The new family? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart

• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85
• Soggetto topico: Families; Family policy; Work and family
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SilvaElizabeth Bortolaia SmartCarol
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 - The 'New' Practices and Politics of Family Life; Chapter 2 - Risk and Family Practices: Accounting for Change and Fluidity in Family Life; Chapter 3 - Resourcing the Family: Gendered Claims and Obligations and Issues of Explanation; Chapter 4 - Transforming Housewifery: Dispositions, Practices and Technologies; Chapter 5 - A Passion for 'Sameness'? Sexuality and Gender Accountability; Chapter 6 - Everyday Experiments: Narratives of Non-Heterosexual Relationships; Chapter 7 - The 'New' Parenthood: Fathers and Mothers after Divorce ; Chapter 8 - Generational Ties in the 'New' Family: Changing Contexts for Traditional ObligationsChapter 9 - Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Aunts: A Lateral Perspective on Caribbean Families; Chapter 10 - Reconsidering Children and Childhood: Sociological and Policy Perspectives; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Challenging the dominant view that the family as an institution must not change, this book considers such issues as: the diverse practices in today's families; the need for a broader definition of families; and how policies should be tailored for families.
• Titolo autorizzato: The new family
• ISBN: 1-283-88157-8; 1-4462-3823-7; 1-4462-6408-4; 0-7619-5855-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451766403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II