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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Au Pair
Book Synopsis* Danny Miller is one of the leading anthropologists in the world today and is a key figure in the study of material culture. * This book is unique: it is the first attempt to analyse in detail the life of the au pair and the families for whom they work.Trade Review“A great read and an intriguing academic study … Rich in content not only for anyone who thinks about employing or becoming an au pair, but also for everyone scientifically interested in an ethnography of this specific institution.” Anthropos "Pick up this book when you want a guilt-free escape from your day-to-day academic work. This is a vivid and engaging account of the life of Slovak au pairs in London. Written for the specialist and non-specialist alike, it offers great insight into the problems of intercultural communication, structured by the fundamental contradictions of the institution of the au pair." Journal of Intercultural Studies "Miller and Burikova's criticisms are all too real" The Times "A highly engaging read, which begs the question: why is more scholarly work not written in this way?" Social & Cultural Geography "A useful resource for all interested in both migration and gender studies. It challenges steretypes on the one hand of the au pair as an uneducated, poor and sexualised object and of host parents as cold, uncaring and exploitative on the other. It provides a huge amount of rich ethnographic data that challenge readers to think differently about family life, domestic tasks and the migration of young women." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies "With its fine-grained ethnographic detail, skillfully presented in vivid prose, this book illuminates every aspect of the hopes, fantasies and frustrations that constitute the frequently troubled ties and misunderstandings between au pairs and their employers. A huge pleasure to read, Au Pair provides a definitive, indispensable text for addressing this increasingly prevalent facet of family life, with its own suggestions for improving the lives of both au pairs and the families in which they reside." Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College and author of Why Feminism? "A long overdue book that deals sensitively with the experiences of both au pairs and host families. It moves between individual stories and their social context to reveal the tensions and the potential of this unique relationship." Bridget Anderson, University of OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Prologue 1 1 Why Not? 5 2 An Embarrassing Presence 32 3 The Hard Work and the Soft Touch 60 4 Sort of English 87 5 Bored in Beddlingham 114 6 Men 137 7 Out of Time 156 8 Conclusion: Structure, Behaviour and Consequence 171 Appendix: Academic Studies of Domestic Labour 184 References 200 Index 204
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Children in China
Book SynopsisChinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades and processes of social and economic change are reshaping the lives of children and the meanings of childhood in complex, contradictory ways.Trade Review"The past twenty years have seen an explosion of research on the transformations of childhood in China. In this book, Orna Naftali gives us a masterful overview of these efforts. Drawing on her own research and the writings of others, she shows how China�s many transformations have differentially affected the lives of children from a diverse array of backgrounds."Andrew Kipnis, The Australian National University"Orna Naftali's new book is a wonderful resource for those seeking to understand how a century of revolution and reform in modern China has shaped - and continues to shape - the lives of Chinese children. Through the lens of childhood, she engages with a series of critical issues facing China today, including those related to migration, consumption, globalization and national identity."Charles Stafford, London School of Economics"This book presents a clear, engaging overview of the latest scholarship about children in China. With vivid, specific examples as well as well-supported generalizations about the situations of urban, rural, and migrant children in many different areas of China, it is the most comprehensive book about Chinese children available." Vanessa Fong, Amherst College "Naftali�s book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the mixed effects of China�s market reforms. It is a great guide for anyone interested in learning about children, education, and family relations in 21st-century China." ChoiceTable of Contents Map Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Chinese Childhood in the Modern Era Chapter 2. Raising Children in Contemporary China: Discourse and Practice Chapter 3. Children and the Effects of the One-Child Policy Chapter 4. Childhood and Consumption in the New Market Economy Chapter 5. Children in the Countryside: The Effects of Economic Reforms and Parental Migration Chapter 6. China's Migrant Children: Opportunity and Exclusion Conclusion. Chinese Childhood in the 21st Century: Current Trends and Future Directions References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Children in China
Book SynopsisChinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades and processes of social and economic change are reshaping the lives of children and the meanings of childhood in complex, contradictory ways.Trade Review"The past twenty years have seen an explosion of research on the transformations of childhood in China. In this book, Orna Naftali gives us a masterful overview of these efforts. Drawing on her own research and the writings of others, she shows how China�s many transformations have differentially affected the lives of children from a diverse array of backgrounds."Andrew Kipnis, The Australian National University"Orna Naftali's new book is a wonderful resource for those seeking to understand how a century of revolution and reform in modern China has shaped - and continues to shape - the lives of Chinese children. Through the lens of childhood, she engages with a series of critical issues facing China today, including those related to migration, consumption, globalization and national identity."Charles Stafford, London School of Economics"This book presents a clear, engaging overview of the latest scholarship about children in China. With vivid, specific examples as well as well-supported generalizations about the situations of urban, rural, and migrant children in many different areas of China, it is the most comprehensive book about Chinese children available." Vanessa Fong, Amherst College "Naftali�s book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the mixed effects of China�s market reforms. It is a great guide for anyone interested in learning about children, education, and family relations in 21st-century China." ChoiceTable of Contents Map Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Chinese Childhood in the Modern Era Chapter 2. Raising Children in Contemporary China: Discourse and Practice Chapter 3. Children and the Effects of the One-Child Policy Chapter 4. Childhood and Consumption in the New Market Economy Chapter 5. Children in the Countryside: The Effects of Economic Reforms and Parental Migration Chapter 6. China's Migrant Children: Opportunity and Exclusion Conclusion. Chinese Childhood in the 21st Century: Current Trends and Future Directions References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Against Hybridity
Book SynopsisOne of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs.Trade ReviewOpening new vistas, blazing new trails, drawing out from invisibility the forcibly fixed - that other, murky side of the glittering world of self-defining and self-asserting, as well as self-congratulating, hybrids: the collateral victims of the universal duty of market-inspired, market-promoted and market-mediated self-creation.Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds An intellectual tour de force. Hazan describes how postmodernity esteems hybridization, networking and assimilation, but at the expense of irreducible, irreconcilable and pure forms of life. He brings an ethnographer's eye to our contemporary aversion towards, and discounting of, essential objects such as the savage, the old and autistic, pain and the Holocaust. Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews "Against Hybridity is an excellent contribution to contemporary theoretical debates." American AnthropologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction: Zones and Discourses of Cultural Sturdiness 1 1 Terms of Hybridity: (Non-)Hybridization and (Anti-)Globalization 10 2 Becoming a Non-hybrid: The Very Old as Deadly Others 46 3 Impasses of Hybridity: From Liquidity to Quiddity 91 Conclusion: Bringing the Extra-Cultural Back In 131 References 144 Index 165
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McGill-Queen's University Press Mediating Moms
Book SynopsisA collection of essays showcasing intersections of mothering, the media, and popular culture.Table of ContentsContributors include Jennifer Bell (Alberta), H. Louise Davis (Miami), Irene Gammel (Ryerson), Nicola Goc (Tasmania), Fiona Joy Green (Winnipeg), Julie Gregory (Queen's), Latham Hunter (Mohawk), Joanne Ella Johnson, Hosu Kim (Staten Island), Beth O'Connor (Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing), Debra Langan (Wilfrid Laurier), Sally Mennill (British Columbia), Stuart J. Murray (Ryerson), Kathryn Pallister (Red Deer), Maud Perrier (Bristol), Lenora Perry (Texas), Dominique Russell, Jocelyn Stitt (Minnesota), Stephanie Wardrop (Western New England), Imelda Whelehan (Tasmania)
£27.90
MN - University of British Columbia Press The UnMaking of the Modern Family
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University of British Columbia Press Transforming Laws Family The Legal Recognition
Book SynopsisDrawing on the rarely heard voices of Canada’s lesbian mothers, Transforming Law’s Family explores the legal dimensions of planned lesbian parenthood and proposes avenues for legal change.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Legal and Social Context 2 On Whose Terms? On What Terms? Lesbian and Gay FamilyRecognition 3 Defining Queer Kinship: How Do Lesbian Mothers Understand TheirFamilial Relationships? 4 Engaging with Reform: Legal Mechanisms for the Recognition of theLesbian Family 5 (Re)forming Law’s Family 6 Some Concluding Thoughts on Law Reform and Progressive SocialChange Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£78.30
University of British Columbia Press Age Gender and Work
