Beschreibung:
This exciting new book engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the family, offering empirical material and theoretical analysis which give rise to a fresh understanding of the nature of family practices in modern societies.
1. Rethinking Family Life. 2. Family Policy and the Research Agenda. 3. Becoming a Post--divorce Parent. 4. Living Post--divorce Parenthood. 5. Constructing Post--divorce Childhoods. 6. Moral Fragments?. 7. Fragments of Power and the Reconstituted Self. 8. Law, Rights and Responsibilities. 9. Family Law, Family Fragments and Feminist Thought. Notes. Bibliography. Index.