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  • Family rhythms

    The changing textures of family life in Ireland

    by Jane Gray, Ruth Geraghty, David Ralph ...
    Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time. With chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood, the book ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Family and the Free Market

    by Anne Manne ...
    Series Book 29 - Quarterly Essay
    In Love and Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work – its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations.This is an essay that ranges widely and entertainingly across contemporary culture: it casts an inquisitive eye over the modern marriage ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The End of American Childhood

    A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child

    by Paula S. Fass ...
    How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the presentThe End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Mothers Who Think

    Tales of Real-Life Parenthood

    by Kate Moses, Lori Leibovich ...
    From the editors of the cutting-edge online magazine Salon come provocative essays that take an unflinching look atthe gritty truths and unreserved pleasures of contemporary motherhood.Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood, which grew out of Salon's popular daily department of the same name, comprises nearly forty essays by writers grappling with the new and compelling ideas that ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies

    Variations Across Industrialized Countries

    Edited by Ronald R. Rindfuss, Minja Kim Choe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to this worrying trend.The countries examined are not only diverse geographically, historically, and culturally, but also have ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Babies for Sale?

    Transnational Surrogacy, Human Rights and the Politics of Reproduction

    Edited by Miranda Davies ...
    Transnational surrogacy – the creation of babies across borders – has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of the current scholarship has focused on the US and India, this groundbreaking anthology offers a far ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Engineering Polymer Systems for Improved Drug Delivery

    by Rebecca A. Bader, David A. Putnam ...
    Polymers have played a critical role in the rational design and application of drug delivery systems that increase the efficacy and reduce the toxicity of new and conventional therapeutics. Beginning with an introduction to the fundamentals of drug delivery, Engineering Polymer Systems for Improved Drug Delivery explores traditional drug delivery techniques as well as emerging advanced drug ... Read more

    $122.00 USD

  • Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States

    Theory, Research, and Applications

    Edited by Lisa J. Crockett, Gustavo Carlo ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book explores the risk and protective factors of rural life and minority status for youth and their families. It provides innovative perspectives on well-documented developmental challenges (e.g., poverty and lack of resources) as well as insights into the benefits of familial and cultural strengths. Coverage includes recent theories in child development, empirical studies of rural minority ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Marriage Buyout

    The Troubled Trajectory of U.S. Alimony Law

    by Cynthia Lee Starnes ...
    From divorce court to popular culture, alimony is a dirty word. Unpopular and rarely ordered, the awards are frequently inconsistent and unpredictable. The institution itself is often viewed as an historical relic that harkens back to a gendered past in which women lacked the economic independence to free themselves from economic support by their spouses. In short, critics of alimony claim it has ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Parenting across the Life Span

    Biosocial Dimensions

    by Jeanne Altmann ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Behavior
    Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches. Evolutionary biology provides fresh perspectives from life history theory using behavioral ecology and parental investment theory. At the same time, the social and behavioral sciences integrates research from long-term studies of individual development and from the collection of life histories.This path ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Baby Trouble in the Last Best West

    Making New People in Alberta, 1905–1939

    by Amy Kaler ...
    Reproductionis the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn’t conform to the norm.Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women’s childbearing became understood as a social problem in early twentieth-century Alberta. Kaler utilizes censuses, newspaper reports, social work case ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Family Change and Housing in Post-War Japanese Society

    The Experiences of Older Women

    by Misa Izuhara ...
    This book explores the experiences of older women in post-war Japanese society through analysis of their family and housing histories. Three broad themes - family relations, welfare systems and housing - were chosen to highlight issues surrounding the changing role and position of women in the family and society. A qualitative approach is used to address a gap in the literature and to illustrate ... Read more

    $47.99 USD