Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 183 pages)
ISBN:
9783031172502
Series Statement:
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Understanding 'Living Apart Together' (LAT) Relationships -- Introduction -- What Is an LAT Relationship and Why Does It Matter? -- Who Lives Apart from Their Partner and Why? -- Is LAT a New Family Form or a Temporary Stage? -- Researching People in LATs in China -- Approaching LAT People -- Reflexivity, Power Dynamics and Positionality -- Getting Familiar with the Data and Data Analysis -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Detraditionalisation and Retraditionalisation of Family Lives: Gender, Marriage and Intimacy -- Introduction -- The Grand Theories: Modernity, Gender and Transformations of Intimacy in the West -- Contextualising Social Change in China -- Gender Relations and Family Life in China -- Women, Love and Family -- Changing Marital Practices -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Reconsidered Agency: Why Do People Live Apart? -- Introduction -- Conceptualising Agency and Relationality -- Structural Constraints -- Labour Mobility: Out-Migration of Men and Left-Behind Women -- External Authoritative Forces -- Negotiated Agency: Family Values and Hegemonic Ideas About Marriage -- Relational Bonds with Family Members -- Friendship -- Relational Individualism: Reflexivity and Life Stages -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Doing Family at a Distance: How Different Are LAT Relationships to 'Conventional' Partnerships? -- Introduction -- The Stories of Six Study Mothers -- Continuity in Family Practices -- Reciprocal Family Practices: 'I Hope My Children Can Do Things That I Might Not Have the Chance to Do' -- Gendered Family Practices: 'I'd Like to More or Less Make It Up to Him' -- Everyday Family Practices and Identity Construction -- Everyday Practices of Doing Gender: 'His Three Meals a Day Had Me Trapped'.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031172496
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031172496
Language:
English
