| Description |
1 online resource (236 pages) |
| Series |
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 |
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Change and Tradition in Personal Life: A Case Study -- Christina -- Choice and Tradition -- Relationality, Emotionality, and Agencies -- The Chapters -- References -- 2: Pragmatic Tradition: Personal Life in the 1950s -- An Easter Trip to Brighton, 1949 -- Traditional and Modern Society? -- The World We Have Won? Same-Sex Relationships and Heterosexual Marriage -- Homosexuality in 1949 -- Heterosexual Marriage in 1949â#x80;#x93;50 |
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Pragmatic Tradition: Non-marital Sex and Divorce in 1949â#x80;#x93;50 The Traditionalists: Clergymen -- The Pragmatists: The Public -- The Vanguard: MOâ#x80;#x99;s National Panel -- Traditionalists, Progressives and Pragmatists: A Normal Distribution? -- References -- 3: Choosing Tradition: Getting Married -- Choosing Tradition: Ruth -- The â#x80;#x98;Strangeâ#x80;#x99; Survival of Marriage -- Re-traditionalisation -- Why Young Women Marry -- Institutionalised Tradition: Marriage, Security, and Stability -- Marriage, the Traditional Family, and the â#x80;#x98;Normalâ#x80;#x99 |
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Choosing to Be a â#x80;#x98;Wifeâ#x80;#x99;: Reworking Traditional Gender Divisions Legitimating Tradition: Fairy Tales and Fantasies -- Choosing Tradition -- References -- 4: Inventing Tradition: Cohabitation and Common Law Marriage -- Martin: The New Becomes Normal -- Cohabitation: Rise and Reaction -- Cohabitation and â#x80;#x98;Common Law Marriageâ#x80;#x99; -- The Invention of Tradition -- Common Law Marriage as Invented Tradition -- Inventing Practice: Public Belief in Common Law Marriage -- Inventing History: The Academic Construction of Common Law Marriage |
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Cohabitation, Common Law Marriage, and â#x80;#x98;Living Lawâ#x80;#x99; Cohabitation as the Ordinary -- Conclusions: New, Traditional, and Ordinary -- References -- 5: The Leakage of Meaning: Traditional Naming Practices -- Derek and Alison: Imposing and Accepting Tradition -- A Persisting Past: Female Name Change on Marriage -- Names and the Leakage of Meaning -- Changing Surnames: Leaking Meanings -- Taken-for-Granted Tradition: The Abnegation of Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Names -- New Name, New Identity -- Displaying Family |
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Scrutinising Name Change: Regret, Loss, and Resistance Conclusion -- References -- 6: Differential Agency: Living Apart Together -- Finding Tradition: Gemma -- Understanding Living Apart Together: From New Family Form to Flexible Pragmatism -- Differential Agency -- Differential Agencies and Living Apart Together -- Constrained -- Strategic -- Fearful -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Individualised Conformity: Creating a Wedding -- Darren: A Wedding Bricoleur -- The Modern Traditional Wedding -- Explaining Weddings |
| Summary |
This volume presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of 'tradition' and 'modern'. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-invented; how meaning can leak from past to present; the ways in which people's agencies differ as they make decisions; and the process of bricolage in making new arrangements. These themes are illustrated through a variety of case studies, ranging from personal life in the 1950s, young women and marriage, the rise of cohabitation, female name change, living apart together and creating weddings |
| Notes |
"" Bricolage and Tradition"" |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Couples -- History
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Couples
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duncan, Simon
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| ISBN |
9781137589613 |
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1137589612 |
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1137589604 |
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9781137589606 |
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