Sociology: family, kinship and relationships Books

Book SynopsisIlluminates changes in the American family and presents some of the methods and approaches used to study families. Linking family patterns with changing social circumstances, this title considers husband-wife and parent-child relationships in light of language usage, gender roles, legal structures, and other contexts.Trade Review"Brings together a body of topically and methodologically diverse analyses of the family that span the Colonial period to the present... Underscores the importance of family history for historians of gender." -- Allison L. Sneider, Journal of Marriage and Family

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Book SynopsisA history of the shifting and conflicting ideas about when, where, and how we should touch our childrenTrade Review"Raising children is such daunting work. Medical experts, parents, peers, mass media outlets, and activists engage in the production of the boundaries of what is appropriate when raising children. Halley's Boundaries of Touch is a groundbreaking and exhaustively researched analysis of human adult-child touch. With great attention to historical and cultural detail, Halley interprets how multiple, often conflicting, groups claim expertise in adult-child relationships." --Lisa Jean Moore, coordinator of gender studies, Purchase College, State University of New York

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Book SynopsisReworking classic literary texts to explore the unconventional union of slave-marriageTrade ReviewSelected as one of two winners of the Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS), 2012. "Chakkalakal's book provides a new perspective on the central figures within the black family and the ways in which that aspect of family helps create meaning within the community and identify in the individual. . . . it is an informative and thoughtful text"--The Western Journal of Black Studies"A must read. Highly recommended."--Choice"Exploring the paradox represented by slave marriage in nineteenth-century American fiction, Novel Bondage deftly revises our reading of canonical works, offering a clearer understanding of these texts as direct participants in critiquing marriage as a legal institution."--Kenneth W. Warren, author of What Was African American Literature?"Tess Chakkalakal advances important scholarship on African American marriage during and immediately following the slave era. Her readings of canonical authors are provocative and controversial, but grounded well enough to enliven conversations about these writers and their times."--Frances Smith Foster, author of 'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America"Fresh, surprising, cleanly written, and wonderfully effective."--Legacy"A sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the (largely) fictionalized slave marriages that will hold some value for historians who wish to gain greater insight into the institution. Novel Bondage rewards the close readers, prompting us to think about what marriage represented or symbolized in the 19th century, and how it has evolved as an institution."--The Journal of African American HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Slave-Marriage Plot; Between Fiction and Experience: William Wells Brown's Clotel; Dred and the Freedom of Marriage: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Fiction of Law; Free, Black, and Married: Frank J. Webb's The Garies and their Friends; "A Legally Unmarried Race": Frances Harper's Marital Mission; Wedded to Race: Charles Chesnutt's Stories of the Color Line; Conclusion: Reading Hannah Crafts in the 21st Century Selected; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While athletes' own navigation of family life has received some attention, how does this arrangement affect their partners who are tasked with an array of visible and invisible labor to make their family work? This is the focus of Steven M. Ortiz's The Sport Marriage. . . . The Sport Marriage opens up many new avenues to interrogate the interweaving of gender, work, and family in the world of professional sports." --Symbolic Interaction”In this keenly observed, empathic, and insightful work, Steven Ortiz recounts the inner experience of wives married to both a man and his sports career. Ortiz observes the precise order in which wives sit on the bench in the stadium, how they respond to affair-seeking groupies, to more senior sports wives, news of a sudden cross-country trade, an intrusive mother-in-law, a lasting head-injury. He explores the complex art of managing a backstage role. This is the best book I know of on the sport marriage.”—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”In this insightful book, Steven Ortiz unveils the heretofore hidden realities of the lives of women who marry male pro athletes. Beneath the veneer of public glory and fortune the general public may assume makes for a perfect life, Ortiz reveals the stresses and strains of women’s emotional and managerial labor as 'marriage workers' in a high-pressure, career-dominated marriage. Through sensitive interviewing and deft observation, Ortiz shows both the oppressive costs of these women’s subordination within the sport marriage, and their creative, and even sometimes resistant, strategies to assert and meet their own and their children’s needs.”—Michael A. Messner, coeditor of No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Revising Eternity indeed revises any misguided notions we might have of uniformity in the Latter-day Saint experience, boldly and candidly opening to view the sometimes intense, sometimes joyous, sometimes sorrowful lives of a wide variety of writers, and with its myriad perspectives the book invites us to more deeply know and thus achieve greater empathy with one another."--Patrick Madden, author of Disparates: Essays"This is a fascinating compilation, detailing as it does what happens when an exigent definition of righteousness and propriety meets the reality of human nature--a work at once sad, sobering, heartening, and above all enlightening. Highly recommended."--Levi S. Peterson, author of A Rascal by Nature, a Christian by Yearning: A Mormon AutobiographyTable of ContentsForeword: Mormon American Masculinities, Ideal and Actual Patrick Q. Mason xiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: Personal, Contingent, and Incomplete Views on Eternal Marriage Holly Welker 1Part I. Revised Expectations Transgressors Stephen Carter 19A husband considers the ways his happymarriage violates the ideal praised by theProclamation on the FamilyBy the Drinking Fountain Eric Robeck 25A couple’s relationship seems like a Latter-dayfairy tale—until he loses his faithMy One and Only Clyde Kunz 31A gay man considers the way Latter-day Saints’expectations for straight marriage affect his ownsearch for a relationshipThere’s Something about Mary Kim Siever 37A husband learns to love his wife more deeply bystudying the example of her love for himFor Jess, after Eighteen Years of Marriage: Seven Fragments on Love; Or, Some Things I Carry Tyler Chadwick 42In a love letter to his wife, a husband lists someof the familiar mysteries he cherishes in theirmarriageAn Apology I’ve Been Working on for a While Joey Franklin 44A husband reflects on the division of labor inhis marriage and how it affects his and his wife’ssenses of selfNever Good Enough Michael Carpenter 52A lifetime of failing to meet Latter-day Saintideals exacts a tragic costMormon AF Nicholas Don Smith 58A stand-up comic from American Fork, Utah,reflects on what it means to be Mormon andsingleLiken the Scriptures Andrew Spriggs 63A young husband realizes that his gay marriageis the most Mormon thing about his lifeThe Care Package Kevin Barnwell 71A husband who has left the church works to findthe perfect anniversary gift for his still devout wifePart II. Sex and Its Consequences Fertility Theric Jepson 77After the birth of their fourth child, a husbandundergoes a vasectomy to spare his wife anymore worry about fertilityOpposites Robert Raleigh 82Newlyweds discover that their intense physicalattraction is not a strong enough basis for ahappy marriage—or even a satisfying sex lifeEternity in an Hour Boyd Jay Petersen 92On the eve of a trip abroad, a husband learnsthat his wife of thirty-three years is gay, afterwhich they negotiate a respectful separationPie Month Scott Russell Morris 105A young couple agrees to eat pie every day duringthe month of March 2014 while they also try toconceive a childThe Highest T. Kay Browning 119A young man determined to marry early learnsto be the man of integrity his marriage requiresof him, especially as he reckons with what the#MeToo movement means for menBeing Jane John Doe 129A bisexual cross-dresser and his wife learn tohave a mutually fulfilling sex life while honoringtheir temple covenants to one anotherSoul Mates Scott Blanding 133A gay man and a straight woman navigate amarriage both believe they committed to before birthHiding in Plain Sight David Nicolay 141A husband’s ability to connect to his wife isundermined by decades of sexual shame overmasturbation7:06 A.M. Kelland Coleman 151A lonely husband briefly attains the intimacy hehas longed for with his wife when she admits toherself and to him that she is gayUnsealed Dan Smith 160A husband learns that trying to practicepolygamy to please his wife does not heal theirtroubled marriagePart III. In Sickness and in Health Fear and Trepanation Ted Smith 171A midlife crisis helps a husband understandhow valuable his marriage is, just before it isthreatened by a dire medical crisisI’m Not Who I Thought You Married John B. Dahl 180A young husband is forced to confront his ownmisconceptions about mental illness when he isdiagnosed with depression—and discovers thatdoing so strengthens instead of harms his marriageHolding On and Letting Go Joseph Broom 190After decades in a straight marriage, a gay mandiscovers happiness with the love of his life—onlyto lose him to cancer after a short marriageDisability Check Caleb Scoville 198A young man reckons with the way his bipolardisease wreaks havoc on his marriageThe House of Infinite Regret Scot Denhalter 207Addiction to prescription narcotics destroys a life,a marriage, and a familyFrom Patriarchy to Matriarchy: A Marital and Spiritual Journey Thomas W Murphy 218A young man from an abusive household vows tocreate a family free of violence and coercion withhis wife, after which they learn about alternativeforms of strength and leadership—and aboutaspects of their own backgrounds—when theirwork leads them to Indigenous communitiesThe Marriage Bed: An Essay and Three Poems Robert A. Rees 231A widower reflects on his happy marriage andthe joy of sharing a bed with his belovedGlossary 239Discussion Questions 243Bibliography 245Contributors 249

