Sociology: Family & Relationships

You did it! You put a ring on it! Honeymoon, too! Newlywed bliss! But now you REALLY have to marry your lives today, think about a family, maybe m...

By turns informative and irreverent this book takes a new approach to tackling gender inequality in the home and at work, focusing on dads being en...

The Best Books of 2022, The New YorkerObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Amo...

The introduction of legislative structures for same-sex relationships provides a new lens for grappling with the politics of sexuality in schools a...

#1 New Release in Human Sexuality ― Transform the Way Conflict Affects Your Love LifeWant to bring more peace into your relationship―and also get b...

W. H. R. Rivers, who has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization', exerted an immense influence on his contemporaries a...

Philosophical Reflections on Mothering in Trauma examines the lived experience of mothering children who have been seriously harmed by others. Usin...

Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the...

Family group conferences (FGCs) are a strengths-based approach to social work practice, empowering families to take responsibility for decision-mak...

Drawing on her own research as a psychologist and psychotherapist conducted over two years with interviews in real life situations the author provi...

While legal recognition of marriage has met the needs of a segment of the LGBTQ population, many still face daily struggles with issues around hous...

Why LGBTQ adults don’t end troubled ties with parents and why (perhaps) they should Families We Keep is a surprising look at the life-long bonds be...

Originating from discussions about the reasons for, and regional variations behind, the remarkable rise in cohabitation that started in the 1970s –...

At the time Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley was published, little research had been done on the relati...

While legal recognition of marriage has met the needs of a segment of the LGBTQ population, many still face daily struggles with issues around hous...

This book presents an understanding of work-family balance for working adults belonging to a number of different family structures (e.g. single and...

For decades the black community has been perceived, both in the United States and around the world, as one which thinks alike, acts alike and lives...

An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and bra...

Despite evidence of a more sexually active ‘third age’, ageing and later life (50+) are still commonly represented as a process of desexualisation....

This book examines what it means to be a family within the restrictive, disruptive, and often distressing context of imprisonment. Drawing on origi...

The eleven essays offered in Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom reflect the spirit and originality of Father Michael M. Sheehan, f...

This multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny,...

Music in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couple...