Book SynopsisA unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.Table of ContentsPart 1: Key Concepts and Methods1 Gender, Age, and Work in the New Economy / Julie McMullin and Heather Dryburgh2 Methods / Emily Jovic, Julie McMullin, and Tammy Duerden ComeauPart 2: Gender Projects and Regimes3 Firms as “Gender Regimes”: The Experiences of Women in IT Workplaces / Gillian Ranson and Heather Dryburgh4 Variants of Masculinity within Masculinist IT Workplace Regimes / Tammy Duerden Comeau and Candace L. Kemp5 Negotiating Work and Family in the IT Industry / Ingrid Arnet Connidis and Candace L. KempPart 3: Age Regimes and Projects6 Generational and Age Discourse in IT Firms / Julie McMullin, Emily Jovic, and Tammy Duerden Comeau7 Aging and Age Discrimination in IT Firms / Julie McMullin and Tammy Duerden Comeau8 Conclusion: Inequality Regimes and New Economy Work / Emily Jovic and Julie McMullinContributorsIndex
£78.30
University of British Columbia Press Age Gender and Work
Book SynopsisA unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.Table of ContentsPart 1: Key Concepts and Methods1 Gender, Age, and Work in the New Economy / Julie McMullin and Heather Dryburgh2 Methods / Emily Jovic, Julie McMullin, and Tammy Duerden ComeauPart 2: Gender Projects and Regimes3 Firms as “Gender Regimes”: The Experiences of Women in IT Workplaces / Gillian Ranson and Heather Dryburgh4 Variants of Masculinity within Masculinist IT Workplace Regimes / Tammy Duerden Comeau and Candace L. Kemp5 Negotiating Work and Family in the IT Industry / Ingrid Arnet Connidis and Candace L. KempPart 3: Age Regimes and Projects6 Generational and Age Discourse in IT Firms / Julie McMullin, Emily Jovic, and Tammy Duerden Comeau7 Aging and Age Discrimination in IT Firms / Julie McMullin and Tammy Duerden Comeau8 Conclusion: Inequality Regimes and New Economy Work / Emily Jovic and Julie McMullinContributorsIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Fraught Intimacies
Book SynopsisDrawing on media, popular culture, and recent court cases, this book examines how various forms of non-monogamy (polygamy, adultery, and polyamory) are represented in the public sphere, how some forms of non-monogamy are tolerated and others vilified, and the effects such privileging is having on intimate relationships and other aspects of contemporary Western society.Trade ReviewUndoing Monogamy and Fraught Intimacies both attempt ambitious theoretical interventions into the study of intimacy, and are indispensable resources to those already engaged in the study of non/monogamies. Through the diversity of their archives and the breadth of their thoroughly intersectional critiques, Rambukkana and Willey demonstrate that the contemporary study of non/monogamy does not, and cannot, proceed in isolation. In their discussions of non/monogamy as it appears in colonialism, border control, life sciences, comic strips and the law, these two very different books demonstrate the diverse pleasures of intellectual promiscuity. -- Jessica Kean, University of Sydney * Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 31 No. 90, March 2017 *Rambukkana’s study covers wide ground and is unusual for its relational and inter-textual analysis. His discussion not only highlights differences, but much common discursive ground across which different styles of intimacy are constructed. Rambukkana explores communalities, even if they may be uncomfortable and brush against the grain of cherished taken-for-granted wisdoms. Truly impressive is Rambukkana’s consistency in working along intersectional lines of inquiry, thereby enriching polyamory scholarship with an approach that is attentive to race, class and gender perspectives. -- C. Klesse * Sexualities *Table of ContentsPreface: Chasing Non/MonogamyIntroduction: Non/Monogamy and Intimacy in the Public Sphere1 The Space of (Intimate) Privilege2 The Adultery Industry: Autonomous Space, Heteronormativity, and Neoliberal Cheating3 Mapping Polygamy: Discourse, Reterritorialization, and Plural Marriage4 The Fraught Promise of Polyamory: New Intimate Ethics or Heterotopian Enclave?Conclusion: Non-Monogamies and the Space of DiscourseAppendix: Canada’s Criminal Code (C.26) Statutes on Bigamy and PolygamyNotesReferencesIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press The Juggling Mother
Book SynopsisThe Juggling Mother upends popular representations of the supermom, showing her to be a cultural construction and the model neoliberal worker.Trade ReviewWatson's book is a crucial, nuanced, and astute analysis of the ways in which our current capitalist system is failing mothers. -- Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, University of Toronto and Lakehead University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of Contents1 Coming Undone2 The Juggling Mother3 C-Suite Moms4 You Are What You Nurse5 Avoiding Regret6 Dropping the BallNotes; Works Cited; Index
£19.79
University of British Columbia Press House Rules Changing Families Evolving Norms and
Book SynopsisHouse Rules takes a hard look at the law and norms governing family life, compelling readers to rethink entrenched inequalities in familial relationships and proposing ways to approach legislative solutions.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction / Erez Aloni and Régine TremblayPart 1: Locating Norms1 The Private Lives of High-Wealth Families / Allison Anna Tait2 Identity Choices at the Intersections: The Inequality of Cross-Border Motherhood and What to Do about It / Chao-ju ChenPart 2: Law’s Norms3 Family Law as Expression: Financial Relief in the English Courts / Alison Diduck4 The Complex Interrelationships of Financial and Child-Related Issues in Post-separation Disputes: Gender Matters / Rachel TreloarPart 3: Norms’ Stickiness5 Familial Ideology, Privatization, and Care Arrangements for Children in the Family Law and Child Protection Systems / Wanda Wiegers6 Family, Gender, and the Public/Private Divide in the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act 1998 / Nicola BarkerPart 4: Measuring Norms7 One Myth Leads to Another: From Ignorance of the Laws to the Presumption of Informed Choice among de Facto Spouses / Hélène Belleau8 “WAR” and Other Reasons People Move In Together: Analyzing Cohabitating Relationship Progressions in British Columbia / Erez Aloni and Adam Vanzella-YangPart 5: Reforming Norms9 Measuring Success of (Family) Law Reforms / Julianna Ivanyi and Régine Tremblay10 Abolishing Family Law (as We Know It) / Brenda CossmanIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Treating Couples
Book SynopsisDesigned for therapists operating in managed care, this is a guide to treating couples with specific problems including health and life cycle issues, sexuality, parenting, domestic violence, and acute and chronic marital crises. It also targets crucial issues in specific populations.Trade Review"Therapists who want to work skillfully with couples are often confronted with a confusing array of theories, techniques, and myths. Treating Couples creatively addresses many of these challenging issues while shining a light to help therapists navigate through this confusing maze. I found this book refreshing and well worth reading for both seasoned practitioners and newcomers to the field." --Ellyn Bader, Ph.D., co-director, The Couples Institute, Menlo Park, CaliforniaTable of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. Basics of Couple Therapy(Hilda Kessler) 2. Myths in Couples Therapy(Hilda Kessler, Margaret Thaler Singer) 3. Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith Relationships(Joel Crohn) 4. The Homosexual Couple(Jack Scheimann, WAndy L. Smith) 5.Health Issues in Couples Therapy(Seymour Kessler) 6. The Difficult Couple(Steven A. Foreman) 7. Domestic Violence(Susan E. Hanks) The Parenting Couple(Vicky A. Johnson)
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Opening the Gates
Book SynopsisIn Opening the Gates, Gary Tobin challenges his fellow AmericanJews to avoid the process of entropy that could take a devastatingtoll in the Jewish community. This should be our primary task,Tobin passionately argues. Tobin confronts his community with theeye-opening reality that in order to rebuild and revitalizeJudaism in this country we must rethink our religion as somethingboth born Jews and converts must actively choose and stop blamingintermarriage for Judaism''s decline. He implores the Jewishcommunity to shift its focus from preventing intermarriage toembracing an open, positive, accessible, and joyful process ofencouraging non-Jews to become Jews. As Tobin bluntly puts it, Wemust abandon the paradigm that our children and grandchildren maybecome Gentiles and promote the thought that America is filled withmillions of potential Jews. Opening the Gates examines the role conversion should play in theJewish future. It looks at the way the Jewish community currentlyhandles Trade Review"This bold and impassioned book offers a clear-headed andunfailingly perceptive analysis of the relationship betweenwelcoming converts and a healthy Jewish future. The book should berequired reading for all concerned about that future." (Lawrence J.Epstein, president, Conversion to Judaism Resource Center) "As Tobin promises at the outset of this provocative andstimulating book, his is a controversial thesis. But it comes fromone of the most articulate thinkers on this subject, and as such,anyone seriously interested in the future of American Jewish lifesimply must factor this well-written work into their own thinking."(Dr. Daniel Gordis, dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies) "A revolutionary challenge to the American Jewish community . . .Solid thinking about achieving and maintaining religious identityin the midst of a pluralistic culture and what 'conversion' meansin such a culture. Any leader of an American congregation of anyfaith will find provocative ideas here." (The Rev. Loren B. Mead,founding president, the Alban Institute, Inc.) "Gary Tobin has written the most important and challenging book inAmerican Jewish public policy in years. People may agree ordisagree, but no one interested in contemporary Jewish life will beable to ignore this work." (Steven L. Spiegel, professor ofpolitical science, UCLA) "Gary Tobin, a leading light in Jewish communal research, embracesa provocative solution for American Jewry's continuity problem-aproactive conversion policy." (Barry A. Kosmin, director ofresearch, Institute for Jewish Policy Research) "An important book, both passionate and pragmatic, that does notcry Cassandra but recognizes the positive potentiality for Jewishrenewal through programs and designs of proactive conversion. Theauthor is involved in his subject, as both analyst and advocate.This lucidly written book is significant for serious rabbinic andlay Jews and their institutions who recognize the urgent need toredefine and revitalize Judaism and the character of Jewishpeoplehood." (Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, Valley Beth Shalom,Encino, California) "Only someone like Dr. Gary Tobin who is so well informed on thedemography of American Jewry, could call as desperately and asunequivocally as he does for a program of 'reaching out.' There isa feeling that something can be done besides witnessing thedisappearance of American Jewry, and in that sense it is one of themost optimistic books written on the subject." (Yossi Beilin,Member of the Knesset) "Opening the Gates is a truthful and insightful analysis of thecurrent issues facing the American Jewish community. Dr. Gary Tobinpresents innovative ideas and new approaches to revitalizingAmerican Judaism in the twenty-first century." (Rabbi NealWeinberg, University of Judaism) "Gary Tobin gives us a fresh, top-to-bottom investigation ofattitudes and practices regarding conversion of non-Jews. AllJewish leaders will benefit from this analysis of options andconsequences." (Dean Hoge, The Catholic University of America)Table of ContentsPreface. 1. A Community in Transition. 2. How Fear Constrains Us. 3. Preventing Disaster When We Should Be Attracting Jews. 4. Why We Believe What We Do About Conversion. 5. Walls We Have Built Against Potential Converts. 6. Rabbis at the Center of the Storm. 7. The Case for Conversion. 8. What We Do That Works. 9. How to Open the Gates. Resources. Glossary. References. The Author. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Caught in the Middle
