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The Evils of Polygyny: Evidence of Its Harm to Women, Men, and Society by Rose McDermott 9781501718038
RRP: £116.00£100.22Why do men act violently toward women? What are the consequences of "normal violence," not only for women and children but also for the men who instigate it, and for the societies that sanction it? The Evils of Polygyny examines one powerful... -
Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race by Chinyere K. Osuji 9781479878611
RRP: £89.00£77.62How interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a different race? Based on individual interviews with forty-seven black-white couples in two large,... -
Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood: From News Headlines to New Research by Michelle Janning 9781440855924
RRP: £43.00£40.81Headlines from news sources are combined with the latest and best social science research to offer scholars, practitioners, and parents a much-needed source for understanding contemporary American parenthood. News and social media headlines abound with... -
Marriage Matters: Perspectives on the Private and Public Importance of Marriage by Janice Crouse 9781412863179
RRP: £43.99£38.44In Marriage Matters, Janice Shaw Crouse argues that marriage is a critical element in a free society and that society's most vulnerable communities, especially minorities and the poor, suffer the most from the retreat from marriage. Because marriage... -
Power and Inequality in Interpersonal Relations by Eric Beasley 9781412855662
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explores interpersonal situations in which weak or vulnerable people find themselves and the ways in which others help create, sustain, and eradicate such social dynamics. Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley demonstrate that people can gain... -
Child Emotional Security and Interparental Conflict by Patrick T. Davies 9781405112345
RRP: £42.95£37.57Child Emotional Security and Interparental Conflict tests a theory proposing that high levels of conflict between parents leads to an increased child risk for mental health difficulties by shaking the childa s sense of security in the family. This... -
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 9781350262706
RRP: £11.99£11.95In a remote Russian town, Olga, Masha and Irina long for life in Moscow - but their plans go nowhere. Disaster, deception, meaningless self-sacrifice - in Chekhov's heartbreaking masterpiece, each new twist of fate sees the sisters' control over their... -
Youth Homelessness in Late Modernity: Reflexive Identities and Moral Worth by David Farrugia 9789812876843
£67.73This book explores the identities, embodied experiences, and personal relationships of young people experiencing homelessness, and analyses these in relation to the material and symbolic position that youth homelessness occupies in modern societies... -
The Boundaries of Mixedness: A Global Perspective by Erica Chito Childs 9780367522940
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Boundaries of Mixedness tackles the burgeoning field of critical mixed race studies, bringing together research that spans five continents and more than ten countries. Research on mixedness is growing, yet there is still much debate over what exactly... -
Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life by Loretta Baldassar 9781138952935
RRP: £37.99£33.38Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family... -
Mothers, Young People and Chronic Illness by Clare Williams 9781138737938
RRP: £21.99£17.03This title was first published in 2003: Although young people are generally very healthy, it has become clear that many of the health behaviours of young people can have serious consequences later in life. This is particularly so with the management of... -
Family Change and Housing in Post-War Japanese Society: The Experiences of Older Women by Misa Izuhara 9781138263741
RRP: £31.99£28.33This book explores the experiences of older women in post-war Japanese society through analysis of their family and housing histories. Three broad themes - family relations, welfare systems and housing - were chosen to highlight issues surrounding the... -
British-Indian Adult Children of Divorce: Context, Impact and Coping by Chaitali Das 9781138260863
RRP: £48.99£42.66Divorce has become a form of family change in contemporary western societies, spawning much research to investigate its causes and consequences. Such research has promoted a sociological understanding of divorce, impact on families and individuals as... -
Energy and Ethics? by Mette M. High 9781119596998
RRP: £19.99£17.69This volume presents a much-needed rethinking and proposes a more nuanced, inclusive, and capacious approach to energy ethics that will help us grapple with some of the most pressing issues of our time. The contributors demonstrate how ethics emerge... -
Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience by Joyce A. Arditti 9781118348284
RRP: £58.00£51.46Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience presents an interdisciplinary collection of original essays that push the boundaries of family science to reflect the increasingly diverse complexity of family concerns in the modern world. * Represents the... -
Marie Stopes's Very Large Handbook Of Marriage by Hannah Rae Alton 9780954842178
RRP: £4.99£3.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954842178Author Hannah Rae AltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane PressWeight(grams) 54g -
Blood and Kinship: Matter and Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present by Christopher H. Johnson 9780857457493
RRP: £107.00£86.57Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from... -
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology by Jeanette Edwards 9780857453655
RRP: £27.95£22.58This superb anthology extends the emphasis on technology that has become such a prominent feature of much recent anthropological work on kinship...In this richly ethnographic text, the most familiar problems produce the most unusual answers...Each... -
Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage by Isabel V. Sawhill 9780815725589
