Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia: The Social and Cultural Logic of Practice and SubjectivityThis book is intended as an ethnographic report into kinship, family and gender practices; as a critical exposition of the current social scientific understanding of such practices; and as a theoretical and methodological treatise on practice. |
Contents
The Project and the Field | 1 |
The Historical Evolution of the Australian Family | 11 |
Historical Continuity | 25 |
The Doxic Family | 45 |
Doxa Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy | 67 |
Structural Aspects of Kinship | 89 |
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adulthood adults analysis Anglo-Celtic Australian arrangement aspects Australian Family body Bourdieu breastfeeding cent chapter child cognitive construction contexts couple cultural capital distinction division of labour domestic domain dominant fraction doxic economic elite emerged example fact facto families of origin family households family practices father female feminine Fergie field of kinship fieldwork Game and Pringle gender order gender style gendered division genderedness grandparents habitus heterodox homology homosexual family image schema increase informants instance kinship and family kinship terminology labour market labour power Lakoff larrikin living logic male marriage married masculine masculine domination mateship metaphor mother networks Newcastle normally Novocastrians nuclear family nuclear-family household offspring organized parenthood parents participation person perspective prototypical family rates realized category Reiger relatedness relations relationships relatives role Ruth sexual single-parent families Snooks social agents social capital social reproduction social structure society spouses trajectory Vaus Wolcott woman women workers working-class young
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Page 184 - Living together', in The Family in the Modern World, eds. A. Burns, G. Bottomley and P. Jools (Allen and Unwin: Sydney).