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The New Family ? - Softcover

 
9780761958567: The New Family ?
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ISBN 10: 0761958568 ISBN 13: 9780761958567
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998

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Concern and debate over changes to family life have increased in the last decade, as a result of evolving employment patterns, shifting gender relations and more openness about sexual orientation. Most politicians and researchers have viewed these changes as harmful, suggesting that the family as an institution should not alter.

The `New' Family? challenges these dominant views. 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

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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).

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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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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761958568
ISBN 13 
9780761958567
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
177
Herausgeber
Silva Elizabeth B., Smart Carol
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