The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a
sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The …

Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time.
This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a …

Although Bourdieu deals extensively with gender differences in his work, far less space is
given to the emotions. This chapter attempts to address this lacuna by extending Bourdieu's …

It is a very impressive book. Its coverage of contemporary discourses of fatherhood is
comprehensive. The theoretical stance is one that allows for complexity and fluidity. The …

More and more people are choosing to earn a living at home. In Work, At Home explores the
meaning and experience of this type of employment by covering a wide range of issues …

This paper addresses criticisms of a number of papers (Vogler and Pahl, 1993, 1994;
Vogler, 1994) in which we attempted to explore the relationships between money, power …

This paper addresses two important questions in the area of the division of domestic labour.
Firstly, what change is observable in the patterns of men and women's time spent in …

I would recommend the book to anyone with an interest in the family, whether their interest is
in constructs of" old" family values and morals, or in the" new" alternatives, and (possibly …

While recent emphasis has been placed on transformations of gender in the public sphere,
changes in gender relations between heterosexual couples in the domestic sphere have …

Many studies have examined the household division of labour from a gender perspective,
but comparatively few have considered age and the intergenerational distribution of …