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Book SynopsisKatalin Fábián is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College. She edited Domestic Violence in Postcommunist States: Local Activism, National Policies, and Global Forces (IUP).Elzbieta Korolczuk is Researcher in the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg and the School of Culture and Education at Södertörn University, Sweden. She is co-editor of several Polish volumes on parenthood and politics.Trade ReviewThe editors and individual authors have done a masterful job creating a critical framework for the study of civil society and grassroots activism in the postcommunist period, and this volume should be an important starting point for students and scholars looking to advance this topic further. * Women East-West *Bringing together 11 case studies that encompass Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Baltics and Russia, this volume challenges us to think differently about civil society, masculinity, parenting, biological citizenship and the relevance of the label 'post-communist' studies. * Europe-Asia Studies *Extensively researched, with a very solid literature review tosupport and explain the positions of the editors and the volume'scontributors and how their research differs from and builds on existingscholarship, this volume will be an important addition not only to anyuniversity library collection but also a valuable reading both forscholars researching the impact of globalization on gender and civilsociety and for any undergraduate or graduate course dealing not onlywith Central and Eastern Europe but gender studies in general. * Hungarian Studies Review *A thought provoking, timely and highly relevant collection. * Hungarian Cultural Studies *These valuable case studies show how initially amorphous groups can be empowered by finding or being given greater cultural, financial, or political footing. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Rebellious Parents in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta Korolczuk1. Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values / Tova Hojdestrand2. "For the Sake of Our Children's Future": A Conservative Parents' Mobilization in Ukraine / Olena Strelnyk3. (Un)deserving Parents: Constructing Parenthood and Nation in Bulgaria through New Reproductive Technologies / Ina Dimitrova4. In the Name of the Family and Nation: Framing Fathers' Activism in Poland / Elzbieta Korolczuk and Renata E. Hryciuk5. Civil Society and Fatherhood in the Borderlands: Promoting Active Fathers in Russian Daddy-Schools / Pelle Aberg and Johnny Rodin6. Fathers' Activism in Contemporary Ukraine: Contradictory Positions on Gender Equality / Iman Karzabi7. Down and Out in a "Femo-Fascist" State: the Czech Fathers' Discussion Forum / Steven Saxonberg 8. Resisting Mandatory Vaccination: the Formation of the "Informed Parent" in the Czech Republic / Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova9. From Tired Parents to NGO Advocacy for Children with Intellectual Disabilities: The Case of the Baltic States / Egle Sumskiene10. The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic / Ema Hresanova11. Parents Rebelling against the State: Emotions and Images in the Hungarian Home-Birth Movement / Katalin Fabian12. Regional and Theoretical Lessons: New Perspectives on Civil Societies and Ambiguities toward the State, the West, and Gender Equality / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta KorolczukIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe editors and individual authors have done a masterful job creating a critical framework for the study of civil society and grassroots activism in the postcommunist period, and this volume should be an important starting point for students and scholars looking to advance this topic further. * Women East-West *Bringing together 11 case studies that encompass Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Baltics and Russia, this volume challenges us to think differently about civil society, masculinity, parenting, biological citizenship and the relevance of the label 'post-communist' studies. * Europe-Asia Studies *Extensively researched, with a very solid literature review tosupport and explain the positions of the editors and the volume'scontributors and how their research differs from and builds on existingscholarship, this volume will be an important addition not only to anyuniversity library collection but also a valuable reading both forscholars researching the impact of globalization on gender and civilsociety and for any undergraduate or graduate course dealing not onlywith Central and Eastern Europe but gender studies in general. * Hungarian Studies Review *A thought provoking, timely and highly relevant collection. * Hungarian Cultural Studies *These valuable case studies show how initially amorphous groups can be empowered by finding or being given greater cultural, financial, or political footing. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Rebellious Parents in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta Korolczuk1. Nationalism and Civicness in Contemporary Russia: Grassroots Mobilization in Defense of Traditional Family Values / Tova Hojdestrand2. "For the Sake of Our Children's Future": A Conservative Parents' Mobilization in Ukraine / Olena Strelnyk3. (Un)deserving Parents: Constructing Parenthood and Nation in Bulgaria through New Reproductive Technologies / Ina Dimitrova4. In the Name of the Family and Nation: Framing Fathers' Activism in Poland / Elzbieta Korolczuk and Renata E. Hryciuk5. Civil Society and Fatherhood in the Borderlands: Promoting Active Fathers in Russian Daddy-Schools / Pelle Aberg and Johnny Rodin6. Fathers' Activism in Contemporary Ukraine: Contradictory Positions on Gender Equality / Iman Karzabi7. Down and Out in a "Femo-Fascist" State: the Czech Fathers' Discussion Forum / Steven Saxonberg 8. Resisting Mandatory Vaccination: the Formation of the "Informed Parent" in the Czech Republic / Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova9. From Tired Parents to NGO Advocacy for Children with Intellectual Disabilities: The Case of the Baltic States / Egle Sumskiene10. The Natural Childbirth Movement in the Czech Republic / Ema Hresanova11. Parents Rebelling against the State: Emotions and Images in the Hungarian Home-Birth Movement / Katalin Fabian12. Regional and Theoretical Lessons: New Perspectives on Civil Societies and Ambiguities toward the State, the West, and Gender Equality / Katalin Fabian and Elzbieta KorolczukIndex

