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  • Environment in the Lives of Children and Families

    Perspectives from India and the UK

    by Ann Phoenix, Janet Boddy, Catherine Walker, Uma Vennam ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY licence.How do environmental policies link to dynamic and relational family practices for children and parents? This Policy Press Short presents innovative cross-national research into how ‘environment’ is understood and negotiated within families, and how this plays out in everyday lives.Based on an ESRC study that involved creative, qualitative work with ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity

    by Emily Matchar ...
    Emily Matchar offers a smart, measured investigation into the cultural, social, and economic implications of a return to domesticity in this fascinating book “chock-full of historical context, strong research and compelling personal stories” (Christian Science Montor).Amid today’s rising anxieties—the economy, the scary state of the environment, the growing sense that the American Dream hasn’t ... Read more

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  • Dreaming

    Hard Luck and Good Times in America

    by Carolyn See ...
    “Without sensationalism, totally outside the chic-trash mode, Carolyn See writes from way down inside the pain, the depression, and the lies that encumber most American lives. She knows what ‘family values’ really are, and tells her story with a hard-earned sweetness that transforms the unbearable into clear profit for the reader’s mind and heart.”—Ursula K. Le Guin“I’ve always thought Carolyn See ... Read more

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  • How It Feels to Be Adopted

    by Jill Krementz ...
    In these wonderfully straightforward accounts of what it means to children to be adopted, nineteen boys and girls, from eight to sixteen years old—and from every social background—confide their feelings about this crucial fact of their lives. It is deeply affecting to listen to these children as they reveal their questions, frustrations, difficulties, and joys with an honesty that is immediate, ... Read more

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  • The Single Father: A Dad's Guide to Parenting Without a Partner

    by Armin A. Brott ...
    A new guide to fatherhood from Armin A. Brott, the author of The Expectant Father, on dealing with the unique difficulties of parenting alone.In this ground-breaking volume author Armin Brott gives single dads the knowledge, skills, and support they need to become—and remain—actively involved fathers. With the same thoroughness, accessibility, and humor that have made the books in his critically ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Forgotten Families

    Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy

    by Jody Heymann ...
    In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale. Based on over a thousand in-depth interviews and survey ... Read more

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  • Tournaments of Value

    Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town

    by Anne Meneley ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world.Meneley’s data challenges assumptions about the cross-cultural validity of a division between household and community, ... Read more

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  • Foucault, the Family and Politics

    Edited by R. Duschinsky, L. Rocha ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as attending school, going to work and staying healthy are organized through the family. The book includes an essay by Foucault, Les désordres des familles , translated here in English for the first time. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Motherhood is Madness

    How to break the chains that prevent mothers from being happy

    by Maureen F Fitzgerald ...
    Why mothers are still unhappyMothers today feel like they are going absolutely crazy. They are exhausted, underpaid and under-appreciated. They feel like slaves to their kids, homes, husbands and careers – just like our mothers did. So what went wrong?Most people blame mothers for this state of affairs. We tell women that motherhood is blissful and it’s up to them to find work-life balance. We ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • British-Indian Adult Children of Divorce

    Context, Impact and Coping

    by Chaitali Das ...
    Divorce has become a form of family change in contemporary western societies, spawning much research to investigate its causes and consequences. Such research has promoted a sociological understanding of divorce, impact on families and individuals as well as implications for public policy. However, research in this domain has been largely restricted to white populations in western contexts as well ... Read more

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  • Active Ageing in the European Union

    Policy Convergence and Divergence

    by K. Hamblin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the adoption of 'active ageing' policies by EU15 nations and the impact on older peoples' work and retirement policy options. Policies examined include unemployment benefits, active labour market policies, partial pension receipt, pension principles, early retirement and incentives for deferral. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • African American Children and Families in Child Welfare

    Cultural Adaptation of Services

    by Ramona Denby, Carla Curtis ...
    This text proposes corrective action to improve the institutional care of African American children and their families, calling attention to the specific needs of this population and the historical, social, and political factors that have shaped its experience within the child welfare system. The authors critique policy and research and suggest culturally targeted program and policy responses for ... Read more

    $31.49 USD