This book explores the nature of intimacy by revealing how the influence of individual, interpersonal and wider social factors create variations in self-disclosure, intimacy games and relationship habits. It describes how the dynamics of power and control in relationships give rise either to mutual satisfaction or to the unraveling of intimacy.

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'...an essential and indispensable source in the study of close and intimate relationships, not only because of its authoritative critique of Giddens' and Beck and Beck-Gernsheim's renowned theories of modern intimacy, but also because it is an impressive attempt to re-theorise this field of study by considering the dimensions of intimacy and introducing different types of intimate relationships in modernity.' - Sociology

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University of Leicester, UK

Derek Layder

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DEREK LAYDER is Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, UK and Eminent Research Visitor, University of Western Sydney, Australia. His most recent publications include Social and Personal Identity, Emotion in Social Life, and Understanding Social Theory.

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Book Title: Intimacy and Power
Book Subtitle: The Dynamics of Personal Relationships in Modern Society
Authors: Derek Layder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245143
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57956-9Published: 28 August 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24514-3Published: 04 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 190
Topics: Children, Youth and Family Policy, Family, Personality and Social Psychology, Social Work, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sexual Behavior

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