Sociology: family, kinship and relationships Books

Book SynopsisWritten for those who work with parents, adolescents, and children in various family contexts, this book describes the practical process of assessment and intervention which can lead to empowering individual families and improving their quality of life.Trade Review"The new edition of this major book should be purchased by social work and applied psychology students, tutors and practitioners as well as those who work in parent education and support. This edition retains the strengths of the original, but also updates readers by taking account of the huge output of research in relevant disciplines during the last two decades". Carole Sutton, De Montfort UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. About the Authors. Preface. Part I: Taking Account of Children and Their Families. 1. Assessing Children and Their Families: Where to Begin. 2. Approaching Assessment – Step-by-Step. 3. Taking Account of the Family. 4. Formulating the "Why" Question. Part II: Understanding Development and Change in Families and Children. 5. Childhood and adolescence. 6. Responsiveness in Parents and Children. 7. Loss and Change Experienced by Children and Families. Part III: You as Helper. 8. Intervention: Preliminaries, Planning, and Implementation. 9. The "How" Question: Helping People to Change. 10. More Methods and Techniques. 11. Child Management and Behavioral Methods. 12. Using Life skills Training. Part IV: Empowerment of families and Evaluation of Practice. 13. Beyond the Agency Door: Empowering and Mentoring Families. 14. Evaluating Practice Processes and Outcomes. Epilogue. Appendix 1: Parent Training. Appendix 2: Treatment Options in Cases of Child Abuse and Neglect. Appendix 3: Separation and Divorce: a Counselling and Behavioral Manual. Appendix 4: Sources of Increased Self-empowerment. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays features debate among neoclassical, institutionalist and feminist theorists, providing an invaluable guide to the evolution of economic approaches to the family. The clash of paradigms illuminates some issues of profound concern to economics as a whole, such as the relative importance of altruism and self-interest. Both abstract mathematical models and interdisciplinary approaches are represented, and the empirical articles explore trends in developing as well as advanced industrial countries. The list of specific topics includes bargaining power models, fertility decline, intergenerational transfers, intrahousehold allocation, class inequality, and state policy. The editor's introduction provides a broad overview of the fascinating controversies that are emerging in this relatively new field of economics.Trade Review'This is an extremely useful collection of essays by economists on the family that will be of great value to all those social scientists who would like to have a ready reference to the way in which the debates over the new economics of the family have developed since the 1970s. The book provides an excellent guide to the ways in which economic explanation in this complex area has developed in relation to a number of different fields of inquiry, including fertility decline, intergenerational transfers and intra-household allocations.' -- Jane Lewis, Population Studies'The volume would serve well as a source-book for a course on family economics.'– John G. Treble, The Economic JournalTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Neoclassical Perspectives Part II: Institutionalist and Feminist Perspectives Part III: Bargaining Power Models Part IV: Fertility Decline Part V: Intergenerational Transfers Part VI: Intra-Household Allocation Part VII: Families and Class Inequality Part VIII: Families and the State Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and authoritative book offers a global approach to the modern economics of the family, family law and family policy. Beginning with the division of labour in the family, this book deals with the economics of marriage, the demand for children, inter-generational relationships, and the economics of inheritance. The family is analysed using the theory of utility maximisation assuming that individuals wish to achieve the greatest possible satisfaction with limited resources and imperfect knowledge. The family is examined from both long and short term perspectives, and it is assumed that the family is cooperative with incentives for altruistic behaviour greater than in any other social group. Francisco Cabrillo then develops the analysis to include a discussion of the economics of family policy, an area not widely discussed in the existing literature, with special reference to the European Union. He makes use of simple and clear analytical models, such as neoclassical optimization and game theory, to explain the rationality of individual behaviour in the family and the responses to the incentives created by public policies.The Economics of the Family and Family Policy will be essential reading for economists interested in the family, public policy as well as sociologists and policymakers.Trade Review'Francisco Cabrillo's book is a masterful and much needed overview of the economics of the family, one of the "heterodox" subjects in which economists have in the last decades proved the fruitfulness of their analytic apparatus. Written with the general reader in view, both economists and non-economists will enjoy this book. It covers not only a wide scope from the theoretical point of view but also looks at the policies directed towards the family. Economic analysis can be very helpful in the task of finding out whether policy makers in this field have been right or, alas, wrong.' -- Carlos RodrIguez Braun, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain'[This book] should be of value for the structure of family relations in the western world today and in the past or those of traditional African or Asian society without having to alter its premises. . .' -- Fernando GOmez, Libros'Francisco Cabrillo has written an excellent book that will be of great value for anyone interested in the basic ideas that have developed over recent decades on the economics of the family. Professor Cabrillo has a virtue that is rare amongst economists: the skill to write lucidly for laymen on important social and economic matters without sacrificing the sophistication and subtlety of his economic analysis.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Economists and the Family 2. The Family as an Economic Unit 3. Marriage(I) 4. Marriage (II) 5. Children 6. The Intergenerational Pact 7. Inheritance 8. Family Protection and Pro-Natalist Policies 9. The Economic Foundations and Effects of a Policy for the Family 10. Technical Problems involved in an Economic Policy for Family Protection Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative and timely book examines the nature and meaning of 'empowerment' in child welfare and protection, using the family group conference (FGC) approach to decision making as an example. In response to the growing clamour for 'evidence-based practice', the book addresses the central question of how the idea of empowerment can be operationalised and evaluated. One of the aims of FGCs is to empower children and their families by enabling them more effectively to participate in the decision-making process and by affording them greater control over the outcomes of that process. Empowering practice? critically assesses the available evidence on the empowerment potential of FGCs and examines the implications of the approach for professionals, their agencies and the children and families involved. Empowering practice? is essential reading for academics and professionals working in a wide range of health, education and social care areas.Trade Review"This book provides a welcome intellectual analysis of empowerment. There is a comprehensive literature review, and the topic is located in its policy and practice context with a sound theoretical perspective ... it is to be hoped that it will find its way onto social work courses, and into post-qualification training ... the book should be helpful in advancing a number of very important debates in children and families social work." Community Care"Empowering practice? is a timely and important book [which] analyses the concept of empowerment with particular reference to child welfare. It is also a measured and comprehensive review of the national and international literature on family group conferences. This balanced book will be of value to academics and practitioners alike." Christine HallettTable of ContentsContents: The dilemmas of empowerment; Partnership and empowerment in children's services; Lessons from New Zealand; Empowering professionals?; International perspectives; Empowerment in process?; Assessing outcomes in child welfare Martin Stevens; Empowering outcomes?; Conclusion.

