"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 of the aftermath of marriage dissolution." -- Mary Corcoran, Maynooth University, Ireland
"Moore throws a welcome light on the moral identities and gendered inequalities of parenting after separation." -- Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton, UK
This book focuses on parental commitment to family life after...
"This book is a carefully researched, clearly written, very important contribution to our understanding of divorce." --Arlie Hochschild, University...
This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of 21st century families in Britain through an exploration of intergenerational relationships. Drawing on new and extensive quantitative and qualitative research, the authors explore the giving and receiving of financial gifts. Despite growing concern about intergenerational tension and even possible conflict, the book finds evidence of a significant degree of intergenerational solidarity both within families at the micro level and between generations more generally within society at the macro level in Britain. However, given...
This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of 21st century families in Britain through an exploration of intergenerational relations...
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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 experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they contribute to the incremental creation of new social...
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generat...
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, and if so what we might be able to do about it.
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 perc...
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 notions such as good childhood, family ideals, national public health and educational strategies. The authors illustrate how different versions of parenthood coexist and how complex sets of actions are demanded to fulfil today's expectations of parenthood in Western societies. This...
This edited collection shows that good parenthood is neither fixed nor stable. The contributors show how parenthood is equally done by men, women a...
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 inequality over a typical lifecourse is presented.
This book investigates the extent of gender inequality in the division of labour in the modern household. Through comparisons of the time allocations ...
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 and the everyday practices of 'doing family'.
Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received i...
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 citizenship and hegemonic discourses of kinship
This book studies the growing number of lesbian women embarking on parenthood after coming out. Theoretical debates about lesbian motherhood often con...
