Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love eBook

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Lesbian Step Families
An Ethnography of Love
Lesbian 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.

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Additional ISBNs
9781560239284, 9781315809762

Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love 1st Edition is written by Ellen Cole; Esther D Rothblum; Janet M Wright and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Lesbian Step Families are 9781317790518, 1317790510 and the print ISBNs are 9780789004369, 0789004364. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781560239284, 9781315809762.