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The new family? / edited by Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781446264089
  • 1446264084
  • 9780761958550
  • 076195855X
  • 9781446218150
  • 1446218155
  • 1283881578
  • 9781283881579
  • 1446238237
  • 9781446238233
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.85 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ518 .N46 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 71.21
  • MS 1900
Online resources:
Contents:
The new practices and politics of family life / Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart -- Risk and family practices / David H.J. Morgan -- Resourcing the family / Sarah Irwin -- Transforming housewifery / Elizabeth B. Silva -- A passion for sameness / Gillian A. Dunne -- Everyday experiments / Jeffrey Weeks, Catherine Donovan and Brian Heaphy -- The new parenthood / Carol Smart -- Generational ties in the new family / Joanna Bornat [and others] -- Brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts / Mary Chamberlain -- Reconsidering children and childhood / Julia Brannen.
Action note:
  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

The new practices and politics of family life / Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart -- Risk and family practices / David H.J. Morgan -- Resourcing the family / Sarah Irwin -- Transforming housewifery / Elizabeth B. Silva -- A passion for sameness / Gillian A. Dunne -- Everyday experiments / Jeffrey Weeks, Catherine Donovan and Brian Heaphy -- The new parenthood / Carol Smart -- Generational ties in the new family / Joanna Bornat [and others] -- Brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts / Mary Chamberlain -- Reconsidering children and childhood / Julia Brannen.

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English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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