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Book Synopsis'The family' is a subject of enormous academic, political and popular interest. It is a central feature of most people's lives, the framework within which other relationships, activities and events take place. This unique study provides important new insights into the dynamics of Britain's social and economic life - in family structures and relationships; in employment and household incomes; in housing, health and political affiliations. Most previous research has been limited to measuring an individual or family's position only at the time of the interview. This book presents a clearer picture by following the important events in people's lives, such as starting work, getting married, or falling into poverty. It reviews existing findings and presents new analyses of data from the British Household Panel Survey. The same 10,000 adults (in 5,000 households) have been interviewed every year between 1991 and 1997. Seven years in the lives of British families is a collaboration between members of the University of Essex's Institute for Social and Economic Research. Each of the authors is an expert in the field, but the work has been presented in an easy-to-read style to make these important research findings widely accessible. The book will be read by policy makers and all with an interest in the dynamics of modern society, as well as by academic sociologists, economists and demographers.Trade Review"This book successfully achieves its objectives of bringing the findings of the British Househld survey to the attention of as wide an audience as possible. Its easily accessible style makes it absorbing reading for the layman and specialist alike, whilst its succinct argument and wide-ranging data and references make it an essential source for all those with an interest in the dynamics of modern society" Social Policy Focus vol 1# 1"... a key text for data on the relationship between households and social change in the last decades of the twentieth century." Work, Employment & Society"... an empirically rich and readable book... a valuable contribution to empirical debates about social change in Britain and an effective showcase for the research potential of the BHPS in particular and longitudinal data in general." European Sociological Review"Household panel surveys have become indispensable tools for understanding the dynamics of social processes and crafting effective policies for addresing social problems. The planning, execution and analyses of the British Household Panel Survey data have all been exemplary. Berthoud, Gershuny and their colleagues are to be congratulated on their excellent overview of results from this important study." Greg Duncan, Professor of Education and Social Policy and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, USA"At last we have the British equivalent of 'Years of poverty, years of plenty' which changed forever US perceptions of the modern family and its place in American society and helped to re-direct the advance of North American social science."Our understanding of the causes and consequences of social change has been greatly enhanced by studies which follow the same individuals over a period of years. The British Household Panel (BHPS) is the first time that a large sample of British adults have been studies so intensively and for so long. Over 10,000 people have provided a yearly update on all aspects of their lives - education, employment, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, children, health, domestic work, income, political views - and Seven Years in the Lives of British Families brings this material together for the first time in one volume. It is a fascinating read, not just mapping changes in individual lives, but also providing important new insights into the meaning and impact of these. It is written by a team of academics whose work is at the forefront of longitudinal data analysis and provides a lucid and compelling overview of the wealth of material that the BHPS holds. It is of theoretical, empirical and policy interest and will be indispensable to anyone with an interest in understanding the dynamics of British society today. .Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: the dynamics of social change Richard Berthoud; Patterns of household and family formation John Ermisch and Marco Francesconi; Couples, work and money Heather Laurie and Jonathan Gershuny; Work, non-work, jobs and job mobility Mark Taylor; Dynamics of household incomes Stephen P Jenkins; Housing, location and residential mobility Nick Buck; A measure of changing health Richard Berthoud; Political values: a family matter? Malcolm Brynin; Seven years in the lives of British families Richard Berthoud and Jonathan Gershuny.

