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Something Like Beautiful
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99?asha bandele has a poignant story to share in Something Like Beautiful. It is the love that comes through that makes this such a compelling tale.? ?Nikki Giovanni Award-winning journalist, and author of The Prisoner?s Wife and Daughter , and performance poet featured on HBO?S Def Poetry Jam , asha bandele once again writes... more...
Going it Alone?
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 114.95Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies draws on interviews with 70 women to examine how they negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She makes suggestions regarding paid employment, education and state benefits as well as policy recommendations for increasing the options... more...
The Book of Dads
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99At turns humorous, irreverent, poignant and tender, The Book of Dads brings together twenty well-known and beloved writers on the subject of fatherhood, offering fathers?or anyone who has been or loved a parent?unrivaled insights into the complexity of fatherhood as it's experienced now. It is a literary reader for the contemporary dad, hip and... more...
Don't Bite Your Tongue
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 9.99Parents make many sacrifices helping children become healthy and autonomous adults. When children are older, wisdom advises parents to let go, disconnect, and bite their tongues. Increasing life spans mean that parents and children spend as many as five or six decades as adults together: letting go is not an option for families anymore. more...
The Awkward Spaces of Fathering
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 119.95Weaving together theories of space, sexuality and political identity with the stories of fathers from a range of sources, including popular culture, this book seeks to explore the spaces and movements of men-as-fathers more...
Absent Fathers?
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 59.95Much has been written and debated on lone mothers. However little has been discussed about non-resident fathers. Absent Fathers is part of a growing literature on men and masculinities and takes this debate further. Drawn from one of the best social policy units in the UK and results from the current ESRC Programme on Population and Household Change,... more...
Mothering the Self
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 63.95The mother-daughter relationship has preoccupied feminist writers for decades, but typically it has been the daughter's story at centre-stage. Mothering the Self brings together these maternal and daughterly stories by drawing on in-depth interviews with women who speak both as mothers and as daughters. This study examines the ways in which these... more...
Rethinking Parent and Child Conflict
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 40.95The book draws from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorization of parent-child conflict. more...
The Father
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 40.95Luigi Zoja views the origin and evolution of the father from a Jungian perspective. He argues that the father's role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history - and looks at the consequences of this, along with the crisis facing fatherhood today. The Father will be welcomed by people from... more...
Making Men into Fathers
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00In Making Men into Fathers, prominent scholars in gender studies and the critical studies of men consider how institutional settings and policy shape the possibilities and constraints for new models of fatherhood. From different historical and societal perspectives, new insights into the studies of men as gendered subjects are provided. more...









