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Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities by Mimi Schippers
RRP: $44.83$39.02A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean for... -
What Millennials Want: Decoding the Largest Generation in the World | A must-read to understand the largest generation of people in the world by Vivan Marwaha | Self help, Non-fiction, Penguin Books by Vivan Marwaha
RRP: $31.10$21.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143460084Author Vivan MarwahaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel by Susan Martha Kahn 9780822325987
RRP: $40.93$35.82There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Fertility treatments are fully subsidized by Israeli national health... -
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman 9781479803682
RRP: $144.30$37.50Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Riveting stories of how affluent, white... -
Death in a Global Age by Ruth McManus 9780230224520
$78.21Attitudes towards death are shaped by our social worlds. This book explores how beliefs, practices and representations of dying and death continue to evolve and adapt in response to changing global societies. Introducing students to debates around grief,... -
The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy by Donna Freitas
RRP: $38.98$30.01Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today. Most students spend hours agonizing over their hopes for Friday night and, later, dissecting the evenings'successes or failures, often wishing that the social contract of the hookup would... -
Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy by Ben Fincham 9780230580923
RRP: $87.73$87.69Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' ofone hundredsuicides that explores what can be known... -
Family Fragments? by Dr. Bren Neale 9780745618944
$35.28This exciting new book engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the family, offering empirical material and theoretical analysis which give rise to a fresh understanding of the nature of family practices in modern societies. The past decade has... -
Identical Twins: Adult Reflections on the Twinship Experience by Joleen Loucks Greenwood 9781498576130
RRP: $68.25$60.35Identical Twins explores the unique status of twinship and how it can affect personal and familial relationships with siblings, romantic partners, and friends. Drawing from the rich qualitative data from over one hundred interviews, Joleen Loucks... -
Same-Sex Marriage and Children: A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law by Carlos A. Ball 9780190628598
RRP: $62.38$50.23Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible... -
Marriage, Divorce, and Children in Ancient Rome by Beryl Rawson 9780198150459
RRP: $163.80$136.42The family has played a central role in most societies, and the complexity and variety of that role has engaged the minds of scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Recent studies of ancient Rome have shown that the sentimental ideal of a core nuclear... -
Intimate Fatherhood: A Sociological Analysis by Esther Dermott 9780415422628
RRP: $77.98$68.37Fatherhood is gaining ever more public and political attention, stimulated by the increasing prominence of fathers' rights groups and the introduction of social policies, such as paternity leave. Intimate Fatherhood explores discourses of contemporary... -
Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture by Hilary Levey Friedman 9780520276765
RRP: $48.75$38.20Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture follows the path of elementary school-age children involved in competitive dance, youth travel soccer, and scholastic chess. Why do American children participate in so many adult-run activities... -
Marginalised Mothers: Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting by Val Gillies 9780415376365
RRP: $64.33$56.86Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good... -
Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea by James Leach 9781571815569
RRP: $193.05$156.92How are people connected to places, and how is creativity linked to family relationships? The book makes a new challenge to the genealogical model of kinship in anthropology, formulating it instead in terms of "creativity" and land... -
A Dad For All Seasons: How My Sons Raised Me by Ian Mucklejohn 9781906142711 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58$3.82Your first child will change your life. But what if you have three at the same time! Eleven years ago, Ian Mucklejohn had triplet sons as a single father and was outnumbered three to one from the very beginning. Ian had to do it all by himself: juggle,... -
A Dad For All Seasons: How My Sons Raised Me by Ian Mucklejohn 9781906142711
RRP: $15.58$15.23Your first child will change your life. But what if you have three at the same time! Eleven years ago, Ian Mucklejohn had triplet sons as a single father and was outnumbered three to one from the very beginning. Ian had to do it all by himself: juggle,... -
Family Life in the Time of Covid: International Perspectives by Katherine Twamley 9781800081741
RRP: $87.75$77.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081741Author Katherine TwamleyFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 19mm -
The Fragmenting Family by Brenda Almond 9780199548705
RRP: $19.48$14.70Brenda Almond throws down a timely challenge to liberal consensus about personal relationships. She maintains that the traditional family is fragmenting in Western societies, and that this fragmentation is a cause of serious social problems. She urges... -
Family Life in the Time of Covid: International Perspectives by Katherine Twamley 9781800081734
RRP: $58.50$52.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081734Author Katherine TwamleyFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 17mm -
Stealing Innocence: Youth, Corporate Power and the Politics of Culture by Henry A. Giroux 9780312239329
RRP: $87.73$61.60Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux now looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph of democracy is related to the triumph of the market;... -
