Sociology: Family & Relationships

This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the ...

Drawing on interviews conducted throughout New York City, Black feminist criminologist Janet Garcia-Hallett shares the traditionally silenced voice...

Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Kor...

Outdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional...

Outdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional...

A radical defense of a solitary life What single person hasn't suffered? Everyone, it seems, must be (or must want to be) in a couple. To exist out...

For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Prison rules and staff regulate phone privileges, access to wr...

Every year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they ...

Including a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Opening Up is a chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of families suffering the internalized stres...

Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews an...

REVEL for Diversity in Families is organized around a structural-diversity framework that treats family diversity as the norm, and highlights how a...

Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and happiness. This compassionate gu...

How interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a diffe...

How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love In the United States, more than seven million people claim to be multiracial, or...

The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and...

Historian Louise Pubols presents a rich and nuanced study of a key family in California's past: the de la Guerras of Santa Barbara. Amid sweeping e...

The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and...

A profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt.   In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lyn...

Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award presented by the Gerontological Society of America Young working mothers are not th...

Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these wom...