Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 -- Conceptualizations of Time; Chapter 2 -- The Experience of Family Time in Historical Perspective; Chapter 3 -- The Social Construction of Time in Families; Chapter 4 -- Time Together: The Social Construction of Family Time; Chapter 5 -- Controlling Family Time; Chapter 6 -- The Politics of Time between Families and Society; Chapter 7 -- Gender Politics of Family Time; Chapter 8 -- Intergenerational Politics of Family Time; Chapter 9 -- Toward an Integrated Theory of Family Time; Conclusion; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary
What is family time? What value do we place on it? How many families today have time to be families? How do families view, use and seek to control time, and how successful are they at it? The concept of time is central to the study of families and is used in different ways: families changing through history; families experiencing the passage of time as they age over the life course; and families negotiating time for being together. Synthesizing these different concepts into a broad theory of how families understand time, Kerry J Daly examines time as a pervasive influence in the changing exper
