What is it about?
How people create and live their relationships in couples, 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
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Why is it important?
This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life. Combining original research with broader research findings , the book draws a line under theoretical debates about whether couple relationships are traditional or post-traditional by illuminating the ways in which they are invariably both. It brings to life the dynamic nature of couples as they are lived 'on the ground
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It brings together joint research from different empirical projects in moving on to a new perspective
Professor Simon Duncan
University of Bradford
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This page is a summary of: Reinventing Couples, January 2018, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58961-3.
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