Book SynopsisTakes a hard look at the consequences of intense conflict between divorced parents This book explores both the causes and consequences of high-level, stressful conflict between divorced parents on their children''s development. It also provides concrete advice to help parents work together to the benefit of all involved, most importantly the children.Trade Review"A timely, practical book. It is clearly written; comples family dynamics are well illustrated and made understandable...a valuable source book for legal and mental health professionals, as well as parents themselves." --Janet R. Johnston, Ph.D., Center for the Family in Transition and co-author of Impasses of DivorceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments v 1 Introduction 1 2 Why Work It Out? 11 3 Understanding Conflict Developmentally 29 4 How to Assess Conflict 41 5 Normal Visitation versus Conflict Visitation 51 6 Identifying and Understanding Parental Alienation 65 7 A Comprehensive Intervention Model for Parental Alienation 83 8 Creating a Parenting Plan for High-Conflict Divorce 101 9 Implementing the Parenting Plan 127 Appendix A: Parenting Plan 155 Appendix B: Parenting Checklist 162 Appendix C: Parenting Coordinator Agreement 168 References 173 Bibliography 178 Index 181
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Baker Publishing Group Crisis in Masculinity
Book SynopsisA call to fathers to affirm their children--even when they have never experienced affirmation from their own fathers--Crisis in Masculinity points the way to wholeness for men and the women in their lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. When a Man Walks alongside Himself2. Man in Crisis: Richard's Story3. Crisis in Masculinity without Sexual Neuroses4. What Is Masculinity?5. The Polarity and Complementarity of the Sexes5. Woman in Crisis: The Story of Richard's Wife and OthersAppendix The True Masculine and the True Feminine by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.NotesIndex
£11.39
Cornell University Press Rethinking Home Economics
Book SynopsisRethinking Home Economics documents the evolution of a profession from the home economics movement launched by Ellen Richards in the early twentieth century to the modern field renamed Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994.Trade ReviewA good treatment of home economics. * Workforce Education Forum *An excellent collection of essays.... From a variety of angles, this volume illuminates the history of science and culture, education, women, and politics in the U.S. * Choice *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Colonial Intimacies Indian Marriage in Early New
Book SynopsisIn 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely...Trade ReviewAnn Marie Plane takes an original approach to the subject of English-Indian relations in colonial America by focusing on marriage.... Plane reinterprets colonial New England's history by concluding that the English cultivated the idea of Indians as culturally different to keep Indians on the margins of English civil society.... This interesting argument allows Plane to formulate valuable, far-reaching insights into what marriage is and how it works.... The book is most illuminating... in explaining how English colonists understood and used cultural differences to create a sense of themselves. -- Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut * Journal of American History *In this historiographical context, three genuinely inspired ideas drive Ann Marie Plane's fascinating study of Native American conjugal relations in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. -- Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania * Reviews in American History *Anne Marie Plane's Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England offers a treasure of evidence and anecdotes about Native American women's and family history, reflecting years of dedication to researching a notoriously difficult subject. -- Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago * Law and History Review *Plane does a wonderful job of reading closely Indian conversion narratives and court cases for telling hints of how the Puritans transformed Indians into an immoral and inferior subclass residing on the periphery of New England society.... This is an innovative and important work, and students of the ethnohistory of early New England will need to have a look. -- Michael Leroy Oberg, SUNY, Geneseo * American Historical Review *Case studies support the author's conclusions and provide examples of real people trying to adjust to a foreign order. Recommended for undergraduate Indian and Colonial history collections. * Choice *Colonial Intimacies is a welcome addition to New England family history, providing a multicultural dimension to a field largely centered on Puritan households.... Her engaging text draws readers into a complex world of human relationships, with all the messy complications life can offer. Not the least of Plane's accomplishments is her ability to put a face on the impersonal forces of colonialism. -- Melanie Perreault, Salisbury University * William and Mary Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press Out of Love for My Kin
Book SynopsisIn Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an ethos of inclusion. Inclusivity is evident in the care that medieval aristocrats showed toward their families by putting in place strategies, practices, and behaviors aimed at providing for a wide range of relatives. Indeed, this careand in some cases outright affectionfor family members is recorded in the documents themselves, as many a nobleman and woman made pious benefactions out of love for my kin.In a book made rich by evidence from charterswhich provide details about life events including birth, death, marriage, and legal disputes over propertyLivingstone reveals an aristocratic family dynamic that is quite different from the fictional or prescriptive views offered by literary depictions or ecclesiastical sourcTrade ReviewLivingstone's examination of aristocratic family life in central France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries takes issue with models presented in works by Georges Duby and Karl Schmid. Rejecting their concept of a revolution in family relationships centered on patrilineage, primogeniture, and exclusion of kin to preserve assets, the author argues for inclusive behavior that valued a broad definition of kin and provided liberally for all offspring. Citing evidence from charters, monastic obituaries, and chronicles, Livingstone presents abundant examples of family life marked by affection, devotion, and cooperation. Such a revision of family dynamics also influences the portrait of the medieval noblewoman, who is here revealed to be valued by parents and spouse, active in disposing of lands both her own and shared, and retaining a place within her natal family as well as carving out a cooperative lordship with her husband. * Choice *The prosopography, of course, is splendid in all technical aspects. But it is more than this: she seems so familiar with and understanding of these people that they come alive on the page. Her treatment of the name Domitilla (pp. 176-178), which at least two women assumed in the course of their lives, is a gem in its technical virtuosity and as a way to understand the noble self-fashioning of her aristocratic subjects. The book is full of gems. In a phrase this is an extraordinarily fine book and a most valuable blueprint for future work on other regions. The author is to be commended. -- William Chester Jordan * Medieval Prosopography *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Aristocrats and Their Families1. The Lands of the Loire, 1000–12002. Aristocratic Family Life3. Aristocratic Family Life Writ Small: The Fréteval, Mondoubleau, and Dives Kindred4. Inheritance: Diversity and Continuity5. Marriage and the Disposition of Property: A Sign of Status?6. Marriage: Practicalities, Ideologies, and Affection7. For Better, Not Worse: Wives and Husbands as Partners in Family and Lordship8. Contestations: Asserting and Reasserting a Place in the FamilyConclusion: Out of Love for My KinAppendix. Genealogical Charts 1. The Counts of Chartres 2. The Viscounts of Châteaudun to c. 1200 3. The Viscounts of Chartres 4. The Vidames of Chartres 5. The Lords of Alluyes-Gouet 6. The Lords of Montigny 7. The Fréteval-Mondoubleau-Dives Kindred 8. The Lords of Fréteval 9. The Dives Family 10. The Lords of Mondoubleau 11. The Descendants of Ingelbald Brito and Domitilla of Vendôme 12. The Lords of Lisle 13. The Lords of LangeaisWorks Cited Index
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Cornell University Press The Law of Kinship
Book SynopsisIn France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many as uniquely French, however, is the extent to which many of these discussionswhether in legislative chambers, courtrooms, or the mass mediahave been conducted in the frequently abstract vocabularies of anthropology and psychoanalysis. In this highly original book, Camille Robcis seeks to explain why and how academic discourses on kinship have intersected and overlapped with political debates on the familyand on the nature of French republicanism itself. She focuses on the theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, both of whom highlighted the interdependence of the sexual and the social by positing a direct correlation between kinship and socialization. Robcis traces how theiTrade ReviewAll in all, this is a superb book that brilliantly links two fields—intellectual history and the history of law and policy—normally kept separate. In particular, Robcis is to be congratulated for not reproducing what often seems the willful obscurity and grandstanding of Lacan and others. Most important of all, Robcis finds her way though two exceptionalclaims to universal validity—French republicanism, which prioritizes the social bond, and American liberalism, which prioritizes the individual, without succumbing to the provincialism and tendentiousness of either. -- Eli Zaretsky * The Journal of Modern History *Robcis is a careful, deliberate worker in this book. She moves ably from source to source, establishing arigorous and convincing narrative of the place of the family in republican ideals in the modern period,and is equally adept at drawing evidence from ministerial documents, philosophical engagements, andpolitical platforms. -- Richard C. Keller * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: The Rise of Familialism1. Familialism and the Republican Social Contract2. Kinship and the Structuralist Social Contract3. The Circulation of Structuralism in the French Public SpherePart Two: The Critique of Familialism4. The "Quiet Revolution" in Family Policy and Family Law5. Fatherless Societies and Anti- Oedipal PhilosophiesPart Three: The Return of Familialism6. Alternative Kinships and Republican StructuralismEpilogue: Kinship, Ethics, and the NationBibliographyIndex
