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  • Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse

    by Sophia Bowlby, Linda McKie, Susan Gregory, Isobel Macpherson ...
    Series series Relationships and Resources
    Interdependency 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 parts of the world. The second looks at different ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Parallel Lives

    Five Victorian Marriages

    by Phyllis Rose ...
    In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and George Eliot--née Marian Evans. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Splitopia

    Dispatches from Today's Good Divorce and How to Part Well

    by Wendy Paris ...
    Packed with research, insights, and illuminating (and often funny) examples from Paris’s own divorce experience, this book is a “practical and reassuring guide to parting well.” —Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness ProjectEngaging and revolutionary, filled with wit, searing honesty, and intimate interviews, Splitopia is a call for a saner, more civil kind of divorce. As Paris reveals, divorce ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Expanding the Gaze

    Gender and the Politics of Surveillance

    Edited by Emily van der Meulen, Robert Heynen ...
    From sexualized selfies and hidden camera documentaries to the bouncers monitoring patrons at Australian nightclubs, the ubiquity of contemporary surveillance goes far beyond the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection or the proliferation of security cameras on every corner.Expanding the Gaze is a collection of important new empirical and theoretical works that demonstrate the ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Handbook of Marriage and the Family

    Edited by Gary W. Peterson, Kevin R. Bush ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes, analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and theory about family relationships, family structural variations, and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook provides the most comprehensive state-of-the art assessment of the existing knowledge of family life, with particular attention to variations due ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Understanding Families Over Time

    Research and Policy

    by Rosalind Edwards ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on research from the Timescapes Study, this volume discusses the life chances and experiences of children and young people, parents and older generations. A unique qualitative longitudinal study forms the basis for the chapter contributions, delivering policy-relevant findings to address individual and family lives over time. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan

    by Nishimura Junko ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
    This book explores the employment of Japanese women born in the 1960s and 1970s who experienced childbirth and raised children in the 1990s and the early 2000s. During this period, the Japanese economy experienced a severe recession. It has affected the firm-specific internal labour market and on employment practices, which in turn are thought to have greatly influenced Japanese women’s employment ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Transnational Marriage

    New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond

    Edited by Katharine Charsley ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been a neglected field in migration studies. In contemporary Europe, transnational marriages have become ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Technoscientific Witness of Rape

    Contentious Histories of Law, Feminism, and Forensic Science

    by Andrea Quinlan ...
    In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "Ontario’s most successful rapist trap." Since then, the kit has become the key source of evidence in the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault as well as a symbol of victims’ improved access to care and justice. Unfortunately, the SAEK has failed to live up to these promises.The Technoscientific Witness of Rape is the first book ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Rural Welfare in China

    by Yi Pan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This comprehensive reference views China’s welfare system through a cultural-historical lens to integrate its complex story into the global study of welfare. Focusing on the mainland’s vast, mainly rural population and its long and complicated history, it analyzes rural welfare from the imperial dynasties, to the socialist planned economy under Mao Zedong, to its recent history in the current ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Family Diversity

    Continuity and Change in the Contemporary Family

    by Pauline Irit Erera ...
    Series series SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services
    This nonjudgmental, inclusive, and far-reaching text focuses on the diverse patterns of family structure prevalent in our society today. Family Diversity presents empirical research on the internal dynamics, social environments, support factors, prevalence of discrimination, and common stereotypes that account for the issues surrounding current family relations. By examining the history and nature ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Sapphic Fathers

    Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France

    by Gretchen Schultz ...
    Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, Realists, or Decadents, were all part of this literary moment. In Sapphic Fathers, Gretchen Schultz explores how these male writers and their readers took lesbianism as a cipher for apprehensions about sex and gender during a time of social and ... Read more

    $58.39 USD