Sociology: Family & Relationships

Annette Kuhn's work as a theorist of culture has won her a wide reputation for dissecting film and other images in books such as Women's Pictures a...

African American writers explore the enduring effects of slavery on American society Slavery is America's family secret, says Ashraf Rushdy, a part...

In the American media, Russian mail-order brides are often portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of money and green cards...

Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global contex...

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are alt...

Various forms of partnering – such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships...

The landscape of Canadian fatherhood has changed dramatically over the past several decades. Shifting family structures, policy issues, and cultura...

Over the past 20 years, African American families have undergone tremendous changes, both demographically and socially. During this time, most of t...

Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer exceptional. These days, women who stay at home to raise their children seem to ...

Joan Aldous does not just give us an update of her influential 1978 version of Family Careers but provides us with a rethinking of the whole approa...

Family Conflict takes a life course approach as it provides an accessible discussion of family conflict issues, processes, and outcomes.  Chapters ...

Reflecting a growing interest in consumption practices, and particularly relating to food, this cross disciplinary volume brings together diverse p...

Trained as both a genealogist and a historian, Carolyn Earle Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our u...

Single parent families in the United States have almost tripled in the past few decades. A huge majority of these families are female headed. In Am...

Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global contex...

"Stigma, shame and hardship---this is the lot shared by families whose young men have been swept into prison. Braman reveals the devastating toll m...

with Linda K. Acitelli, Peter A. Andersen, Charles R. Berger, Marcia Dixson, Beverly Fehr, Julie Fitness, Garth J. O. Fletcher & James M. Honey...

This unique, timely book of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics and politics of love. The ...

Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer exceptional. These days, women who stay at home to raise their children seem to ...

Family Conflict takes a life course approach as it provides an accessible discussion of family conflict issues, processes, and outcomes.  Chapters ...