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01801aam a2200277Ii 4500 001 8A6BB9DE901D11E5A6A17EBFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151121010016 008 150323s2015 nyua e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015009609 020 $a 147984246X (cl : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781479842469 (cl : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)905600231 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UOK $d ILC $d LE# $d SILO 100 1 $a Gamson, Joshua, $d 1962- 245 10 $a Modern families : $b stories of extraordinary journeys to kinship / $c Joshua Gamson ; foreword by Melissa Harris-Perry. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xiii, 235 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Impertinent questions -- Reba, live! -- Stranger things have happened -- Birth control -- The kids in the pictures -- My new Kentucky baby -- Queen conceptions -- Conclusion: Bedtime stories for a new generation. 520 $a The kinds of families we see today are different than they were even a decade ago as paths to parenthood have been rejiggered by technology, activism, and law. Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. He tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales-- adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families-- set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made. 941 $a 3 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20180515030413.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826040604.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20160506011231.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8A6BB9DE901D11E5A6A17EBFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search