Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family from West Hollywood to Western China

Wednesday March 23rd, 5:00pm, Taylor Hall 203

A leading expert on the family, Judith Stacey is known for her provocative research on mainstream issues. Finding herself impatient with increasingly calcified positions taken in the interminable wars over same-sex marriage, divorce, fatherlessness, marital fidelity, and the like, she struck out to profile unfamiliar cultures of contemporary love, marriage, and family values from around the world. Built on over a decade of bracing original research that spans gay men’s intimacies and parenting in this country to plural and non-marital forms of family in South Africa and China, Unhitched decouples the taken for granted relationships between love, marriage, and parenthood. Countering the one-size-fits-all vision of family values, Stacey offers readers a lively, in-person introduction to these less familiar varieties of intimacy and family and to the social, political, and economic conditions that buttress and batter them.

Judith Stacey, is Professor of Sociology, and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University

Sponsored by Campus Life LGBTQ Programs, the departments of Anthropology and Sociology, and the Women’s Studies program