Contributor notes. Liam Edginton-Green, Barry Edginton and Fiona Joy Green -- Dancing in the eye of the storm : the gift of gender diversity to our family / Kathy Witterick -- Get your gender binary off my childhood! : towards a movement for childrens' gender self-determination / Jane Ward -- The boy in the red dress / Susan Goldberg -- Transgender men's self-representations of bearing children post-transition / Damien W. Riggs -- Trapped in the wrong body and life uncharted : anticipation and identity within narratives of parenting transgender/gender non-conforming children / Jessica Ann Vooris -- We're having a Stanley / j wallace -- Between the village and the village people : negotiating community, ethnicity and safety in gender fluid parenting / May Friedman -- Producing homeplace : strategic sites and liminoid spaces for gender-diverse children / Sandra Schneider -- Complicating the truth of gender : gender literacy and the possible worlds of trans parenting / Jake Pyne -- Pink butterflies and blue caterpillars / Arwen Brenneman -- I wish I knew how to make cabbage rolls : an explanation of why the future of ethnicity relies upon gender fluidity / Sarah Sahagian -- The parental transition : a study of parents of gender variant children / Elizabeth Rahilly -- Our fluid family : expression, engagement and feminism / Liam Edginton-Green, Barry Edginton and Fiona Joy Green -- Contributor notes.
Summary:
"Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the uncomfortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of socialization and social control over their children. Fathers may feel the desire for feminist parenting whilst experienceing a backlash and a lack of support, while some parents may attempt to resist the binaries of mothering and fathering in their feminist parenting journey. Feminist parents may attempt to resist gender binaries; they may submit to them while attempting to foster critical dialoge; they may struggle with the display of their own femininity and masculinity or, for some, its perceived lack. This book attempts to cast a lens on the messy and convoluted ways that feminist parents approach parenting their children in gender aware and gender fluid ways." -- Publisher website.
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