List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Studying My Friend--A Single Mother by Choice Chapter 1. A Generative Milieu for New Families Chapter 2. Intensive Parenting Alone Chapter 3. "I Have a Fear of Really Screwing It Up": Intensive Mothering in an Age of Anxiety Chapter 4. Sketching a Changing Landscape of Intimacy: Gender Equality and Parenthood Chapter 5. Free from the Bonds of Heteronormativity: Creative Exuberance and Spatial Dynamism in Family Home-making Chapter 6. "What Kind of a Family Do We Want to Be?": Trickle-Down Neoliberal Values Chapter 7. The Legacy of a Hybrid Habitus: Navigating the Pleasures and Pitfalls of Consumer Culture Conclusion: Anthropology of the Contemporary: The Complex, Often Paradoxical, Influence of Neoliberalism Afterword: Anthropology of the Near Future: The Complex, Often Paradoxical, Influence of Trump 2.

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