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Marriage and the Economyby Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman; Jacob Mincer
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 29.00This book examines the impact of marriage on labor force participation, productivity at work, savings, government programs, and many other aspects of the economy. In order to appeal to a wider audience, the book avoids professional jargon and dense technical expertise that often prevent outsiders from appreciating economic discourse. more...
Analysing Familiesby Alan Carling; Simon Duncan
Routledge 2002; US$ 57.95Analysing Families directly addresses the social processes responsible for these changes - how social policy interacts with what families actually do. more...
Marriage in the Seventeenth-Century English Political Thoughtby Belinda Roberts Peters
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 100.00This study traces the decline of marriage as a metaphor for political authority, subjection, and tyranny in Seventeenth-century political thought. An image that bound consent and contract with divine right absolutism, and irrevocably connected royal prerogatives with subjects' liberties, its disappearance in the middle decades of the century coincided with the full emergence of patriarchalist and social contract theories. If both these accepted the importance of 'fathers of families', neither would suggest that political government could be comparable to 'marriage'. more...
Love, Marriage, and Family Ties in the Later Middle Agesby I. Davis; M. Muller; S. Rees Jones
Brepols Publishers 2003; US$ 84.00This volume addresses the current fashion for research on the family and domesticity in the past. It draws together work from various disciplines - historical, art-historical and literary - with their very different source materials. The volume considers the various affective relationships within and around the family and the manner in which those relationships were regulated and ritualized in more public arenas. more...
Fragile Families and the Marriage Agendaby Lori Kowaleski-Jones; Nicholas H. Wolfinger
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 99.00Economic deprivation while growing up has been linked to poor physical health, reduced intellectual ability, and academic achievement. This volume explores issues related to fragile families, covering legal and theoretical perspectives, causes and consequences of offspring wellbeing, and the aspect of father's importance to the "fragile families." more...
For Moral Ambiguityby Michael J. Shapiro
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 67.50Under the banner of family values, a war of more than words is being waged. At stake is the control of contemporary national culture?and the consciousness of succeeding generations. Michael J. Shapiro enters the fray with this galvanizing book, which exposes the assumptions, misconceptions, and historical inaccuracies that mark the neoconservative campaign to redeem an imagined past and colonize the present and future with a moral and political commitment to the "traditional family." more...
Governments and Marriage Education Policyby E. van Acker
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2008; US$ 85.00This book examines the role governments play in managing policy challenges such as religion, romance, gender relations, same-sex marriages and privacy protection in response to social changes in marriage. Elizabeth van Acker asks whether governments can or should intervene in this personal sphere. more...
Forsaking All Othersby Charles F. Robinson
University of Tennessee Press 2010; US$ 30.95In Opportunity Lost, Marcus D. Pohlmann examines the troubling issue of why Memphis city school students are underperforming at alarming rates. His provocative interdisciplinary analysis, combining both history and social science, examines the events before and after desegregation, compares a city school to an affluent suburban school to pinpoint imbalances, and offers critical assessments of various educational reforms. Employing a rich trove of data to demonstrate the realities of racial and economic inequality, Pohlmann underscores the difficulties that plague the urban schools and their students-problems that persist despite the fact that the city schools often have more resource advantages than the county schools: better student-to-teacher... more...
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