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Book SynopsisMusic in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins.Trade Review"Inna Naroditskaya's new collection, Music in the American Diasporic Wedding, focuses on the role of music in the often-delicate negotiations surrounding weddings in immigrant communities. Each article beautifully unpacks the ins and outs of the often-contradictory hopes, dreams, and multiple identities of various couples as they work towards this hallmark of American romantic love. Filled with sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes hilarious portraits of well-made plans, often gone awry, this collection places music at the heart of these ceremonies, ultimately seeing it as a sounded source of reconciliation."—Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and GenderTable of ContentsPart I.1. Kay Shelemay, "From Generation to Generation: Musical Traditions and Political Negotiations in Weddings of the African Horn and Its Diaspora"2. Kaley Mason, "Music Specialists, Wedding work, and the Politics of Intimate Recognition in Chicago's South Asian Communities"3. Carol Silverman, "Negotiating Gender, Community, and Ethnicity: Balkan Romani Transnational Weddings"Part II.4. Meredith Schweig, "Sounding the Harmonious Union: Musical Notes on a Taiwanese and Jewish American Wedding"5. Natalie Zelensky, "Of Brides and Balalaikas: Playing 'Diaspora' in the Russian-American Wedding"6. Adriana Helbig, "Singing Out: Gay Weddings in Diaspora"Part III.7. Shayna Silverstein, "(Re)Mixed Bridal Beats: Arab Dabke, Islamic Hiphop and the Politics of Difference in Arab-American Chicago"8. Andrew Eisenberg, "Wedding Soundtracks and Diasporic Consciousness among Kenyans in the U.S."9. Inna Naroditskaya, "Big Fat Diasporic Weddings: Music, Cinema, TV"

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Book SynopsisMusic in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins.Trade Review"Inna Naroditskaya's new collection, Music in the American Diasporic Wedding, focuses on the role of music in the often-delicate negotiations surrounding weddings in immigrant communities. Each article beautifully unpacks the ins and outs of the often-contradictory hopes, dreams, and multiple identities of various couples as they work towards this hallmark of American romantic love. Filled with sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes hilarious portraits of well-made plans, often gone awry, this collection places music at the heart of these ceremonies, ultimately seeing it as a sounded source of reconciliation."—Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and GenderTable of ContentsPart I.1. Kay Shelemay, "From Generation to Generation: Musical Traditions and Political Negotiations in Weddings of the African Horn and Its Diaspora"2. Kaley Mason, "Music Specialists, Wedding work, and the Politics of Intimate Recognition in Chicago's South Asian Communities"3. Carol Silverman, "Negotiating Gender, Community, and Ethnicity: Balkan Romani Transnational Weddings"Part II.4. Meredith Schweig, "Sounding the Harmonious Union: Musical Notes on a Taiwanese and Jewish American Wedding"5. Natalie Zelensky, "Of Brides and Balalaikas: Playing 'Diaspora' in the Russian-American Wedding"6. Adriana Helbig, "Singing Out: Gay Weddings in Diaspora"Part III.7. Shayna Silverstein, "(Re)Mixed Bridal Beats: Arab Dabke, Islamic Hiphop and the Politics of Difference in Arab-American Chicago"8. Andrew Eisenberg, "Wedding Soundtracks and Diasporic Consciousness among Kenyans in the U.S."9. Inna Naroditskaya, "Big Fat Diasporic Weddings: Music, Cinema, TV"

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Book SynopsisBarbara M. Cooper sets out to understand childbirth in Niger, a country with the world's highest fertility rate and an alarmingly high rate of maternal and infant mortality.Trade ReviewCountless Blessings shows how women in Niger and in West Africa have long navigated the various states of social value, personhood, spirituality, and childbirth, and it paints a remarkable picture of how contested and embodied the social and material concerns of childbirth remain for women today. -- Ampson Hagan, Univeristy of North Carolina-Chapel Hill * IJAHS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsGlossary of ethnonyms, acronyms and foreign termsIntroduction1. Environment, Seduction and Fertility2. Tensions in the Wake of Conquest: Gender and Reproduction after Abolition3. Personhood, Socialization and Shame4. Colonial Accounting5. Perils of Pregnancy and Childbirth 6. Producing Healthy Babies and Healthy Laborers7. Feminists, Islamists and Demographers8. Let's talk about Bastards9. Contemporary Sexuality and ChildbirthConclusion: Traveling Companions and Entrustments in Contemporary NigerWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisBarbara M. Cooper sets out to understand childbirth in Niger, a country with the world's highest fertility rate and an alarmingly high rate of maternal and infant mortality.Trade ReviewCountless Blessings shows how women in Niger and in West Africa have long navigated the various states of social value, personhood, spirituality, and childbirth, and it paints a remarkable picture of how contested and embodied the social and material concerns of childbirth remain for women today. -- Ampson Hagan, Univeristy of North Carolina-Chapel Hill * IJAHS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsGlossary of ethnonyms, acronyms and foreign termsIntroduction1. Environment, Seduction and Fertility2. Tensions in the Wake of Conquest: Gender and Reproduction after Abolition3. Personhood, Socialization and Shame4. Colonial Accounting5. Perils of Pregnancy and Childbirth 6. Producing Healthy Babies and Healthy Laborers7. Feminists, Islamists and Demographers8. Let's talk about Bastards9. Contemporary Sexuality and ChildbirthConclusion: Traveling Companions and Entrustments in Contemporary NigerWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisAging in a transnational eraTrade ReviewThis is a book that is accessible as well as significant, fun to read and with important applications to both theory and practice in several domains. . . . Many of Lamb's informants are memorable and illustrate her point that agency remains among elders, that it is not just youth who initiate and think well about social change. The photos add to the quality of immediacy and liveliness. This is a recommended reading!February 2010 * H-Asia Reviews *Aging and the Indian Diaspora is lucidly written and solidly argued. . . . It should enjoy a wide readership among scholars of cross-cultural gerontology, as well as among those concerned with issues of family change among middle-class diasporic communities in the contemporary world. The book is also very well suited for classroom use, especially in advanced undergraduate courses on either of these topics. Vol. 112, No. 4, December 2010 * American Anthropologist *Lamb has produced a very easy to read, engaging, and good book. . . . [She] is able to capture a good deal about the culture of, and family relationships in, Bengali middle class families. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and Transliteration1. Introduction: The Remaking of Aging2. The Production of Tradition, Modernity, and a New Middle Class3. The Rise of Old Age Homes in India4. Becoming an Elder-Abode Member5. Tea and the Forest: Making a Western Institution Indian6. Living Alone as a Way of Life7. Moving Abroad8. Changing Families and the StateAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The problem with America’s family order today is a failure to recognize genuine goods—and looking to the founding, Dabling shows, helps us to see dynamic models for reinvigorating family life. An indispensable book for anyone interested in reviving the family today.” —Scott Yenor, author of Family PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction: How Autonomy Conquered Love 1. Statecraft and the Background of American Marriage 2. The Founding of American Marriage 3. Coverture and Divorce Law Through the Progressive Era 4. Tocqueville’s Democratic Woman in the Early Republic 5. Divorce and Enduring Consent 6. Polygamy, Despotism and Marital Unity 7. Free Love and Marital Love: John Humphrey Noyes and Nathaniel Hawthorne 8. As Long as You Both Shall Choose: Marriage in the Progressive Era Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhile adding an engrossing new chapter to the story of the Salvadoran civil war and its long aftermath, Missing Mila, Finding Family deepens our understanding of the issues involved in international adoptions and the desire of birth families to find their disappeared sons and daughters.Trade Review"The greatest contribution of this book, aside from the fact that the Ward and Escobar/Coto families' stories are compelling in their own right, is the telling of an ultimately courageous narrative about what is possible in the aftermath of atrocious human rights violations in Central America. Not just gangs of torturers, mafias of demobilized militaries, the victories of neoliberalism, and mass migration, but rich, complex lives marked by possibility and - if one can say it without being trite - healing." - Laura Briggs, University of Massachusetts "One of the most remarkable books I've read this year is Missing Mila, Finding Family by Margaret Ward, which leaves me with a strong sense that the adoption debate could be - should be - different. It is also a profoundly particular - and hence human - story about how two families, one Salvadoran, one in the U.S., work through their understanding of a wrenching series of events, including death, adoption, and the loss of a child, and somehow come out the other side with an extraordinary measure of grace...The greatest contribution of this book, though, aside from the fact that the Ward's and Escobar/Coto's families' stories are compelling in their own right, is the telling of an ultimately courageous narrative about what is possible in the aftermath of atrocious human rights violations in Central America." - Laura Briggs, somebodyschildren.comTable of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue. Dalila's Hammock: San Salvador, El Salvador, February 2005 Part One. Our Story Chapter One. Adoption: Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May–June 1983 Chapter Two. Rediscovery: Massachusetts, August–December 1997 Chapter Three. Reunion: Heredia, Costa Rica, December 1997 Part Two. Their Stories Chapter Four. Putting the Pieces Together, 1952–1992 Interlude. Mi flor favorita/My Favorite Flower Chapter Five. Imagining Mila: New Hampshire, Summer 2007 Interlude. La Guerra verdadera/The True War Chapter Six. The Disappeared Children of El Salvador Interlude. Perfect World Epilogue. One Story Appendix I. Abbreviations and Acronyms Appendix II. Family Names Notes References and Suggested Reading

