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An Unconventional Family
An Unconventional Family | Sandra Lipsitz Bem
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In 1965, when psychologists Sandra and Daryl Bem met and married, they were determined to function as truly egalitarian partners and to raise their children in accordance with gender-liberated, anti-homophobic, and sex-positive feminist ideals. This book by Sandra Bem, an autobiographical account of the Bems' nearly thirty-year marriage, is both a personal history of the Bems' past and a social history of a key period in feminism's past. It is also a look into feminism's future, because the Bems' children, Emily and Jeremy, now in their early twenties, speak in the book as well.
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jcalyn5
An Unconventional Family | Sandra Lipsitz Bem
Mehso-so

This is a book I‘d only recommend for other academics. Published in 1998, the discussion of gender is very dated and leaves some glaring questions about transgender people, for example. Even the interviews with the children at the end have some obvious flaws that tell me this isn‘t a modern guide for raising healthy feminist children. But if you recognize the name Bem from the Bem Sex Role Inventory, this is a quick, fascinating read. #psychology