This edited collection uses the concept of 'displaying families' as a new way to understand contemporary family and personal life, addressing how, in a world of fluid relationships, family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be done'.

KATHRYN ALMACK Senior Research Fellow in Palliative and End of Life Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK
NIKA DORRER Part-time Researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland
ANDREA DOUCET Professor of Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada
RUTH EMOND Part-time Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling, Scotland
JANET FINCH Honorary Professor of Sociology at Manchester University, UK
JACQUI GABB Lecturer in Social Sciences at the Open University, UK
JO HAYNES Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK
BRIAN HEAPHY Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK
KAHRYN HUGHES Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK
MARY JANE KEHILY Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the Open University, UK
IAN McINTOSH Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Stirling, Scotland
SAMANTHA PUNCH Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Stirling, Scotland
ROISIN RYAN-FLOOD Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK
LIZ SHORT Researcher at the School of Social Sciences and Pyschology at Victoria University, Australia
RACHEL THOMSON Professor of Social Research at the Open University, UK
GILL VALENTINE Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leeds, UK

List of Tables PART I Developing 'Displaying Families': A Possibility for the Future of the Sociology of Personal Life; E.Dermott  & J.Seymour Critical Relational Displays; B.Heaphy   Troubling Displays: The Affect of Gender, Sexuality and Class; J.Gabb PART II Displaying Motherhood: Representations, Visual Methods and the Materiality of Maternal Practice; M.Kehily  & R.Thomson 'It's Just Not Good for a Man to be Interested in Other People's Children': Fathers, Public Displays of Care, and 'Relevant Others'; A.Doucet  Display Work: Lesbian Parent Couples and their Families of Origin Negotiating New Kin Relationships; K.Almack Commentary on Almack; L.Short Commentary on Almack; R.Ryan-Flood  Practices of Display: The Framing and Changing of Internet Gambling Behaviours in Families; K.Hughes  & G.Valentine   Displaying Mixedness: Difference and Family Relationships; J.Haynes  & E.Dermott 'Family Hold Back': Displaying Families in the Single Location Home/Workplace; J. Seymour   'I Know We Can't Be a Family, But as Close as You Can Get': Displaying Families within an Institutional Context; I.McIntosh, N.Dorrer, S.Punch  & R.Emond PART III Afterword; J.Finch Bibliography Index