Thinking Through Family

Name: Thinking Through Family
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SKU: 9781529214727
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Narratives of Care Experienced Lives

By Janet Boddy

Series: Sociology of Children and Families

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Understanding what 'family' means — and how best to support families — depends on challenging politicised assumptions that frame 'ordinary' families in comparison to an imagined problematic 'other'. Learning from the perspectives of people who were in care in childhood, this innovative book, Thinking Through Family,... Read More

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Drawing from longitudinal research, this book shows how the perspectives of people who have been in care can help us redefine the concept of family. Through a narrative analysis of the complexity of family lives, the author challenges the idea that some families are 'ordinary', while others are troubled, problematic and 'other'.

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Learning from the perspectives of people who were in care in childhood, this innovative book, Thinking Through Family, helps redefine the concept of family. Linking two longitudinal studies involving young adults in England, it reveals important new insights into the diverse and dynamic complexity of family lives, identities, and practices through time — from childhood and beyond.

Paving the way for future policy and practice, Thinking Through Family makes an important contribution to the theorisation of family in the 21st century.

Series: Sociology of Children and Families

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529214727

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bristol University Press

Illustration: 1 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Other adaptation by Fidelma Hanrahan
Other adaptation by Bella Wheeler

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 196

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Education & Reference Janet Boddy Non-Fiction Series: Sociology of Children and Families

About the Author

Janet Boddy is Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Sussex and Adjunct Professor in the Childhood, Family and Welfare Division of NOVA at Oslo Metropolitan University.

Fidelma Hanrahan is Senior Research Officer at Research in Practice.

Bella Wheeler is Research Associate in the Methodologies Division in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London.

Thinking Through Family