Sociology: Family & Relationships

This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, f...

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, bein...

This book contains selected papers from the meeting «Conditioned Identities. Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities», held in the Institute of Rese...

While the formal definition of divorce may be concise and straightforward (legal termination of a marital union, dissolving bonds of matrimony betw...

A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the f...

Asian Families and Intimacies comprises important and influential writings that form the academic and intellectual heritage of societies across Asi...

full of wisdom and entertaining anecdotes' The Economist'fascinating' Financial TimesSocial Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think abou...

A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2022 The Lonely Hunter explores the rise of singledom, the realities of loneliness, and whether it is possi...

The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen ...

''Catch the Sparrow is true crime at its most personal and purposeful - heartfelt and intimate, noble and determined, meticulous and brave''Robert ...

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosnjok) ...

A moving account of working mothers daily livesand the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that ...

The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in the wake of the 2011 riots conflated poor and disadvantaged families with anti-social and criminal...

In this exciting book, leading fatherhood scholars from Europe and Scandinavia offer unique insights into how to research fathers and fatherhood in...

In this exciting book, leading fatherhood scholars from Europe and Scandinavia offer unique insights into how to research fathers and fatherhood in...

This book won the 2014 Applied Communication Division Award for Outstanding Edited Book There is a growing interest in studying nonprofit organiza...

What happens when love is no longer enough? Jane Bernstein thought that learning to accept her daughters disabilities meant her struggles were over...

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

The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality whic...

In this provocative history of parenting, Harry Hendrick analyses the social and economic reasons behind parenting trends. He shows how broader soc...

Volume 15 of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth investigates the interactional procedures used by children and young people as disputes ari...

The American family has come a long way from the days of the idealized family portrayed in iconic television shows of the 1950s and 1960s. The four...

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In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but w...

Our families are our first and most important ethical training grounds. But what is the family? And what are our ethical commitments to our family ...

Diaries of a Forgotten Parent: Divorced Dads on Fathering Through and Beyond Divorce opens an intimate window on the lives of divorced men. Literat...