TY - BOOK AU - Riggs,Damien W. AU - Peel,Elizabeth TI - Critical Kinship Studies: An Introduction to the Field SN - 9781137505057 AV - BF698-698.9 U1 - 306.83 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK KW - Consciousness KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- A Story -- The Study of Kinship -- Defining Critical Kinship Studies -- Chapter Topics -- References -- 2: Objects of Critique -- A Story -- Three Objects of Critique -- Kinship as a Nodal Point of Power -- The Order of Things -- The Valorization of Genetic Relatedness -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 3: Tools of Critique -- A Story -- Three Tools of Critique -- Human Kinship as Technology -- Subjectivity -- Affect and Ambivalence -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 4: Reflecting (on) Nature: Cross Species Kinship -- A Story -- Nature as Culture: Raising Monkids -- Culture as Nature: Conceiving Human Children -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 5: Donor Connections -- A Story -- Organ Donation and Kinship -- Donor Conception and Kinship -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 6: Kinship and Loss -- A Story -- Loss, Grievability, and Human Exceptionalism -- Experiences of Pregnancy Loss -- Narratives of Loss Among Parents of Transgender Children -- Narratives of Loss Associated with an Autism Diagnosis -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 7: Motherhood and Recognition -- A Story -- Transgender Women and Mothering -- Motherhood and Dementia -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 8: Kinship in Institutional Contexts -- A Story -- Kinship in a Mother and Baby Unit -- Kinship in a Memory Clinic -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- 9: Conclusions -- A Story -- Final Thoughts on Norms, Criticality, and Personhood -- References -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4720096 ER -