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Wilkinson, J. (2019)
This book is about friendships in public settings today. Wilkinson examines friendships in the public settings of neighbourhoods, civil society and at work. Identifying the unique …
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Billett, P., Sawyer, A. (2019)
This book explores an online support group for women who are infertile. Offering a close-up view of the women’s identities and emotions as they navigate the “roller-coaster” world …
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Crespi, I. (Ed), Giada Meda, S. (Ed), Merla, L. (Ed) (2018)
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 …
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Lim, H. (2018)
How do Chinese, Japanese and Korean mothers in Britain make sense of their motherhood and employment? What are the intersecting factors that shape these women’s identities, …
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Carter, J., Duncan, S. (2018)
This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The …
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Gabb, J., Fink, J. (2018)
This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love, intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society. The authors draw on rich qualitative and large-scale …
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Nakamura Lopez, M. (2017)
This book offers a nuanced picture of mixed family life in the UK. Specifically, the book explores how parents from different backgrounds create a place of belonging for their …
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Scicluna, R. M. (2017)
This book explores the meanings and experiences of home among a group of lesbians who over the past five decades have sought to create alternative intimate and public living …
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Rowlingson, K., Joseph, R., Overton, L. (2017)
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 …
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Johansson, T., Andreasson, J. (2017)
This book discusses and analyses the ways in which fatherhood is in transition in contemporary and globalized society. The authors identify and examine fathering practices in …
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Nielsen, H. B. (2017)
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 …
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Liong, M. (2017)
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 …
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Česnuitytė, V. (Ed), Lück, D. (Ed), D. Widmer, E. (Ed) (2017)
This volume provides readers with recent sociological approaches to family understanding, theorising and practices within the context of continuities and change, both across …
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Jallinoja, R. (2017)
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 …
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Pananakhonsab, W. (2016)
This book challenges assumptions about the motivations that drive women from relatively poor, developing countries to use intermarriage dating sites to find partners from …
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Hu, Y. (2016)
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 …
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Sparrman, A. (Ed), Westerling, A. (Ed), Lind, J. (Ed), Dannesboe, K. I. (Ed) (2016)
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 …
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Moore, E. (2016)
“This book is a carefully researched, clearly written, very important contribution to our understanding of divorce.” —Arlie Hochschild, University of California, USA “This rich, …
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Högbacka, R. (2016)
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 …
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Xu, Q. (2016)
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 …
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