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Book SynopsisAcknowledging the increasing diversity and complexity of families, this innovative book proposes a new conceptual framework for understanding families and other relationships that both challenges and attempts to reconcile traditional and contemporary approaches. Using the notion of 'boundaries', the book shifts thinking from 'families as entities' to 'families as relationship processes'. Emphasising the processes that underlie boundary construction and reconstruction suggests that the key to understanding family life is the process of relationship formation. The ideas of entity, boundary, margins and hybridity provide a framework for understanding the diverse, and often contradictory, ways in which families contribute to society. Families in society makes a significant contribution to the academic literature on families and is essential reading for social science students, social researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested in families and relationships.Trade Review"This book would make fascinating reading for all concerned with families, especially those working in the human services and social policy fields." Family Matters" ... a light read on a range of topics and of interest to those considering contemporary relationships in general." SRA NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Families and relationships: boundaries and bridges ~ Linda McKie, Sarah Cunningham-Burley and John McKendrick; Part 1: Families in society: Balancing work and family life: mothers' views ~ Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Kathryn Backett-Milburn and Debbie Kemmer; Gender, care, poverty and transitions ~ Gill Scott and Sue Innes; Families, education and the 'participatory imperative' ~ Janet Shucksmith, Lorna McKee and Helen Willmot; Part 2: Children, families and relationships: Children's boundaries: within and beyond families ~ Malcolm Hill; Family within and beyond the household boundary: children's constructions of who they live with ~ Helen Sweeting and Peter Seaman; Children managing parental drug and alcohol misuse: challenging parent-child boundaries ~ Angus Bancroft, Sarah Wilson, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Hugh Masters and Kathryn Backett-Milburn; Part 3: Health, illness and well-being: Intersections of health and well-being in women's lives and relationships at mid-life ~ Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Laura Airey and Linda McKie; Families, relationships and the impact of dementia: insights into the 'ties that bind' ~ Dot Weaks, Heather Wilkinson and Shirley Davidson; Violence and families: boundaries, memories and identities ~ Linda McKie and Nancy Lombard; Part 4: Relationships and friendships: Boundaries of intimacy ~ Lynn Jamieson; Solo living, individual and family boundaries ~ Fran Wasoff and Lynn Jamieson with Adam Smith; Boundaries of friendships ~ Graham Allen; Living and loving beyond the boundaries of the heteronorm: personal relationships in the 21st century ~ Sasha Roseneil; Conclusion: Perspectives on social policies and families ~ Fran Wasoff and Sarah Cunningham-Burley.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the complexity of family change. It draws on evidence from two linked studies, one carried out in the 1960s and the other in the early years of the 21st century, to analyse the specific ways in which family lives have changed and how they have been affected by the major structural and cultural changes of the second half of the twentieth century. The book shows that, while there has undeniably been change, there is a surprising degree of continuity in family practices. It casts doubt on claims that families have been subject to a process of dramatic change and provides an alternative account which is based on careful analysis of empirical data. The book presents a unique opportunity to chart the nature of social change in a particular locality over the last 50 years; includes discussions of social and cultural variations in family life, focusing on younger as well as older generations; explores not only what happens within family-households but also what happens within networks of kin across different households and shows the way changing patterns of employment affect kinship networks and how geographical mobility co-exists with the maintenance of strong kinship ties. The findings will be of interest to students of sociology, social anthropology, social policy, women's studies, gender studies and human geography at undergraduate and postgraduate level.Trade Review"This fascinating contemporary revisitation of a classic study provides a rigorous corrective to glib assertions about social change in families and communities. The authors skillfully blend theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in an accessible and thought-provoking assessment of the nature of change and continuity." Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy, London South Bank UniversityTable of ContentsUnderstanding families and social change; Changing societies; Changing families; Families and cultural identity; Families in and out of work; Caring families; Dispersed kin; Families, friends and communities; What is the future for the family?

