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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rosanna Hertz (Classes of 1919-1950 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College) , Margaret K. Nelson (A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology Emerita, Middlebury College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.548kg ISBN: 9780190888275ISBN 10: 019088827 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 20 December 2018 Audience: General/trade , 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 ContentsReviewsHertz and Nelson's approach is a welcome addition to the scholarship on searching for genetic relations among donor-conceived people and their parents . . . Random Families is an intellectually honest account of the complexity, and diversity, of same-donor networks . . . What becomes of these [donor network] possibilities remains to be seen, but for bringing them to light, Random Families deserves recognition. * Science * Hertz and Nelson's approach is a welcome addition to the scholarship on searching for genetic relations among donor-conceived people and their parents . . . Random Families is an intellectually honest account of the complexity, and diversity, of same-donor networks . . . What becomes of these [donor network] possibilities remains to be seen, but for bringing them to light, Random Families deserves recognition. * Science * add[s] substantially to the literature on Americans' changing families, family values, and behaviors. This clearly written and organized text ... [is] a groundbreaking and illuminating study ... Highly recommended. * W. Feigelman, CHOICE * Author InformationRosanna Hertz is the 1919 50th Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She authored Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice, a path-breaking study of women who choose parenthood without marriage. Her first major book was More Equal than Others: Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages. Margaret K. Nelson is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology Emerita at Middlebury College. Her books include Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America (with Joan Smith), and Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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