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Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course
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This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing landscape of human partnerships, integrating diverse theoretical and empirical perspectives. Leading scholars explore the complex interplay between individual life trajectories, societal norms, and legal frameworks in shaping modern relationships.
This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing landscape of human partnerships, integrating diverse theoretical and empirical perspectives. Leading scholars explore the complex interplay between individual life trajectories, societal norms, and legal frameworks in shaping modern relationships.
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This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing landscape of human partnerships, integrating diverse theoretical and empirical perspectives. Leading scholars explore the complex interplay between individual life trajectories, societal norms, and legal frameworks in shaping modern relationships.
The Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course is an interdisciplinary collaboration by researchers in demography, sociology, psychology, and law. Chapters discuss marriage, cohabitation and relationships, covering LGBTQ+, long-distance, arranged, polyamorous and living apart together (LAT) partnerships. They address partnerships across the life course, from formation, including online dating and hook-up culture, to break-ups, repartnering, and partnerships in later life. The contributing authors analyse the dynamics within a partnership, focusing on key aspects like sex, money, and children, as well as related factors such as family, health, gender, and migration, along with their impacts. Ultimately, the Research Handbook examines diversity in partnerships across the globe and explores the roles of the economy and the welfare state.
Presenting innovative insights on relationship dynamics, this Research Handbook is a crucial resource for students and scholars across the social sciences working on family and gender studies.
The Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course is an interdisciplinary collaboration by researchers in demography, sociology, psychology, and law. Chapters discuss marriage, cohabitation and relationships, covering LGBTQ+, long-distance, arranged, polyamorous and living apart together (LAT) partnerships. They address partnerships across the life course, from formation, including online dating and hook-up culture, to break-ups, repartnering, and partnerships in later life. The contributing authors analyse the dynamics within a partnership, focusing on key aspects like sex, money, and children, as well as related factors such as family, health, gender, and migration, along with their impacts. Ultimately, the Research Handbook examines diversity in partnerships across the globe and explores the roles of the economy and the welfare state.
Presenting innovative insights on relationship dynamics, this Research Handbook is a crucial resource for students and scholars across the social sciences working on family and gender studies.
Critical Acclaim
‘This volume brings together scholars from around the world to explore partnerships and their many forms over time and place. It is a valuable resource for the field—offering an interdisciplinary lens on the diversity and dynamics of partnerships, their interplay with broader social norms and institutions, and their importance for health and well-being.’
– Kelly Musick, Cornell University, USA
‘Dimitri Mortelmans, Laura Bernardi, and Brienna Perelli-Harris have crafted a collaborative work brimming with extraordinary academic quality and addressing the fascinating topic of partnering from multiple perspectives. Featuring both established and emerging voices in the field of family demography and sociology, this Research Handbook will make a significant and lasting contribution.’
– Albert Esteve, Center for Demographic Studies and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
‘This Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course provides an extraordinarily comprehensive review of current theory and research on partner relationships. Because contemporary data and research on partner relationships is dominated by studies from western wealthy societies, it is especially laudable that the book contains reviews of what we do know about intimate partnerships in other parts of the world.’
– Elizabeth Thomson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Stockholm University, Sweden
– Kelly Musick, Cornell University, USA
‘Dimitri Mortelmans, Laura Bernardi, and Brienna Perelli-Harris have crafted a collaborative work brimming with extraordinary academic quality and addressing the fascinating topic of partnering from multiple perspectives. Featuring both established and emerging voices in the field of family demography and sociology, this Research Handbook will make a significant and lasting contribution.’
– Albert Esteve, Center for Demographic Studies and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
‘This Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course provides an extraordinarily comprehensive review of current theory and research on partner relationships. Because contemporary data and research on partner relationships is dominated by studies from western wealthy societies, it is especially laudable that the book contains reviews of what we do know about intimate partnerships in other parts of the world.’
– Elizabeth Thomson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Stockholm University, Sweden
