Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life – serie
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Doing Good Parenthood
Ideals and Practices of Parental Involvement
Av Anna Sparrman, Allan Westerling m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
660 kr
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This edited collection shows that good parenthood is neither fixed nor stable. The contributors show how parenthood is equally done by men, women and children, in and through practices involving different normative guidelines. The book explores how normative layers of parenthood are constituted by …
Rethinking Family Practices
Av D. Morgan
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan shows the continued relevance of the approach with reference to time and space, the body, emotions, ethics and work/life …
Relative Strangers: Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life. Using in-depth interviews the authors explore the lived reality of donor conception and offer insights into the complexities of these new family …
Household Divisions of Labour
Teamwork, Gender and Time
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This book investigates the extent of gender inequality in the division of labour in the modern household. Through comparisons of the time allocations of single couple families without children, couple families with children and lone parents, a comprehensive account of the evolution of gender …
Changing Families, Changing Food
Av P. Jackson
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received ideas about the decline of the family meal, the individualization of food choice and the relationship between professional advice on healthy eating …
Trans People’s Partnerships
Towards an Ethics of Intimacy
Av Tam Sanger
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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As intimate lives become more public, and discussions of gender and sexuality more complex, there is a need to rethink how we engage with our own perceptions and identifications with respect to intimacy. This book explores whether our intimate desires are limited by social norms and expectations, …
Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging
Keeping Culture
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces …
Displaying Families
A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life
Av E. Dermott, J. Seymour
Inbunden, 2011
1096 kr
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This edited collection uses the concept of 'displaying families' as a new way to understand contemporary family and personal life, addressing how, in a world of fluid relationships, family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be done'.
Researching Intimacy in Families
Av J. Gabb
Häftad, 2008
603 kr
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An incisive engagement with the subject of intimacy and interpersonal relationships and the methods used to research families and personal life, this book introduces readers to contemporary conceptual and methodological frameworks for understanding intimacy and sexuality in families.
Researching Families and Relationships
Reflections on Process
Av L. Jamieson, R. Simpson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This collection focuses on the real life experiences of conducting emprical research about families and relationships, with an emphasis on the actualities of doing research and the experiences of being a researcher.
Living Alone
Globalization, Identity and Belonging
Av Lynn Jamieson, Roona Simpson
Inbunden, 2013
1205 kr
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Exploring the growing global trend of solo living, this highly original study addresses core debates about contemporary social change in the context of globalization, including individualization and connection, the future of family formation, consumption and identities, belonging and 'community', …
Everyday Friendships
Intimacy as Freedom in a Complex World
Av H. Blatterer
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered makeup.
Adoption, Family and the Paradox of Origins
A Foucauldian History
Av S. Sales
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of social work practice. This innovative and far ranging book sets out to understand why the practice of keeping adopted children in touch with their kinship origins is still so …
Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe
Rules and Practices of Relatedness
Av Riitta Jallinoja, E. Widmer
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Instead of seeing the family as a 'monolithic' entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each other as families and kin.
Ordinary Relationships
A Sociological Study of Emotions, Reflexivity and Culture
Av J. Brownlie
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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Recent theorizing tends to position ordinary relationships as something we have lost, yet the nature of these relationships is not seriously engaged with. Drawing on rich empirical data, this book questions epochal claims about contemporary emotional lives, setting out to be explicit about the …
Foucault, the Family and Politics
Inbunden, 2012
536 kr
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Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as attending school, going to work and staying healthy are organized through the family. The book includes an essay by Foucault, Les désordres des familles …
Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society
A New Culture War for Parents
Av D. Hartas
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the resources of a finite planet at the top 1% have made the world an inhospitable place to many families. Parents are left alone to deal with the big societal …
Mapping Intimacies
Relations, Exchanges, Affects
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This collection explores sexualities, families, caring practices, and the ways in which people practice intimacy in an ever-changing social and political landscape. Authors map desires, struggles and reconfigurations, thereby broadening current understandings of what contemporary intimate life …
Social Media and Personal Relationships
Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship
Av D. Chambers
Inbunden, 2013
1096 kr
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This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, …
Researching Intimacy in Families
Av J. Gabb
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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An incisive engagement with the subject of intimacy and interpersonal relationships and the methods used to research families and personal life, this book introduces readers to contemporary conceptual and methodological frameworks for understanding intimacy and sexuality in families.
Families in Converging Europe
A Comparison of Forms, Structures and Ideals
Av E. Oinonen
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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This book examines common familial trends and differences throughout Europe from the 1960s onwards and discusses the most common theoretical explanations for convergence and divergence. Eriikka Oinonen reveals how structural factors such as the labour market, the welfare state and the EU affect …
Lesbian Motherhood
Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This book studies the growing number of lesbian women embarking on parenthood after coming out. Theoretical debates about lesbian motherhood often consider its assimilative or transgressive dimensions. This book offers a different approach, contextualising lesbian motherhood in relation to sexual …
Technology, Culture, Family
Influences on Home Life
Av E. Silva
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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This book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the connections between mundane practices in the reproduction of our bodies and our relations with those we live with, and the …
Family Practices in South Asian Muslim Families
Parenting in a Multi-Faith Britain
Av H. Becher
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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Despite the growing multi-faith and multi-ethnic nature of Britain, there is insufficient knowledge about diversity in family practices across ethno-religious groups. This book fills that gap, exploring family practices – values, roles, relationships, support systems and daily routines – among …
Demands of Motherhood
Agents, Roles and Recognition
Av L. Smyth
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope.
Family and Intimate Mobilities
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family …
Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting
Families, Intimacies, Genealogies
Av S. Hicks
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life, gender, race, state welfare and intimacy are theorized and lived out, drawing upon interactionist, feminist, discursive and queer sociologies.
Distance Relationships
Intimacy and Emotions Amongst Academics and their Partners In Dual-Locations
Av Mary Holmes
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate life. It provides a rich and human perspective on how bodies, emotions and connections to others are key in maintaining intimate relationships.
British Chinese Families
Parenting, Relationships and Childhoods
Inbunden, 2014
536 kr
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Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from 'traditional' …
Understanding Children's Personal Lives and Relationships
Inbunden, 2015
536 kr
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Informed by ethnographic research with children, Davies offers new sociological insights into children's personal relationships, as well as closely examining methodological approaches to researching with children and researching relationships.
