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Close Relations

Family, Kinship, and Beyond

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Helena Wahlström Henriksson

    1. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  2. Klara Goedecke

    1. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Examines central topics in family and kinship studies, combining perspectives from humanities and social sciences
  • Demonstrates close relations' pervasiveness and their mutability across cultures in contemporary contexts
  • Investigates close relations from multiple disciplinary perspectives using diverse theoretical and methodological approaches

Part of the book series: Crossroads of Knowledge (CROKNOW)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Close Relations and Boundary Work: Family, Kinship and Beyond

    • Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Klara Goedecke
    Pages 1-17

  3. Correction to: Childless Women’s Relationships with Children of Others: Narratives from Two Generations in Lithuania

    • Lina Šumskaitė, Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė
    Pages C1-C1

  6. Theorizing Parenting Practices and Parent-Child Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Polyamorous Parenthood: Kinship, Gender and Morality

      • Catrine Andersson, Charlotta Carlström
      Pages 139-153

    3. Cultivate and Constrain: Swedish Middle-Class Parents Negotiate Ideals About Children’s Emotions and Parents’ Responses to Them

      • Anna Malmquist, Lisa Wiklander, Asta Cekaite
      Pages 155-170

    4. Childless Women’s Relationships with Children of Others: Narratives from Two Generations in Lithuania

      • Lina Šumskaitė, Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė
      Pages 171-192Open Access

    5. ‘Mums Are Mums’. Negotiations of Parenthood Ideals Among Swedish Mothers with ADHD

      • Kitty Lassinantti, Anna-Lena Almqvist
      Pages 193-208

    6. Morphing Together: Motherhood, Old Grievances, and Corporeal Materiality in Deborah Levy’s Hot milk

      • Gabriele Griffin
      Pages 209-220
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About this book

This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as well as symbolic levels. Closely related to processes of power, legibility and recognition, close relations are surrounded by boundaries that both constrain and enable their practical, symbolical and legal formation. Carefully contextualising close relations in relation to different national contexts, but also in relation to gender, sexuality, race, religion and dis/ability, the volume points to the importance of and variations in how close relations are lived, understood and negotiated.


Grounded in a number of academic areas and disciplines, ranging from legal studies, sociology and social work to literary studies and ethnology, this volume also highlights the value of using inter- and multidisciplinary scholarly approaches in research about close relations.



Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Helena Wahlström Henriksson

  • Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Klara Goedecke

About the editors

Helena Wahlström Henriksson is Professor of Gender studies and Associate Professor in American literature at Uppsala University. Her research interests are feminist cultural studies, masculinity studies, and critical kinship studies. She has published widely on fatherhood, mother-child relations and orphanhood. She coordinated the Swedish Network for Family and Kinship Studies (2014-2019), and its international conference Close Relations (2018). Her current project, “Single Parents in Swedish Media” investigates conteporary representations of “lone” parenthood in life writing, film, and newspapers.


Klara Goedecke is a postdoc at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research focuses on men and masculinities from intersectional perspectives, and includes work on homosociality, men’s friendships, postfeminism and gender equality. Her current project, “High stakes. Men, masculinities and gambling as cultural phenomena,” investigates gender constructions, affectsand class politics in Swedish gambling.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Close Relations

  • Book Subtitle: Family, Kinship, and Beyond

  • Editors: Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Klara Goedecke

  • Series Title: Crossroads of Knowledge

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0792-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0791-2Published: 31 July 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0794-3Published: 18 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0792-9Published: 30 July 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2197-9634

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9642

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 220

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Gender Studies, Queer Studies

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