ISBN:
9781137589613
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (236 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Ser.
Parallel Title:
Carter, Julian B., 1967 - Reinventing couples
Parallel Title:
Print version Carter, Julia Reinventing Couples : Tradition, Agency and Bricolage
DDC:
306.7
Keywords:
Couples--History
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Electronic books
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USA
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Paar
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Gesellschaft
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Geschichte
Abstract:
"Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "1: Introduction" -- " Change and Tradition in Personal Life: A Case Study" -- " Christina" -- " Choice and Tradition" -- " Relationality, Emotionality, and Agencies" -- " The Chapters" -- "References" -- "2: Pragmatic Tradition: Personal Life in the 1950s" -- " An Easter Trip to Brighton, 1949" -- " Traditional and Modern Society?" -- " The World We Have Won? Same-Sex Relationships and Heterosexual Marriage" -- " Homosexuality in 1949" -- " Heterosexual Marriage in 1949â50" -- " Pragmatic Tradition: Non-marital Sex and Divorce in 1949â50" -- " The Traditionalists: Clergymen" -- " The Pragmatists: The Public" -- " The Vanguard: MOâs National Panel" -- " Traditionalists, Progressives and Pragmatists: A Normal Distribution?" -- "References" -- "3: Choosing Tradition: Getting Married" -- " Choosing Tradition: Ruth" -- " The âStrangeâ Survival of Marriage" -- " Re-traditionalisation" -- " Why Young Women Marry" -- " Institutionalised Tradition: Marriage, Security, and Stability" -- " Marriage, the Traditional Family, and the âNormalâ" -- " Choosing to Be a âWifeâ: Reworking Traditional Gender Divisions" -- " Legitimating Tradition: Fairy Tales and Fantasies" -- " Choosing Tradition" -- "References" -- "4: Inventing Tradition: Cohabitation and Common Law Marriage" -- " Martin: The New Becomes Normal" -- " Cohabitation: Rise and Reaction" -- " Cohabitation and âCommon Law Marriageâ" -- " The Invention of Tradition" -- " Common Law Marriage as Invented Tradition" -- " Inventing Practice: Public Belief in Common Law Marriage" -- " Inventing History: The Academic Construction of Common Law Marriage" -- " Cohabitation, Common Law Marriage, and âLiving Lawâ" -- " Cohabitation as the Ordinary
Abstract:
" Conclusions: New, Traditional, and Ordinary" -- "References" -- "5: The Leakage of Meaning: Traditional Naming Practices" -- " Derek and Alison: Imposing and Accepting Tradition" -- " A Persisting Past: Female Name Change on Marriage" -- " Names and the Leakage of Meaning" -- " Changing Surnames: Leaking Meanings" -- " Taken-for-Granted Tradition: The Abnegation of Womenâs Names" -- " New Name, New Identity" -- " Displaying Family" -- " Scrutinising Name Change: Regret, Loss, and Resistance" -- " Conclusion" -- "References" -- "6: Differential Agency: Living Apart Together" -- " Finding Tradition: Gemma" -- " Understanding Living Apart Together: From New Family Form to Flexible Pragmatism" -- " Differential Agency" -- " Differential Agencies and Living Apart Together" -- " Constrained" -- " Strategic" -- " Fearful" -- " Conclusion" -- "References" -- "7: Individualised Conformity: Creating a Wedding" -- " Darren: A Wedding Bricoleur" -- " The Modern Traditional Wedding" -- " Explaining Weddings" -- " Bricolage and Tradition" -- " Consumerism: Marketing Romance" -- " The Wedding as Display" -- " Distinction and Division" -- " Conclusion" -- "References" -- "8: Afterword: Extending Intimacy" -- " Towards a New Theory of Personal Life" -- " Extended Intimacy: Tradition, Agency, and Bricolage" -- "References" -- "Appendices" -- "Research Methods and Sources" -- "Appendix 1: Introduction" -- " Appendix 2: Researching Personal Life in 1949/1950" -- " Appendix 3: Researching Marriage" -- " Appendix 4: Researching Cohabitation" -- " Appendix 5: Researching Naming" -- " Appendix 6: Researching Living Apart Together" -- " Appendix 7: Researching Weddings
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