The new family? / edited by Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart. - London : Sage, 1999. - viii, 177 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.

Bibliography: (pages 159-173) and index.

The 'new' practices and politics of family life / Elizabeth B. Silva and Carol Smart -- Risk and family practices: accounting for change and fluidity in family life / David H.J. Morgan -- Resourcing the family: gendered claims and obligations and issues of explanation / Sarah Irwin -- Transforming housewifery: dispositions, practices and technologies / Elizabeth B. Silva -- A passion for 'sameness'?: sexuality and gender accountability / Gillian A. Dunne -- Everyday experiments: narratives of non-heterosexual relationships / Jeffrey Weeks, Catherine Donovan and Brian Heaphy -- The 'new' parenthood: fathers and mothers after divorce / Carol Smart -- Generational ties in the 'new' family: changing contexts for traditional obligations / Joanna Bornat, Brian Dimmock, David Jones and Sheila Peace -- Brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts: a lateral perspective on caribbean families / Mary Chamberlain -- Reconsidering children and childhood: sociological and policy perspectives / Julia Brannen.

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