Invitation to a virtual book launch

12:00 - 13:00 VeranstalterIn Institut für Soziologie, Abteilung Geschlechtersoziologie Veranstaltungshomepage: https://soziologie.uni-graz.at/de/geschlechtersoziologie/ - Teilnahme. Termin vormerken Creative Families: Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life An invitation to a virtual book launch of Creative Families: Gender and Technologies of Everyday Life Edited by Jana Mikats, Susanne Kink-Hampersberger and Libora Oates-Indruchová (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) Date: 28 September 2021 Time: 12:00 noon-1:00 pm (CET) Online Event - to attend: https://unigraz.webex.com/unigraz/j.php'MTID=mbea44bde7bc65a513f761877f0c1ef19 If you experience technical problems with the connection, contact: susanne.kink(at)uni-graz.at This edited collection brings together two strands of current discussions in gender research through the concept of creativity. First, it addresses creativity in the context of the family, by exploring changing and newly emergent family forms and ways of creating and maintaining intimate relationships. Second, the volume examines how new media and technologies are entering and shaping everyday family lives. The contributing authors investigate the social, collaborative, and creative interactions in contemporary family and kin formations in Europe by problematizing the creativity of "becoming" and "doing" family and kinship. In doing so, the book spotlights the fluidity of gender identities, the evolving diversity of relationships, and the permeation of technology into daily life from multiple perspectives, in different contexts, and explores the involvement of various actors.