Reinventing the Family: In Search of New LifestylesISBN: 978-0-7456-2214-9
Paperback
184 pages
April 2002, Polity
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In Reinventing the Family, Beck-Gernsheim describes how
men and women are being confronted with competing and often
incompatible demands. Our areas of personal choice have been
redrawn, but in a space that involves new social regulations and
controls. The talk of ‘family values' sits uneasily with the
reality of long working-hours, business trips, weekend seminars and
career moves. At work, we are encouraged to pursue competition,
speed and change; at home we are expected to find community and
conciliation. Beck-Gernsheim examines the impact of these
conflicting expectations on the relationships between men, women
and children, and searches for possible solutions.
Reinventing the Family is an important and timely contribution to the growing debate about the family and its future. It will be ideal reading for students of sociology and gender studies, but will also appeal to a wide general readership.