Marriage & Family

Shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2019. What's it really like to be a mother with a career working flexibly? Drawing on over 100 hours of interview data, this book is the first to go inside women's work and family lives in a year of...

In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on...

Understanding Institutions proposes a new unified theory of social institutions that combines the best insights of philosophers and social scientists who have written on this topic. Francesco Guala presents a theory that combines the features of three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872767529Author Tracey ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Tufnell PressPublisher Tufnell PressWeight(grams) 336g

Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy...

In this account of their research, the authors describe the anxiety, loneliness and despair of young children in hospital, foster homes and institutions in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a history of a couple in the field of child health, who...

This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived...

In 1990, Paula Caplan, a nationally recognized expert on the psychology of women, wrote the groundbreaking Don'tBlame Mother. Now, almost ten years later, she finds that we are still blaming mothers. Fully revised, updated with a new introduction, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913384050Author Alan BurnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAF

Spaces and Politics of Motherhood offers a fresh perspective on maternity based on original qualitative research from the United Kingdom and the United States. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, an analysis of parenting websites and policy...

A White Side of Black Britain explores the racial consciousness of white women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and...

A subtle and distinguished work by a philosopher renowned for his groundbreaking analysis of human emotions, About LoveAbout the AuthorRobert C. Solomon, (1942-2007), was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250276117Author Kate ManginoFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804718196Author Jane Fishburne CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770437633Author Edward SlingerlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Women 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...

"Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there."--'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'About the AuthorBeth Bailey teaches American history and is the director of...

Contributions come from an active research network (WFCJ) comprised of interested individuals and organisations working in the field, including individuals with lived experience, so data, discussions and recommendations are taken from the forefront of...

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...

It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the Traveller community is shot dead by a special unit of the French police on the family farm where he was hiding since he failed to return to prison after temporary release. The officers claim...

* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of...

Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We...

This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of the key developments in the field since the first edition published in 2010.Subtitled 'Conversations for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807046692Author Claude Levi-StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 794g

This textbook offers a fresh conceptual approach to understanding the intersections of crime, criminal justice and family life. In doing so, it proposes a brand new sub-discipline of Criminology that places the family at the heart of its analysis,...

A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice , Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle...

This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA). There is a common misconception that HBA - whether physical violence, emotional abuse or so-called 'honour' killings - occurs only against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805066432Author Arlie Russell HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever, some individuals are choosing to marry across class.The Power of the Past traces the lives of a subset of these individuals - highly-educated adults who married a partner raised in a...

As new forms of family and 'non-traditional' families grow in number, there is a need to understand these 'new' arrangements and models of parenthood. This ground-breaking book discusses, using a comparative and a sociological perspective, examples of...

In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelled by queer feminist desires for new modes of conceptualization and new forms of belonging. She approaches...

From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789081829205Author Christian KeysersFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Social Brain PressPublisher Social Brain PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African American middle class, and offers a paradoxical-nearly incendiary-solution. Black women are three times as likely as white women to never marry. That...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910039960Author Alison Rennie ParkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint CoramBAAFPublisher CoramBAAF

This book examines how pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a `parent crisis' and are used to justify increasingly punitive state policies.About the AuthorTracey...

Lebanon 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...

How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can helpLow-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as...

This edited volume offers a contemporary rethinking of the relationship between love and care in the context of neoliberal practices of professionalization and work. Each of the book’s three sections interrogates a particular site of care, where the...

This book documents and explains the remarkable decline in the American marriage rate that began about 1970. This decline has occurred in spite of the fact that married people are better off than unmarried people in many ways. Many other attempts to...