£97.20
Cornell University Press The Law of Kinship Anthropology Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisIn this highly original book, Camille Robcis seeks to explain why and how academic discourses on kinship have intersected and overlapped with political debates on the family—and on the nature of French republicanism itself.Trade ReviewAll in all, this is a superb book that brilliantly links two fields—intellectual history and the history of law and policy—normally kept separate. In particular, Robcis is to be congratulated for not reproducing what often seems the willful obscurity and grandstanding of Lacan and others. Most important of all, Robcis finds her way though two exceptionalclaims to universal validity—French republicanism, which prioritizes the social bond, and American liberalism, which prioritizes the individual, without succumbing to the provincialism and tendentiousness of either. -- Eli Zaretsky * The Journal of Modern History *Robcis is a careful, deliberate worker in this book. She moves ably from source to source, establishing arigorous and convincing narrative of the place of the family in republican ideals in the modern period,and is equally adept at drawing evidence from ministerial documents, philosophical engagements, andpolitical platforms. -- Richard C. Keller * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: The Rise of Familialism1. Familialism and the Republican Social Contract2. Kinship and the Structuralist Social Contract3. The Circulation of Structuralism in the French Public SpherePart Two: The Critique of Familialism4. The "Quiet Revolution" in Family Policy and Family Law5. Fatherless Societies and Anti- Oedipal PhilosophiesPart Three: The Return of Familialism6. Alternative Kinships and Republican StructuralismEpilogue: Kinship, Ethics, and the NationBibliographyIndex
£28.49
Cornell University Press Colonial Intimacies
Book SynopsisIn 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely...Trade ReviewAnn Marie Plane takes an original approach to the subject of English-Indian relations in colonial America by focusing on marriage.... Plane reinterprets colonial New England's history by concluding that the English cultivated the idea of Indians as culturally different to keep Indians on the margins of English civil society.... This interesting argument allows Plane to formulate valuable, far-reaching insights into what marriage is and how it works.... The book is most illuminating... in explaining how English colonists understood and used cultural differences to create a sense of themselves. -- Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut * Journal of American History *In this historiographical context, three genuinely inspired ideas drive Ann Marie Plane's fascinating study of Native American conjugal relations in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. -- Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania * Reviews in American History *Anne Marie Plane's Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England offers a treasure of evidence and anecdotes about Native American women's and family history, reflecting years of dedication to researching a notoriously difficult subject. -- Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago * Law and History Review *Plane does a wonderful job of reading closely Indian conversion narratives and court cases for telling hints of how the Puritans transformed Indians into an immoral and inferior subclass residing on the periphery of New England society.... This is an innovative and important work, and students of the ethnohistory of early New England will need to have a look. -- Michael Leroy Oberg, SUNY, Geneseo * American Historical Review *Case studies support the author's conclusions and provide examples of real people trying to adjust to a foreign order. Recommended for undergraduate Indian and Colonial history collections. * Choice *Colonial Intimacies is a welcome addition to New England family history, providing a multicultural dimension to a field largely centered on Puritan households.... Her engaging text draws readers into a complex world of human relationships, with all the messy complications life can offer. Not the least of Plane's accomplishments is her ability to put a face on the impersonal forces of colonialism. -- Melanie Perreault, Salisbury University * William and Mary Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press Its about Time
Book SynopsisHow do two-career couples manage in a one-career world? It's about Time examines this mismatch between outdated scripts and the experiences of dual-earner couples. It broadens our understanding of occupational and family career strategies couples...Trade ReviewChapters cover such topics as work-hour strategies..., competing clocks, timing parenthood, journey to work, managing households, turning points in work careers, factors that predict success, prioritizing careers, the new technology climate and the rise of telecommuting, alternative employment arrangements, moving toward retirement..., the case of same-sex couples, work-life integration, and family-friendly policies. * Future Policy *Moen and other authors in the volume assert that families have changed extensively while work settings have changed little, resulting in a 'cultural lag' or 'mismatch' between what working families need to meet their care-giving responsibilities and what work organizations demand of workers.... A strength of the volume is its comprehensive set of topics. The chapters cover not only standard topics in the field, such as work hours, work preferences, and parenting, but also commuting, technology, and the 'spillover' of work to family life and vice versa, topics much less often included in work and family volumes. -- Suzanne M. Bianchi * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *This volume presents findings from the Cornell Couples and Careers Study, a study of dual career, middle class couples in upstate New York, directed by Phyllis Moen. The book stands out in the work-family research field for several reasons. These include the comprehensive look at couples' linked work and family careers and the inclusions of understudied topics such as same-sex couples, spouses' relocation decisions, and religious participation. The book contributes to the areas of careers, labor markets, organizations, gender, family, the life course, and work-family policy. -- Mary Blair-Loy * Contemporary Sociology *This impressive and well-edited volume presents findings and implications of a major study on work-family interface by the Cornell University Careers Institute. The study, which was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, focuses on middle-class, dual earner households and how they manage their two work lives and their combined family life.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press Adoption Matters Philosophical and Feminist
Book Synopsis"As a social and legal institution of family formation, and as a personal experience of members of the adoption triad, adoption provides a fresh vantage point on an important set of philosophical and feminist issues. The family is often thought to be...Trade ReviewIn this provocative collection, thirteen feminist scholars (most of whom are adoptive mothers or adopted daughters) consider adoption within the conceptual framework of family. Integrating philosophy and personal experience, the contributors explore the privileging of the heterosexual family, biologism, and whiteness and unpack the effects of dominant social norms on the individual and family. * Library Journal *
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Cornell University Press Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis superb study of Japanese society portrays it as a balance between tradition and modernity, culture and person, and authority and emotion. Defying the bounds of traditional social science concepts that obliterate the individual, the book brings out 'real people' in situations where they will act and feel. A work of sociology that truly reads like a novel. * Virginia Quarterly Review *In an America of lonely careerists and fragmented families, do we have something to learn from the tightly knit Japanese? Or does Japanese culture confine singular people in a straitjacket? Hamabata... essentially answers 'yes' to both questions in Crested Kimono, a book with case studies as emotionally charged as Kabuki drama. * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
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University of Toronto Press The Infinite Bonds of Family
Book SynopsisThe history of the family is a relatively new, yet rapidly developing area of academic study. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada.According to Comacchio, the social anxiety resulting from an ongoing perception of the family as being ''in crisis'' has had a significant influence on evolving social policy. Comacchio shows how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war. Her many stories of individual families highlight both historical trends and the more intimate issues related to race, gender, class, region, and age.This is the only synthesis to date of the historical literature on Canadian families. Designed for students at graduate and undergraduate levels, it not only introduces the key concepts and approaches of a developing field of study, but also summarizes the major issues and trends that affected Canadian families f
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University of Toronto Press The Stranger Who Bore Me
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University of Toronto Press The Infinite Bonds of Family Domesticity in
Book SynopsisWith this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada, showing how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war.
