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Families in society: Boundaries and relationships

Linda McKie and Sarah Cunningham-Burley

Abstract

Acknowledging the increasing diversity and complexity of families, this book proposes a new conceptual framework for understanding families and other relationships that both challenges and attempts to reconcile traditional and contemporary approaches. Using the notion of ‘boundaries’, the book shifts thinking from ‘families as entities’ to ‘families as relationship processes’. Emphasising the processes that underlie boundary construction and reconstruction suggests that the key to understanding family life is the process of relationship formation. The ideas of entity, boundary, margins and hyb ... More

Keywords: families, boundaries, family life, entity, boundary, margins, hybridity, society

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9781861346438
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861346438.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Linda McKie, editor

Sarah Cunningham-Burley, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction

One Families and relationships: boundaries and bridges

Linda McKie, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, and John H. McKendrick

Part One: Families in society

Two Balancing work and family life: mothers’ views

Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, and Debbie Kemmer

Three Gender, care, poverty and transitions

Gill Scott, and Sue Innes

Four Families, education and the ‘participatory imperative’

Janet Shucksmith, Lorna McKee, and Helen Willmot

Part Two: Children, families and relationships

Five Children’s boundaries: within and beyond families

Malcolm Hill

Six Family within and beyond the household boundary: children’s constructions of who they live with

Helen Sweeting, and Peter Seaman

Seven Children managing parental drug and alcohol misuse: challenging parent—child boundaries

Angus Bancroft, Sarah Wilson, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Hugh Masters, and Kathryn Backett-Milburn

Part Three: Health, illness and well-being

Eight Intersections of health and well-being in women’s lives and relationships at mid-life

Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Laura Airey, and Linda McKie

Nine Families, relationships and the impact of dementia — insights into the ‘ties that bind’

Dot Weaks, Heather Wilkinson, and Shirley Davidson

Ten Violence and families: boundaries, memories and identities

Linda McKie, and Nancy Lombard

Part Four: Relationships and friendships

Eleven Boundaries of intimacy

Lynn Jamieson

Twelve Solo living, individual and family boundaries: findings from secondary analysis1

Fran Wasoff, Lynn Jamieson, and Adam Smith

Thirteen Boundaries of friendship

Graham Allan

Fourteen Living and loving beyond the boundaries of the heteronorm: personal relationships in the 21st century

Sasha Roseneil

Conclusion

Fifteen Perspectives on social policies and families

Fran Wasoff, and Sarah Cunningham-Burley

End Matter

Index