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A sociology of family life : change and diversity in intimate relations / Deborah Chambers & Pablo Gracia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chambers, Deborah, 1954- author.
- Gracia, Pablo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families.
- Physical Description:
- x, 269 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Themes and issues
- Organization of the book
- 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
- Race and ethnicity in family studies
- Feminism and families
- Conclusions
- 2. Individualization, Intimacy and Family Life
- Individualization and changing families
- Critiques of the concept of individualization
- Doing and displaying families
- Non-traditional family relationships
- Same-sex intimacies and families of choice
- Black and minority ethnic kinship ties
- 3. Parenting Practices and Values
- Changing parenthood and parenting
- Morality and motherhood
- Fatherhood: traditional and new models
- Fatherhood after divorce
- Domestic violence in families with children
- Parenting among minority ethnic groups
- Parenting in LGBTQ+ families
- 4. The Changing Nature of Childhood
- Changing ideas about childhood
- Children's socialization and agency
- Children and divorced families
- Childhood, social inequalities and consumption
- Children, digital media and the home
- The privatization of childhood
- 5. Families and Ageing Societies
- Changing dynamics in ageing and family life
- Older people and family support
- Gender differences among older people
- Same-sex relationships among older people
- Globalization, old age and kinship in Southeast and East Asian communities
- 6. Globalization, Migration and Intimate Relations
- Gendered migration patterns
- Globalization, migration and family care
- Marriage strategies and mobility
- Commercially negotiated marriage
- Maintaining cultural traditions in diasporic settings
- Transnational mail-order brides
- Undocumented migrant families
- 7. Families, Fertility and Populations
- Fertility policies from a global perspective
- The case of Japan: a low-fertility industrialized country
- Romania's pro-natalist policy under Ceausescu
- India's preference for sons
- China's one-child policy
- 8. Families and New Reproductive Technologies
- Assisted conception and relatedness
- Approaches to new reproductive technologies
- Donor insemination and the regulation of families
- Infertility treatment from a global perspective: the South Asian diaspora
- Donor technologies in the Muslim Middle East
- Commercial surrogacy in India
- 9. New Directions: The Politics of Family, Intimacy and Personal Life
- The politics of family values
- The politics of family, race and nation
- Black Lives Matter and extended family bonds
- Global and economic dimensions of intimacy, family and caregiving
- New intimacies
- Friends and family
- Personal life.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: published as by Deborah Chambers. 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781509541355
- 1509541357
- 9781509541362
- 1509541365
- OCLC:
- 1285688327
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