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Book SynopsisA contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.Trade ReviewFatherhood in the Borderlands is a true joy to read--a page turner! The autoethnographic, epistemic, and creative space of the author’s storytelling; the theorizing; and the deep and engaged readings of key film and literary texts in the Chicanx borderlands pantheon of creative/cultural production are all beautifully realized. Perez’s book will be a huge hit. -- Arturo J. Aldama, University of Colorado Boulder, author of Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for RepresentationThis book is personal and necessary. Domino Perez makes a disrupting gesture with Fatherhood in the Borderlands that is deliberate and thoughtful. It is a bold decision to make it a many-faceted work—there is no other book like Perez’s, with its amalgam of beautiful insights and tremendous depth. -- Christopher González, Southern Methodist University, author of Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a LiteratureTable of Contents Preface: The Slow Lowdown Introduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other Fictions Part I. Sourcing Authority Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male Power Personal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father” Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea’s In Search of Snow Part II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were Aztecs Film: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in La Mission Literature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa Part III. Fantasmas and Fronteras Literature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) Fictions Film: Meta and Mutant Fathers Personal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the Truth Conclusion: Fathers and Futurity Parting Shot Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited and Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisThe civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institution of marriage has emerged as a critical means of building alliances between dispersed segments of Tamil communities, allowing scattered groups to reunite across national borders. Maunaguru explores how these fragmented communities were rekindled by connections fostered by key participants in and elements of the marriage process, such as wedding photographers, marriage brokers, legal documents, and transit places. Marrying for a Future contributes to transnational and diaspora marriage studies by looking at the temporary spaces through which migrants and refugees travel in addition to their home and host countries. It provides a new conceptual framework for studies on kinship and marriage and addresses a commTrade Review"Brilliant . . . The book is a clear, fresh portrait of the Tamil community as phoenix; [Maunaguru's] fieldwork is a carefully observed aggregation of community tendernesses in the face of the often-cold bureaucracies around migration and marriage." -- V.V. Ganeshananthan * Himal Southasian magazine *"Sidharthan Maunaguru’s evocative ethnography is both modern and classic." * Contributions to Indian Sociology *"[I]nsightful and innovative." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisThe civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institution of marriage has emerged as a critical means of building alliances between dispersed segments of Tamil communities, allowing scattered groups to reunite across national borders. Maunaguru explores how these fragmented communities were rekindled by connections fostered by key participants in and elements of the marriage process, such as wedding photographers, marriage brokers, legal documents, and transit places. Marrying for a Future contributes to transnational and diaspora marriage studies by looking at the temporary spaces through which migrants and refugees travel in addition to their home and host countries. It provides a new conceptual framework for studies on kinship and marriage and addresses a commTrade Review"Brilliant . . . The book is a clear, fresh portrait of the Tamil community as phoenix; [Maunaguru's] fieldwork is a carefully observed aggregation of community tendernesses in the face of the often-cold bureaucracies around migration and marriage." -- V.V. Ganeshananthan * Himal Southasian magazine *"Sidharthan Maunaguru’s evocative ethnography is both modern and classic." * Contributions to Indian Sociology *"[I]nsightful and innovative." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n excellent record of the effects of Chinse-style modernization on families and relationships in a representative rural area...Anyone interested in the modernization of rural areas, in China or elsewhere, should read this book." * Choice *"Chinese Village Life Today is a concise and persuasive read, and the author effectively conveys his findings from nearly 20 years of fieldwork. Among the book’s many interventions, three innovative aspects of it stand out: first, its analytical shift to the “rural” for studying migration and the world of work; second, its focus on the negotiation of “intimate choices” and how changing economic and political relations shape this process; and third, its longitudinal and multi-sited methodology that offers a template for other scholars researching social change in developing countries." * Society for the Anthropology of Work *"[T]he book makes a distinct contribution to ongoing efforts in social science to respect the perspectives of marginal groups and to present the complexities of social structural transformation." * The China Journal *"Beautifully written...Interweaving vibrant stories of the lives of Harmony Cave villagers with insightful analyses of processes of social, cultural, political, and economic transformation and sophisticated engagement with anthropological theories, Santos shows that it is still possible to write a rich, vivid village ethnography that is also contemporary and deeply intertwined with broader national and global processes." * Anthropos *

