Reinventing the Family in Uncertain Times

Marie-Pierre Moreau is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Education on Identities and Inequalities at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is co-editor, with Penny Jane Burke and Nancy Niemi, of the Bloomsbury Gender and Education series.Catherine Lee is Professor of Inclusive Education and Leadership at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is a National Teaching Fellow and has an MBE for Services to Equality in Education.Cynthia Okpokiri is Lecturer in Social Work at University of East Anglia, UK, and Fellow of Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Marie-Pierre Moreau, Cynthia Okpokiri and Catherine Lee (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)2. Shifting Family Meanings: A Sociological Overview, João Paulo Mendes Carvalho and Cláudia Casimiro (CIEG/ISCSP - University of Lisbon, Portugal)3. Children's Valuations of Family Life in Kinship Care - Cost-Effective Substitute Care or Multiple Ambivalent Affiliations in Flux, Paul Shuttleworth (Sussex University, UK)4. Language of Instruction Choice and Family Disruptions in Ghana, Vincent Adzahlie-Mensah (University of Education, Winneba, Ghana)5. Black British Families: Liminality and the Liabilities of Language, Parise Carmichael-Murphy (University of Manchester, UK)6. Older Lesbians and Families of Friends, Catherine Lee (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)7. Queering Familialism? Lesbian and Gay Claims of Parenthood and the Transformation of Intimate Citizenship in Italy, Paolo Gusmeroli and Luca Trappolin (University of Padua, Italy)8. Kithship: Protective Aspects of a Family of Choice for Older Transgender Persons, Sara J. English (Winthrop University, USA)9. Family Practices and Strategies of Middle-Class Teachers in Argentina in the Context of Covid-19: Transformations and Discomforts in the Face of Care Processes and Labor Relations, Passerino, L. and Zenklusen, D. (Universidad Nacional de Rafaela, Argentina)10. ‘In True Naval Fashion’: Young People’s Perspectives on Family Communication, Bowser-Angermann, J., Gray, L., Wood, A., Fossey, M. and Godier-McBard, (ARU, UK)11. From Active to Activist Parenting: Educational Struggle and the Injuries of Institutonalised Misrecognition, Nathan Fretwell and John Barker (Middlesex University, UK)12. Concluding comments, Cynthia Okpokiri, Marie-Pierre Moreau and Catherine Lee (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Index

An impressive overview of research on the family in context, with questions of gender and power at the center of cross cultural analyses. This is a must have for any library in gender studies, childhood and family, or social work.