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Promises I Can Keepby Kathryn Edin
University of California Press 2004; US$ 12.95Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the... more...
Fathers and Daughtersby Sue Sharpe
Routledge 1994; US$ 61.95Sharpe explores important factors in the relationships between fathers and daughters. She uses the words and experiences of fathers and daughters to draw out the complexities, conflicts and contradictions of this unique relationship. more...
Fathers and Sons in Athensby Barry Strauss
Routledge 1993; US$ 44.95The Athenians could not separate politics from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict was a major public as well as private theme. This book explores the consequences of the powerful influence of familial ideology on politics. more...
Absent Fathers?by Jonathan Bradshaw; Carol Stimson; Christine Skinner; Julie Williams
Routledge 1999; US$ 59.95Discusses the social implications of absentee fathers. Provides a text for undergraduates in social policy and should also be important for professionals concerned with family breakdown and child support. more...
Mothering the Selfby Stephanie Lawler
Routledge 2000; US$ 59.95A fresh start from which to consider the far-reaching implications of this relationship. Draws on in-depth interviews with women who speak both as mothers and as daughters. more...
Augusta, Goneby Martha Tod Dudman
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 15.99"I'm not telling you where I am. Don't try to find me." Remember Go Ask Alice? Augusta, Gone is the memoir Alice's mother never wrote. A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman is sure she is giving her two children the perfect life, sheltering them from the wild tumult of her own youth. But when Augusta turns fifteen, things start to happen: first the cigarette, then the blue pipe and the little bag Augusta says is aspirin. Just talking to her is like sticking your hand in the garbage disposal. Martha doesn't know if she's confronting adolescent behavior, craziness, her own failures as a parent -- or all three. Augusta, Gone is the story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to save her.... more...
Playing With Timeby Jane Mace
Routledge 1998; US$ 59.95With a background of a reported decline in literacy standards, the author investigates the relationship between gender and literacy, revealing how families, and women in particular, feel pressurized to be responsible for their children's literacy. more...
Daughtering and Motheringby J. van Mens-Verhulst; K. M. G. Schreurs; L. Woerton
Routledge 1993; US$ 39.95Challenging accepted psychoanalytic views, this book focusses on daughtering as an active process to explore previously unexamined aspects of this central and fundamental relationship. more...
Fatherby Luigi Zoja
Brunner-Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95Argues that the father's role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history, it looks at the consequences of this along with the crisis facing parenthood today. more...
Rethinking Parent and Child Conflictby Susan Grieshaber
RoutledgeFalmer 2004; US$ 40.95This book draws from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorisation of parent-child conflict. more...









