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The Courage to Love Again
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 18.99For many divorced women, the prospect of reentering the dating game is a daunting one. Too often they are afraid of another failure and of not being able to get past their own feelings of inadequacy. This fear of intimacy with another man keeps many single mothers from sticking their toes back in the relationship waters. The challenges of raising... more...
How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 13.00?I feel like I?ve joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large,? writes Theo Pauline Nestor in this wry, fiercely honest chronicle of life after divorce. Less than an hour after confronting her... more...
Debating Divorce in Italy
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 95.00The popular referendum of 1974 which affirmed Italy's recently-won divorce law is widely regarded as a turning point in modern Italian history, but the long story behind that struggle has remained largely unfamiliar. Using the debates over divorce as a lens, this book is a study of the quest to modernize Italy, Italians, and Italian marriage. more...
Unraveled
Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 13.95As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden?s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans. Unraveled is Housden?s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to break away from her role as... more...
Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 33.00Yossef Rapoport explores the prevalence of divorce in medieval Islamic society. In so doing, he reveals that women possessed a surprising level of economic independence which they manipulated to initiate divorce as often as men. The book makes a significant contribution to the social history of an understudied period. more...
Unofficial Guide to Getting a Divorce
Wiley 2005; US$ 16.99The inside scoop... for when you want more than the official line! Sad. Mad. Scared. Stressed. Distraught. Distracted. Overwhelmed. Divorce dredges up so many emotions and entails so many financial and legal issues, it's difficult to stay rational and keep your life on track. This savvy, updated guide empowers you to take constructive steps toward... more...
Moving Beyond your Parents' Divorce
McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 19.95Mel Krantzler, Ph.D. is a psychologist and director of The Creative Divorce, Love, and Marriage Counseling Center. He is the author of several books, including the bestseller Creative Divorce . Patricia Biondi Krantzler is the author of The Heart of a Woman . Together, they have written several books, including The New Creative Divorce and The Seven... more...
The Great Catastrophe of My Life
The University of North Carolina Press 2002; US$ 69.95From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought release from unhappy marriages faced a harsh legal system buttressed by the political, religious, and communal cultures of southern... more...
Cruelty and Companionship
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 42.95Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker sides of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about changing family patterns. His findings open a rare window onto the sexual... more...
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce
Hyperion 2001; US$ 10.98Check back soon to read more details about The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce by Judith S. Wallerstein. more...









