Julie Seymour - Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)

Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

Titles include:

Graham Allan, Graham Crow and Sheila Hawker
STEPFAMILIES

Harriet Becher
FAMILY PRACTICES IN SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIM FAMILIES
Parenting in a Multi-Faith Britain

Elisa Rose Birch, Anh T. Le and Paul W. Miller
HOUSEHOLD DIVISIONS OF LABOUR
Teamwork, Gender and Time

Jacqui Gabb
RESEARCHING INTIMACY IN FAMILIES

Peter Jackson (editor)
CHANGING FAMILIES, CHANGING FOOD

Riitta Jallinoja and Eric Widmer (editors)
FAMILIES AND KINSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
Rules and Practices of Relatedness

David Morgan
RETHINKING FAMILY PRACTICES

Eriikka Oinonen
FAMILIES IN CONVERGING EUROPE
A Comparison of Forms, Structures and Ideals

Risn Ryan-Flood
LESBIAN MOTHERHOOD
Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship

Tam Sanger
TRANS PEOPLES PARTNERSHIPS
Towards an Ethics of Intimacy

Esther Dermott and Julie Seymour (editors)
DISPLAYING FAMILIES
A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life

Elizabeth B. Silva
TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE, FAMILY
Influences on Home Life

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Displaying Families

A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life

Edited By

Esther Dermott

University of Bristol, UK

and

Julie Seymour

University of Hull, UK

Selection and editorial matter Esther Dermott and Julie Seymour 2011 Individual chapters their respective authors 2011

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Displaying families : a new concept for the sociology of family life / edited by Julie Seymour, Esther Dermott.

p. cm.(Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life)

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Contents

Esther Dermott and Julie Seymour

Brian Heaphy

Jacqui Gabb

Mary Jane Kehily and Rachel Thomson

Andrea Doucet

Kathryn Almack

Liz Short

Rosn Ryan-Flood

Kahryn Hughes and Gill Valentine

Jo Haynes and Esther Dermott

Julie Seymour

Ian McIntosh, Nika Dorrer, Samantha Punch and Ruth Emond

Janet Finch

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the British Sociological Association for their assistance in organising the original day seminar which led to this volume and to Clare Whitfield for her smooth administration during the event. We would like to thank the members of the BSA Family Study Group who contributed to what was an energising and thought-provoking day and for those whose enthusiasm has sustained the project during its gestation. Our thanks also go to David Morgan, Lynn Jamieson and Graham Allan, the editors of the Studies in Family and Intimate Life series and Philippa Grand and Olivia Middleton at Palgrave Macmillan for their support and helpfulness.

Kathy Almacks chapter first appeared in a slightly different form as Almack, K. (2008) Display Work: Lesbian Parent Couples and their Families of Origin Negotiating New Kin Relationships, Sociology, 42, 1183-99, Sage.

Notes on Contributors

Kathryn Almack is Senior Research Fellow in Palliative and End of Life Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her research is underpinned by sociological research interests, particularly concerning the dynamics and diversity of family lives and research in sensitive and ethically challenging areas such as palliative and end of life studies. Recent publications include concerns about end of life care and on bereavement for lesbian, gay and bisexual older people (2010) and lesbian parent couples (2008).

Esther Dermott is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, U.K. She is the author of Intimate Fatherhood (Routledge, 2008) and has written widely on fathering, intimacy and work. She is currently writing a new book, Intimacy and Personal Life for Palgrave and is working on the gender and parenting elements of a major ESRC-funded project on poverty and social exclusion in the U.K.

Nika Dorrer works part-time as Researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, while she completes her postgraduate training as social worker. She has been involved in research on the interrelation between social contexts, identity and well-being with a particular focus on young people and has conducted studies in Tobago and Scotland, in schools, and in voluntary and statutory care settings.

Andrea Doucet is Professor of Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Do Men Mother? (2006), which received the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociology Association, and co-author of Gender Relations: Intersectionality and Beyond