1st Edition
Modern Couples? Continuity and Change in Heterosexual Relationships
By Jenny van Hooff
Copyright 2013
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Have heterosexual relationships become more intimate and equal over the past forty years? Simply put, this is the central question underpinning this book. Within the context of late modern social processes, including most notably individualization and detraditionalization, authors such as Giddens, Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, and Bauman have come to focus on a posited transformation of personal... Read more
Contents: Locating the couple in sociological theory; Being committed: making the decision to embark on a long-term relationship; Money matters: work and finances; Justifying inequality: explaining the division of housework; Freed from the phallus? Sex in relationships; What’s love got to do with it? Doing intimacy; Buying into it: leisure, lifestyle and consumption; Conclusion; References; Index.
Biography
Jenny van Hooff is Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2013 ’Modern Couples? provides a comprehensive and critical overview of theory in the field of heterosexual relationships which disrupts assumptions of the de-traditionalization and democratization of intimacy. The nuanced and fascinating research refuses to provide easy answers to how and why such relationships are simultaneously both continuing and changing and the interpretation of current debates is both timely and necessary.’ Victoria Robinson, Sheffield University, UK