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Book SynopsisQuestions conventional assumptions about premodern conjugal relationshipsAlthough commonly associated with patriarchal oppression, arranged marriages have adapted over the centuries to changing cultural norms and the lived experiences of men and women. In Arranged Companions, historian Weijing Lu chronicles how marital behaviors during the early and High Qing (mid-seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries) were informed by rich and complex traditions and mediated by the historical conditions of the period, during which marital affection was celebrated as a basic ingredient of an ideal marriage. Lu finds public representation and private communication of marital affection in personal records, including poetry, biographies, letters, and memoirs. During this unique historical moment, ideals of marital companionship and love came to fruition while social changes also created new tensions for couples and extended families. Offering surprising revelations about conjugal relations during

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Book SynopsisExamines transformations in the realm of intimacy and the conflicts - the 'intimate troubles' - to which these changes give rise. This book focuses on the overlap of public and private and asks the question, what impact does the increasingly public character of personal life have on our sense of ourselves and on how we view our intimate choices?Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1/ Intimate Troubles 2/ Postmodern Intimacies: New Lives in a Late Modern World 3/ Culture Wars and Contested Intimacies 4/ The New Theories of Citizenship 5/ Public Intimacies, Private Citizens 6/ Dialogic Citizenship 7/ Stories and the Grounded Moralities of Everyday Life 8/ Globalizing Intimate Citizenship 9/ The Intimate Citizenship Project Notes Bibliography Index of Names Subject Index

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Book SynopsisAs state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution. Reading popular divorce narratives in fiction, film, and TV drama, this book shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China.Trade Review"For those who do not study contemporary China or for those who need English translations or subtitles to gain access to these stories and films, this book is a gold mine...[B]ecause Xiao so frequently engages European social theory and film criticism, the book addresses the urgent need to integrate Chinese experiences and analyses into intellectual discourse that focuses primarily on the literature and films of the Americas and Europe." -- Deborah Davis * Journal of Asian Studies *"Hui Faye Xiao makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the cultural representation of marital strife in contemporary China….Combining insightful aesthetic understanding of literature and visual culture with a savvy engagement of knowledge from sociology and cultural anthropology, Xiao’s book presents important scholarship on the gendered reading of postsocialist Chinese modernity with a genealogical approach." -- Yipeng Shen * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"Through the lense of divorce narratives in literature and visual culture, the book produces an in-depth cultural study of the 'family revolution' in the People’s Republic of China between 1980 and 2010.... Divorce culture, as [Xiao's] skillful reading shows, reveals postsocialist subjects’ eager desire to move forward to a utopic future, but it always fails to deliver in reality.... Family Revolution is a well-researched book with a coherent structure, theoretically informed arguments, and intriguing close reading, making it a wonderful addition to the scholarship on postsocialist Chinese culture and/or Chinese women’s and gender studies." -- Ping Zhu * H-Asia (H-Net) *"Xiao is to be lauded for offering this thought-provoking volume, which analyzes “family” as a historically-situated and ideologically-mediated social institution with multifarious meanings vis-à-vis the postsocialist Chinese state-market-culture nexus." -- Yipeng Shen * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Divorcing the Rural 2. Midlife Crisis and Misogynist Rhetoric 3. Utopia or Dystopia? 4. What Quality Do Chinese Wives Lack? 5. Seeking Second Chances in a Risk Society 6. A New Divorce Culture Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the varying conceptions of an institution that was central to ancient social and political life-and remains prominent in the modern world. This book contributes to understanding of the era and will fascinate anyone interested in depictions of marriage and the role and status of women in the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.Trade ReviewA highly original group of essays. The authors (as well as the editors) have splendidly accomplished their goal of documenting how close study of the language and iconography, and careful scrutiny of artistic and literary qualities and allusions, illuminate evolving attitudes about marriage. They have made a major contribution to the study of marriage in Greco-Roman antiquity." —Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park"Illuminating. Presents a good mixture of work by an international array of senior and midcareer scholars." —Sarah B. Pomeroy, Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City of New York

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Book SynopsisThe famous polymath Plutarch often discussed the relationship between spouses in his works. In this collection, leading scholars explore the marital views expressed in Plutarch’s works and the art, philosophy, and literature produced by his contemporaries and predecessors.

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Book SynopsisAn erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our livesthe bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place to monk's cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot's engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroombirth, sex, illness, deathin its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.Trade Review“[A] fascinating book” —Helen Davies, The Sunday Times“A thrilling survey of bedrooms across the centuries takes in sex and privacy, God and glamour, rest and death” — Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian“An essay on the bedroom, the room turned askance and viewed via its various uses, turns into a history of privacy and what, exactly, identity, comfort, sequestration and ownership might have meant through the ages to writers as diverse as the Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka and Emily Dickinson — and to those denied a room of their own.”— Lucy Watson, Financial Times“Charming and evocative book” —Francesca Carington, Tatler“Bedrooms are spaces of desires and dreams, but also of entrapment and death. In this elegant and imaginative book, Michelle Perrot traces the complex history of an intimate space in which we spend a third of our life.”—Daniel Juette, New York University“This stunningly original, evocative, and beautiful book is the brilliant work of Michelle Perrot, one of the most accomplished historians of our time. ‘The flowers of the imagination’ bloom in bedrooms, places for contemplation and writing, sites of silence and secrecy. This is a marvelous, engaging study.”—John Merriman, Yale University “Packed with erudite detail yet as enticing as a half-open bedroom door, this elegant book reveals the intimate history of the nursery and the boudoir, the monk’s cell and the royal chamber.”—Joanna Scutts, author of The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It “Michelle Perrot has written a deeply researched, beautiful, and narratively absorbing history of the bedroom that captures all the romance, tension, and violence that has taken place in this most intimate of human spaces.”—Rachel Syme, Writer

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Book Synopsis"A reader-friendly guide to how people can build success out of the stress and adversity of divorce."—Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, London

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Book SynopsisFrom The New York Times best-selling author and host of Hidden Brain comes a counterintuitive, thought-provoking exploration of deception's role in human success.Trade Review"A lively and digestible book... Perhaps the book’s most important point advises how to combat destructive delusions." -- The Wall Street Journal"In this scientifically informed, provocative and stylish study of self-deception, written with journalist Bill Mesler, [Shankar Vedantam] explores the risks and benefits of the lies we tell ourselves to preserve self-worth, relationships and social structures." -- Andrew Robinson, Five of the Week's Best Science Picks - Nature"Powerful… [Vedantam] explains the phenomenon of deceit in general, and self-deception in particular, with the same plain language and gentle authority that his listeners have come to rely on." -- Katie Hafner - The Washington Post"Vedantam and Mesler pepper hard data with compelling stories to make their case. Vedantam’s empathy and intuitive understanding of human nature, which shine on his popular “Hidden Brain” podcast, come through in ‘Useful Delusions’." -- The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisHow do couples get beyond the reactivity and blaming that destroy self-esteem and good will? How can couples sort out the multiple layers and complexities in their relationships? Is it possible to move from impasse to dialogue?

