Jenny van Hooff is Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2013 'Modern Couples? provides a comprehensive and critical overview of theory in the field of heterosexual relationships which disrupts assumptions of the de-traditionalization and democratization of intimacy. The nuanced and fascinating research refuses to provide easy answers to how and why such relationships are simultaneously both continuing and changing and the interpretation of current debates is both timely and necessary.' Victoria Robinson, Sheffield University, UK