Sociology: Family & Relationships

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...

Recent decades have witnessed major changes in gender roles and family patterns, as well as a falling birth rate in Ireland and the rest of Europe....

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, mar...

This classic Family Therapy text continues to provide a new and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle, reflect...

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