Description
Book SynopsisThe book aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to live, love, form a family without sex, without children, without a shared home, without a partner, without a working husband, without a heterosexual orientation or without a biological sexual body.
Trade Review"This is an interesting and innovative text which provides very useful coverage of the main dimensions of change in intimacies and family relations." ---Professor Kath Woodward, Open University. "an interesting and innovative book...has something to offer a wide range of students, researchers and academics and family policy makers" Donna Peach Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford and PhD Psychology student at University of Huddersfield
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gender, family and social change: from modernity to the Millennial generation; Family, family change, modernity; Family, family change, contemporary modernities; The book; Section One: Gender change and challenges to intimacy and sexual relations Asexual women and men: living without sex; Asexuality: a complex concept; Research on asexuality; Asexuality, couples, children; The asexual movement; Childfree women and men: living without children; The term ‘childfree’; Research on childfree women and men; Reasons to be childfree; The childfree movement; Couples together yet apart:‘I love you but do not want to live with you’; The term ‘living apart together’; Research on living apart together couples; Reasons for living apart; Invisible living apart together people?; Section Two: Gender change and challenges to traditional forms of parenthood Stay-at-home husbands and fathers; Stay-at-home men; Research on stay-at-home husbands and fathers; Male carers, couples and children; The househusbands’/stay-at-home fathers’ movement; Lone mothers and lone fathers; Lone mothers and lone fathers through history; Research on lone parenting; Lone parenting and children; The lone parenthood movement: from marginalisation to empowerment Homosexual and trans parents; Homosexual and transgender parenting; Research on homosexual parenting; Research on transgender parenting; The homosexual and trans parents rights movement; Conclusions: what can we learn?; Glossary of key concepts; Index