RRP: £25.00£21.79Half 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... -
Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the Fracturing of America by Bryce J. Christensen 9780765803160
RRP: £135.00£117.28In the weeks that followed the horror of September 11, politicians of both major parties resolutely asserted America's national unity. Barely four years later, the illusions of the rhetoric of unity have given way to the divisive oversimplifications of... -
The Family in the Modern Age: More Than a Lifestyle Choice by Brigitte Berger 9780765801210
RRP: £135.00£117.28Many argue that the modern family is an anachronistic institution whose demise is only a question of time. Looking to the family's future, the eminent sociologist Brigitte Berger argues that despite being weakened and embattled, the family will survive... -
Personal Life by Carol Smart 9780745639161
RRP: £55.00£47.73For more than a decade, Carol Smart has been at the forefront of debates about the sociology of the family. Yet she has become frustrated by the fixation of many commentators with the supposed decline of commitment, and even the decline of the... -
Family Life: Domestic Roles and Social Organization by Graham Allan 9780631142874
RRP: £41.95£37.57Who does what in the family, and how far do the divisions and inequalities which occur in a family context reflect those in society as a whole? This introductory text to the sociology of the family combines recent feminist interpretations of domestic... -
The Free-Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored) by Maxine Eichner 9780190055479
RRP: £26.99£23.20US families have been pushed to the wall. At the bottom of the economic ladder, poor and working-class adults aren't forming stable relationships and can't give their kids the start they need because of low wages and uncertain job prospects. Toward the... -
Speaking of Child Care: Discover the Joy of Motherhood by Suraj Gupte 9788120735729
RRP: £9.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120735729Author Suraj GupteFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 346g -
Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change by Alison Shaw 9781789208009
RRP: £27.95£22.58Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the... -
Kinship in Europe: Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900) by David Warren Sabean 9781845452889
RRP: £107.00£86.57Since the publication of Philippe Aries' book, "Centuries of Childhood", in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the... -
An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology: Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance by Robert Parkin 9781845451479
RRP: £23.95£19.49Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, was one of the most important figures in post-war French anthropology. He is well-known for his early work on India, which culminated in Homo Hierarchicus (1966; in English 1972, 1980), an anthropological account of the... -
An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology: Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance by Robert Parkin 9781845451462
RRP: £99.00£79.83The book is a translation of Louis Dumont's lectures on kinship, which provide a comprehensive but also idiosyncratic overview of descent theory and alliance theory for students. These two competing theories of kinship, associated respectively with the... -
Conceiving Kinship: Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe by Monica Bonaccorso 9781845451134
RRP: £23.95£19.49Conceiving 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... -
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology by Jeanette Edwards 9781845455736
RRP: £99.00£79.83Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed 'the new kinship', this interest was stimulated by the 'new genetics' and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates... -
Living Kinship in the Pacific by Christina Toren 9781785335204
RRP: £27.95£22.58Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as "knowledge that counts." It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to... -
Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change by Alison Shaw 9781782384922
RRP: £99.00£79.83Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the... -
Kinship, Community, and Self: Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean by Jason Philip Coy 9781782384199
RRP: £99.00£80.23David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history through his supervision of dozens of graduate students... -
Living Kinship in the Pacific by Christina Toren 9781782385776
RRP: £99.00£80.23Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as "knowledge that counts." It is with this observation that the volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to... -
Culture, Creation, and Procreation: Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice by Aparnu Rao 9781571819123
RRP: £27.95£22.58As reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity," "genealogical... -
Culture, Creation, and Procreation: Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice by Aparnu Rao 9781571819116
RRP: £107.00£86.57As reproduction is seen as central to kinship and the biological link as the primary bond between parents and their offspring, Western perceptions of kin relations are primarily determined by ideas about "consanguinity," "genealogical... -
Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea by James Leach 9781571816931
RRP: £27.95£22.58"The ethnography is full of interesting observations and novel information, and repays a close reading with a vivid sense of the distinctiveness of Reite social life, intensely local but reminiscent of a much wider field of peoples in the Southwest... -
Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea by James Leach 9781571815569
RRP: £99.00£79.83How 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... -
Bordering Intimacy: Postcolonial Governance and the Policing of Family by Joe Turner 9781526146960
RRP: £85.00£60.17Bordering intimacy explores the interconnected role of borders and dominant forms of family intimacy in the governance of postcolonial states. Combining a historical investigation with postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, the book reveals...