Title
Ever more parents in polyamorous families: A new materialist typology of parenting practices and division of work
Abstract
An analysis of parents that are a part of polyamorous networks—networks of three, four, or even more residential or highly available parents—shows three types of parenting practices: poly-nuclear, hierarchical, and egalitarian parenting. Especially, the hierarchical and egalitarian parenting practices show novel divisions of care work and a transgression of gender norms. However, in-depth new materialist analysis of qualitative interviews also shows how parents are, in specific situations, pushed toward standard family models and thus unintentionally maintain traditional family structures and gender roles.
Keywords
Polyamoryparenthoodcare workdivision of worknew materialism
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1545118
Appeared in
Title
Sexualities
ISSN
1363-4607
Issued
2021
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Date issued
2021
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© The Author(s) 2021

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