Researching Intimacy in Families is an incisive engagement with the subject of intimacy and
kin relationships and the methods used to research family life and childhood. Families have …

Research has demonstrated how families are constituted through every day practices of
care and emotional investment. In this article I suggest that a mixed methods qualitative …

The phrase 'intimate relationship'is a broad and fluid term, in that it can encompass
numerous different associations between friends, sexual partners, family and kin. This …

Recent conceptual and in-depth research discussions have seen a shift away from use of
the term 'family', towards ideas focusing on personal life, intimacy and kinship. In this article …

This chapter reviews how the concepts of boundaries and boundary work are deployed in
theorising intimacy, in order to assess how these concepts further our understanding of …

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time,
certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second …

Abstract the issues that seem most important to us are these/does intimacy reside in persons
or between persons—or doesn't the question even make sense/is intimacy a state or a …

Incorporating the most up-to-date literature in sociology, psychoanalysis, psychology, and
communication, this book provides an exhaustive synthesis of theoretical, empirical, and …

Qualitative approaches are excellent ways to investigate family dynamics and family
relationships. In the present study, we identify four goals in which qualitative methods benefit …

I n this chapter, we theorize adult sibling ties as central relationships across the life course
for individuals and families. Drawing from a variety of theories and research to explain why …