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Book SynopsisScientists, clinicians and mindfulness teachers discuss training the mind to bring more health and resiliency to our lives.

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Book SynopsisChildren and Families in Communities: Theory, Research and Policy contains the latest research on the relationship between children, families and communities and explores policy and practice implications. Material for practitioners and community development workers is also included.Trade Review"... a first rate book, which can be both read and applied." (Community Care, August 2006) "This book offers a wealth of thought-provoking material written in a clear and accessible style." (Children & Society, Volume 21, 2007)Table of ContentsAbout the Authors. Foreword. Preface. 1 Introduction. 2 Theories of Community Influence. 3 Assessing Neighbourhood and Community Characteristics. 4 The Influence of Neighbourhood and Community Characteristics on Families and Children. 5 Children and Young People in Communities. 6 Community Interventions and Policy. 7 Community Interventions Aimed at Early Child Development and Parenting Problems. 8 Children’s Participation in Community Consultation and Planning. 9 Schools as Communities and Schools within Communities. 10 Community Based Approaches to Youth Safety and Juvenile Crime. 11 Conclusions. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe next best thing tonothaving a brother (as I do not) is to have Brothers. Gay Talese Here is a tapestry of stories about the complex and unique relationship that exists between brothers. In this book, some of our finest authors take an unvarnished look at how brothers admire and admonish, revere and revile, connect and compete, love and war with each other. With hearts and minds wide open, and, in some cases, with laugh-out-loud humor, the writers tackle a topic that is as old as the Bible and yet has been, heretofore, overlooked. Contributors range in age from twenty-four to eighty-four, and their stories from comic to tragic. Brothers examines and explores the experiences of love and loyalty and loss, of altruism and anger, of competition and compassionthe confluence of things that conspire to form the unique nature of what it is to be and to have a brother. Brother. One of our eternal and quintessential terms of endearment. Tobias WolfTable of ContentsFrank Mccourtforeword xi Benjamin Cheever and Fred Cheevercivil war 1 David Kaczynskimissing parts 15 David Maranissthe sensations of jim 31 Phillip Lopatemy brother, life (with apologies to pasternak) 41 Mikal Gilmoresecrets and bones 49 Richard Fordwe were men 59 Ethan Caninamerican beauty 65 John Edgar Widemandoing time 85 Chris Bohjalianmy brother’s a keeper 91 Daniel Menakerheadlock 97 Pete Hamilla drinking life 113 David Sedarisyou can’t kill the rooster 117 Geoffrey Wolffheavy lifting 125 Tobias Wolffa brother’s story 141 Charles D’Ambrosiodocuments 149 Jim Shepardget away from me 157 James Hurstthe scarlet ibis 167 Steven V. Robertsthe roberts boys 173 Dominick Dunnea death in the family 183 Floyd Sklootjambon dreams 195 Jay Neugeborenimagining robert 209 Herbert Goldking of the cleveland beatniks 221 Gregory Orrthe accident 231 Jerald Walkersacraments of reconciliation 243 Darin Strausschang and eng 251 Nathaniel Rich and Simon Richbrothers on brotherhood 257 About The Editor And Contributors 263 Acknowledgments 269 Sources And Permissions 271

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Book SynopsisAcclaim for Painful Partings . . . A rare triple threat book--for professionals, students, andlaypersons. Sensitive--wise--comprehensive, Schwartz and Kaslow''swork represents a maturing of a realistic stance toward divorce.--William C. Nichols, EdD, ABPP Atlanta, Georgia This articulate, compassionate, and informed book is essentialreading for all therapists who work with divorced or divorcingfamilies. Scholarly, yet readable, its developmental frameworkgives coherence to an often confusing area of practice. --AugustusY. Napier, PhD Director, The Family Workshop, Atlanta,Georgia [Painful Partings] masters both the legal and mental health issuesof divorce. --Judge Joseph L. Steinberg Superior Court, State ofConnecticut, Regional Family Trial Docket Obtaining a legal divorce may seem fairly straightforward.Emotional divorce, on the other hand, is a much more complicatedprocess. In this book, the reader is taken step by painful stepinto the process of Table of ContentsWHAT PRECEDES THE PARTING? A Family Systems Framework and Life-Cycle Perspective. STAGES AND PHASES OF THE SEPARATION AND DIVORCE PROCESS. Separation and Divorce: An Overview. Individual Differences and Their Impact on Resolution. Therapeutic Issues and Interventions During the DivorceProcess. The Legal Aspects of Divorce. The Economic Issues in Divorce. Parenting and Child Custody Issues. Spiritual and Religious Aspects of Divorce. CONSEQUENCES OF DIVORCE: THE COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL DIVORCE. An Overview of the Aftermath. Effects of Divorce on the Children. Getting on with Life. THE PSYCHIC DIVORCE: HEALING AND CLOSURE. Toward Integration and Wholeness. Appendices. References. Indexes.

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Book SynopsisIn his acclaimed book A Theory of Personality Development, Luciano L''Abate introduced a revolutionary theory of personality development and functioning that departed radically from traditional theories. In place of hypothetical traits existing in an empirical vacuum, Dr. L''Abate offered an image of observable interpersonal competencies functioning within the basic contexts of home, work, leisure, and the marketplace. Central to his theory was a developmental model that posited the family as the primordial setting in which propensities are formed and behavior patterns set. By defining personality in terms of the growth and interplay of interpersonal competencies, the L''Abate theory provided an epistemologically and empirically sound basis for understanding personality function and dysfunction as corollaries and extensions of one another. In The Self in the Family, Luciano L''Abate and Margaret Baggett again break new ground by expanding the L''Abate theory of personality developmTable of ContentsSUMMARY AND EXPANSION OF THE THEORY. The Family as the Context for Personality Development andSocialization. Corroborating the Theory: Independent and Indirect Evidence. Corroborating the Theory: Direct Evidence. Hurt: A Fundamental but Neglected Feeling. The Continuum of Likeness in Intimate Relationships: Theory andResearch. Linking Individual with Family Behavior: Seven Models in Search ofa Theory. EXPANSIONS OF THE THEORY TO PERSONALITY, CRIMINALITY, ANDPSYCHOPATHOLOGY. Linking Personality with Criminality and Psychopathology. Criminalities. Affective Disorders. Psychopathologies. Addictions and Psychosomatic Illnesses. APPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY TO PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS. Prevention. Crisis Interventions and the Psychotherapies. CONCLUSION. Toward a Simple Arithmetical Model for InterpersonalRelationships. Appendix. References. Indexes.

