Beyond Gender-Neutral Parenting: Raising Theybies
Autor Milo Chestnuten Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 oct 2026
Drawing on qualitative interviews with 24 theyby parents, the book explores how aspirations for theyby parenting are enacted in everyday life as children move from preverbal infancy into their early years of primary school. It traces parents’ beliefs, challenges, and strategies across home, education, and wider social contexts, offering an insider-researcher perspective grounded in the author’s own nonbinary and trans experiences. The analysis highlights both the structural constraints theyby parents face and the possibilities for social change generated through this dynamic parenting approach.
This book is ideal for postgraduate students, researchers, educators, and professionals in childhood studies, gender studies, trans studies, sociology, and education, as well as feminist and trans-affirmative parenting organizations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781041252832
ISBN-10: 1041252838
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1041252838
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic and PostgraduateCuprins
1. Beyond Baby X 2. A Genealogy of Feminist Parenting Praxis 3. Gender-Open Aspirations 4. Interrupting Gender Attribution in Practice 5. Negotiating Gender with Theybies 6. Beyond Theybies 7. Conclusions and Recommendations Appendices References Index.
Recenzii
“Theyby Parenting: From Gender-Neutral to Gender-Open is an innovative and important contribution to trans and non-binary studies, and to scholarship in the areas of gender, sexuality, family, feminism, social movements, education and identity. The book is accessible, empirically rich and theoretically engaged. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with gender self-determination and diversity.”
Surya Monro, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK
"Written and researched by a compassionate, clear-eyed and expert insider, Milo Chesnut’s book offers a powerful and timely portrait of a movement that insists on the possibility and importance of gender-diverse children and people in the world, one baby at a time, while documenting the struggles faced by its members. Crucially, when trans life is today under attack by an unlikely anti-gender coalition of social conservative forces from the right and “gender-critical” feminists from the left, Chesnut situates theyby parenting firmly within the rich history of feminist and non-sexist parenting, refusing a divide between the interests of the cisgender women and transgender people that many babies become, as all are beset by gender pressures. Speaking back to reductionist descriptions of theyby and other gender diversity-affirming parenting as ‘boutique’ or overly privileged, Chesnut compellingly differentiates theyby parenting from the intensive parenting increasingly common in middle- and upper-class families by showing how theyby parents leverage their capital (where applicable) to benefit the wider community, loosening the gender binary for all children. At the same time, Chesnut finds and beautifully theorizes the challenges theyby parents face, including but not limited to the ongoing labour required to push back against an all-powerful binary gender system in the family, at school and in society. However, the book yields many possible pathways toward collective futures where gender falls less heavily on people of all ages."
Lee Airton, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen’s University, Canada
Surya Monro, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK
"Written and researched by a compassionate, clear-eyed and expert insider, Milo Chesnut’s book offers a powerful and timely portrait of a movement that insists on the possibility and importance of gender-diverse children and people in the world, one baby at a time, while documenting the struggles faced by its members. Crucially, when trans life is today under attack by an unlikely anti-gender coalition of social conservative forces from the right and “gender-critical” feminists from the left, Chesnut situates theyby parenting firmly within the rich history of feminist and non-sexist parenting, refusing a divide between the interests of the cisgender women and transgender people that many babies become, as all are beset by gender pressures. Speaking back to reductionist descriptions of theyby and other gender diversity-affirming parenting as ‘boutique’ or overly privileged, Chesnut compellingly differentiates theyby parenting from the intensive parenting increasingly common in middle- and upper-class families by showing how theyby parents leverage their capital (where applicable) to benefit the wider community, loosening the gender binary for all children. At the same time, Chesnut finds and beautifully theorizes the challenges theyby parents face, including but not limited to the ongoing labour required to push back against an all-powerful binary gender system in the family, at school and in society. However, the book yields many possible pathways toward collective futures where gender falls less heavily on people of all ages."
Lee Airton, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen’s University, Canada
Notă biografică
Milo Chesnut completed a PhD in Education exploring gender-open parenting at the University of Strathclyde, UK. They are a nonbinary trans researcher and educator who is part of the theyby parent community.
Descriere
Beyond Gender-Neutral Parenting: Raising Theybies examines the emerging practice of ‘theyby’ parenting, also known as ‘gender-open’ or ‘gender-creative’ parenting, in which parents refuse to assign gender to infants and use they/them pronouns as placeholders until children can self-identify.