Télécharger le livre :  Feeling Gender

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-15
Collection : Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Fatherhood, Adolescence and Gender in Chinese Families

Little is known about the roles of fathers in non-western cultures. Given the changing socio-economic and political circumstances of China, Xu identifies the importance of investigating Chinese fathers, particularly in dual-earner families, as women’s participation...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Doing Good Parenthood

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Divorce, Families and Emotion Work

“This book is a carefully researched, clearly written, very important contribution to our understanding of divorce.” —Arlie Hochschild, University of California, USA“This rich, evidence-informed narrative provides a frank, ‘up close and personal’ portrait...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption

This book looks at the simultaneous processes of making and un-making of families that are part of the adoption practice. Whereas most studies on transnational adoption concentrate on the adoptive family, the author identifies not only the happy occasion when a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese Fatherhood, Gender and Family

This book is about how Chinese men make sense of and practise fatherhood within the context of changing gender conventions and socio-cultural conditions. Liong analyses data from participant observations at a men's centre, focus groups, and in-depth interviews, to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Family Continuity and Change

This volume provides readers with recent sociological approaches to family understanding, theorising and practices within the context of continuities and change, both across generations and during individual life courses. The contributors uniquely investigate the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Families, Status and Dynasties

This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start within families. The author also examines how rigidly status...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Love and Intimacy in Online Cross-Cultural Relationships

This book challenges assumptions about the motivations that drive women from relatively poor, developing countries to use intermarriage dating sites to find partners from relatively wealthy, developed countries. It is generally assumed that economic deprivation or...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Grandfathers

This is the first book to bring together international scholars from around the world and from a wide variety of disciplines, to discover what is known about grandfathers and analyse the impact of close involvement with their grandchildren. Within the context of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-24
Collection : Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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Télécharger le livre :  Marital Breakdown among British Asians

Shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017Against long-standing characterizations of British Asians as ‘flying the flag’ for traditional life, this book identifies an increase in marital breakdown and argues to reorient debates about conservatism and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese-British Intermarriage

Exploring how people negotiate and reconcile, construct and re-construct their distinctive gender and ethnic identities in a cross-cultural context, Hu examines what happens when two distinct cultures meet at the intimate interface of marriage and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Teenage Pregnancy, Parenting and Intergenerational Relations

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with young mothers and fathers, their parents and other relatives, this book provides a rich exploration of the experience of being a teenage parent now, and for earlier generations, closely examining teenage pregnancy and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies

This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships

There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-03-23
Collection : Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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Télécharger le livre :  British Chinese Families

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Everyday Friendships

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Distance Relationships

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Ordinary Relationships

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption

When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-22
Collection : Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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