Contemporary struggles over the ordering of sexual and parental relationships take place in the context of recession and mass unemployment; ethnic differentiation and antagonism, population ageing and the discovery of ageism, a growing awareness of the pervasiveness of violence and sexual abuse in intimate relationships and the eruption of AIDS as a major health crisis. Gender, Family and Society seeks to provide a sociological understanding of the way in which these key aspects of contemporary social life shape, and are ...
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Contemporary struggles over the ordering of sexual and parental relationships take place in the context of recession and mass unemployment; ethnic differentiation and antagonism, population ageing and the discovery of ageism, a growing awareness of the pervasiveness of violence and sexual abuse in intimate relationships and the eruption of AIDS as a major health crisis. Gender, Family and Society seeks to provide a sociological understanding of the way in which these key aspects of contemporary social life shape, and are shaped by, gender and family structures.
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