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Exploring civil partnership from the perspective of those in mixed-sex relationships: Embracing a clean slate of equality (2023)
Journal Article
Hayfield, N., Jones, B., Carter, J., & Jowett, A. (online). Exploring civil partnership from the perspective of those in mixed-sex relationships: Embracing a clean slate of equality. Journal of Family Issues, https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X231194298

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
Carter, J., & Hayfield, N. (online). Mixed-sex civil partnerships: Developing a morality of love. Families, Relationships and Societies, https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16886294054314

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
Carter, J. (2022). Love: Why romantic love matters in uncertain times. In M. Hviid Jacobsen (Ed.), Emotions in Culture and Everyday Life: Conceptual, Theoretical and Empirical Explorations. Routledge

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.

Understanding personal lives: After individualisation (2022)
Book Chapter
Duncan, S., & Carter, J. (2022). Understanding personal lives: After individualisation. In S. Quaid, C. Hugman, & A. Wilcock (Eds.), Negotiating families and personal lives in the 21st Century: Exploring diversity, social change and inequalities. Routledge

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
Twamley, K., & Carter, J. (2021). Intimacies and relationships. In K. Murji, S. Neal, & J. Solomos (Eds.), An Introduction to Sociology. SAGE Publications

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
Carter, J. (2022). Traditional inequalities and inequalities of tradition: Gender, weddings and whiteness. Sociological Research Online, 27(1), 60-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780421990021

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
Duncan, S., Ellingsæter, A. L., & Carter, J. (2020). Understanding tradition: Marital name change in Britain and Norway. Sociological Research Online, 25(3), 438-455. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419892637

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
Carter, J., & Arocha, L. (Eds.). (2020). Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies'. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29256-0

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
Carter, J., & Smith, D. (2020). The transformation of love? Choice, emotional rationality and wedding gifts. In J. Carter, & L. Arocha (Eds.), Romantic Relationships in a Time of 'Cold Intimacies' (57-79). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29256-0

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.