- Bib ID:
- 5980778
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chambers, Deborah, 1954-
- Description:
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- Cambridge, U.K. : Polity, ©2012
- viii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: 1.Traditional Approaches to the Family
- Late nineteenth-century sociological perspectives
- Engels: family, private property and the state
- The twentieth-century functional family
- Companionate marriage
- Community and kinship studies
- Constructions of race in family studies
- Feminism and families
- Conclusions
- 2.Individualization, Intimacy and Family Life
- Individualization and changing families
- Doing and displaying families
- `Unconventional' family relationships
- Same-sex intimacies and families of choice
- Minority ethnic kinship ties
- Conclusions
- 3.Parenting Practices and Values
- Changing ideas about parenthood
- Morality and motherhood
- Teenage mothers
- Traditional and new models of fatherhood
- Fatherhood after divorce
- Minority ethnic parenting
- Gay and lesbian parenting
- Conclusions
- 4.The Changing Nature of Childhood
- Past ideas about childhood
- Children's agency
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-229) and index.
- Subject:
- Families
- Copyright:
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