`Altogether an excellent collection for students of social policy, social care or social work, covering as it does both subjective and objective features of family life and the logics of inequality within which they are embedded' - Child and Family Social WorkRevised and updated, the Second Edition of this bestselling book presents an interdisciplinary account of how the family is constituted in the `public' and `private' spheres.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Public Definitions and Private Lives
PART ONE: POLITICS, POLICY AND THE LAW
Issues in the Study of `The Family - John Muncie and Roger Sapsford
Family Policy and Political Discourse - John Muncie and Margaret Wetherell
Families and the Law - Hilary Land
Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities - Rudi Dallos and Roger Sapsford
PART TWO: INTERACTIONS AND IDENTITIES
Constructing Family Life - Rudi Dallos
Family Belief Systems
Social Structure, Ideology and Family Dynamics - Margaret Wetherell
The Case of Parenting
The Psychoanalytic Approach to Family Life - Margaret Wetherell
A Feminist Looks at the Family - Lynne Segal
Endnote - Roger Sapsford
Public and Private
