Book Details
Orange Code:28065
Paperback:247 pages
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1. Developing ‘Displaying Families’: A Possibility for the Future of the Sociology of Personal Life Esther Dermott and Julie Seymour2. Critical Relational Displays Brian Heaphy3. Troubling Displays: The Affect of Gender, Sexuality and Class Jacqui Gabb4. Displaying Motherhood: Representations, Visual Methods and the Materiality of Maternal Practice Mary Jane Kehily and Rachel Thomson5. ‘It’s Just Not Good for a Man to be Interested in Other People’s Children’: Fathers, Public Displays of Care and ‘Relevant Others’ Andrea Doucet6. Display Work: Lesbian Parent Couples and Their Families of Origin Negotiating New Kin Relationships Kathryn Almack7. Practices of Display: The Framing and Changing of Internet Gambling Behaviours in Families Kahryn Hughes and Gill Valentine8. Displaying Mixedness: Differences and Family Relationships Jo Haynes and Esther Dermott9. ‘I Know we Can’t be a Family, but as Close as You Can Get’: Displaying Families within an Institutional Context Ian McIntosh, Nika Dorrer, Samantha Punch and Ruth Emond10. Exploring the Concept of Display in Family Relationships Janet Finch
Description:
This edited collection uses the concept of 'displaying families' as a new way to understand contemporary family and personal life, addressing how, in a world of fluid relationships, family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be done'.
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