"This book is interdisciplinary and inquisitive at its core, taking the field of family studies as an open question rather than an already structured and cleared path. It presents the messiness of families as they really are."Rin Reczek, The Ohio State University
1 Introduction2 Cultural Variation in Family Forms3 Conceptualizing 'Family' in Euro-American Research4 Governing Families5 The Embodied and Material Dimensions of Family Life6 Families Located in and Moving through Space7 Families in Time8 Conclusion
Vanessa May is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.