Mariya Stoilova

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by Sociology
Authors: Stoilova, M., Roseneil, S., Crowhurst, I., Hellesund, T. and Santos, A.
Subjects: Sociology

Drawing on a European cross-national biographical-narrative study of intimate life, this article discusses the complexity of experiences of ‘togetherness’ and ‘apartness’ amongst people in living apart relationships.

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by Sociology
Authors: Carter, J., Duncan, S., Stoilova, M. and Phillips, M.
Subjects: Sociology

Drawing on a 2011 national survey and 50 semi-structured interviews, we explore the differing ways in which those in living apart together (LAT) relationships discuss and experience notions of commitment.

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by Family Science
Authors: Duncan, S., Carter, J., Phillips, M., Roseneil, S. and Stoilova, M.
Subjects: Sociology

This paper examines how people living apart together (LATs) maintain their relationships, and describes how they view this living arrangement. It draws on a 2011 survey on LAT in Britain, supplemented by qualitative interviewing.

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by Families, Relationships and Societies
Authors: Duncan, S. and Phillips, M. and Carter, J. and Roseneil, S. and Stoilova, M.
Subjects: Sociology

This article interrogates this conclusion by examining in depth why people live apart together, using a nationally representative survey from Britain and interview accounts from 2011. Our analysis shows that LAT as a category contains different sorts of relationship, with different needs and desires.

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Authors: Crowhurst, Isabel and Roseneil, Sasha and Hellesund, T. and Santos, A.C. and Stoilova, Mariya
Subjects: Sociology

This research note aims to extend the discussion on the methodological implications of doing research on intimacy and personal life. Drawing on a comparative study concerned with the intimate lives of those who live outside the conventional, modern western nuclear family, it reflects on the processes of gaining access to often hard-to-reach populations which informed and influenced the empirical work that we carried out in four European countries.

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
Authors: Roseneil, Sasha and Crowhurst, Isabel and Hellesund, T. and Santos, A.C. and Stoilova, Mariya
Subjects: Sociology, Sociology & Social Policy

This paper explores transformations in institutional norms about same-sex sexualities across four European countries: Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal and the United Kingdom. It examines both endogenous, path-dependent nationally specific factors at work in the changing regulation of same-sex sexualities, particularly the campaigns of lesbian and gay movements, and exogenous influences exerted by processes of Europeanization and transnationalization.

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by Citizenship Studies
Authors: Roseneil, Sasha and Crowhurst, Isabel and Santos, A.C. and Stoilova, Mariya
Subjects: Sociology

Special Issue of Citizenship Studies: Citizenship and Reproduction / Reproducing Citizens

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by The Sociology Teacher
Authors: Duncan, S. and Phillips, M. and Roseneil, Sasha and Carter, J. and Stoilova, Mariya

Over a fifth of those normally classified as “single” are actually in a relationship but not living with their partner – which is 9% of adults in Britain. Similar figures are found in much of Western Europe, North America and Australasia. This sizeable minority has only recently been recognized by social researchers, even though people have long been having relationships without moving in together.

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
Authors: Duncan, S. and Carter, J. and Phillips, M. and Roseneil, Sasha and Stoilova, Mariya
Subjects: Sociology, Sociology & Social Policy

About 10% of adults in Britain have a living apart together (LAT) relationship; they are nearly always administratively and legally defined as single but in fact they have a partner who lives elsewhere. The question then arises, should LAT couples have access to legal rights and protection in the same way as proposed (in Britain) or achieved (in other jurisdictions) for unmarried cohabitants?

Published: Nov 09, 2015 by Journal of Organizational Change Management
Authors: Mariya Stoilova
Subjects: Sociology

This paper seeks to demonstrate that gender research is crucial to understanding post‐socialist transformations and wider changes in social life. Focused on employment experiences and gender identities of two generations of Bulgarian women, it aims to highlight the complex intertwining of social structure and individual agency and to point out how processes of continuity and change constitute the post‐socialist transformation and individual life journeys.