Sociology: Birth

Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a progr...

In 1980, single mother families were five times more likely than two-parent families to be poor. Forty years later, single-mother families are stil...

Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins, 19742023 is a saga covering more than four decades of interactions with an 'untouchable' ca...

In this original and highly accomplished study, first published in 1994, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relat...

A major emerging demographic issue of the twenty-first century is the ageing of populations as an inevitable consequence of the demographic transit...

With findings that challenge conventional wisdom, Fertility Change on the American Frontier will interest demographers, sociologists, and historian...

This volume summarizes the major findings of the Princeton European Fertility Project. The Project, begun in 1963, was a response to the realizatio...

In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a p...

This book systematically traces the development, significance, and implications of female reproductive choice. Paramount is the right to safe termi...

This is the second in a series of monographs on the historic decline of European fertility to be issued by the Office of Population Research at Pri...

Despite the fact that, statistically, women of low socioeconomic status (SES) experience greater difficulty conceiving children, infertility is gen...

Has the college experience of women been an influence on the number of children desired and the number and spacing of their children? Do women come...

The nine papers in this volume examine the historical experience of particular populations in Western Europe and North America in a search for the ...

Transnational Reproduction traces the relationships among Western aspiring parents, Indian surrogates, and egg donors from around the world. In the...

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK ...

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countri...

The first history of polyamory, this work examines the roots of sexual non-monogamy in political thought and countercultural spiritualism and trace...