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University of Toronto Press Misunderstanding Cults
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University of Toronto Press Deadbeat Dads Subjectivity and Social
Book SynopsisNon-payment of child support is often categorized as an individual act of deviance or moral failing, reinforcing resistance and disengagement on the part of fathers by causing them to see themselves as victims whose personal rights are under threat.
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MY - University of Toronto Press Medieval Families
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University of Toronto Press Prairie Fairies A History of Queer Communities
Book SynopsisPrairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the Canadian prairies.Trade Review"Reclaiming the term 'fairies' from diminishment and disrespect to pride, gender, and sexual difference is a notable claim. This research forms part of a trans-national project and contributes to the extensive cultural geographic literature on queer urban histories." -- Anne Burke * The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One 1930-1969: Queer Spaces and Opportunities Chapter 1 The Torch of Golden Boy Burns Bright: Winnipeg 1930-1969 Chapter 2 A Kiss is Never Just a Kiss: Saskatchewan Queer History Part Two 1970-1985: Communities, Community Building and Culture Chapter 3 Wilde Times: Winnipeg’s Organizational Development Chapter 4 Grassroots: Organizational & Social Developments in Saskatoon & Regina Chapter 5 Outlaws: Organizational and Social Activities in Edmonton & Calgary Part Three 1970-1985: Activism, Reaction, Visibility and Violence Chapter 6 "Love and Let Love": Winnipeg Activism, Visibility & Violence Chapter 7 "Towards a Gay Community": Saskatoon Activism and Leadership Chapter 8 Found Ins at the Pisces Spa: Edmonton & Calgary Activism, Repression and Education Conclusion Bibliography
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University of Nebraska Press Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Milita
Book SynopsisDrawing on hundreds of court-martial transcripts published by the Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces, Policing Sex and Marriage in the American Military explores how the American military justice system policed the marital and sexual relationships of the service community in an effort to normalize heterosexual, monogamous marriage as the linchpin of the military's social order.Trade Review"The author has shined a spotlight on the power and reach of the military justice system not only with regards to gender, sexuality,marriage,and family, but with regards to its power and control over military culture."—Wade P. Smith, American Journal of Sociology“A far-reaching and harrowing analysis of the American military justice system’s policing of marital and sexual lives of service members during the second half of the twentieth century. . . . [This is] an original and important contribution to the historiography on gender and sexuality studies in the American military.”—Aaron Belkin, author of Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire“Kellie Wilson-Buford has thrown open a surprising window on the contested workings of patriarchy. If you’re digging into the politics of marriage, read this book! If you’re exposing the militarization of morality, read this book! If you’re questioning the gendered history of the Cold War, read this book!”—Cynthia Enloe, author of The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy“Essential to the study of gender, sexuality, military culture, and crime, each of which matters in distinct but related academic disciplines and to policy-making and social justice advocacy. . . . [This book] reveals the U.S. military’s practice with respect to crime, sex, and marriage in a way that will enrich the fields of gender and sexuality studies. It makes [both] careful and novel arguments.”—Elizabeth L. Hillman, president of Mills College and coauthor of Military Justice: Cases and Materials Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Author’s Note Abbreviations Introduction 1. Engendering Military Marriages 2. Policing International Military Marriages, 1950–75 3. Enforcing Monogamy 4. Normalizing Heterosexism and “Natural” Sex 5. Protecting the Public Morals 6. Policing Sex and Marriage, 1976–2000 Conclusion Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Filial Piety
Book SynopsisHow has rapid economic development and the aging of the population affected the expression of filial piety in East Asia? Eleven experienced fieldworkers take a fresh look at an old idea, analyzing contemporary behavior, not norms, among both rural and urban families in China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.Trade Review" . . . [T]his is a compelling volume." -- The China Journal"This valuable volume is a must for teaching and learning about this key topic affecting intergenerational relations whether in Asia or elsewhere." -- Candian Journal of Sociology Online"This volume presents clear and riveting perspectives from the trenches of ethnographers on the front lines. Its substantive ethnographic data admirably fills a void in our understanding of social realities in contemporary East Asia by registering the pulse of filial practice in the global age." -- Japan Studies Review"This valuable volume is a must for teaching and learning about this key topic affecting intergenerational relations whether in Asia or elsewhere." -- Canadian Sociology Journal OnlineTable of ContentsTable of Contents for Filial Piety List of Tables and Figures List of Contributors Introduction, by Charlotte Ikels 1. Ritualistic Coresidence and the Weakening of Filial Practice in Rural China, by Danyu Wang 2. Filial Daughters, Filial Sons: Comparisons from Rural North China, by Eric T. Miller 3. Meal Rotation and Filial Piety, by Jun Jing 4. "Living Alone" and the Rural Elderly: Strategy and Agency in Post-Mao Rural China, by Hong Zhang 5. Serving the Ancestors, Serving the State: Filial Piety and Death Ritual in Contemporary Guangzhou, by Charlotte Ikels 6. Filial Obligations in Chinese Families: Paradoxes of Modernization, by Martin King Whyte 7. The Transformation of Filial Piety in Contemporary South Korea, by Roger L. Janelli and Dawnhee Yim 8. Filial Piety in Contemporary Urban Southeast Korea: Practices and Discourses, by Clark Sorensen and Sung-Chul Kim 9. Culture, Power, and the Discourse of Filial Piety in Japan: The Disempowerment of Youth and Its Social Consequences, by Akiko Hashimoto 10. Curse of the Successor: Filial Piety vs. Marriage Among Rural Japanese, by John W. Traphagan 11. Alone in the Family: Great-grandparenthood in Urban Japan, by Brenda Robb Jenike Glossary Notes References Index
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Stanford University Press Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam
Book SynopsisReconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi.Trade Review"This ambitious and timely volume includes chapters written by several of the fields most distinguished scholars and rising stars. The editors do a terrific job of weaving together the broad array of new challenges families face by effectively linking them to broader transformations within the Vietnamese state." —Mark J. VanLandingham, Tulane University
£26.99
Stanford University Press Dividing the Domestic
Book SynopsisWith innovative cross-national analyses by leading international scholars, Dividing the Domestic extends a rich tradition of sociological research on housework and gender to reveal how a country's culture and policies influence couples' private lives.Trade Review"Overall, this book is a wonderful resource for scholars interested in gender, paid and domestic labor, and cross-national comparison. The book is especially strong on the comparison of countries with Western Europe, the United States, and Canada . . . Treas and Drobnič have carefully chosen to include a series of topics written by thoughtful researchers that help add significantly to our understanding of domestic labor and gender inequality around the world."—Amanda J. Miller, Journal of Comparative Family Studies"For over 30 years, who does what in the heterosexual, married household has been a serious topic of sociological study . . . This volume is a good beginning for the graduate student or researcher who wishes to go beyond the confines of U.S.-based analyses."—Sarah Fenstermaker, Contemporary Sociology"Studies on work, education, and politics often fall short when it comes to theorizing about unpaid caring and domestic work, despite the fact that this type of work provides critical context for production and is the key to reproduction! This vital book compares variations in housework hours and shares of housework hours in the context of policy differences across a wide range of countries. How could it fail to be exciting and important?"—Frances Goldscheider, University of Maryland"There are surprising results embedded in this thought-provoking book examining variations in institutional and cultural contexts on gender relations in the home. It's immensely enjoyable from cover to cover and could very well become the standard source on cross-national domestic labor patterns."—Janeen Baxter, The University of Queensland
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Stanford University Press Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal
