What can sociology tell us about our personal lives, families and intimate relationships? This
book explains how key theoretical perspectives and relevant contemporary research in the …

What might it mean to think of 'the single'as a potentially queer subject and in what ways
does singleness pose a challenge to heteronormative conceptualizations of the lifecourse …

For years anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice have been embedded in the
social work landscape. Thinking beyond the mainstream approaches, this book critically …

Families in the UK have played a key role within the 'third way'policy regimes of the past two
decades, promising to act as arenas of citizenship between the individual and the market …

Queer Kinship on the Edge explores ways in which queer families from Central and Easter
Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship and families researched in the …

Love has been theorized as a way to rebuild fractured communities, and a potential way to
overcome differences on the political Left. However, might it be dangerous to invest so much …

Providing a panoramic and interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores the
interrelations between globalization, borders, families and the law. It considers the role of …

What kind of family is evoked by the label 'family geographies' and who might be excluded
from this conceptual frame? Drawing upon literature from feminist and queer geographies …

One of the more unexpected features of social and economic realignment in the twenty-first
century has been the reactivation of the family. Families had faded away in analyses of late …

In this paper, we develop and extend the emerging concept of 'family assemblages' to
theorise the bodies, objects, habits, spaces, technologies, discourses and affects that …