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Liberalism, Childhood and Justice: Ethical Issues in Upbringing by Tim Fowler
RRP: $155.98$118.68This radical and critical account of family justice explores children's wellbeing and ethical issues in children's upbringing through the lens of political philosophy. Fowler reconceptualises what constitutes children's wellbeing, the duties of parents... -
Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America by Rebecca Jo Plant
RRP: $40.95$39.60In the early twentieth century, Americans often waxed lyrical about "Mother Love", signaling a conception of motherhood as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in self-sacrifice and infused with social and political meaning. By the 1940s, the... -
The Daddy Shift by Jeremy Adam Smith
RRP: $33.13$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807021217Author Jeremy A. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *... -
Families, Intimacy and Globalization: Floating Ties by Raelene Wilding
$81.82Growing numbers of partners, parents, children, grandchildren and siblings are living far away from each other, yet their opportunities to stay in touch have never been greater. Smartphones, tablets and personal computers are used by parents in London to... -
Learning to Love: Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora by Raksha Pande
RRP: $58.48$51.68Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives... -
Family Fragments? by Dr. Bren Neale
RRP: $107.25$93.07This 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... -
Media, Family Interaction and the Digitalization of Childhood by Anja R. Lahikainen
$194.24This is a first-class repository of new knowledge on how media and family routines intertwine in daily interactions. The multi-method approach reveals how varying forms of media affect the interaction between children and their parents. Avoiding... -
Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy by Laura Harrison
RRP: $54.58$47.07Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different... -
What Women Want: Evidence from British Social Attitudes by Geoff Dench
RRP: $89.68$78.25Over the last few decades, families in many highly developed nations (such as Great Britain) have been held together by grandparents. Yet as single motherhood spreads into this generation, extended families without men or work are becoming more common... -
Strangers in the House: The World of Stepsiblings and Half-Siblings by William R. Beer
RRP: $85.78$74.96If present trends in divorce and remarriage continue, the stepfamily will eventually outnumber all other types of family in the U.S. Three decades ago, one out of five children under the age of eighteen was living in stepfamilies, and there were at least... -
Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China by Judith Stacey
RRP: $50.68$43.86Judith Stacey, 2012 winner of the Simon and Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Sociological Association. A leading expert on the family, Judith Stacey is known for her provocative research on mainstream issues. Finding herself... -
Family Connections: An Introduction to Family Studies by David H. J. Morgan
RRP: $107.25$93.07The changing nature of the family is a topic of intense public concern. It also has been the focus of research in sociology and related disciplines for many years. Family Connections is a major new introduction to the study of the family, written by one... -
Peaceful Families: American Muslim Efforts against Domestic Violence by Juliane Hammer
RRP: $62.40$48.28An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communitiesIn Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing... -
Remaking Families in Contemporary China by Xiaoying Qi 9780197510988
RRP: $136.50$125.07From civil war to Japanese occupation and communist revolution to market transition, China has undergone and continues to experience enormous economic, political, and social change. In Remaking Families in Contemporary China, Xiaoying Qi explores a... -
Grandparenting Practices Around the World by Virpi Timonen 9781447340652
RRP: $48.73$37.81This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.About the AuthorVirpi... -
Innovations in Youth Research by S. Heath 9780230278493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.48$10.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Raising Children: Emerging Needs, Modern Risks, and Social Responses by Jill Duerr Berrick 9780195310122 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.38$10.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Handbook of Marriage in the Arab World Ahmed Aref 9789819776191
RRP: $87.73$74.57This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage in the Arab world. Adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, it provides a framework for the... -
Red Pockets: An Offering Alice Mah 9780241608319
RRP: $39.00$33.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780241608319Author Alice MahFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 400g -
Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Identity, Community, and Change Manase Kudzai Chiweshe 9781032893372
RRP: $263.25$223.76The book provides a social analysis of marriage in contemporary Zimbabwe, highlighting how the institution is changing and evolving in the face of societal factors such as globalisation, technology, increased migration, religious plurality and shifting... -
Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France Andrea Mansker 9781501778063
RRP: $93.60$79.56Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France uncovers the unexplored history of matrimonial agents, their novel marketing tactics, and the rise of personal advertisements to track the commercialization of marriage in nineteenth-century... -
Retirement Migrants and Dependency: Caring for Sun Seekers Inés Calzada 9783031691218