Book SynopsisThis book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.Trade Review"Marcia J. Carlson and Paula England have compiled and edited a number of important chapters that explore changing family patterns and how they adapt to a more unequal America in their book Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America . . . In sum, Marcia J. Carlson and Paula England have assembled an interesting and insightful book that looks at the issues at the heart of the American family. The chapters in this book weave a story about the American family that has changed drastically in the past century, acknowledging that not all the changes are good, but that the future is bright for families if something can be done about the educational and financial gap between poor families and those families that inhabit the upper strata of our society . . . Carlson and England's book indicates that the future of the American family is uncertain, but with effective policies and open-minded discussion on how to cure the inequalities that exist in education and financial resources, American families can recover, regaining their position as the bedrock of American society."—Stephen Briles, Journal of Youth and Adolescence"Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America is a valuable resource for family scholars who want to catch up with their favorite research topics quickly and enjoyably, for students just learning about the most important research on the Amrican family, and for researchers interested in the efforts of economic and social change on contemporary family life. I enjoyed reading it and intend to use it in my family course next year. I recommend the book highly."—Linda J. Waite, American Journal of Sociology"In Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America, Marcia Carlson and Paula England have assembled a valuable collection of writings by prominent sociologists about the dramatic changes that have occurred within American families over the last sixty years and how families are configured differently across the socioeconomic hierarchy . . . [T]his book would make an excellent text for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. Seasoned family scholars will recognize many (but not all) of the insights proffered, yet will find the volume stimulating for its potential to spark new questions."—Molly A. Martin, Contemporary Sociology"Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in U.S. families, including patterns of marriage, childbearing and the like. This excellent book brings together top scholars to discuss the central role of social class in such changes and is a must-read among family scholars, students, and policymakers interested in understanding the under-studied role of class in contemporary family change."—Rachel Dunifon, Cornell University"Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America is arguably the best collection of articles on social class differences in romantic partnering and parenting that exists today. This book focuses on the fascinating question of why family change over the past half century has been so different at the top, bottom, and middle of the income distribution. Well educated women have fewer children than they want while those with little education have many unintended births and more children than they want. Marriage and childbearing go hand in hand at the top of the income distribution but among low and middle income groups, children are born to parents who do not marry and often are no longer together by the time a child reaches school age. The economic opportunities and the life chances of the next generation may be at risk. Understanding the family changes that this volume illuminates is essential to combating that risk and designing effective public policy."—Suzanne Bianchi, University of California, Los Angeles"In the early 1960s, most children grew up in two-parent families with a single breadwinner. Today, an increasing percentage of children grow up in affluent families where both parents are college graduates working in high-prestige occupations; at the other end, an increasing percentage of children grow up in poverty in single-mother families with a less-educated, unstably-employed, never-married mother and siblings who have different fathers. In this volume, the nation's leading family demographers thoughtfully analyze the causes and consequences of the increased complexity and increased inequality of family types over the last 50 years."—Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
£81.90
Stanford University Press Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal
Book SynopsisThis book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.Trade Review"Marcia J. Carlson and Paula England have compiled and edited a number of important chapters that explore changing family patterns and how they adapt to a more unequal America in their book Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America . . . In sum, Marcia J. Carlson and Paula England have assembled an interesting and insightful book that looks at the issues at the heart of the American family. The chapters in this book weave a story about the American family that has changed drastically in the past century, acknowledging that not all the changes are good, but that the future is bright for families if something can be done about the educational and financial gap between poor families and those families that inhabit the upper strata of our society . . . Carlson and England's book indicates that the future of the American family is uncertain, but with effective policies and open-minded discussion on how to cure the inequalities that exist in education and financial resources, American families can recover, regaining their position as the bedrock of American society."—Stephen Briles, Journal of Youth and Adolescence"Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America is a valuable resource for family scholars who want to catch up with their favorite research topics quickly and enjoyably, for students just learning about the most important research on the Amrican family, and for researchers interested in the efforts of economic and social change on contemporary family life. I enjoyed reading it and intend to use it in my family course next year. I recommend the book highly."—Linda J. Waite, American Journal of Sociology"In Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America, Marcia Carlson and Paula England have assembled a valuable collection of writings by prominent sociologists about the dramatic changes that have occurred within American families over the last sixty years and how families are configured differently across the socioeconomic hierarchy . . . [T]his book would make an excellent text for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. Seasoned family scholars will recognize many (but not all) of the insights proffered, yet will find the volume stimulating for its potential to spark new questions."—Molly A. Martin, Contemporary Sociology"Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in U.S. families, including patterns of marriage, childbearing and the like. This excellent book brings together top scholars to discuss the central role of social class in such changes and is a must-read among family scholars, students, and policymakers interested in understanding the under-studied role of class in contemporary family change."—Rachel Dunifon, Cornell University"Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America is arguably the best collection of articles on social class differences in romantic partnering and parenting that exists today. This book focuses on the fascinating question of why family change over the past half century has been so different at the top, bottom, and middle of the income distribution. Well educated women have fewer children than they want while those with little education have many unintended births and more children than they want. Marriage and childbearing go hand in hand at the top of the income distribution but among low and middle income groups, children are born to parents who do not marry and often are no longer together by the time a child reaches school age. The economic opportunities and the life chances of the next generation may be at risk. Understanding the family changes that this volume illuminates is essential to combating that risk and designing effective public policy."—Suzanne Bianchi, University of California, Los Angeles"In the early 1960s, most children grew up in two-parent families with a single breadwinner. Today, an increasing percentage of children grow up in affluent families where both parents are college graduates working in high-prestige occupations; at the other end, an increasing percentage of children grow up in poverty in single-mother families with a less-educated, unstably-employed, never-married mother and siblings who have different fathers. In this volume, the nation's leading family demographers thoughtfully analyze the causes and consequences of the increased complexity and increased inequality of family types over the last 50 years."—Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan
£19.79
Northwestern University Press The Virginal Mother in German Culture From Sophie
Book SynopsisPresents an analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the ideal of woman as both a sexless and maternal being led to the creation of a unique figure in German literature: the virginal mother.Trade ReviewThe Virginal Mother in German Culture is a very compelling, well-organized, and detailed analysis of the contradictory and developing tensions between eighteenth to twentieth century fascinations with virginity and the idealization of maternal nature in Germany. It is a unique and field-transforming study."" - Susan Gustafson, author of Goethe's Families of the HeartTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Creation of the Virginal Mother: Sophie von La Roche’s The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim 2. The Ideal Virgin and Failed Mother: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, and Faust I 3. The Popular Virginal Mother: E. Marlitt’s The Old Maid’s Secret and The Second Wife 4. The “Real” Virginal Mother: Caregiving and Motherhood in the Autobiographies of Hedwig Dohm, Adelheid Popp, and Ottilie Baader 5. The Virginal Mother of Orphans and the Vamp Anti-Mother: Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Unmarriages
