Marriage & Family

This work surveys the social, economic, and cultural contexts that have contributed to the recent organizing and performance of clan reunions among Kankanaeys and, conversely, the actions that these kin reunions perform in these given settings. Moreover,...

Studies of the experience of Caribbean childhood have, in the past, been undertaken almost exclusively from the perspective of adults rather than that of the children themselves. In this work, Christine Barrow departs from that tradition by focusing on...

The second edition of The Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey explores the differences and similarities in family structures around the globe. Students learn how factors such as location, culture, and globalization influence how families...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876843625Author Chizuko UenoFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

Elusive Belonging examines the post-migration experiences of Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Marriage migration-crossing national borders for marriage-has attracted significant public and scholarly attention, especially in new...

Korean families have changed significantly during the last few decades in their composition, structure, attitudes, and function. Delayed and forgone marriage, fertility decline, and rising divorce rates are just a few examples of changes that Korean...

In recent years, the media has attributed the increasing numbers of people producing family trees to the aging of baby boomers, a sense of mortality, a proliferation of internet genealogy sites, and a growing pride in ethnicity. A spate of new...

While death, eschatology and exotic indigenous deathways have long held a privileged position in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo, ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic. This volume fills this lacuna by presenting a...

For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the 'polygynous male', the man with multiple sexual partners. Despite their strict hierarchies, these practices also addressed fundamental...

The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us...

Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care draws together unique and compelling essays about the contexts of early childbearing, a topic that is now taken for granted. It draws on empiricaldata, multi-level approaches and inter-disciplinary perspectives...

The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family, and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family...

This feminist exploration of sister relationships seeks to discover what sets sisterhood apart from friendships and from relationships with other family members. Investigating the role of sisters as one of support and obligation in traditional family...

There has been considerable controversy and debate in South Africa (and elsewhere) in recent years over an apparent crisis of the family, including appeals for a return to "traditional" family values. To promote a better understanding of this...

This book addresses the well-being of families and children in America today. The volume is primarily motivated by the number of scientific and policy questions being raised about the level of well-being among America's children and families, the factors...

Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba challenges conventional ideas about the roots of Cuban race relations. Verena Martinez-Alier proposes a relational model for the study of sexual values and social inequality. She deals with Cuban...

In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children-mostly girls-have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's...

Love, sex, and relationship wisdom from the polyamory movement are offered in this practical guide to spiritual enlightenment. Contrary to popular belief, monogamy and celibacy are not the only two options for exploring a spiritual path. In Opening Love,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645301014Author Dr James Mabor MaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams) 148g

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Looking at modern families through the context of diversity, inequality and social change, FamilyInequality.com blogger and demographer Philip N. Cohen brings a fresh approach to the sociological study of family life. The text features a wealth of...

This eclectic reader illuminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families, showing how shifts in legal structures, ideas about medicine and health, gender roles, and other variables lead to...

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Philip Soutar died at Ypres in 1917. Before becoming a soldier, Soutar's life revolved around his farm at Whakat?ne, where he lived with his M?ori wife Kathleen Pine in an 'as-you-please marriage, uncelebrated by a clergyman'. Matters of the Heart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814881258Author Mies GrijnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint ISEASPublisher ISEAS

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781090294494Author Hazlo EmmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 245g

In the pre-reserve era, Aboriginal bands in the northern plains were relatively small multicultural communities that actively maintained fluid and inclusive membership through traditional kinship practices. These practices were governed by the Law of the...

Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheritance within both the research community and the mass media. The science of genetics now forecasts great advances in alleviating disease and prolonging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615927480Author Daniel ShuFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Miraclaire Academic PublicationsPublisher Miraclaire Academic PublicationsWeight(grams)...

After twenty, thirty, or even forty years of marriage, countless vacations together, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finances-what could go wrong? Gray Divorce offers a provocative look at the growing rate of marital splits after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767906401Author Barbara Dafoe WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692713990Author Dawn Ohanian TringasFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Seven Years PressPublisher Seven Years PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743205535Author Laurence D. SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393090642Author Alice S. RossiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 428g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312166113Author Louis BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916103Author Barbara PeaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595180448Author John L CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 454g

During the early twentieth century maternal and child welfare became a national issue for the first time. The child and maternal welfare movement had a significant material and ideological effect on women and it is therefore important to understand the...

Glance at a political party's platform, catch a politician's speech, sample the news, and you will find the family-not as a mere group of people living together in the private sphere, but as a contentious entity at the center of political disputes and...

What is the relationship between work and family in a world where employment creates endless tensions for families and families create endless tensions for the workplace? This collection of articles broadens this discussion by addressing issues from the...