Sociology: Family & Relationships

With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of...

In den deutschen Medien wird seit einiger Zeit das Thema Pflegenotstand heftig diskutiert. Der größte Teil der alten, pflegebedürftigen Menschen in...

Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childho...

In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsex...

This book conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly uncl...

Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth charts young people's understanding of religion, investigating the experiences, choices and iden...

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic ...

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...

This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminati...

This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about...

This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of mothe...

Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the reso...

Research about children and young people's participation and involvement in research is an emerging area of academic inquiry. Based on the themes o...

Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women ad...

By taking on a long-term perspective, a large geographical scope and moving beyond the homogeneous treatment of single people, this book fleshes ou...

This book explores how masculinities and fatherhood are transmitted across family generations of white British, Irish and Polish fathers. Providing...

Why do men act violently toward women? What are the consequences of normal violence, not only for women and children but also for the men who insti...