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Families, Violence and Social Change
McGraw-Hill Education 2005; US$ 165.00Tackles the assumptions surrounding the family as a changing institution and supposed haven from the public sphere of life. This book considers families and social change in terms of concepts of power, inequality, gender, generations, sexuality and ethnicity. It charts social and economic changes and their impact on the family, and more. more...
Constructing Gendered Bodies
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 41.95Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices. Contributors explore these issues... more...
Understanding Families
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 46.00A timely student-orientated textbook introducing the main concepts, theories and research methods needed to study the family. Adopting a global perspective and containing plenty of critical pedagogy (case-studies, think points, key words, glossary) it's ideal for courses studying the family across the social sciences. more...
Families in Society
The Policy Press 2005; US$ 39.95The changing nature of families, their enduring and multi-faceted significance in society, and their value as a focus for the exploration of social change have ensured that families have remained a prominent focus of academic enquiry. Acknowledging the increasing diversity and complexity of families, this innovative book proposes a new conceptual framework... more...
Interdependency and Care Over the Lifecourse
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 40.95Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities. The book comprises three parts. The first explores contrasting social and economic contexts of informal care in different... more...
Gender, Power and the Household
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 64.00The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and philosophical setting,... more...
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