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Families and Aging by Patricia Drentea 9781538104330
RRP: $231.00$72.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present by Christopher H. Johnson 9781782381778
RRP: $58.70$47.42The word "blood" awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors... -
The Boundaries of Mixedness: A Global Perspective by Erica Chito Childs
RRP: $283.50$246.29The 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... -
The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety by Amanda Watson
RRP: $140.70$112.48Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores the figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on... -
The End of International Adoption?: An Unraveling Reproductive Market and the Politics of Healthy Babies by Estye Fenton
RRP: $58.78$50.69Since 2004, the number of international adoptions in the United States has declined by more than seventy percent. In The End of International Adoption? Estye Fenton studies parents in the United States who adopted internationally in the past decade... -
Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Julia Simonson
RRP: $73.48$66.76This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life:... -
Ageing with Dignity in Hong Kong and Asia: Holistic and Humanistic Care by Ben Yuk Fai Fong
$191.71This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the goal of ageing with dignity in Hong Kong and Asia. It responds to the needs of an increasing ageing population that has to deal with... -
Widows of Japan: An Anthropological Perspective by Deborah McDowell Aoki
$72.03This book presents a wide-ranging study of widows in Japan, filtered through the dramatic and complex intersection of women with death. These experiences are portrayed as intensely personal and yet foreshadow momentous societal ramifications.The work... -
Mothers and Divorce: Legal, Economic, and Social Dilemmas by Terry Arendell
RRP: $71.40$56.64This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Nonbinary Youth by Ritch C. Savin-Williams
RRP: $33.58$29.90What bisexual youth can tell us about today’s gender and sexual identities Despite the increasing visibility of LGBTQ people in American culture, our understanding of bisexuality remains superficial, at best. Yet, five times as many people identify as... -
Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times: The Marketisation of Care by Aisling Gallagher
RRP: $168.00$127.83Subjecting the 'black box' of childcare markets to closer scrutiny, this book brings to light complex political, social and economic work of making childcare markets.Book InformationISBN 9781529206494Author Aisling GallagherFormat HardbackPage Count... -
The Business of Birth: Malpractice and Maternity Care in the United States by Louise Marie Roth
RRP: $172.20$149.65How the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choices Giving birth is a monumental event, not only in the personal life of the woman giving birth, but as a medical process and procedure. In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth explores... -
Equal Partners?: How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions by Jaclyn S Wong
RRP: $168.00$129.97Many 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 Impact of Racism on African American Families: Literature as Social Science by Paul C. Rosenblatt
RRP: $83.98$73.63In spite of the existence of statistics and numerical data on various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the criminal justice system, social science... -
Family Resource Management by Tami J Moore
RRP: $254.10$237.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544370620Author Tami J MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Sage Publications, IncPublisher Sage Publications, IncWeight(grams) 178g -
The A to Z of Grandparent Names: From Abba to Zumu by Katie Hankinson
RRP: $23.08$15.23Grandma and grandpa, babushka and dedushka, oma and opa, bibi and babu—these names are near and dear to our hearts. Uncover the origins of these names in various languages and cultures around the world. This book celebrates the special bond between... -
Motherlands: How States Push Mothers Out of Employment by Leah Ruppanner
RRP: $161.70$140.70In the absence of federal legislation, each state in the United States has its own policies regarding family leave, job protection for women and childcare. No wonder working mothers encounter such a significant disparity when it comes to childcare... -
The Politics of International Marriage in Japan by Viktoriya Kim
RRP: $62.98$55.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978809017Author Viktoriya KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Intimate Connections: Tracing Love amid Pakistan's High Mountains by Anna-Maria Walter
RRP: $260.40$224.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978820494Author Anna-Maria WalterFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China's Global Rise by Monica Liu
RRP: $46.18$40.30Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired... -
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship by Melanie A. Medeiros
RRP: $260.40$224.78Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women's perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women's narratives of marriage... -
Dividing the Domestic: Men, Women, and Household Work in Cross-National Perspective by Judith Treas
RRP: $113.40$98.26In Dividing the Domestic, leading international scholars roll up their sleeves to investigate how culture and country characteristics permeate our households and our private lives. The book introduces novel frameworks for understanding why the household... -
