Reinventing Couples

Bibliographic Data

ID19900577
AuthorsJulia Carter (0000-0003-1845-1670), Simon Duncan
Year2018
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueReinventing Couples (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-58961-3
OpenAlexW2768914074
Open LibraryOL29472842M
ISBN9781137589613
LanguageEN
Citations received35

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning can leak from past to present; the ways in which people’s agencies differ as they make decisions; and the process of bricolage in making new arrangements. These themes are illustrated through a variety of case studies, ranging from personal life in the 1950s, young women and marriage, the rise of cohabitation, female name change, living apart together, and creating weddings. Centrally the authors emphasise the re-traditionalisation involved in de-traditionalisation and the connectedness involved in individualised processes of relationship change

Aesthetics · Art · Bricolage · Cohabitation · Epistemology · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Visual arts · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Marriage · Psychological aspects