Overview
- Focuses on both the roles of being a parent and being a spouse in the empty nest
- Illustrates how families experiencing this lifecourse transition are influenced by political and cultural context
- Features data from eight waves of qualitative studies including more than 250 in-depth interviews
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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The Family in ‘The Empty Nest’
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The Couple in ‘The Empty Nest’
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Magdalena Żadkowska is Assistant Professor in the Division of Sociology of Everyday Life in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Gdańsk, Poland.
Marta Skowrońska is Assistant Professor at the Division of Social Practice Research and Theory in the Faculty of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
Christophe Giraud is Professor of Sociology at Université Paris Cité, France.
Filip Schmidt is Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Practice Research and Theory at the Faculty of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. ctice Research and Theory at the Faculty of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reconfiguring Relations in the Empty Nest
Book Subtitle: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Editors: Magdalena Żadkowska, Marta Skowrońska, Christophe Giraud, Filip Schmidt
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50403-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50402-0Published: 21 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50405-1Due: 23 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50403-7Published: 20 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Life course, Demography, Quality of Life Research, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, general