RRP: $233.98$198.88This book tells the story of what happens when the “adventure” of living in Spain turns complicated due to the emergence of care needs derived from loss of autonomy. It investigates the care strategies of retirement migrants that must navigate a foreign... -
Family Studies Anuja Agrawal 9780198930693
RRP: $232.05$197.24Within the social, political, and economic contexts existing in modern-day India, family is neither a simple remnant of tradition nor a domain merely representing insulated private lives. Rather, it is implicated in malleable yet overpowering structures,... -
Where the Aunts Are: Family, Feminism, and Kinship in Popular Culture Patricia J. Sotirin 9781602586635
RRP: $58.40$49.65While the aunt is one of the most iconic and beloved figures in popular culture, the societal role and import of real-life contemporary aunts are difficult to pin down. In some settings, she is the sole supporter, caregiver, or surrogate mother and...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $58.40$49.65Subtotal: -
Siblings and Sociology Katherine Davies 9781526182562
RRP: $39.00$33.15This book draws upon innovative qualitative data sources to explore the significance of siblings throughout the life course, demonstrating why sociologists ought to pay attention to siblingship. Focussing on four themes central to the discipline of... -
Skipped Generation Households in Nigeria Joshua Oyeniyi Aransiola 9783031650338
RRP: $233.98$198.88This volume unpacks the phenomenon of skipped generation households—where children live with their grandparents and without their parents—as they become an increasingly common family dynamic in Nigeria and globally. The skipped generation household's... -
Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences Jenny Björklund 9783031666964
RRP: $87.73$74.57This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. While involuntary and... -
Single Mothers in Thailand: Women, Motherhood, and Going it All Alone Herbary Cheung 9783031576546
RRP: $214.48$182.31This book investigates a range of major sociological debates and policy studies related to gender, family, marriage, health, intersectionality, and social exclusion of single mothers in Thailand. It does so by analyzing ethnographic data gained from... -
Wedding Cakes and Cultural History Simon Charsley 9781032342771
RRP: $54.58$46.39First published in 1992, Wedding Cakes and Cultural History is a unique contribution to the anthropology of food, tracing the fascinating history of wedding cakes, from late medieval feasts and rites, through the Victorian wedding breakfast and into the... -
The Care Dilemma: How to Care Enough in the Age of Sex Equality David Goodhart 9781800753617
RRP: $48.75$41.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Companion to Biological Anthropology Clark Spencer Larsen 9781119828082
RRP: $74.08$62.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119828082Author Clark Spencer LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd -
A Companion to Anthropological Genetics Dennis H. O'Rourke 9781119096627
RRP: $74.00$62.91Explore the latest research in anthropological genetics and understand the genome’s role in cultural and social development A Companion to Anthropological Genetics illustrates the role of genetic analysis in advancing the modern study of human origins,... -
Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 Nicholas H. Wolfinger 9780199324323
RRP: $64.33$54.68In 1980, single mother families were five times more likely than two-parent families to be poor. Forty years later, single-mother families are still five times more likely to be poor. How can this be given the vast increases in education and employment... -
The Two-Parent Privilege: How the decline in marriage has increased inequality and lowered social mobility, and what we can do about it Melissa S. Kearney 9781800753761
RRP: $25.33$21.53In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution’s decline has led to a host of economic woes. Eschewing the religious and values-based arguments that have long dominated... -
Love Across Difference: Mixed Marriage in Lebanon Lara Deeb 9781503640757
RRP: $50.68$43.08Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a "mixed" couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a political system built on sectarianism. Still, Lebanon has the most interreligious marriages per capita in... -
Handbuch Soziologie des Alter(n)s Klaus R. Schroeter 9783658094867
RRP: $132.58$112.69Altern ist ein sowohl biologischer als auch sozialer Prozess, der sich über den gesamten Lebenslauf erstreckt und wesentlich durch gesellschaftliche Einflüsse geprägt ist. Möglicherweise beginnt der Alternsprozess bei Geburt und endet mit dem Tod eines... -
Marriage Material: How an Enduring Institution Is Changing Same-Sex Relationships Abigail Ocobock 9780226836263
RRP: $40.95$34.81A cutting-edge study of marriage’s transformative effects on same-sex relationships. It is no secret that marriage rates in the United States are at an all-time low. Despite this significant decline, marriage remains a profound institutional force that... -
Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care Kathryn E. Goldfarb 9781978841420
RRP: $70.20$59.67Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing... -
Letting Go: Parenting Teens and Young Adults in a Time of Uncertainty Demie Kurz 9780190222451
RRP: $38.98$33.13Adolescence is widely viewed as the most difficult stage of parenting. Yet despite its importance, we have a limited grasp of what it actually takes to help teens through adolescence. In Letting Go, Demie Kurz offers a deeper understanding of the... -
Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care Kathryn E. Goldfarb 9781978841437
RRP: $261.30$222.11Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing...