Hakutulokset: Sarja Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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Understanding Families Over Time
Drawing on research from the Timescapes Study, this volume discusses the life chances and experiences of children and young people, parents and older generations. A unique …
Household Divisions of Labour
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 …
Technology, Culture, Family
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 …
Inter-generational Financial Giving and Inequality
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 …
Reconfiguring Relations in the Empty Nest
This edited volume traverses the spectrum of experiences that take place after children leave the family home and parents find themselves in the "empty nest" stage of life. Rather …
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 …
The Demands of Motherhood
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Fatherhood and Love
This book explores how contemporary men understand love in the realm of family life and how they integrate it into their identity. Drawing from Ian Burkitt’s aesthetic theory of …
Making Multicultural Families in Europe
This edited collection explores family relations in two types of 'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork …