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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.