Marina Kamenev on the 21st century family

The shape of family has changed in the 21st century. While the nuclear family still exists, many more types of kinship surround us.

Marina Kamenev has investigated what influences us to have children and the new ways that have made parenthood possible. She has heard from couples without children, single parents by choice, as well as rainbow families.

Marina joins us at Gordon Library to discuss the ways we imagine families and the technology which makes that possible.

‘A careful and compassionate exploration of the creativity, pain and power involved in the eternally imperfect art of family making.’ — Gina Rushton, author ofThe Most Important Job in the World.

‘A forensically researched book that’s impossible to put down, Kamenev deftly demonstrates how society’s understanding of family has changed through the generations and what it might mean now. You’ll be thinking about the issues she explores for years to come.’ — Isabelle Oderberg, author of Hard to Bear: Investigating the science and silence of miscarriage 

Join us for a meaningful and incisive discussion on what families mean today and how they might look in the future.

About the author 

Marina Kamenev is the former deputy arts editor of the Moscow Times and has been widely published in the Atlantic, Time, Sunday Life, The Monthly and Marie Claire, often writing about family. Kin: Family in the 21st century is her first book. She lives in Sydney and is the mother of two.