Julia Carter - Romantic Relationships in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’

The Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series is impressive and contemporary in its themes and approachesProfessor Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University, UK, and author of New Social Ties .

The remit of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series is to publish major texts, monographs and edited collections focusing broadly on the sociological exploration of intimate relationships and family organization. The series covers a wide range of topics such as partnership, marriage, parenting, domestic arrangements, kinship, demographic change, intergenerational ties, life course transitions, step-families, gay and lesbian relationships, lone-parent households, and also non-familial intimate relationships such as friendships and includes works by leading figures in the field, in the UK and internationally, and aims to contribute to continue publishing influential and prize-winning research.

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First, we would like to thank the contributors to this volume, each of whom has worked hard, met deadlines and stayed patient with our many emails, reminders and requests. It has been a pleasure to work with you all (and to work together as editors for the first time) and we hope that we have nurtured some useful relationships within our scholarly community. It has also been good to work with Palgrave and we extend our thanks to Amelia Derkatsch for her always reliable assistance and the anonymous reviewer who provided excellent, invaluable and incredibly detailed feedback on our initial proposal: thank you. We extend our appreciation to the British Sociological Association and the Families and Relationships study group who funded the original workshop from which this project emerged back in July 2017. May their support for early career scholars fund many an edited collection. Finally, we would like to thank our families and friends for providing support when we needed it and for encouraging us in our low moments; for this, a special thank you belongs to Daniel Smith.