Sociology: Family & Relationships

Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations About Men, Mothers, and Mothering thinks from the nexus of gender, essentialism, and care. The authors creat...

Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held ...

Japan, although a small country, is identified as perhaps the only civilization composed of just one nation. In spite of its many encounters with a...

Recently, childfree people have been foregrounded in mainstream media. More than seven percent of Western women choose to remain childfree and this...

In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and vio...

Becoming a mother is one of the biggest changes a woman can experience. According to Harvard- and Yale-trained psychologist Dr. Nicole Pensak, its ...

Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intima...

Seamon explores the historical, theological, and societal dynamics of religious intermarriage as a way to introduce scholars to the myriad of facto...

While the image or construct of the good mother has been the focus of many research projects, the bad mother, as a discursive construct, and also m...

In der Alternsforschung wurden Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund bisher weitgehend ausgeblendet und in der Migrationsforschung fanden ältere Mensc...

The most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents. A myriad of studies show...

This study is based upon original research carried out with lesbian, gay and queer parents and explores how genealogy, kinship, family, everyday li...

Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines the imposition of the modern Western notion of childhood, which is now deemed a...

Total pain management mandates that an ethic of adjusted care be implemented at the end-stage of life which acknowledges ethically, legally, and cl...

Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as ...

This collection of original essays looks at the way in which experiences and representations of femininity are changing, and explores the possibili...

With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life...

With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life...

Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become comm...

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human e...