Book SynopsisThe Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was in holy orders or if the partners were of different religions. Social norms militated against the marriage of master to slave or between individuals of very different classes, or when the couple was so poor that they could not establish an independent household. Such unions, where the protections that medieval law furnished to wives (and their children) were absent, were fraught with danger for women in particular, but they also provided a degree of flexibility and demonstrate the adaptability of social customs in the face of slowly changing religious doctrine.Unmarriages draws on a wide range of sources from across Europe and the entire medieval millennium in order to invesTrade Review"Karras challenges the modern notion that "traditional marriage" was the only acceptable sexual relationship between a man and a woman, and the only alternative to a life of solitude in the Middle Ages. . . . An impressive and complex undertaking." * Law and History Review *"A carefully researched exploration of the variety-and ambiguity-of marriages in the Middle Ages. Karras combines rigorous scholarship with fascinating personal stories that are often as engaging as a good novel." * Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage *"Ruth Mazo Karras turns the history of medieval marriage upside down and inside out, demonstrating the ubiquity in medieval Europe of male-female couples who did not marry. . . . In a sweep that stretches from ancient Rome to Reformation Europe and from Italy to Iceland, Karras has again produced a must-read for medievalists. Unmarriages cracks open the myth of 'traditional' marriage and reveals a truer, messier world of opposite-sex coupling. It should be assigned reading for all who bewail the decline of so-called traditional marriage values." * Judith M. Bennett, University of Southern California *"This important book summons from the shadows those heterosexual relationships that were destined to become marginal. Through an admirably wide array of sources, Karras retrieves forgotten arrangements like concubinage, clerical marriage, bigamy, and clandestine unions, and in so doing reanimates the couples who shunned conventional marriage. This work is a must for historians of gender, sexuality, and marriage. It helps us understand not only what society would become, but what it might have been" * Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University *"Imaginative and masterfully executed, Umarriages reveals the talent of an accomplished scholar. The book ranges boldly and widely across the Middle Ages and beyond, from slave marriages in the later Roman Empire to reimaginings of the marital bond in the era of the Reformation, and investigates sources as diverse as Icelandic sagas, canon law, and criminal registers from fifteenth-century Paris. Karras peppers her analysis with fascinating vignettes that personalize her findings, illuminating the impact of law, social custom, and religious thought on a sampling of women's lives: Augustine of Hippo's unnamed concubine, the Frankish aristocrat Waldrada, Abelard's Heloïse, Katherine Swynford (an ancestor of King Henry VIII of England), and others less socially significant but no less compellingly studied. Her conclusions about changing definitions of the marital union, its imprecise boundaries, and the varied alternatives to it-cohabitation and concubinage, clerical marriages and marriages between individuals of different faiths, to name but a few-bear meaningful repercussions for modern debates about marriage." * Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marriage and Other Unions Chapter 1. The Church and the Regulation of Unions between Women and Men Chapter 2. Unequal Unions Chapter 3. Priests and Their Partners Chapter 4. On the Margins of Marriage Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Marriage Sex and Civic Culture in Late Medieval
Book SynopsisUsing extensive evidence from archival documents from both the ecclesiastical court system and the records of city and royal government, as well as advice manuals, chronicles, moral tales, and liturgical texts, McSheffrey examines how marital and sexual relationships were woven into the fabric of late medieval London.Trade Review"A superb book, not only in terms of its sympathy with the evidence and concern for context but in showing us that our knowledge of how the church courts interacted with society must be based on more local case-studies of this kind." * EHR *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. LAW AND SOCIAL PRACTICE IN THE MAKING OF MARRIAGE IN LATE MEDIEVAL LONDON Chapter 1. Making a Marriage Chapter 2. Courtship and Gender Chapter 3. By the Father's Will and the Friends' Counsel Chapter 4. Gender, Power, and the Logistics of Marital Litigation Chapter 5. Place, Space, and Respectability PART II. GOVERNANCE, SEX, AND CIVIC MORALITY Chapter 6. Governance Chapter 7. Gender, Sex, and Reputation Conclusion: Sex, Marriage, and Medieval Concepts of the Public Appendix: Legal Sources Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press Unfaithful
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] compelling and original history...Faulkner’s important argument and her useful, detailed accounts of compelling archival materials makes Unfaithful a welcome contribution to the study of women’s history and social reform movements in the nineteenth-century US. Indeed, her keen sense of the connections that marriage reformers had with other important social reform movements of the time, including abolitionism, communitarianism, and women’s suffrage, open many opportunities for future scholarship on the intersections of activism then and now. " * American Literary History *"Faulkner’s Unfaithful is an engaging work, a compelling narrative replete with a colourful cast of characters. It does many things well, and scholars of the nineteenth century, particularly those who study gender, the law, and reform movements, will find it to be an important addition to their bookshelves…an important addition to current scholarship, enriching our understanding of long-studied nineteenth-century reform movements and the history of American marriage more broadly." * American Nineteenth Century History *"Unfaithful engagingly focuses on a set of progressives bent on delegitimizing loveless marriages at a time when lifelong indissoluble marriage was the deep-rooted norm. Carol Faulkner unearths a wealth of new detail about the personal lives of individuals struggling to recast patriarchy in intimate life and to promote new values of choice, love, and women's autonomy in the sexual realm." * Patricia Cline Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Her Neighbors Wife
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe strength of the book is Gutterman’s investment in reviewing and utilizing the personal letters that many women wrote to advocates...The correspondence and other sources that she examines also help her share stories from Black and Latina women who loved women, with some inclusion of Asian and Native American women as well, thus broadening the voices and experiences missing from white-focused lesbian narratives…[A] well-documented cultural history that reminds us just how deeply the 1970 feminist slogan ‘the personal is political’ reflected many women’s struggles to live their lives honestly and openly regarding their same-sex desires. * Journal of Women's Historty *Her Neighbor’s Wife is beautiful and smart and should be widely read…Gutterman’s broadest intervention into the historiography is her contention that marriage was queer. She points out that you got screened for the military but not for your marriage license; that you could lose your teaching license for being gay but remain in your marriage. Marriage in the postwar period contained room for queerness and, in making room, it became queer itself. Though we cannot know numbers, Gutterman is utterly convincing that marriage was very queer indeed. * The Sixties *Ambitious and wide-ranging, Her Neighbor’s Wife opens interesting, provocative questions and modes of inquiry for historians of sexuality and the field of LGBTQ studies…In addition to Gutterman’s careful attention to interlacing feminist and queer analysis, another strength of [the book] is the assembled archive…This, combined with Gutterman’s own oral histories and her sensitive, thoughtful reading of primary sources, makes this book an exemplar of methodological rigor. * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Her Neighbor's Wife is a revelation. Lauren Jae Gutterman locates lesbian histories not at the margins but at the center of postwar American life, often accommodated within marriages with men and family life. Alert to the complex meanings of married women's desire for women, beyond the poles of protest and conformity, Gutterman queers postwar marriage, the family, and normativity itself. * Regina Kunzel, author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality *In a field dominated by studies of gay men (still), Her Neighbor's Wife offers an LGBT history that centers a gendered analysis of women's lives. It is a critical intervention in histories of marriage, same-sex desires, feminism, and therapeutic ideas of the authentic self. * Rebecca L. Davis, author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss *Her Neighbor's Wife is an engaging, highly readable sociocultural history that serves as a necessary and illuminating corrective to the general dearth of lesbian history. Lauren Jae Gutterman shows the concept of fluidity has a much deeper past than what is typically imagined and that heterosexual marriage was much less straight than it seemed. * Heather Murray, author of Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America *
£35.10
John Wiley & Sons Amigas y Amantes Families in Focus Hardcover Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family
Trade Review"Amigas y Amantes makes a significant contribution to understanding the lives of 'sexually nonconforming' Latina women. Acosta compellingly reveals the life experiences of these women, the challenges they face, and the way they handle these challenges." -- Anita Garey * author of Weaving Work and Motherhood *"Amigas y Amantes offers a thought-provoking sociological lesson about gender conformity and femininity and the fascinating ways these may shape a Latina mother’s concern about the nonconforming sex life of her daughter." -- Gloria González-López * author of Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives *"Acosta explores the experience of Latinas who do not conform to traditional gender or cultural roles by identifying as lesbian, bisexual, or queer. A well-written, deeply engaging sociological work that discusses and promotes thought on gender conformity and femininity within the Latina culture. All academic libraries with sociology or women's studies programs absolutely must own this book. Essential." * Choice *"Amigas y Amantes offers a richly nuanced portrait of LBQ Latinas’ family lives. Acosta skillfully foregrounds the voices of her respondents to make visible the tensions and contradictions entailed in their efforts to bring together their families of origin and choice, and, also important, to create spaces for the existence of the families they envision for themselves." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “As Long as You Wear a Dress”2. “And Then the Father Set Me Free”3. Doing Family from within Interracial/Interethnic Relationships4. Parenting among Families of Choice5. Integrating Families of Choice and Origin6. ConclusionAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CAppendix DAppendix ENotesReferencesIndex
£105.40
MW - Rutgers University Press Sacred Divorce Religion Therapeutic Culture and Ending Life Partnerships
