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Tables of Contents for The New Family?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contributors
vii
The `New' Practices and Politics of Family Life
1
12
Elizabeth B. Silva
Carol Smart
Risk and Family Practices: Accounting for Change and Fluidity in Family Life
13
18
David H.J. Morgan
Resourcing the Family: Gendered Claims and Obligations and Issues of Explanation
31
15
Sarah Irwin
Transforming Housewifery: Dispositions, Practices and Technologies
46
20
Elizabeth B. Silva
A Passion for `Sameness'?: Sexuality and Gender Accountability
66
17
Gillian A. Dunne
Everyday Experiments: Narratives of Non-heterosexual Relationships
83
17
Jeffrey Weeks
Catherine Donovan
Brian Heaphy
The `New' Parenthood: Fathers and Mothers after Divorce
100
15
Carol Smart
Generational Ties in the `New' Family: Changing Contexts for Traditional Obligations
115
14
Joanna Bornat
Brian Dimmock
David Jones
Sheila Peace
Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Aunts: A Lateral Perspective on Caribbean Families
129
14
Mary Chamberlain
Reconsidering Children and Childhood: Sociological and Policy Perspectives
143
16
Julia Brannen
Bibliography
159
15
Index
174