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Book SynopsisPraise for Serious Mental Illness and the Family Serious Mental Illness and the Family is unique in building assessment, intervention, and collaborative strategies around specific types of clinical cases and life scenarios. The book will be an invaluable aid to mental health professionals working with severely ill clients and their families. --Harriet P. Lefley, PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of Miami School of Medicine Dr. Marsh is very knowledgeable about families, yet is also very compassionate in her approach to the experience of families who are frequently traumatized by a mental illness in a family member. Professionals who work with families of people with mental illness will find [this] book extremely helpful in their work..a rich source of information. --LeRoy Spaniol, PhD Executive Publisher, The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Dr. Diane Marsh has given the mental health field yet another brilliant resource..any psychiatric service provider Table of ContentsBACKGROUND. Working With Families. Foundations of Professional Practice. FAMILY EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS. The Family Experience of Mental Illness. Life Span Perspectives. The Family Adaptation Process. Developing Family and Personal Action Plans. FAMILY INTERVENTIONS. Family Intervention Strategies: Family Consultation. Family Intervention Strategies: Information, Skills, andSupport. Family Interventions: Psychotherapy. Coping with Challenges. WORKING WITH INDIVIDUAL FAMILY MEMBERS. Working With Parents. Working With Spouses. Working With Siblings. Working With Offspring. Model Programs for Families. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis new series of books uses guided journal entries to help readers define and explore life challenges and stages, past behaviors, and goals for the future. These informational and inspirational personal chronicles are designed to be used independently, or with the help of a therapist. Each Healing Journey: * Is written by professional therapists, and provides expert guidance on life problems, personal insight, and psychological change. * Includes dozens of guided journal entries directed toward helping readers get in touch with their feelings, conquer life''s hurdles, and gain a better understanding of themselves and their relationships. * Features an inviting format, with ample room for readers to complete their journal entries. A creative guidebook for couples seeking a deeper understanding of their relationship--JOHN GRAY, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, on The Healing Journey for Couples. By far thTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: EXPLORING YOUR RELATIONSHIP. A Promise to Each Other. Guided Writing. A Family Affair. What Sort of Couple Are We? Mapping Your Relationship. RECORDING YOUR HISTORY. Remembering the Day... The Ten-Minute Biography. Places in Our Lives. Free-Form History. DISCOVERING ONE ANOTHER. Face-to-Face: Here's Looking at You. An Important Possession. An Unlikely Possession. Five Crucial Flaws. SHARING PERSPECTIVES. Shifting Perspectives. Blind Spots. Changing Your Partner. What's on Your Mind? COMMUNICATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING. Feedback. Expressing Yourself. What's Bothering You? Surviving Tension. Find Solutions. INTIMACY. Exploring Intimacy. Staying Alive: Rediscovering Intimacy. Senseless Acts of Intimacy. THE END AND BEGINNING OF YOUR COUPLES JOURNEY. Your Relationship Map and Beyond. Conclusion. Acknowledgments. About the Authors.

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback, this timeless treasure distills traditional wisdom for a new generation of black families. Joyce Ladner chronicles the roots and relevance of specific, African-American values and offers 100 practical recommendations for renewing their meaning in today's families, communities, and churches.Table of ContentsForeword by Dr. Dorothy I. Height. Acknowledgments. KEEPING THE PROMISE. Frank Talk About Black Values. The First Principle: Identity Determines Personal Power. The Second Principle: We Did Not Raise Ourselves Alone. The Third Principle: We Are Making the Future Together. The Fourth Principle: The Past Is Prologue. THE BLACK VALUE SYSTEM--TIMELESS TIES THAT BIND. The First Lesson: Remember Where You Came From. The Second Lesson: Trust in the Lord. The Third Lesson: Respect Is a Two-Way Street. The Fourth Lesson: Don't Make Excuses. The Fifth Lesson: Do an Honest Day's Work. The Sixth Lesson: Make a Way Out of No Way. The Seventh Lesson: Every Child Can Learn. The Eighth Lesson: Keep the Can-Do Spirit. The Ninth Lesson: Stand Tall. The Tenth Lesson: Your Word Is Your Bond. PERSONAL TRANSITIONS--THE POWER OF INTIMATE TIES. Saving Our Relationships. Loving Our Children. PASSING ON THE LEGACY. Timeless Treasures for the Family. Timeless Treasures for the School and the Community. Timeless Treasures for the Church. Timeless Treasures for the State and the Nation. Facing Tomorrow. Selected Bibliography. Resources. Index.

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Book SynopsisApproximately two-thirds of all children referred to mental health agencies are labeled conduct-disordered. Typically such children exhibit antisocial behavior -- lying, cheating, stealing, firesetting, fighting, oppositional behavior and noncompliance to parental requests -- at abnormal rates. Troubled Families -- Problem Children helps the mental-health clinician understand the most effective therapeutic processes for supporting families who have children with conduct disorders. Help for these families is particularly urgent as the children are not only at increased risk of abuse by their parents but are more likely to be involved in school dropout, alcoholism, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, etc., and also to suffer from poor physical health. From the Foreword by Thomas Ollendick What sets this book apart from others of its genre is its careful attention to, and elucidation of, the ''collaborative process'' in working with these oppositional, defiant, and conduct-Table of ContentsUNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM OF CHILD CONDUCT DISORDERS. Introduction to Child Conduct Disorders and Overview of TreatmentApproaches. Parenting a Child with Conduct Disorders: "Families UnderSiege". The Process of Assessing Families of Children with ConductDisorders. HELPING FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN WHO HAVE CONDUCT DISORDERS. Working with Parents Who Have Children with Conduct Disorders: ACollaborative Process. Helping Parents Understand Behavioral Methods and Principles. Parents Undergoing Therapy: An Experience of Gaining Knowledge andControl. Parent Intervention Content: Typical Questions. Epilogue: Future Directions. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisCare of children from abusive or neglected homes is an increasing problem in today's society. Whether children should be placed in residential care, or community care through adoption is a topic of debate. This book summarizes the results of a survey commissioned by the Department of Health.Table of ContentsBackground and Research Issues. Aims, Design, Sampling and Methodology. Outcomes After One Year in Placement. The Children's Backgrounds, Health and Behaviour. New Family Characteristics and Placement Arrangements. Preparation of the Child. Pre-placement Work with New Families. The Children's Adjustment at Home. The Development of New Relationships. The Children in School. New Parents' Experiences: Stresses and Supports, Crises andDisruptions. Post-placement Social Work Support. Parenting Approaches and Responses. Predicting Placement Stability. Implications for Practice, Policy, Management and the Law. Appendices. List of Figures. List of Tables. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisDelves into one of the enduring themes of literature - the child raised by other parents. This book combines memoir with literary and feminist scholarship, shedding light on familiar texts. It explores the ways in which novels and plays portray adoption through careful readings of works by authors from Sophocles to Barbara Kingsolver.Trade ReviewIn Reading Adoption Marianne Novy takes us back to Oedipus, that quintessential adoptee, and to Shakespeare's romance with parent-child reunions, as well as to orphans lost and found in modern English and American literature. And all the while she gives us insights into living adoption as she weaves her own story of reuniting with her birth mother, which is as absorbing as any of the fictional narratives she has guided us through. - Betty Jean Lifton, author of Journey of the Adopted Self ""Notable... and courageous - in its blending of the personal and the scholarly... a book of monumental interest."" - Carol J. Singley, Rutgers University-Camden

