Description
This book explores the nature of intimacy by revealing how the influence of individual, interpersonal and wider social factors create variations in self-disclosure, intimacy games and relationship habits. It describes how the dynamics of power and control in relationships give rise either to mutual satisfaction or to the unraveling of intimacy.
About the Author
DEREK LAYDER is Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, UK and Eminent Research Visitor, University of Western Sydney, Australia. His most recent publications include Social and Personal Identity, Emotion in Social Life, and Understanding Social Theory.
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Book Information
ISBN 9780230579569
Author D. Layder
Format Hardback
Page Count 190
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
About the Author
DEREK LAYDER is Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, UK and Eminent Research Visitor, University of Western Sydney, Australia. His most recent publications include Social and Personal Identity, Emotion in Social Life, and Understanding Social Theory.
Reviews
'...an essential and indispensable source in the study of close and intimate relationships, not only because of its authoritative critique of Giddens' and Beck and Beck-Gernsheim's renowned theories of modern intimacy, but also because it is an impressive attempt to re-theorise this field of study by considering the dimensions of intimacy and introducing different types of intimate relationships in modernity.' - Sociology
Book Information
ISBN 9780230579569
Author D. Layder
Format Hardback
Page Count 190
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
