Mediated Kinship - (Routledge Studies in Family Sociology) by Rikke Andreassen

About the Book

Illustrating the fascinating intersections of social media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of families using the world's largest sperm bank and the development of new extended families involving large numbers of donor siblings.

Book Synopsis

Illustrating the fascinating intersections of social media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of families using the world's largest sperm bank and the development of new extended families involving large numbers of donor siblings.

Review Quotes

"This is a groundbreaking book and must read for all interested in critical queer and feminist kinship studies. Methodologically innovative and theoretically rigorous, it raises new questions about what counts as kinship and community as affective attachments to "biology" become increasingly mediated, animated and challenged through a range of technologies."

Ulrika Dahl, Uppsala University, Sweden.

"Mediated Kinship is a ground-breaking, richly researched, and sophisticatedly theorized book on queer motherhood, kinship and racialization, based on empirical research on the recent queer baby boom in Scandinavia and the role of social media in queer reproduction and family building. Rikke Andreassen cuts elegantly through the biology versus social proximity debates regarding priorities in queer family building, looking instead at the fascinating messiness of queer mothers' online practices."

Nina Lykke, Linköping Unversity, Sweden.

About the Author

Rikke Andreassen is Professor (MSO) of Communication in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. She is the author of Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays and the co-editor of Affectivity and Race: Studies from Nordic Contexts and Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities.