| Description |
1 online resource (258 pages) |
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Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life |
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Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: The Genesis of a Transnational Collaborative Project -- 2 Conceptualising and Investigating the Gendered Consequences of Modernity in Britain and Hong Kong -- Re-Thinking Intimacy and Modernity -- Modernity or Modernities? the Asian Experience -- From Theory to Research -- 3 Interconnected Histories: Locating Women's Lives in Time and Space -- Global Interconnections and the Founding of Hong Kong -- Gender, Empire and Social Inequality in Britain and Hong Kong -- War, Its Aftermath and Post-War Developments |
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Education and Social Mobility -- Unequal Opportunities -- Protest and Change: 1960s and 1970s -- From the 1980s Onwards -- Twenty-First Century Lives -- 4 What Makes a Family? Meanings and Practices -- Conceptualising Family Life -- Changing Family Forms and Practices -- The Mothers' Children -- Meanings and Practices of Families: Within and Between Households -- Reciprocity, 'Filial Piety' and Obligation -- Conclusion -- 5 Mother-Daughter Relationships -- Childrearing, Discipline and Surveillance -- Educating Daughters: Project or Investment? -- Managing Daughters' Sexuality |
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Practices of Intimacy in Mother-Daughter Relationships -- Difficult Conversations -- Concluding Comments -- 6 Love and Sex in Marital and Non-marital Contexts -- Pathways into Relationships Among the Mothers' Generation -- Changes in Relationships over Time -- New Relationships -- From Mothers to Daughters -- Pragmatism and Morality -- Conclusion -- 7 Imagined Futures in Uncertain Times -- To Marry or not? -- Career Versus Motherhood? -- Tradition and Modernity -- Visions of the Future: The Bigger Picture -- 8 Concluding Reflections -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book offers a comparative study of the lives of young adult women and their mothers in Hong Kong and Britain. Set against the backdrop of debates regarding the consequences of late modern social change for family and intimate life, the authors consider the challenges of exploring these issues across differing cultures. The book focuses on a range of topics including: mother-daughter relationships; romantic, sexual and marital relationship trajectories; and the imagined futures of daughters. Throughout, it is argued that differences between Hong Kong and Britain are not attributable merely to local culture and tradition, but are the consequence of wider social, economic and political conditions through which cultural continuity and change are mediated. Women Doing Intimacy will be of interest to students and scholars of family life and gender studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Great Britain -- History
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Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions
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Women -- China -- Hong Kong -- History
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Women -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions
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Social groups.
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Families.
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Sociology.
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Nuclear families.
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sociology.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Cultural studies.
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Sociology: family & relationships.
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Social Science -- Gender Studies.
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Social Science -- Sociology -- General.
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Social Science -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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Nuclear families
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Women -- Social conditions
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Women
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Families
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Social groups
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Sociology
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Great Britain
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China -- Hong Kong
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ho, Petula Sik Ying.
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| ISBN |
9781137289919 |
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1137289910 |
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