Changing Contexts A couple decide to holiday in a popular tourist district. Having tried to book into a hotel they end up fighting a discrimination case for two- and-a-half years. They are refused a double bedroom on the grounds that they are unmarried. The devoutly Christian owners of the hotel are opposed to sex before […]

We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for generously funding the research on which this book is based. The project was based at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, in Sociology at the University of Manchester, and we thank our colleagues for their support. Lisa Jenkins […]

This book is about formalised same-sex relationships — what in the UK are legally termed ‘civil partnerships’ and what in the media and every­day life are termed ‘gay marriages’. Our aim is to show how younger generations of same-sex couples, who see their lives and relationships as relatively ordinary, have responded to new opportunities for […]