Family Therapy and Systemic Practice: Readings on Child Protection, Clinical Techniques and Empirical Foundations by Alan Carr
$214.56Family Therapy and Systemic Practice is a collection of 20 essays about practice in family therapy and systemic consultation. It is written by the author of the treatment manual: Positive Practice: A Step by Step Guide to Family Therapy which was... -
No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life Among Lesbians and Gay Men by Christopher Carrington
RRP: $56.70$55.59In this portrait of the everyday world of lesbian and gay relationships, Christopher Carrington captures the experiences of creating and maintaining a home and a "chosen" family. Observing lesbians and gay men as they go about their daily... -
Sharing Care: Equal and Primary Carer Fathers and Early Years Parenting Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey) 9781529205961
RRP: $167.98$127.81Drawing on detailed qualitative research, this timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities for young children. The authors examine what prompts these arrangements, how fathers adjust to their... -
Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China by Leslie K. Wang
RRP: $46.18$40.30It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China-but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal... -
Marriage Matters: Perspectives on the Private and Public Importance of Marriage by Janice Crouse
RRP: $283.50$246.29In 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 nation's retreat from marriage. Crouse... -
War Over the Family David Popenoe 9781412808101
RRP: $96.58$84.27One of the most surprising and controversial social debates of the past two decades has been about the meaning and importance of marriage and the family in contemporary American life. Referred to by some as a culture "war over the family," the debate has... -
Monitoring and Supervision in 'Ordinary' Families: The Views and Experiences of Young People Aged 11 to 16 and Their Parents by Debi Roker
RRP: $31.48$30.85Based on over 100 interviews with young people aged 11 to 16 and their parents, this book looks at how monitoring and supervision are handled in ordinary families. It includes: how parents obtain information about what their children are doing; the... -
Unmarried Women in Japan: The drift into singlehood by Akiko Yoshida
RRP: $92.38$80.72Yoshida addresses the common misconceptions of single, never-married women and aims to uncover the major social and cultural factors contributing to this phenomenon in Japan. Based on interviews with married and never-married women aged 25-46, she argues... -
Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration: Cross-Border Lives by Susanne Wessendorf
RRP: $104.98$91.35Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration represents the first comprehensive study of second-generation transnationalism, exploring the manner in which the children of migrants grow up amid travel back and forth between the country of origin... -
Women Doing Intimacy: Gender, Family and Modernity in Britain and Hong Kong by Stevi Jackson
$168.06This book offers a comparative study of the lives of young adult women and their mothers in Hong Kong and Britain. Set against the backdrop of debates regarding the consequences of late modern social change for family and intimate life, the authors... -
Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America by Marcia J. Carlson
RRP: $46.18$40.30American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation, childbearing, parenting, and the transition to... -
Changing Gender Roles and Attitudes to Family Formation in Ireland by Margret Fine-Davis
RRP: $178.50$126.36Recent decades have witnessed major changes in gender roles and family patterns, as well as a falling birth rate in Ireland and the rest of Europe. While the traditional family is now being replaced in many cases by new family forms, we do not know the... -
Dowry and Daughters: The Social, Religious and Legal Dilemma of Denying Dowry Anwesha Arya-Bhattacharya 9780367210731
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book studies the relevance of dowry as a customary practice in Indian marriages. It examines the historical articulation between traditional cultural texts and modern statutory law to understand how daughters are valued and how dowry as a custom... -
Advanced Introduction to Family Policy Chiara Saraceno 9781839101175
RRP: $37.74$34.59Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid... -
Shifting Traditions of Childrearing in China: Narratives from Three Generations of Women Xin Guo 9781032022925
RRP: $283.50$246.29Unique in its intergenerational approach to understanding motherhood in China, this book sets out to study Chinese mothers' experiences of childrearing, emphasising that gender is not immutable and that motherhood is not isolated from other social... -
Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora by Marian Aguiar
RRP: $44.08$38.58The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context Arranged marriage is an institution of global fascination-an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first... -
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam by Magali Barbieri
RRP: $62.98$56.49Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the... -
Stand by Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth by Jean E. Rhodes
RRP: $92.30$73.82A child at loose ends needs help, and someone steps in--a Big Brother, a Big Sister, a mentor from the growing ranks of volunteers offering their time and guidance to more than two million American adolescents. Does it help? How effective are mentoring...