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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Themes and issues
• Organization of the book
• Notes
• 1 Traditional Approaches to the Family
• Late nineteenth-century sociological perspectives
• Engels: family, private property and the state
• The twentieth-century functional family
• Companionate marriage
• Community and kinship studies
• Race and ethnicity in family studies
• Feminism and families
• Conclusions
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion
• 2 Individualization, Intimacy and Family Life
• Individualization and changing families
• Critiques of the concept of individualization
• Doing and displaying families
• Non-traditional family relationships
• Same-sex intimacies and families of choice
• Black and minority ethnic kinship ties
• Conclusions
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion
• 3 Parenting Practices and Values
• Changing parenthood and parenting
• Morality and motherhood
• Fatherhood: traditional and new models
• Fatherhood after divorce
• Domestic violence in families with children
• Parenting among minority ethnic groups
• Parenting in LGBTQ+ families
• Conclusions
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion
• 4 The Changing Nature of Childhood
• Changing ideas about childhood
• Children’s socialization and agency
• Children and divorced families
• Childhood, social inequalities and consumption
• Children, digital media and the home
• The privatization of childhood
• Conclusions
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion
• Notes
• 5 Families and Ageing Societies
• Changing dynamics in ageing and family life
• Older people and family support
• Gender differences among older people
• Same-sex relationships among older people
• Globalization, old age and kinship in Southeast and East Asian communities
• Conclusions
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion
• 6 Globalization, Migration and Intimate Relations
• Gendered migration patterns
• Globalization, migration and family care
• Marriage strategies and mobility
• Commercially negotiated marriage
• Maintaining cultural traditions in diasporic settings
• Transnational mail-order brides
• Undocumented migrant families
• Conclusions
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion
• 7 Families, Fertility and Populations
• Fertility policies from a global perspective
• The case of Japan: a low-fertility industrialized country
• Romania’s pro-natalist policy under Ceauşescu
• India’s preference for sons
• China’s one-child policy
• Conclusions
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion
• 8 Families and New Reproductive Technologies
• Assisted conception and relatedness
• Approaches to new reproductive technologies
• Donor insemination and the regulation of families
• Infertility treatment from a global perspective: the South Asian diaspora
• Donor technologies in the Muslim Middle East
• Commercial surrogacy in India
• Conclusions
• Questions for Reflection and Discussion
• Notes
• 9 New Directions: The Politics of Family, Intimacy and Personal Life
• The politics of family values
• The politics of family, race and nation
• Black Lives Matter and extended family bonds
• Global and economic dimensions of intimacy, family and caregiving
• New intimacies
• Friends and family
• Personal life
• Notes
• References
• Index
• End User License Agreement