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The Journal of Family Theory & Review invites you to join us here at the JFTR Blog on May 4-6, 2016 to discuss how to teach queer theory, intersectionality and LGBT-parent families in family studies courses.

"this special issue provides illustrations of how the vibrant interpretivist tradition can pursue paradoxes, contradictions, and nuances via careful decisions about epistemology and careful designs of congruity between epistemology and practice."

As part of the special issue on qualitative family scholarship and innovative theories in the interpretive tradition, this article first examines the intersection of Buber's philosophy with the interpretive tradition in social science research.

This afternoon the top trending hashtag on Twitter is #MasculinitySoFragile. Much of it is funny and ironic, so is this a teachable moment? Is this an opportunity for digital scholars to ask new questions or offer alterative ideas? Is this just a…

Join us Sept 21-24, 2015, here to discuss the important issues raised by Elizabeth Sharp and Shannon Weaver in their article, "Feeling Like Feminist Frauds: Theorizing Feminist Accountability in Feminist Family Studies Research in a Neoliberal,…

An essential part of creating an engaged, participatory community of scholars is having a strong group of scholars who are familiar with social media tools and have experience creating engaged conversations about issues related to family science.

This blog is part of a social media experiment to explore new media approaches to participatory and engaged scholarship about family theory and research.

This week JFTR will host a discussion of Feeling Like A Feminist Fraud. The discussion will be organized around 4 questions.Sept 21Are Feminist Fraudulent Feelings Useful?Sept 22What is "feminist accountability?"Sept 23How do scholars translate…

Thanks toApril L. Few-Demo, Áine Humble, Melissa A. Curran, and Sally Lloyd for their participation in our social media conversation. See just a few interesting quotes...

I believe it is important to address the challenges of teaching theory in a way that is inclusive of LGBT-parent families. ...For that reason I invited April Few-Demo, Áine Humble, Melissa Curran, and Sally Lloyd to write a reflexive article about…