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The New Family ? / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0761958568
ISBN-13:: 9780761958567
Pub. Date:: 02/08/1999
Publisher:: SAGE Publications

ISBN-10:: 0761958568
ISBN-13:: 9780761958567
Pub. Date:: 02/08/1999
Publisher:: SAGE Publications

The New Family ? / Edition 1

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Leading academics in the field consider current diverse practices in families, and reveal the lack of balance between policies based on how families should be and how they actually are, illustrating the need for a broader definition of family. This book shows the need to take fluidity and change in family arrangements seriously, rather than simply seeing change as dangerous and undesirable.

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ISBN-13:	9780761958567
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/08/1999
Series:	Family Studies Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Carol Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. Her publications include: The Ties that Bind: Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations (1984); Feminism and the Power of Law (1989); and Regulating Womanhood: Historical Essays on Marriage, Motherhood and Sexuality (edited, 1992).

The ‘New' Practices and Politics of Family Life - Elizabeth B Silva and Carol Smart
Risk and Family Practices - David Morgan
Accounting for Change and Fluidity in Family Life
Resourcing the Family - Sarah Irwin
Gendered Claims and Obligations and Issues of Explanation
Transforming Housewifery - Elizabeth B Silva
Dispositions, Practices and Technologies
A Passion for ‘Sameness' - Gillian Dunne
Sexuality and Gender Accountability
Everyday Experiments - Jeffrey Weeks, Catherine Donovan and Brian Heaphy
Narratives of Non-Heterosexual Relationships
The ‘New' Parenthood - Carol Smart
Fathers and Mothers after Divorce
Generational Ties in the ‘New' Family - Joanna Bornat et al
Changing Contexts for Traditional Obligations
Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Aunts - Mary Chamberlain
A Lateral Perspective on Caribbean Families
Reconsidering Children and Childhood - Julia Brannen
Sociological and Policy Perspectives

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‘I would recommend the book to anyone with an interest in the family, whether their interest is in constructs of "old" family values and morals, or in the "new" alternatives, and (possibly from a political point of view), threatening family. It provides food for thought for members of all these groups' - Journal of Reproductive & Infant Psychology
‘The essays explore the increasing diversity, both for the study of sociology and for the wider political agenda' - International Journal of Law and the Family
‘...as an objective account of certain aspects of modern families, the authors succeed in challenging dominant views and reveal the lack of balance between policies based on how families should function as opposed to what they actually do' - Family Practice

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The New Family ? / Edition 1

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