Sociology: Family & Relationships

As featured on Sunday Brunch and Woman's Hour 'A really interesting proper analysis of the ins and outs of love. A kind of marvellous feat.' Richa...

Fathers in the 1950s tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. These common but limited stereotypes ...

Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse ...

*** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 ***'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES'Bril...

This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent ...

In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist the...

In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist the...

This book offers an extensive introduction and 14 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families a...

Ce travail a obtenu le prix Latsis 2009 de l''Universite de Geneve. A l''instar d''autres sciences sociales, la demographie - et la demographie h...

The concepts of gender, love, and family - as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and fa...

Fathers in the 1950s tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. These common but limited stereotypes ...

Drawing on detailed qualitative research, this timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities ...

Rooted in historical, site-based, narrative, and political accounts, Full Surrogacy Now is the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice t...

From the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research is c...

Whats Cooking, Mom? offers original and inventive narratives, including auto-ethnographic discussions of representations, discourses and practices ...

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly...

In The Tumbleweed Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, as people cope in a society ...

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As the subject of a popular web reality series, Suzanne Barston and her husband Steve became a romantic, ethereal model for new parenthood. Called ...

Ladette Randolph Understands her life best through the houses she has inhabited. From the isolated farmhouse of her childhood, to the series of hou...