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Book SynopsisA study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.Table of ContentsPreface to the 1998 Edition Acknowledgments Prologue Introductions 1 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families 2 Land of Dreams and Disasters: Postindustrial Living in the Silicon Valley Book I Pamela's Kin: Feminism, Fundamentalism, and a Postmodern Extended Family 3 Pam's Revelation and Mine 4 Sprouting Some Odd Branches: A Divorce-Extended Family 5 Pamela's Children: Spirited Youth in Stressful Times 6 Global Ministries of Love and New Wave Evangelicalism 7 The Gray and Spotted Dogs Book 11 The Lewisons: High-Tech Visions and Battered Dreams 8 The Last "Modem" Family in Town 9 To Feminism and Partway Back 10 If Wishes Were Fishes: Surviving Loss in a Matrifocal Family Conclusions 11 The Postmodern Family, For Better and Worse Epilogue Taking Women at Their Word Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the phenomenon of divorce in American society, this book looks at divorce as a legal action, as an individual experience, and as a cultural symbol in its era of institutionalization. It analyzes the legal and legislative aspects of divorce and the public response to them.Trade Review"Anyone who imagines social lament over divorce to be a very recent phenomenon should read Norma Basch's book, which tells a fascinating set of stories about law and about culture in the United States, from the forging of divorce provision in the Revolutionary era to the moral ambiguities and acknowledged hypocrisies it caused a century later. Tacking between the social facts of rising divorce and the alarmed or enthusiastic commentary on it, Framing American Divorce guides us through the social landscape of nineteenth-century America, a tour of shifting hierarchies in which anxieties about increasing personal freedom were as powerful as desires for it." - Nancy Cott, author of The Grounding of Modern Feminism

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Book SynopsisBecause low birth weight is often accompanied by social risk factors such as minority racial status, low education, young maternal age, and low income, the question of causes and consequences - of precisely how biological and social factors figure into this equation - becomes especially tricky to sort out. This title answers this question.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments 1. The Baby or the Egg? Birth Weight and the Gene-Environment Divide 2. John Henry, Black Mayors, and Silver Spoons: Race and the Inheritance of Birth Weight 3. What Money Can and Can't Buy: Income and Infant Health 4. Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight, Infant Mortality, and Educational Achievement 5. Reconsidering Risk: Biosocial Policy Implications Appendix A: Data, Variables, and Methods Appendix B: Tables Notes Bibliography Index Figures

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Book SynopsisBridging literary conventions, this work explores the cultural origins of a quiet revolution that occurred over the course of the twentieth century. It combines novelistic and ethnographic techniques to illuminate population dynamics that have raised alarm across Europe and the US, and manifested, for example, in Italy's extremely low birthrate.Trade Review"Has the power and persuasiveness of a beautifully narrated story, one that can make you laugh and cry like life itself." European History Qtly "A thought-provoking and magnificently crafted piece of work... [Krause's] narrative is both descriptive and hauntingly alive." -- Lauren E. Forcucci H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Cast of Characters Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: History Imagined 1. Postcards 2. Abandoned 3. Telling Time 4. Fascist Folk 5. Giotto's Circle 6. Blood Relations 7. Chains 8. Rations 9. War Country 10. Resistance 11. American Chocolates 12. Only One Part II: Memory Encountered 13. Neighbors 14. A Weaver's Tale 15. Progress 16. Singles' Sexuality 17. Amazing Grace 18. A Burning Question 19. Generation Gap 20. "Wet" and Hidden Economies Epilogue Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisProbes the experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. This book shows how surrogates and intended mothers negotiate their cooperative endeavor. It traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a transition to motherhood.Trade Review"[A] thoughtful ethnography, possessing fluid yet technical writing that reads like a page-turning novel." Practical Matters "Teman does a superb job ... and in places her book reads like a novel." -- Michele Pridmore-Brown Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "A great anthropological case study." -- Deborah Moon Jewish Review Of Books "Academic and well-researched, moving and sensitive." -- Judy Siegel-Itzkovich The Jerusalem Post "Teman offers us fascinating data, on a disturbing situation, in a deliberately uncritical way." -- Barbara Katz Rothman Sociology Of Health & Illness "Clear, engaging writing ... [Teman] presents the subject in a narrative form that keeps the reader excited to be turning pages." -- Robbie Davis-Floyd Birth: Issues In Perinatal CareTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Yael Introduction Part One: Dividing 1. Surrogate Selves and Embodied Others 2. The Body Map 3. Operationalizing the Body Map Part Two: Connecting 4. Intended Mothers and Maternal Intentions 5. The Shifting Body Part Three: Separating 6. Rites of Classification 7. The Surrogate's Gift Part Four: Redefining 8. The Surrogate's Mission 9. The Hero's Quest Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated 'rust belt' of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, this title shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity.Trade Review"Dewey contributes to a growing wave of qualitative research on the sex industry." Choice "Fresh... As keen as it is thorough... Neon Wasteland is a provocative, highly readable analysis." -- Kate W. Read & Yasmina Katsulis, Arizona State University Tempe Social & Cultural GeographyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Feminized Labor and the Classed Body 3. Everyday Survival Strategies 4. Being a Good Mother in a "Bad" Profession 5. Pseudointimacy and Romantic Love 6. Calculating Risks, Surviving Danger 7. Body Work and the Feminization of Poverty 8. Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the 'shadow mothers' they hire. The author illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship.Trade Review"Offers surprising and layered insights into the ... modern mommy phenomenon played out every day from coast to coast." Boston Globe "Sparks important insights for mother-employers and their employees... And along the way, it offers society and individuals a way to create positive mother-childcare worker relationships." Foreword "An interesting read... [Macdonald's] findings are thought-provoking" -- Kate Burns Law Society JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Childcare on Trial 2. Mother-Employers: Blanket Accountability at Home and at Work 3. Nannies on the Market 4. "They're Too Poor and They All Smoke": Ethnic Logics and Childcare Hiring Decisions 5. Managing a Home-Centered Childhood: Intensive Mothering by Proxy 6. Creating Shadow Mothers 7. The "Third-Parent" Ideal 8. Nanny Resistance Strategies 9. Partnerships: Seeking a New Model 10. Untangling the Mother-Nanny Knot Appendix: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index Contents Preface

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