This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. It shows that the analysis of the 'small world' of dyads can give important clues about society and its gendered makeup.

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Macquarie University, Australia

Harry Blatterer

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Harry Blatterer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia. His previous book publications include Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty (2009), and Modern Privacy: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms (2010), co-edited with Maria Markus and Pauline Johnson.

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Book Title: Everyday Friendships
Book Subtitle: Intimacy as Freedom in a Complex World
Authors: Harry Blatterer
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316400
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27252-1Published: 14 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32330-2Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31640-0Published: 18 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 219
Topics: Gender Studies, Family, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Popular Science in Psychology

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