Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices
Published on 1. September 2013
148 pages
978-1-927335-56-7 (ISBN)
Description
Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the uncom- fortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of socialization and social control over their children. Fathers may feel the desire for feminist parenting whilst experiencing a backlash and a lack of sup- port, while some parents may attempt to resist the binaries of mother- ing and fathering in their feminist parenting journey. Feminist parents may attempt to resist gender binaries; they may submit to them while attempting to foster critical dialogue; they may struggle with the dis- play of their own femininity and masculinity or, for some, its perceived lack. This book attempts to cast a lens on the messy and convoluted ways that feminist parents approach parenting their children in gender aware and gender fluid ways.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Zenith
- 1. Dancing in the Eye of the Storm
- 2. Get Your Gender Binary Off My Childhood!
- 3. The Boy in the Red Dress
- 4. Transgender Men's Self-Representations of Bearing Children Post-Transition
- 5. Trapped in the Wrong Body and Life Uncharted
- 6. We're Having a Stanley
- 7. Between the Village and The Village People
- 8. Producing Homeplace
- 9. Complicating the Truth of Gender
- 10. Pink Butterflies and Blue Caterpillars
- 11. I Wish I Knew How to Make Cabbage Rolls
- 12. The Parental Transition
- 13. Our Fluid Family
- Contributor Notes
