Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Developing ‘Displaying Families’: A Possibility for the Future of the Sociology of Personal Life....Pages 3-18
Critical Relational Displays....Pages 19-37
Troubling Displays: The Affect of Gender, Sexuality and Class....Pages 38-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Displaying Motherhood: Representations, Visual Methods and the Materiality of Maternal Practice....Pages 61-80
‘It’s Just Not Good for a Man to be Interested in Other People’s Children’: Fathers, Public Displays of Care and ‘Relevant Others’....Pages 81-101
Display Work: Lesbian Parent Couples and Their Families of Origin Negotiating New Kin Relationships....Pages 102-118
Commentary on Almack’s Chapter....Pages 119-121
Commentary on Almack’s Chapter....Pages 122-124
Practices of Display: The Framing and Changing of Internet Gambling Behaviours in Families....Pages 125-144
Displaying Mixedness: Differences and Family Relationships....Pages 145-159
‘Family Hold Back’: Displaying Families in the Single-Location Home/Workplace....Pages 160-174
‘I Know we Can’t be a Family, but as Close as You Can Get’: Displaying Families within an Institutional Context....Pages 175-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Exploring the Concept of Display in Family Relationships....Pages 197-205
Back Matter....Pages 206-231