Julia Carter's Outputs (30)

Exploring civil partnership from the perspective of those in mixed-sex relationships: Embracing a clean slate of equality (2023)
Journal Article

Civil partnerships first became available to mixed-sex couples in England and Wales in December 2019. To date, there has been no research exploring the perspectives of mixed-sex couples who choose to become civil partners. We interviewed 21 people, a... Read More about Exploring civil partnership from the perspective of those in mixed-sex relationships: Embracing a clean slate of equality.

Mixed-sex civil partnerships: Developing a morality of love (2023)
Journal Article

Civil partnerships were extended to mixed-sex couples in England and Wales at the end of 2019, shortly followed by Northern Ireland (2020) and Scotland (2021). Since then, thousands of mixed-sex couples have entered a civil partnership. While civil p... Read More about Mixed-sex civil partnerships: Developing a morality of love.

Love: Why romantic love matters in uncertain times (2022)
Book Chapter

This volume describes and analyses a series of emotions prevalent in everyday life and culture, with each chapter exploring the main facets of a particular emotion and considering the ways in which it manifests itself in and informs our culture and l... Read More about Love: Why romantic love matters in uncertain times.

Intersections of intimacies and inequalities: An introduction (2022)
Journal Article

Understanding personal lives: After individualisation (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter will centrally address the second aim of the collection – to explore innovative theoretical approaches to understanding personal life. It will also seek to disrupt ‘normative’ idealisations - those made by individualisation theorists.... Read More about Understanding personal lives: After individualisation.

Intimacies and relationships (2021)
Book Chapter

This innovative textbook introduces you to the key theories, themes, and concepts in the discipline of sociology and helps you to develop as a sociologist by providing comprehensive coverage of all the main areas of study. Presenting you with the his... Read More about Intimacies and relationships.

Traditional inequalities and inequalities of tradition: Gender, weddings and whiteness (2021)
Journal Article

The (British) white wedding offers a unique lens for studying a number of social and cultural phenomena from practices of intimacy, consumption and romance to macro level studies of economics, value and exchange. The wedding also represents an ideal... Read More about Traditional inequalities and inequalities of tradition: Gender, weddings and whiteness.

Understanding tradition: Marital name change in Britain and Norway (2019)
Journal Article

Marital surname change is a striking example of the survival of tradition. A practice emerging from patriarchal history has become embedded in an age of detraditionalisation and women’s emancipation. Is the tradition of women’s marital name change ju... Read More about Understanding tradition: Marital name change in Britain and Norway.

Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies' (2019)
Book

This book addresses the nature of intimacy and relationships in a time of what Eva Illouz characterizes as ‘cold intimacies’. The contributors to this collection highlight the ambivalence and tensions contained in ‘intimacy’ by uncovering a nuanced a... Read More about Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies'.

The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts (2019)
Book Chapter

Illouz (2012) claims that love has undergone a great transformation in modernity. The choice of romantic partners occurs through individual decisions disembedded from moral communities. Romantic love becomes a source of the self as one’s beloved affi... Read More about The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts.

Bridezilla (UK, North America and Australia) (2019)
Digital Artefact

The term bridezilla was coined by Diane White in a 1995 Boston Globe newspaper article to refer to ‘out of control’ brides (Moorhead 2018). The term caught on and has become part of a common wedding language used throughout Anglophone countries. Brid... Read More about Bridezilla (UK, North America and Australia).

Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England (2018)
Book Chapter

Our research methods case focuses on how, as researchers, we negotiated the topic of race in recruiting participants and conducting interviews for a study about the cultural reproduction of Whiteness at wedding fairs in the United Kingdom. Here, we d... Read More about Researching race in a white space: Negotiating interviews at white-wedding shows in England.

Why marry? Understanding marriage in modern Britain (2018)
Journal Article

In the early 1990s Anthony Giddens proposed that major changes in working life, equal rights and globalisation trends had impacted significantly on the ways in which men and women relate to each other in their personal lives (Giddens 1992). This brea... Read More about Why marry? Understanding marriage in modern Britain.

Women (not) troubling ‘the family’: Exploring women’s narratives of gendered family practices (2018)
Journal Article

This paper is concerned with examining the ways in which young woman make choices about their family lives and in so doing reproduce traditional unequal gender norms and family practices. In a time when it is (supposedly) increasingly easy to live al... Read More about Women (not) troubling ‘the family’: Exploring women’s narratives of gendered family practices.

White weddings and the reproduction of white femininity (2018)
Journal Article

When my colleague and I entered the wedding show venue in London we were immediately confronted by a salesperson asking if she could see our legs so that she could administer a hair removal treatment. This was somewhat off-putting and neither my coll... Read More about White weddings and the reproduction of white femininity.

Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage (2018)
Book

This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-inve... Read More about Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage.

Review of Srećko Horvat, the radicality of love (2017)
Journal Article

What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists – from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof – seemingly... Read More about Review of Srećko Horvat, the radicality of love.

Constructions, reconstructions and deconstructions of ‘family’ amongst people who live apart together (LATs) (2017)
Journal Article

© London School of Economics and Political Science 2016 This article explores how people who live apart from their partners in Britain describe and understand ‘family’. It investigates whether, and how far, non-cohabiting partners, friends, ‘blood’ a... Read More about Constructions, reconstructions and deconstructions of ‘family’ amongst people who live apart together (LATs).

Why marry? The role of tradition in women’s marital aspirations (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, University of Surrey. All rights reserved. While the individualisation trend has given way to a relational, reflexive turn in the sociology of relationships, there continues to be a writing out of convention and tradition in understanding rel... Read More about Why marry? The role of tradition in women’s marital aspirations.

Wedding paradoxes: Individualized conformity and the ‘perfect day’ (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2016. Marriage rates in twenty-first-century Britain are historically low, divorce and separation are historically high, and marriage is no longer generally seen as necessary for legitimate sexual relationships, long-term partnership... Read More about Wedding paradoxes: Individualized conformity and the ‘perfect day’.