Modern Couples Sharing Money, Sharing Life

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: The Role of Money in ‘Doing Couple’

   • Janet Stocks

   Pages 1-6

3. An Overview: Research on Couples and Money

   • Charlott Nyman, Sandra Dema

   Pages 7-29

4. Our Methods

   • Capitolina Díaz, Charlott Nyman, Janet Stocks

   Pages 30-40

5. Elusive Independence in a Context of Gender Equality in Sweden

   • Charlott Nyman, Lasse Reinikainen

   Pages 41-71

6. The Meaning of Breadwinning in Dual-Earner Couples

   • Frank Wilson, Janet Stocks

   Pages 72-99

7. The Intertwining of Money and Love in Couple Relationships

   • Capitolina Díaz, Sandra Dema, Marta Ibáñez

   Pages 100-142

8. Doing Gender While Doing Couple: Concluding Remarks

   • Björn Halleröd, Capitolina Díaz, Janet Stocks

   Pages 143-155

9. Back Matter

   Pages 156-196

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This collection is the result of a five-year-long collaboration of sociologists in Sweden, Spain and the United States. In-depth, extended interviews with couples explore their daily lives and provide insights into the impact of modernity, gender roles, and expectations of the meaning of money and the complex financial reality of households.

• demography
• Doing gender
• gender

'..[A] crucial resource for students of households, love and money' - Viviana Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

'Riveting. I could not put it down...one of the most interesting and engaging sociology books I've read in a long time.'- Carolyn Vogler, Senior Lecturer, City University, London

'...original and insightful...it shows how, in three very different countries, money ties couples together but causes conflicts, allows independence but causes dependence' - Jan Pahl, Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, University of Kent

• Baldwin-Wallace College, USA

  Janet Stocks

• University of Oviedo, Spain

  Capitolina Díaz

• Umeå University, Sweden

  Björn Halleröd

SANDRA DEMA University of Oviedo, Spain MARTA IBÁÑEZ University of Oviedo, Spain CHARLOTT NYMAN Umeå University, Sweden LASSE REINIKAINEN Umeå University, Sweden FRANK WILSON University of Pittsburgh, USA

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