The Double Life of the Family
Myth, hope and experience
The modern family is under strain. What we crave most from our families is intimacy, warmth and self-fulfilment but we often find this difficult to achieve. We hold onto these expectations of our families even in the face of contradictory experiences, so the family sustains a double life. The authors explore the gap between our values, expectations and yearnings, and our experiences of everyday family life. Family ritual, political rhetoric, advertising images and television family sitcoms are all windows onto what we want and expect - our myths of the family. Yet our aspirations for intimacy and self-fulfilment are frustrated by unacknowledg…
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Weitere Autoren: Pixley, Jocelyn
- ISBN: 978-1-00-031949-1
- EAN: 9781000319491
- Produktnummer: 34632353
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'255 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Michael Bittman is Seniro Research Fellow in the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and author of Juggling Time (1991).Jocelyn Pixley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of New South Wales and author of Citizenship and Employment (1993).
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