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Ideal Homes?by Tony Chapman; Jenny Hockey
Routledge 1999; US$ 58.95Ideal Homes? provides a fascinating analysis which reveals how both popular images and experiences of home life can produce vital clues as to how society's members produce and respond to social change. more...
Unquiet Livesby Joanne Bailey; Anthony Fletcher; John Guy; John Morrill
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00This study challenges traditional views of married life in eighteenth-century England. It presents a new picture of power in marriage and the household, and shows also that ideas about adultery and domestic violence evolved during this period, influenced by profound shifts in cultural attitudes about sexuality and violence. more...
Unequal Childhoodsby Annette Lareau
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. more...
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...
The Transnational Familyby Deborah Bryceson; Ulla Vuorela
Berg Publishers 2002; US$ 109.95Migrant networks, in the form of families, associational ties and social organizations, stretch across the globe, connecting cultures and bridging national boundaries. The effects of this global networking are vast. This book is the first to stand ba ck and explore the impact. Families living outside of their original national boundaries have had, and continue to have, a profound influence over the flow of people, goods, money and information. More in-depth perspectives reveal how immigrant s face troubling issues of cultural identity, economic change, political uncertainty and social welfare. From an examination of nineteenth-century transnational families emigrating from Europe, to the Ghanaian Pentecostal diaspora in Europe today, th... more...
Imagining Homeby Wendy Webster
Routledge 1998; US$ 46.95This study critically explores the lives of women in Britain during the immediate postwar period 1945-64, and re-examines the current conception of the 1950s as a nadir for women - when the values of domesticity and motherhood were paramount. more...
Parenting Representationsby Ofra Mayseless; Carolyn Shantz; Robert Emde; Willard W. Hartup; Lois Hoffman; Franz J. Monks; Eleanor Maccoby; Nancy Eisenberg; Carolyn Zahn-Waxler; Ross Parke; Michael Rutter
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 105.00The study of parents from their own perspective not just as socializing agents of their children has been long neglected. This book summarizes and presents the new and surging literature on parenting representations namely parents' views, emotions and internal world regarding their parenting. more...
Purpose & Power In Retirementby Harold Koenig
Templeton Foundation Press 2008; US$ 9.99Dr. Harold G. Koenig, with expertise in the fields of geriatrics, mental health, and religion, explains that the notion of retirement was in fact a marketing tool developed in the post-World War II period. Continuing today, society's image of retirement is based largely on myths, such as: things will get better when you retire—you'll be able to do everything you wanted to but couldn't when you worked. In fact, these beliefs can be harmful, leading to emotional issues, identity crises, and problems with physical health. more...
Sex at the Marginsby Laura María Agustín
Zed Books 2007; US$ 32.95This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín argues that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' disempowers them. more...
Adolescent Copingby Erica Frydenberg
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 42.50This new edition of Adolescent Coping presents the latest research and applications in the field of coping. It outlines recent developments in theory and research, and highlights the ways in which coping can be measured. more...