Couple Relationships In The 21st Century: Research, Policy, Practice (palgrave Macmillan Studies In Family And Intimate Life)
by Janet Fink /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love,
intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society. The
authors draw on rich qualitative and large-scale survey data to
explore how couples communicate with each other, negotiate the
pressures and pleasures of parenthood, and the vagaries of sexual
desire and intimacy across life course. Focusing on ‘the
everyday’,
This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love,
intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society. The
authors draw on rich qualitative and large-scale survey data to
explore how couples communicate with each other, negotiate the
pressures and pleasures of parenthood, and the vagaries of sexual
desire and intimacy across life course. Focusing on ‘the
everyday’,Couple Relationships in the 21st Century
Couple Relationships in the 21st Century
unpicks the ordinary and often mundane relationship work that
goes into sustaining a relationship over time, breaking down the
dichotomy between enduring relationships of quality and good
enough or endured relationships. It contests the separation of
couples into distinct relationship types – defined through age,
parenthood or sexuality. Looking through the lens of relationship
practices it is clear that there is no ‘normal couple’: couples
are what couples do.
unpicks the ordinary and often mundane relationship work that
goes into sustaining a relationship over time, breaking down the
dichotomy between enduring relationships of quality and good
enough or endured relationships. It contests the separation of
couples into distinct relationship types – defined through age,
parenthood or sexuality. Looking through the lens of relationship
practices it is clear that there is no ‘normal couple’: couples
are what couples do.With a foreword by Dr Reenee Singh, Director, London
Intercultural Couples Centre and Co-Director, Tavistock Family
Therapy and Systemic Research Centre, this new extended edition
provides an invaluable critical insight on contemporary experiences
of coupledom and will be essential reading for scholars and
students, clinicians working in couple and family therapy, and
those involved in relationship support services.
With a foreword by Dr Reenee Singh, Director, London
Intercultural Couples Centre and Co-Director, Tavistock Family
Therapy and Systemic Research Centre, this new extended edition
provides an invaluable critical insight on contemporary experiences
of coupledom and will be essential reading for scholars and
students, clinicians working in couple and family therapy, and
those involved in relationship support services.