Single Parents

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as... Lees meer

Reinventing Couples

Julia Carter, Simon Duncan

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of '... Lees meer

Chinese-British Intermarriage

Yang Hu

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Exploring how people negotiate and reconcile, construct and re-construct their distinctive gender and ethnic identities in a cross-cultural context, H... Lees meer

Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society

D Hartas

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the resourc... Lees meer

Fathers and Sons

J Brannen

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This book explores how masculinities and fatherhood are transmitted across family generations of white British, Irish and Polish fathers. Providing un... Lees meer

Ordinary Relationships

J Brownlie

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Recent theorizing tends to position ordinary relationships as something we have lost, yet the nature of these relationships is not seriously engaged w... Lees meer

Single Parents

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as... Lees meer

Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting

S Hicks

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday life,... Lees meer

Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies'

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This book addresses the nature of intimacy and relationships in a time of what Eva Illouz characterizes as 'cold intimacies'. The contributors to this... Lees meer

Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film

Denise McNulty Norton

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with... Lees meer

Gender, Class and Food

Julie M Parsons

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upon a... Lees meer

Household Divisions of Labour

E Birch, A Le, P W Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This book investigates the extent of gender inequality in the division of labour in the modern household. Through comparisons of the time allocations ... Lees meer

Gender, Class and Food

Julie M Parsons

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upon a... Lees meer

Divorce, Families and Emotion Work

Elena Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• "This book is a carefully researched, clearly written, very important contribution to our understanding of divorce." --Arlie Hochschild, University of... Lees meer

Fatherhood, Adolescence and Gender in Chinese Families

Qiong Xu

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Little is known about the roles of fathers in non-western cultures. Given the changing socio-economic and political circumstances of China, Xu identif... Lees meer

Researching Intimacy in Families

J Gabb

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• An incisive engagement with the subject of intimacy and interpersonal relationships and the methods used to research families and personal life, this ... Lees meer

Feeling Gender

Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• 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 w... Lees meer

British Chinese Families

C Lau-Clayton

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and chi... Lees meer

Changing Families, Changing Food

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received i... Lees meer

Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools

Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This book seeks to provide a deeper understanding of Muslim migrant fathers' experiences of home-school cooperation in Danish schools by identifying a... Lees meer

Marriage Migration and Integration

Katharine Charsley, Marta Bolognani, Evelyn Ersanilli, Sarah Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Draws on quantitative and qualitative data to compare transnational 'homeland' marriages with intra-ethnic marriages within the UK Enhances understand... Lees meer

Men, Families, and Poverty

Kahryn Hughes, Anna Tarrant

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• This book develops a new sociology of the intergenerational and longitudinal dynamics of men's family participation in relation to their trajectories ... Lees meer

Couple Relationships in the 21st Century

Jacqui Gabb, Janet Fink

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Offers a unique window on the intimate world of contemporary couple relationshipsIncludes a vast, original quantitative dataset Provides indicators fo... Lees meer

Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships

L McKenzie

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couple... Lees meer