Sociology: Family & Relationships

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the Great Migration ...

The family is currently a controversial topic both within the UK and Europe. While demographic trends seem to suggest that family structures and at...

Love is a little word with a universe of meanings and has engaged people's interest throughout human history. The need to give and receive love lie...

The book examines the topic of paternal authority as it developed over a long period of time. The focus is on the power of fathers as manifested wi...

This book explores the concept of the postmaternal as a response to changing cultural, political and economic conditions for motherhood and respond...

This title was first published in 2001. Employing a black feminist standpoint, Claudia Bernard offers an in-depth study of black mothers responses ...

The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race, in safe spaces centered on small...

At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and ...

On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage is so ordered across the United States. The day will no doubt be...

Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic disciplines...

First published in 1998, this insightful volume aims to explore how 90 Indian and African single mothers in 1993 London resolve the dual challenges...

Children Act 1989 introduced the most radical changes to child care law for a generation. Eekelaar and Dingwall provide a concise, practical guide ...

In making the argument for the remedy of inequality, contemporary political philosophers often emphasize the arbitrariness of disadvantage, stressi...

Little research has explored the everyday, simple and long-term experience of maternal holding, particularly after the first year of a childs life....

This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology organises every...

In this comprehensive volume, authors from across the social sciences explore how housing wealth transfers have impacted the integration of familie...

This book represents a new direction in the study of religion and marriage by using a postmodern theoretical framework focusing on gendered discour...

This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking an...

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades. She is one of the founders of relational psycho...

First published in 1999, this volume examines the meanings specific child protection cases involving the familial sexual abuse of adolescent girls ...

First published in 1999, the primary focus of this book is what goes on inside the black box of households, beginning with decision-making but bran...

First published in 1998, this insightful volume aims to explore how 90 Indian and African single mothers in 1993 London resolve the dual challenges...

This title was first published in 2000: This book is based on selected papers from a major international congress of the same name that was held at...

First published in 1999, this volume is a collection of essays focused on the theme of partnership with parents in social work practice with childr...