alaska-Pacific University, Anchorage, AK, USA) , Esther D Rothblum (San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA) , Janet M WrightPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.566kg ISBN: 9780789004369ISBN 10: 0789004364 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 14 September 1998 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Complexity and Opportunity The Family Gestalt We Are (Normal) Family The Lesbian Couple as Heads of Household: Attempting Matriarchy in the Shadow of Patriarchy Outside/Insight: Creating the Step Mother Role and Redefining the Mother Role Forging Families in a Heterosexual Supremacist Environment Free to Be You and Me Appendices References IndexReviewsAuthor InformationEllen Cole Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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