Sociology: Family & Relationships

Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian womens percept...

In Born Southern, V. Lynn Kennedy addresses the pivotal roles of birth and motherhood in slaveholding families and communities in the Old South. Sh...

The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one mans literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about t...

Winner of the 2018 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award In Mothering by Degrees, Jillian Duquaine-Watson shows how single mothers pursuing...

Winner of the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including ...

When a child is conceived from sexual intercourse between a married, heterosexual couple, the child has a legal father and mother. Whatever may hap...

While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying...

What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to motherin...

Since 2004, the number of international adoptions in the United States has declined by more than seventy percent. In The End of International Adopt...

In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelle...

*****'A sexy, messy, necessary look at polyamory' -Advocate'All the makings of a juicy beach read- romance, sex, deception, and twists - except it'...

Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifel...

LGBTQ kids reveal what its like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-id...

The authors in this volume analyze spiritual kinship in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. Uniquely comparing Catholic, ...

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...

This book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for and with their agei...

This book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for and with their agei...

The views and experiences of multiracial people as parents The worlds multiracial population is considered to be one of the fastest growing of all ...

Immigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status familiesfamilies that include both citiz...

Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed an...

How travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the move A growing number of families are selling their h...