Sociology: Family & Relationships

This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulation...

Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to A...

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...

Mit diesem Band liegt die erste wissenschaftliche Studie zur Aufarbeitung sexualisierter Gewalt in einem Jugendverband im deutschsprachigen Raum vo...

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between fashion and motherhood, a topic that is explored in detail for the first time....

This study investigates the role of youth in peacebuilding, and addresses the failure of states and existing research to recognise youths as politi...

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian t...

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-document...

An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communitiesIn Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chroni...

This volume brings together a wide range of case studies from across the globe, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, to explore th...

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights and how they ...

This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of med...

Discover practical strategies to foster meaningful connections with parents and families. Parental engagement today changes the future of education...

Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both deve...

This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts ...

This book explores child vulnerability in various contexts from a cross-country, comparative perspective. It shows how vulnerability in childhood d...

Winner of the Christine M. Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New Zealand Society of CriminologyHistorical abuse of children is a wor...

The toughness model proposed in this book incorporates psychological research and neuroscience to explain how a variety of toughening activities - ...

Happiness, rather than being a private and subjective experience, is shaped, interpreted and articulated via culturally specific ways of thinking, ...

Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthro...

Men's biological clocks may not be ticking loudly, but what about the social clock? Are there benefits to being in-step with social norms for the t...

This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as ...

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations int...

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