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Title Understanding the family / edited by John Muncie ... [and others]
Edition Revised edition
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1995

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 MELB  306.850941 Mun/Utf 1995  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Introduction: Public Definitions and Private Lives --Pt. I. Politics, Policy and the Law. Ch. 1. Issues in the Study of 'The Family' / John Muncie and Roger Sapsford. Ch. 2. Family Policy and Political Discourse / John Muncie and Margaret Wetherell. Ch. 3. Families and the Law / Hilary Land. Ch. 4. Patterns of Diversity and Lived Realities / Rudi Dallos and Roger Sapsford -- Pt. 2. Interactions and Identities. Ch. 5. Constructing Family Life: Family Belief Systems / Rudi Dallos. Ch. 6. Social Structure, Ideology and Family Dynamics: The Case of Parenting / Margaret Wetherell. Ch. 7. The Psychoanalytic Approach to Family Life /Margaret Wetherell. Ch. 8. A Feminist Looks at the Family / Lynne Segal -- Endnote: Public and Private /Roger Sapsford
Analysis Families
Families
Notes "First published as two books in 1993 by the Open University"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Families -- Great Britain.
Families.
Family policy -- Great Britain.
Family.
Author Muncie, John.
LC no. 94069047
ISBN 0803979541
080397955X (paperback)