Sociology: Family & Relationships

This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men symposium. Essays and wor...

This book offers a broader, more positive picture of African American fathers. Featuring case studies of African-descended fathers, this edited vol...

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the lon...

Bollywood Weddings examines how middle to upper class second-generation Indian-American Hindus negotiate wedding rituals, including the dating and ...

Family Configurations develops current scholarship on families and intimate lives by demonstrating that family relationships, far from being fluid ...

Divorce has become a form of family change in contemporary western societies, spawning much research to investigate its causes and consequences. Su...

"I've made four thousand six hundred medium-sized quiches and personally baked two tons of light crust pastry. And for what?'" As a clergy w...

Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of s...

Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issue...

This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the...

Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donat...

The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, ...

Families in Asia provides a unique sociological analysis of family trends in Asia. Stella R. Quah uses demographic and survey data, personal interv...

Recent adoption policy changes are based on assumptions that race is no longer relevant and that if government officials and activists would just g...

This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and impleme...

In this interdisciplinary collaboration, an international group of scholars have come together to suggest new directions for the study of the famil...

Following World War II many returning GIs replaced the positions of female war-time workers. As a result, many women were faced with taking boring,...

Conceiving Kinship is an in-depth journey, the first of its kind, into how heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples using programmes of gamete donat...

Why it is that success, deprivation or disadvantage are so often passed down intergenerationally? What part does education play?The educational ach...

Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability...

This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological, historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family, gende...

Why it is that success, deprivation or disadvantage are so often passed down intergenerationally? What part does education play?The educational ach...

Following World War II many returning GIs replaced the positions of female war-time workers. As a result, many women were faced with taking boring,...

In this timely book Lyn Craig provides the first comprehensive account of how parents divide their time between caring for children, housework, pai...