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Identity and Repartnering After Separation

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  • © 2007

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  1. Richard Lampard
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  2. Kay Peggs
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Lampard, Kay Peggs
    Pages 1-4

  3. Methods and Methodology

    • Richard Lampard, Kay Peggs
    Pages 5-18

  4. Theorizing Contemporary Intimate Couple Relationships and Relationship Histories

    • Richard Lampard, Kay Peggs
    Pages 19-52

  5. The Formerly Married and Former Cohabitees: Their Lives, Characteristics and Repartnering Behaviour

    • Richard Lampard, Kay Peggs
    Pages 53-108

  6. Past, Present and Future — Orientations towards Repartnering

    • Richard Lampard, Kay Peggs
    Pages 109-148

  7. ‘Risk’, Emotions and Choice in the Lives of Formerly Partnered Men and Women

    • Richard Lampard, Kay Peggs
    Pages 149-175

  8. Identity and Intimacy in the Lives of Formerly Partnered Men and Women

    • Richard Lampard, Kay Peggs
    Pages 176-205

  9. The Formerly Partnered and Repartnering in Contemporary Britain

    • Richard Lampard, Kay Peggs
    Pages 206-216

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 217-255
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This book examines the lives and repartnering behaviour of former spouses and co-habitees, groups pivotal to recent marital change. Focusing on contemporary Britain, it examines these people's experiences of being single, their orientations towards past and new relationships, and their self-identities in the context of a couple-orientated society.

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'Their volume manifests a sharp concern for the actual context of contemporary Britain in which people live. This context can be charaterized as a cultural vacuum: these scarcely are clear-cut and well-established societal guidelines for appropriate behaviour; together with the declining salience of traditional ideas and expectations regarding the life course, and their lack of fit with formerly partnered people's lives, repartnering people have many difficulties to give sense to their lives and to work out concrete practical lifestyles to survive in intimacy.' - The Journal of the Study of Marriage

About the authors

RICHARD LAMPARD is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. He is co-author (with Christopher Pole) of Practical Social Investigation: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Research.

KAY PEGGS is Principal Lecturer in Sociology and a Member of the Centre for European and International Social Research at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the author of papers and articles associated with risk and choice, women and pensions and discourses of ageing.

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