Sociology: Family & Relationships

Hegemonic Masculinity, Caste, and the Body investigates the intricate interplay between masculinities, space, and identity within Indian Punjabs Ja...

Imagine a setting in which a man wearing a dress might be as habitual as a woman in trousers. Where a woman exposing herself in public wasnt sexy, ...

A detailed account of how gender is learned and unlearned in the home From the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emo...

Changing practices and perceptions of parenthood and family life have long been the subject of intense public, political and academic attention. Re...

Explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. This book reveals how global transformations are expressed i...

In August 2015, Limerick man Jason Corbett was killed by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, ex-FBI agent Tom Martens, in the bedroom of their...

During the long eighteenth century the moral and socio-political dimensions of family life and gender were hotly debated by intellectuals across Eu...

The pieces in this collection capture the feeling of being buffeted by great gusts of middle-aged longing. What began as one womans quarrel with Bu...

What happened to us?Why is there no joy, no friendship in our marriage?Why don't we feel like a team anymore?If you've ever felt this way about you...

After twenty, thirty, or even forty years of marriage, countless vacations together, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finan...

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

Adolescence is widely viewed as the most difficult stage of parenting. Yet despite its importance, we have a limited grasp of what it actually take...

Adolescence is widely viewed as the most difficult stage of parenting. Yet despite its importance, we have a limited grasp of what it actually take...

Beauty embodiment and representations of beauty are crafted by legitimised hierarchies of power in popular culture, including across fashion, sport...

This Open Access edited volume addresses the important role of education in society through the lens of theoretical concepts developed by Norbert E...

Suzanne Joinson grew up in a 1980s council estate in Crewe, where her parents were followers of The Divine Light Mission cult. This clash of class ...

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of Chinas imbalanced sex ratio at birth and marriage market, and the implications of these phenomena fo...

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Compo...