Trade Review"In reading Sacred Divorce, one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing." -- Margarita A. Mooney * author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora *"A thoughtful and smart examination of how religious communities shape the emotion work involved in ending intimate life partnerships, this well-researched ethnography illuminates the therapeutic turn in contemporary American religion and expands our understanding of the religion-family interface." -- Penny Edgell * author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society *"Sacred Divorce offers a remarkable work of cultural sociology that reveals how religious efforts to sacralize divorce reflect broader cultural tensions about individualism within religion and marriage." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *"Jenkins artfully constructs a powerful analysis of how contemporary divorce experiences are transformed from potentially shaming events into opportunities for spiritual growth that are imbued with sacred meanings." * American Journal of Sociology *"In reading Sacred Divorce, one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing." -- Margarita A. Mooney * author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora *"A thoughtful and smart examination of how religious communities shape the emotion work involved in ending intimate life partnerships, this well-researched ethnography illuminates the therapeutic turn in contemporary American religion and expands our understanding of the religion-family interface." -- Penny Edgell * author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society *"Sacred Divorce offers a remarkable work of cultural sociology that reveals how religious efforts to sacralize divorce reflect broader cultural tensions about individualism within religion and marriage." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *"Jenkins artfully constructs a powerful analysis of how contemporary divorce experiences are transformed from potentially shaming events into opportunities for spiritual growth that are imbued with sacred meanings." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Social Shame and Religious Tools Chapter 2 Divorce Work as Cultural Strategy Chapter 3 Solitary Work Through Community Chapter 4 Cautious Clergy Chapter 5 Rich Lived Practice Chapter 6 Religious Emotion and Multiple Family Forms Appendix on Methods Notes References Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Like Family Narratives of Fictive Kinship
Book SynopsisFor decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be “like family” among the white middle-class.Trade Review"In this remarkable book Margaret Nelson takes us to a place so familiar, yet overlooked, to relationships that persist over time. Like Family provides a mirror to intimate, long-lasting ties that live on through thick and thin. Margaret Nelson has a remarkable gift for uncovering the bewilderment of intentional relationships." -- Carol Stack * author of All Our Kin *"Margaret Nelson has a strong reputation as a writer and scholar, and writes about how even biological family is chosen these days. Like Family will contribute to pushing intellectual activity, research, and theory forward." -- Barbara J. Risman * author of Where the Millennials Will Take Us *"This unique and richly-detailed study brings into view three distinct types of family-like arrangements that are missing in current accounts of fictive kinship. The book abounds with insights about family boundaries, their internal relations and varied meanings. Nelson's volume stands as a principal contribution to the family field, one that deepens our understanding of the American family tapestry." -- Maxine Baca Zinn * Michigan State University *"What does it mean to say someone is 'like family' in a society where blood and legal bonds seem to dominate political, economic, religious, and academic conversations about family life? Nelson honestly and compassionately brings wisdom from a career of sociological investigation to an innovative project: how fictive-kinship relationships can help us understand creative and generous experiences of social support in (and between) today’s families. Nelson uncovers important truths about these relationships." -- Michelle Janning * Raymond and Elsie Gipson DeBurgh Chair of Social Sciences & Professor of Sociology, Whitman College *"In the Pandemic, Close Friends Relied on Their ‘Chosen Families’" by Ray A. Smith * Wall Street Journal *"An interesting, thoughtful addition to the study intimacy and social relationships. The book addresses an understudy topic and generates central questions about race, class, gender, and intimate relationships. This book would make a nice addition to a seminar on family and kinship—it is very readable, and can work well in both graduate and undergraduate courses." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART I: TRUE LIFE STORIES Chapter 1: The Texture and Dynamics of Like Sibling Bonds Chapter 2: The Limits of Like Sibling Bonds PART II: ONE-ACT PLAYS Chapter 3: Guest Teens: Learning Boundaries Chapter 4: Host Families: Inclusion and Exclusion PART III: FAIRY TALES Chapter 5: Unofficial Children: If the Shoe Fits Chapter 6: Informal Parents: Promises Broken, Promises Kept CONCLUSION: RECONSIDERING KINSHIP APPENDICES Appendix A: Information about Respondents; Cast of Characters Appendix B: Studying Fictive Kinship and Informal Adoption
£26.09
Rutgers University Press Like Family Narratives of Fictive Kinship
Book SynopsisFor decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be “like family” among the white middle-class.Trade Review"In this remarkable book Margaret Nelson takes us to a place so familiar, yet overlooked, to relationships that persist over time. Like Family provides a mirror to intimate, long-lasting ties that live on through thick and thin. Margaret Nelson has a remarkable gift for uncovering the bewilderment of intentional relationships." -- Carol Stack * author of All Our Kin *"Margaret Nelson has a strong reputation as a writer and scholar, and writes about how even biological family is chosen these days. Like Family will contribute to pushing intellectual activity, research, and theory forward." -- Barbara J. Risman * author of Where the Millennials Will Take Us *"This unique and richly-detailed study brings into view three distinct types of family-like arrangements that are missing in current accounts of fictive kinship. The book abounds with insights about family boundaries, their internal relations and varied meanings. Nelson's volume stands as a principal contribution to the family field, one that deepens our understanding of the American family tapestry." -- Maxine Baca Zinn * Michigan State University *"What does it mean to say someone is 'like family' in a society where blood and legal bonds seem to dominate political, economic, religious, and academic conversations about family life? Nelson honestly and compassionately brings wisdom from a career of sociological investigation to an innovative project: how fictive-kinship relationships can help us understand creative and generous experiences of social support in (and between) today’s families. Nelson uncovers important truths about these relationships." -- Michelle Janning * Raymond and Elsie Gipson DeBurgh Chair of Social Sciences & Professor of Sociology, Whitman College *"In the Pandemic, Close Friends Relied on Their ‘Chosen Families’" by Ray A. Smith * Wall Street Journal *"An interesting, thoughtful addition to the study intimacy and social relationships. The book addresses an understudy topic and generates central questions about race, class, gender, and intimate relationships. This book would make a nice addition to a seminar on family and kinship—it is very readable, and can work well in both graduate and undergraduate courses." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART I: TRUE LIFE STORIES Chapter 1: The Texture and Dynamics of Like Sibling Bonds Chapter 2: The Limits of Like Sibling Bonds PART II: ONE-ACT PLAYS Chapter 3: Guest Teens: Learning Boundaries Chapter 4: Host Families: Inclusion and Exclusion PART III: FAIRY TALES Chapter 5: Unofficial Children: If the Shoe Fits Chapter 6: Informal Parents: Promises Broken, Promises Kept CONCLUSION: RECONSIDERING KINSHIP APPENDICES Appendix A: Information about Respondents; Cast of Characters Appendix B: Studying Fictive Kinship and Informal Adoption
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Labor of Love Gestational Surrogacy and the Work
Book SynopsisThe first ethnographic study of gestational surrogacy in the US, Labor of Love examines the conflicted attitudes that emerge when the ostensibly priceless act of bringing a child into the world becomes a paid occupation. Heather Jacobson interviews surrogate mothers, their family members, the intended parents, and the various professionals who work to facilitate the process.Trade Review"Labor of Love is a thorough, thoughtful, well-researched analysis of women's labor in the commercial gestational surrogacy market in the United States." * Gender & Society *"Jacobson argues that Americans should be more accepting of gestational surrogacy and freely acknowledge its financial side. She skillfully outlines the many ways in which the members of the US surrogacy community she interviewed deliberately obscure the financial aspects of surrogacy arrangements. Reproductive endocrinologists, lawyers, surrogacy agency personnel, intended parents, and “surro-moms” and their families almost all push a narrative of altruism and the joys of pregnancy as the primary motivations of women who bear babies for genetically unrelated parents. In fact, Jacobson argues, surrogacy is made “culturally palatable” in the US precisely because of the unwritten “money rules” that require the use of intermediaries to create distance between surro-moms and the sordidly financial... Recommended." * Choice *"Labor of Love beautifully illuminates the work of surrogacy, exploring a world in which women have children for other women. Jacobson skillfully interweaves stories of actual participants with commentary and analysis, providing original insights into the complexities of reproduction." -- Naomi Cahn * Harold H. Greene Chair, GWU Law School *"Labor of Love is an engaging and well-researched study of contemporary surrogacy in the U.S. Jacobson thoughtfully exposes the contradictions surrogates navigate as they downplay the commercial aspects of the transactions and obscure the labor involved in being a surrogate." -- Susan Markens * Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY *"Jacobson’s rich qualitative data about the surrogacy market’s inner workings make Labor of Love an informative and engaging read." -- Alicia Vande Vusse * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Conceptions2 Making Reproduction Profitable: The Contemporary Surrogacy Market 3 Laboring to Conceive: Surrogacy as Work 4 Managing Relations: Surrogates and Their IPs5 Working from Home: Surrogates and Their Families6 Obscured LaborNotesReferencesIndex
£27.90
