Intimacy

Are personal relationships deeper and more intimate than ever before or are they increasingly empty and structured by selfish individualism? This exciting new book examines the question in a wide--ranging discussion of the nature of intimacy, focusing on key relationships between parents and children, families, sexual partners, couples and friends.

ISBN 0745615740   Pages 224 ISBN13 9780745615745 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 320 Imprint Polity Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 18 Dec 1997   Width (mm) 154 Library of Congress BF575.I5J3   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY 158.2   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC21

Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. A Story of Intimacy?. The Wider Significance of Intimacy in Personal Life. Dimensions of Intimacy. Stories and Story Tellers. Conclusion. 2. From a The Familya to Sex and Industry. . The Making of the Conventional Modern Family. Visions of the Future. 3. Parenting and Intimacy. Mothers and Fathers as Intimates. More Shared Caring Between Mothers and Fathers?. Parenting: Trends in Intimacy and Democracy?. 4. Are Good Friends All You Need? . Friends, Kin and Intimacy. Gender, Heterosexuality, Friendship and Intimacy. 5. Sex and Intimacy. . Introduction. Stories of a Normal Sexa and Intimacy. The Realities of Sexual Lives. Stories, Practices and Social Change. 6. The Couple: Intimate and Equal? . The Heterosexual Couple: Still She the Housewife, He the Earner?. Domestic Violence and Forced Intimacy. Same--Sex Couples. Intimacy and Relationship Breakdown. 7. Conclusion. . Notes. Bibliography. Index.

"Jamiesona s analysis throughout is lucid and stimulating, enlivened by apt illustrations from her case studies, including some derived from her own research. The study of intimacy is clearly going to be a developing field and students who are attracted to courses in this new area will be fortunate to have Jamiesona s text as a guide through the growing literature, relevant theories and competing claims." David Morgan, University of Manchester "Starts like a textbook and ends like a thriller. Lynn Jamieson sets out clearly the modern theories of personal life. Then she digs out the facts -- on friendships, child rearing, families, sexuality -- and confronts them. The results are sometimes surprising, and always convincing." R. W. Connell, University of Sydney "Draw[s] on, and contribute[s] to, sociologya s newly enlarged sensitivity to the forms of private life and personal experience ... Jamiesona s book is strikingly evidence--based." The Times Higher Education Supplement "Researchers and teachers in the area of personal relationships will encounter valuable new ideas and sources in this book ... good summaries of valuable qualitative studies by scholars from Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand." Contemporary Sociology "Finding a monograph that is important reading for scholars, graduate students, and upper division undergraduates is unusual. Jamiesona s book is important for all three audiences" Alan C. Acock, Oregon State University, Journal of Marriage and the Family.

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