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9780745615745

Intimacy Personal Relationships in Modern Societies

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    9780745615745

  • ISBN10:

    0745615740

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-02-04
  • Publisher: Polity
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Summary

Are personal relationships deeper and more intimate than ever before or are they increasingly empty and structured by selfish individualism? This exciting new book examines the question in a wide-ranging discussion of the nature of intimacy, focusing on key relationships between parents and children, families, sexual partners, couples and friends.

Author Biography

Lynn Jamieson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Story of Intimacy?
The Wider Significance of Intimacy in Personal Life
Dimensions of Intimacy
Stories and Story Tellers
Conclusion
From 'The Family' to Sex and Industry
The Making of the Conventional Modern Family
Visions of the Future
Parenting and Intimacy
Mothers and Fathers as Intimates
More Shared Caring Between Mothers and Fathers?
Parenting: Trends in Intimacy and Democracy?
Are Good Friends All You Need?
Friends, Kin and Intimacy
Gender, Heterosexuality, Friendship and Intimacy
Sex and Intimacy
Introduction
Stories of 'Normal Sex' and Intimacy
The Realities of Sexual Lives
Stories, Practices and Social Change
The Couple: Intimate and Equal?
The Heterosexual Couple: Still She the Housewife, He the Earner?
Domestic Violence and Forced Intimacy
Same-Sex Couples
Intimacy and Relationship Breakdown
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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