Télécharger le livre :  Fatherhood, Adolescence and Gender in Chinese Families
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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 investigating Chinese fathers, particularly in dual-earner families, as women’s participation...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Doing Good Parenthood
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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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Divorce, Families and Emotion Work
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“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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption
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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 concentrate on the adoptive family, the author identifies not only the happy occasion when a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese Fatherhood, Gender and Family
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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 participant observations at a men's centre, focus groups, and in-depth interviews, to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Family Continuity and Change
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This volume provides readers with recent sociological approaches to family understanding, theorising and practices within the context of continuities and change, both across generations and during individual life courses. The contributors uniquely investigate the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Families, Status and Dynasties
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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 social decline start within families. The author also examines how rigidly status...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Love and Intimacy in Online Cross-Cultural Relationships
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This book challenges assumptions about the motivations that drive women from relatively poor, developing countries to use intermarriage dating sites to find partners from relatively wealthy, developed countries. It is generally assumed that economic deprivation or...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese-British Intermarriage
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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 two distinct cultures meet at the intimate interface of marriage and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Teenage Pregnancy, Parenting and Intergenerational Relations
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Drawing on interviews and focus groups with young mothers and fathers, their parents and other relatives, this book provides a rich exploration of the experience of being a teenage parent now, and for earlier generations, closely examining teenage pregnancy and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies
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This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships
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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 qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  British Chinese Families
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Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Everyday Friendships
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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 of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Distance Relationships
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Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate life. It provides a rich and human perspective on how bodies, emotions and connections to others are key in maintaining...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Ordinary Relationships
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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 data, this book questions epochal claims about contemporary emotional lives, setting out...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
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When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Families Over Time
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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 qualitative longitudinal study forms the basis for the chapter contributions, delivering...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Love, Marriage and Intimacy among Gujarati Indians
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This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group – Gujarati Indians – born and brought up in two different countries. In a rapidly globalizing world, this comparative ethnographic study explores how the context in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society
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Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the resources of a finite planet at the top 1% have made the world an inhospitable place to many families. Parents are left alone...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-01-30
Collection : Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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