Packed with facts, fun, gossip, nostalgia and conjecture, it looks back over their glorious history to celebrate the personalities, victories and controversies of the sport's biggest name, culminating in their extraordinary return to the Premier League in 2010/11.
Exploring the active construction of identities such as gender, race, and nationality, this collection examines how individuals perform these identities in various settings, including gyms, piercing studios, and educational institutions. Through empirical studies and contemporary social theory, it contributes significantly to discussions on identity, reflexivity, and cultural diversity. The book highlights the dynamic nature of identity practices in everyday life, making it a vital resource for understanding contemporary identity issues.
Despite changes and challenges, coupledom has long been constructed as the normal, natural, and superior way of being an adult. The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm offers an anatomical dissection of the concept—an analysis of its structure, organization, and internal workings. It explores how the couple-norm is lived and experienced, how it has evolved and mutated, and how it varies among places and social groups. In doing so, the book provides an analysis of changing intimate citizenship regimes in Europe and makes a major intervention in understandings of the contemporary condition of personal life. The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm makes an important contribution to literature on citizenship, intimacy, family life, and social change in sociology, social policy, socio-legal studies, gender/sexuality/queer studies, and psychosocial studies.