Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life

1. Developing ‘Displaying Families’: A Possibility for the Future of the Sociology of Personal Life Esther Dermott and Julie Seymour
2. Critical Relational Displays Brian Heaphy
3. Troubling Displays: The Affect of Gender, Sexuality and Class Jacqui Gabb
4. Displaying Motherhood: Representations, Visual Methods and the Materiality of Maternal Practice Mary Jane Kehily and Rachel Thomson
5. ‘It’s Just Not Good for a Man to be Interested in Other People’s Children’: Fathers, Public Displays of Care and ‘Relevant Others’ Andrea Doucet
6. Display Work: Lesbian Parent Couples and Their Families of Origin Negotiating New Kin Relationships Kathryn Almack
7. Practices of Display: The Framing and Changing of Internet Gambling Behaviours in Families Kahryn Hughes and Gill Valentine
8. Displaying Mixedness: Differences and Family Relationships Jo Haynes and Esther Dermott
9. ‘I Know we Can’t be a Family, but as Close as You Can Get’: Displaying Families within an Institutional Context Ian McIntosh, Nika Dorrer, Samantha Punch and Ruth Emond
10. Exploring the Concept of Display in Family Relationships Janet Finch

This edited collection uses the concept of 'displaying families' as a new way to understand contemporary family and personal life, addressing how, in a world of fluid relationships, family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be done'.