As more and more people spend longer periods of their lives outside conventional families and couples, radical transformation in personal life is underway. This book's theory of queer individualization proposes a new, psychosocial way of understanding recent social change in three aspects of personal life - sociability, sexuality and self.

Part 1: Rethinking Intimacy and Personal Life 1. Theorizing Intimacy, Personal Life and Social Change 2. Researching Intimacy and Personal Life at the Cutting-Edge of Change Part 2: Individuals in Relationships Part 3: Sociability, Sexuality, Self 3. Sociability 4. Sexuality 5. Self Part 4: Thinking the Future 6. Queer Individualization 7. Politics, Ethics, Policy