Overview
- Presents empirical data deriving from in-depth life history interviews with young adult women and their mothers, and focus groups with the former, in two very different socio-cultural locations
- Provides an intervention into academic debates around globalisation, modernity and intimate life by addressing Asian contexts, and considering intimacy beyond couples and households
- Captures the meaning of change, and generational continuities and discontinuities in women’s life trajectories
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Stevi Jackson is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of York, UK.
Petula Sik Ying Ho is Professor of Social Work at the University of Hong Kong.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women Doing Intimacy
Book Subtitle: Gender, Family and Modernity in Britain and Hong Kong
Authors: Stevi Jackson, Petula Sik Ying Ho
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-28991-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28990-2Published: 12 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28991-9Published: 11 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 250
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies