Couple Relationships in the 21st Century, 1st ed. 2018 Research, Policy, Practice Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Series
This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love, intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society. The authors draw on rich qualitative and large-scale survey data to explore how couples communicate with each other, negotiate the pressures and pleasures of parenthood, and the vagaries of sexual desire and intimacy across life course. Focusing on ?the everyday?, Couple Relationships in the 21st Century unpicks the ordinary and often mundane relationship work that goes into sustaining a relationship over time, breaking down the dichotomy between enduring relationships of quality and good enough or endured relationships. It contests the separation of couples into distinct relationship types ? defined through age, parenthood or sexuality. Looking through the lens of relationship practices it is clear that there is no ?normal couple?: couples are what couples do.
Jacqui Gabb is Professor of Sociology and Intimacy in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University, UK.
Janet Fink is Professor of Childhood and Personal Relationships in the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
Date de parution : 09-2017
Ouvrage de 175 p.
14.8x21 cm
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