{"product_id":"state-of-families","title":"State of Families","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships\u003c\/em\u003e collects essential readings on the family to examine the multiple forms of contemporary families, the many issues facing families, the policies that regulate families, and how families—and family life—have become politicized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis text explores various dimensions of \"the family\" and uses a critical approach to understand the historical, cultural, and political constructions of the family. Each section takes different aspects of the family to highlight the intersection of individual experience, structures of inequality—including race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and immigration—and state power. Readings, both original and reprinted from a wide range of experts in the field, show the multiple forms and meanings of family by delving into topics including the traditional ground of motherhood, childhood, and marriage, while also exploring cutting edge research into fatherhood, reproduction, child-free families, and welfare. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking an interdisciplinary approach to the family,\u003ci\u003e The State of Families \u003c\/i\u003eoffers students in the social sciences and professionals working with families new ways to identify how social structure and institutional practice shape individual experience. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258230296920,"sku":"9780367027766","price":72.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367027766_864076aa-207e-4ba6-9e28-ed0db5673647.jpg?v=1777698023","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/state-of-families","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}