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Unhitched Author: Judith Stacey

ISBN: 9780814783825 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 304 Published: 17 March 2011 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.88 x 2.54 Description: Judith Stacey, 2012 winner of the Simon and Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Sociological Association. A leading expert on the family, Judith Stacey is known for her provocative research on mainstream issues. Finding herself impatient with increasingly calcified positions taken in the interminable wars over same-sex marriage, divorce, fatherlessness, marital fidelity, and the like, she struck out to profile unfamiliar cultures of contemporary love, marriage, and family values from around the world.  Built on bracing original research that spans gay men's intimacies and parenting in America to plural and non-marital forms of family in South Africa and China,Unhitched decouples the taken for granted relationships between love, marriage, and parenthood. Countering the one-size-fits-all vision of family values, Stacey offers readers a lively, in-person introduction to these less familiar varieties of intimacy and family and to the social, political, and economic conditions that buttress and batter them. Through compelling stories of real families navigating inescapable pe...

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