Technology, Culture, Family by E Silva
This book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the connections between mundane practices in the reproduction of our bodies and our relations with those we live with, and the technological practices that inform daily life.-
Relative Strangers: Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception
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Ordinary Relationships
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Fatherhood and Love
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Men, Families, and Poverty
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Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States
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Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society
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Families in Converging Europe
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Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youth in Zimbabwes Child Welfare Institutions
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Love, Marriage and Intimacy among Gujarati Indians
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Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships
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Queer Families in Hungary
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Marriage Migration and Integration
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Negotiating Fatherhood
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Rethinking Family Practices
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Chinese Fatherhood, Gender and Family
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Women Doing Intimacy
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Family Practices in South Asian Muslim Families
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British Chinese Families
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Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
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Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools
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Researching Families and Relationships
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Global Families, Inequality and Transnational Adoption
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Displaying Families
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Reconfiguring Relations in the Empty Nest
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Trans Peoples Partnerships
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Race in Transnational and Transracial Adoption
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Infertility and Intimacy in an Online Community
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Lesbian, Gay and Queer Parenting
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The Public Life of Friendship
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Pure Fatherhood and the Hollywood Family Film
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Making Multicultural Families in Europe
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Family and Intimate Mobilities
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Fertility Rates and Population Decline
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Rethinking the Meaning of Family for Adolescents and Youth in Zimbabwe’s Child Welfare Institutions
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Love and Intimacy in Online Cross-Cultural Relationships
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Mapping Intimacies
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Inter-generational Financial Giving and Inequality
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Chinese-British Intermarriage
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Feeling Gender
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Fatherhood in Transition
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Mixed Family Life in the UK
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Household Divisions of Labour
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Lesbian Motherhood
'..such a collection of rich qualitative case studies provides a valuable teaching resource especially for those researching issues surrounding the role of technology in everyday life and the situated context of the home. The book is essential reading for students and researchers in the field.' - International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology
'I would recommend this book to anyone interested in home life' - European Cultural Studies
ELIZABETH B. SILVA is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK, a member of the Economic and Social Research Centre on Socio-Cultural Change and of the Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University. Her publications include Culture, Class, Distinction (co-authored), Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy (co-edited), Contemporary Culture and Everyday Life (co-edited) and various journal articles on cultural capital, everyday life, gender, visual art and qualitative methods.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781349361014 |
| ISBN 10 | 1349361011 |
| Title | Technology, Culture, Family |
| Author | E Silva |
| Series | Palgrave Macmillan Studies In Family And Intimate Life |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 2010-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 225 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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