Sociology: Family & Relationships

This book represents a new direction in the study of religion and marriage by using a postmodern theoretical framework focusing on gendered discour...

This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking an...

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades. She is one of the founders of relational psycho...

First published in 1999, this volume examines the meanings specific child protection cases involving the familial sexual abuse of adolescent girls ...

First published in 1999, the primary focus of this book is what goes on inside the black box of households, beginning with decision-making but bran...

First published in 1998, this insightful volume aims to explore how 90 Indian and African single mothers in 1993 London resolve the dual challenges...

This title was first published in 2000: This book is based on selected papers from a major international congress of the same name that was held at...

First published in 1999, this volume is a collection of essays focused on the theme of partnership with parents in social work practice with childr...

This title was first published in 2003. This text reports on two nationally representative surveys of men and women in Britain and Spain, the forme...

Contemporary European societies are multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, certainly in terms of the diversity which has stemmed from the immigration of ...

This title was first published in 2001. Employing a black feminist standpoint, Claudia Bernard offers an in-depth study of black mothers responses ...

This title was first published in 2001. All people and regions of the world are deeply affected by world events, no matter how closely they embrace...

This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient and details the approaches to treatment taken by psyc...

This book comprehensively compares the development of population control policies in China and India, their implementations, and the population cha...

Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication, Second Edition continues to address historically under-studied family relationshi...

Much better than boring charts and old articles, The Return of Polyandry made my students see kinship as a key concept for anthropology today and i...

He Never Came Home is a collection of 22 personal essays written by girls and women who have been separated from their fathers by way of divorce, a...