Conceiving Kinship: Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe by Monica Bonaccorso 9781845451134
RRP: $46.70$38.01Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donation conceptualize and make Italian kinship. It explores the provision of treatment in clinical and... -
Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire Among Asian American/White Couples by Kumiko Nemoto 9780813545332
RRP: $60.45$43.64Despite being far from the norm, interracial relationships are more popular than ever. ""Racing Romance"" sheds special light on the bonds between whites and Asian Americans, an important topic that has not garnered well-deserved... -
Do Men Mother? by Andrea Doucet 9781487520519
RRP: $66.30$59.07The first edition of Do Men Mother? (2006) was awarded the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association and remains one of the most widely cited books on primary caregiving fathers and stay-at-home fathers... -
Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation by M. Bracher 9780230621114
RRP: $87.73$62.30Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science. It explains how developing identity is a prerequisite for developing intelligence, personal well being, and the... -
The Curious History of Love by Jean-Claude Kaufmann 9780745651545 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$5.54The one emotion that matters most to many people is the one about which social thinkers rarely speak - love. For many people, love is the thing that matters most in their lives: they are searching for love, hoping to find in love a kind of happiness that... -
Like Mother, Like Daughter?: How Career Women Influence their Daughters' Ambition Jill Armstrong 9781447334101
RRP: $56.53$43.47Women are encouraged to believe that they can occupy top jobs in society by the example of other women thriving in their careers. Who better to be a role model for career success than your mother? Paradoxically, this book shows that having a mother as a... -
The Vivaha, The: Hindu Marriage Samskaras by Bhaiyaram Sarma 9788120811324
$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120811324Author Bhaiyaram SarmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,Dimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children by Davinia Thornley
RRP: $58.48$51.68Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this figure is increasing. Being childfree challenges the 'procreation imperative' residing at the center of... -
Exploring Self and Society by Rosamund Billington 9780333632239 [USED COPY]
RRP: $74.08$4.41This text addresses contemporary society in an immediate and thought-provoking manner and will be a timely and topical introduction to the dynamic and critical dimensions of sociology. It adopts a broad social science approach which reflects both the... -
Exploring Self and Society by Rosamund Billington
$83.89This text addresses contemporary society in an immediate and thought-provoking manner and will be a timely and topical introduction to the dynamic and critical dimensions of sociology. It adopts a broad social science approach which reflects both the... -
Families in transition: Social change, family formation and kin relationships by Nickie Charles 9781861347886
RRP: $56.53$43.47This book addresses the complexity of family change. It draws on evidence from two linked studies, one carried out in the 1960s and the other in the early years of the 21st century, to analyse the specific ways in which family lives have changed and how... -
Equal Partners?: How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions by Jaclyn S Wong 9780520384576
RRP: $48.75$38.20Many young professionals seek egalitarian partnerships in which both partners work for pay and share unpaid housework and childcare. Yet working couples' realities often deviate from this ideal, with women trading off employment for family care. Will... -
The (Un)Making of the Modern Family by Daniel Dagenais 9780774815215
RRP: $54.58$48.65The family institution is undergoing a radical transformation. The modern meanings of kinship, marriage, parenthood, gender, and sexuality are now being questioned, and debates on same-sex marriages and parenthood or on divorce and blended families are... -
The Natural History of the Flirt by Albert Smith 9780946014446 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.26$8.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946014446Author Albert SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Pryor PublicationsPublisher Pryor PublicationsWeight(grams) 105g -
Social work, domestic violence and child protection: Challenging practice by Catherine Humphreys 9781861341907 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.98$37.91The 1990s has witnessed a resurgence of interest and concern in the issue of domestic violence. While women are predominantly targets of this violence, there is now a recognition that children are also significantly affected by violence towards their... -
Till Death Do Us Part: A Multicultural Anthology on Marriage by Sandra Lee Browning 9780762302635
$212.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage by Isabel V. Sawhill 9780815726357
$55.59Half of all pregnancies in the United States are either unplanned or unintended. Moreover, while fewer people are getting married, childbearing outside of wedlock is on the rise. These trends suggest that couples who have unplanned children are... -
Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption by Barbara Katz Rothman 9780807028308
$41.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028308Author Barbara Katz RothmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 340g -
The Art of Parenting Workbook: Practical Exercises and Activities for Nurturing Families by K C Dreisbach 9780578816357
RRP: $25.76$20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578816357Author K C DreisbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint K.C. Dreisbach, LmftPublisher K.C. Dreisbach, LmftWeight(grams) 152g