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Displaying Families

A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Esther Dermott

    1. University of Bristol, UK

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  2. Julie Seymour

    1. University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Applying the Concept

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Displaying Motherhood: Representations, Visual Methods and the Materiality of Maternal Practice

      • Mary Jane Kehily, Rachel Thomson
      Pages 61-80

    3. ‘It’s Just Not Good for a Man to be Interested in Other People’s Children’: Fathers, Public Displays of Care and ‘Relevant Others’

      • Andrea Doucet
      Pages 81-101

    4. Display Work: Lesbian Parent Couples and Their Families of Origin Negotiating New Kin Relationships

      • Kathryn Almack
      Pages 102-118

    5. Commentary on Almack’s Chapter

      • Liz Short
      Pages 119-121

    6. Commentary on Almack’s Chapter

      • Roísín Ryan-Flood
      Pages 122-124

    7. Practices of Display: The Framing and Changing of Internet Gambling Behaviours in Families

      • Kahryn Hughes, Gill Valentine
      Pages 125-144

    8. Displaying Mixedness: Differences and Family Relationships

      • Jo Haynes, Esther Dermott
      Pages 145-159

    9. ‘Family Hold Back’: Displaying Families in the Single-Location Home/Workplace

      • Julie Seymour
      Pages 160-174

    10. ‘I Know we Can’t be a Family, but as Close as You Can Get’: Displaying Families within an Institutional Context

      • Ian McIntosh, Nika Dorrer, Samantha Punch, Ruth Emond
      Pages 175-194

  4. Afterword

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Exploring the Concept of Display in Family Relationships

      • Janet Finch
      Pages 197-205

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 206-231
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About this book

This edited collection uses the concept of 'displaying families' as a new way to understand contemporary family and personal life, addressing how, in a world of fluid relationships, family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be done'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bristol, UK

    Esther Dermott

  • University of Hull, UK

    Julie Seymour

About the editors

KATHRYN ALMACK Senior Research Fellow in Palliative and End of Life Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK NIKA DORRER Part-time Researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland ANDREA DOUCET Professor of Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada RUTH EMOND Part-time Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling, Scotland JANET FINCH Honorary Professor of Sociology at Manchester University, UK JACQUI GABB Lecturer in Social Sciences at the Open University, UK JO HAYNES Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK BRIAN HEAPHY Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK KAHRYN HUGHES Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK MARY JANE KEHILY Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the Open University, UK IAN McINTOSH Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Stirling, Scotland SAMANTHA PUNCH Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Stirling, Scotland ROISIN RYAN-FLOOD Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK LIZ SHORT Researcher at the School of Social Sciences and Pyschology at Victoria University, Australia RACHEL THOMSON Professor of Social Research at the Open University, UK GILL VALENTINE Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leeds, UK

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