Creative Families: Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life (Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference)

Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Creative Families: Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life
	Creativity of Family Life and Kinship Relations
	Changing and Newly Emerging Family Forms
	New Media and Technologies in Family Lives
	Becoming Family
	Being and Doing Family
	References
Part I Becoming Family
2 Creatively Becoming a Family in the Fertility Clinic? Matching Donors with Non-heterosexual and Single Recipients in Commercial Care
	Queer Families, Heteronormativity and Assisted Reproduction
	The Situation in Finland
	Ethnography of Everyday Fertility Care Practices
	Children with Two Biological Mothers, Children Without Genetic Ties to Their Biological Parents
	Children Fitting and not Fitting the ‘Environment’
	Room to Creatively Make Kin and Family
	Conclusion: Hetero-, Couple- and Homonormativity in Belonging to Family and Nation
	Funding
	References
3 Confronting Monomaternalism in Italy: Non-heterosexual Mothers Accessing ARTs
	Monomaternalism
	Research Design
		Method
		Recruitment Strategies
		Participants
		Data Analysis
	‘A Lesbian Can’t Be a Mother’: Heteronormativity and Monomaternalism at Work
	Creative Strategies to Get Around Institutional Homophobia
	Lesbian and Bisexual Women Dealing with Class
	Concluding Thoughts
	References
4 Images of Parenthood, Family Life and Reproductive Strategies Among Gay Men in the Czech Republic
	Gay Fatherhood in International Scholarship
	Gay Fatherhood in the Czech Republic
	Parental Desires and Family Trajectories of Czech Gay Men
	Moral Dilemmas of Gay Fatherhood
	Reproductive Strategies and Family Constellations
	Conclusion
	References
5 ‘What Family Actually Means’: Re-Articulations of ‘Family’ in and Around Netflix’s Sense8
	‘What Family Actually Means’: ‘Family’ as a Leitmotif in Sense8
	‘Fan-Mily’: ‘Family’ as Affective Force in (Queer) Fandom Culture
	Conclusion
	References
Part II Being and Doing Family
6 ‘Doing’ and ‘Displaying’ Family in Polymediatic Environments: Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Teenagers’ Digital Practices
	Polymedia
	‘Doing Family’ and Co-presence in Polymediatic Environments
		Moving Beyond Physical Co-presence
	ICTs and the Construction of ‘Self’ During the Adolescence
		ICTs as a New Source of Identity Construction?
		Displaying Family Online
	Conclusion
	References
7 Creative Forms of Family Intimacy: Managing Family Bonds Across Distances
	Family Intimacy in a Digitalized World
	Method
	Doing Intimate Family Work
	Spatiotemporal Distances
	Generational Distances
	Embodied Distances
	Concluding Thoughts: Family Bonds and ICTs
	References
8 ‘She’s Nice Company and a Good Friend’: Thinking with Haraway to Reconceptualise Children’s Playful Interactions with Alexa in the Family Home
	Digital Play in the Family Home
	Conversational Agents in Personal Life
	Play and Playfulness with Conversational Agents
	Posthuman Theorizing: Haraway’s Concepts of ‘the Cyborg’ and ‘Making Kin’
	Study Design
	Personification and Sociability
	Digital Fluency and Parental Mediation/intermediation
	Embedded Commercial Objectives
	Conclusion
	References
9 Being Creative: Fluid Boundaries of Everyday Family Life and Creative Home-Based Online Work
	Atypical Work, Creativity, and Gender
	Home-Based Work, Technology, and Family Life
	Methods
	Shifting and Blurring Boundaries Between Creative Work and Family Life
		Mumpreneurship: Blogging Professionally at Home About Personal Interests and Family Life
		The Live-With Workhome: Multiple Spatiotemporal Interrelation of Family Life and Paid Work
		Making Is Connecting: Doing Family While Doing Work
	Conclusion
	References
Index