Creative Families

Jana Mikats is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Graz, Austria. She specializes in family sociology, gender studies, and qualitative research methods.  Susanne Kink-Hampersberger is Lecturer in the Department of Education Research and Teacher Education at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests include sociology of gender, education and technology, and feminist and queer science and technology studies. Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of the Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz, Austria. She is the author of Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89: Snakes and Ladders (2020) and co-editor of The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An expropriated voice (2014).

• 1. Introduction: Creative Families: Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life.- 2. Creatively Becoming a Family in the Fertility Clinic? Matching Donors with Non-heterosexual and Single Recipients in Commercial Care.- 3. Confronting Monomaternalism in Italy: Non-heterosexual Mothers Accessing ARTs.- 4. Images of Parenthood, Family Life, and Reproductive Strategies among Gay Men in the Czech Republic.- 5. ‘What Family Actually Means’: Rearticulations of ‘Family’ in and around Netflix’s Sense8.- 6. ‘Doing’ and ‘Displaying’ Family in Polymediatic Environments: Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Teenagers’ Digital Practices.- 7. Creative Forms of Family Intimacy: Managing Family Bonds across Distances.- 8. ‘She’s Nice Company and a Good Friend’: Thinking with Haraway to Reconceptualize Children’s Playful Interactions with Alexa in the Family Home.- 9. Being Creative: Fluid Boundaries of Everyday Family Life and Creative Home-Based Online Work.