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"The first comprehensive book for children born through donor conception and their families More than one million people have been born in the U.S. through donor sperm or eggs, including Wendy Kramer's son. Realizing the unique concerns of being or parenting a donor-conceived child, Kramer launched what would become the world's largest database for connecting donor-conceived people, the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR), which receives up to two million hits per month. Finding Our Families provides additional support for this growing community. With compassion and insight, the authors draw on extensive research to address situations families face throughout a donor-conceived child's development, including the search for a biological parent or half-sibling, and how to forge a healthy self-image"-- "Reference guide for parents and childern conceived through donor conception who want to search for the missing pieces of their genetic, medical and ancestral backgrounds"--

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"Blends memoir and legal cases to show how contracts can create family relationships In Love's Promises, law professor Martha Ertman delves into the legal cases, anecdotes, and history of family law to show that love comes in different packages--each shaped by different contracts--which family law should and sometimes does recognize. Beginning with Ertman's own story about becoming part of a family of two moms and a dad raising a child, she then shows that many people--straight and gay, married and single, related by adoption or by genetics--use contracts to shape relationships. These contracts and deals can be big, like vows of fidelity, or small, like "I cook and you clean." But regardless of scope, these deals can create, sustain, and modify family relationships. Insightful, accessible, and revelatory, Love's Promises lets readers in on the power of contracts and deals to support love in its various forms and to honor the different ways that individuals contribute to our daily lives."-- "Love & Contracts braids memoir with legal stories to show how contracts can complement loving relationships. Starting with a unique personal story about how I became one of two moms and a dad raising a child, it then shows that lots of people -- straight and gay, married and single, related by adoption or genetics - also use contracts and deals to create, sustain, modify, and, when necessary, end family relationships. Love comes in different packages, which I call Plan A and Plan B. Plan A - marriage, heterosexuality, and conceiving kids at home - is the most common way to be a family. But many people turn to Plan B --cohabitation, being gay, and having kids through reproductive technologies or adoption -- when law, luck or biology block Plan A. Plan B is just uncommon, not unnatural or unworthy of legal protection. But we should also notice the more informal, often implicit, arrangements I call deals. They can be big -- like vows of fidelity - or small, like I-cook-and-you-wash-up. Recognizing the role of contracts and deals in all kinds of families shows that law and society should and often does see Plan B as a morally neutral variation of plan A. Far from cold and calculating self-interest, these exchanges can demonstrate the kind of "us-ness" that makes a family"--

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The role and significance of patriarchy in East Asia varies greatly according to the interplay between deeply entrenched cultural norms, economic change, and government policy. The aim of this book, therefore, is to offer an historical perspective on these issues combined with an analysis of the transitions and outcomes that have occurred in the status of women over the course of modernization and industrialization in five East Asian societies – Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and China. The narrative is interwoven with a discussion of contemporary issues such as the persistence of tradition and gender discrimination, how gender roles undermine the development of healthier marriage and family relationships (and better relations among the generations), the lack of full equality for women in employment, falling birth rates, and rising divorce rates. Patriarchy in East Asia is the first study of its kind undertaken by a sociologist who is fluent in all of the local languages, thereby providing a rare level of access in terms of research of primary sources.

Patriarchy --- Families --- Social discrimination --- Married women --- Femmes mariées --- Femmes mariées --- 305 --- 305 Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- Discrimination --- Sex role --- Patriarcat (Sociologie) --- Familles --- Rôle selon le sexe --- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family --- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Reference --- Married people --- Women --- Wives --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Social aspects --- Social conditions

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Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling classes had become corrupt and therefore to legitimize an open-ended tenure for themselves in Egypt. To rid themselves of British rule, bourgeois Egyptian nationalists constructed a familial-political culture that trained new generations of nationalists and used them to demonstrate to the British that it was time for the occupation to end. That culture was put to use in the 1919 Egyptian revolution, in which the reformed, bourgeois family was exhibited as the standard for "modern" Egypt.

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