New Social Ties Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society

This book explores new social ties and forms of intimate bonding. Social and personal relationships are being profoundly transformed by changing lifestyles triggered by perceived crises in family, community, work and leisure, and by developments in global media technologies. Are friendships now being authenticated as non-hierarchical and flexible? Deborah Chambers draws on debates in social, feminist and queer theory to assess emerging practice, values and representations about friendship as relations of power, identity and resistance. The book recenters personal relationships within social and cultural theory.Chambers, Deborah is the author of 'New Social Ties Contemporary Connections in a Fragmented Society', published 2007 under ISBN 9780333984086 and ISBN 0333984080.