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基本説明
Contemporary debates about the breakdown of the family, the changing role of mothers and fathers, the fragility of couple relationships and the significance of friends.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction.
A Story of Intimacy?.
The Wider Significance of Intimacy in Personal Life.
Dimensions of Intimacy.
Stories and Story Tellers.
Conclusion.
2. From 'The Family' to Sex and Industry. .
The Making of the Conventional Modern Family.
Visions of the Future.
3. Parenting and Intimacy.
Mothers and Fathers as Intimates.
More Shared Caring Between Mothers and Fathers?.
Parenting: Trends in Intimacy and Democracy?.
4. Are Good Friends All You Need? .
Friends, Kin and Intimacy.
Gender, Heterosexuality, Friendship and Intimacy.
5. Sex and Intimacy. .
Introduction.
Stories of 'Normal Sex' and Intimacy.
The Realities of Sexual Lives.
Stories, Practices and Social Change.
6. 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.
7. Conclusion. .
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