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the complexity of family change. It draws on evidence from two linked studies, one carried out in the 1960s and the other in the early years of the 21st century, to analyse the specific ways in which family lives have changed and how they have been affected by the major structural and cultural changes of the second half of the twentieth century. The book shows that, while there has undeniably been change, there is a surprising degree of continuity in family practices. It casts doubt on claims that families have been subject to a process of dramatic change and provides an alternative account which is based on careful analysis of empirical data. The book presents a unique opportunity to chart the nature of social change in a particular locality over the last 50 years; includes discussions of social and cultural variations in family life, focusing on younger as well as older generations; explores not only what happens within family-households but also what happens within networks of kin across different households and shows the way changing patterns of employment affect kinship networks and how geographical mobility co-exists with the maintenance of strong kinship ties. The findings will be of interest to students of sociology, social anthropology, social policy, women's studies, gender studies and human geography at undergraduate and postgraduate level.Trade Review"This fascinating contemporary revisitation of a classic study provides a rigorous corrective to glib assertions about social change in families and communities. The authors skillfully blend theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in an accessible and thought-provoking assessment of the nature of change and continuity." Rosalind Edwards, Professor in Social Policy, London South Bank UniversityTable of ContentsUnderstanding families and social change; Changing societies; Changing families; Families and cultural identity; Families in and out of work; Caring families; Dispersed kin; Families, friends and communities; What is the future for the family?

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Book SynopsisSince 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from work by the author as a researcher and educator over many years on the issues posed by this agenda for child welfare practitioners in a variety of contexts. In locating fathers, fathering and fatherhood within a historical and social landscape, the book addresses issues seldom taken up in practice settings. It explores diversity and complexity in fathering in different disciplines such as psychoanalysis, sociology and psychology and analyses contemporary developments in social policies and welfare practices. The author employs a feminist perspective to highlight the opportunities and dangers in contemporary developments for those wishing to advance gender equity. A key strength of the book is its inter-disciplinary focus. It will be required reading for students, graduate and postgraduate, of social work, social policy, sociology and child and family studies. Academic researchers will also find the book invaluable because of its breadth of scholarship. Trade Review" This book is an important tool in providing the background and the practical experience that is needed to deliver services that include fathers, at a time when more and more is expected of practitioners. It is well researched, scholarly and detailed and reflects the author's vast experience of working with fathers from a feminist perspectives." Becky Sibert, Children & Young People Now, 2009"This book is essential reading for anybody researching fathering, all the social professions that work with both men and women caring for children, and students across the social sciences". Alistair Christie, University College, CorkTable of ContentsIntroduction; The contemporary context; The historical context; Freud and his legacy; Psychological perspectives; Sociological perspectives; The politics of fatherhood: contemporary developments; Contemporary social policies; Working with fathers; Reflections on a decade of working with fathers; Concluding remarks.

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Book SynopsisFrom Persephone to Sylvia Plath the mother-daughter relationship has been central to every woman's life. Using her wide experience as a psychotherapist, Nini Herman traces the struggle of mothers and daughters to free themselves from each other - to recognise each other as separate. Where they succeed, their relationship can be a source of enduring strength; when they fail, it can lead to frustration, madness and even suicide.Table of ContentsPart One. Tribute to Freud. An Approach to Winnicott. Part Two. Sister Mary Tells Her Story. Part Three. The Paintings. Comments On The paintings By Sister Mary. Comments On The Paintings by Nini Herman. Nini Herman - Reflections.

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Book SynopsisThis volume consists of the addresses delivered to the 22nd Annuel Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars held in Chicago in September 1999. Each chapter includes a discussion of one of the major themes related to the contemporary question of marriage and the common good expounded by a competent senior scholar, followed by a response on the major issues that concern marriage and the family today.Table of ContentsIntroduction Keynote Address Session I - 'Theology of Marriage and Celibacy' Session II - 'Fatherhood and Society' Session III - 'Homosexuality and the Law' Session IV - 'Women's Roles and Family Policy' Session V - 'Economics and Marriage' Session VI - 'Contraception and the Culture of Death' Appendix Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book is about talent, strengths and positive psychology. Everyone is naturally talented in certain areas and if we get the opportunity to use our talents at work and develop them into strengths then we can work better, faster and far more productively. Bees search for pollen and they find it in the beautiful, successful, growing things around us: flowers. Flies search for rotting trash, bacteria and ugliness. Do you want to go through life like a fly or like a bee? These pages present the overwhelming scientific evidence that strengths-based leadership and collaboration lead to more productivity, more innovation, better well-being at work, lower absenteeism, and better health. Learning to recognize your talents, leverage them into strengths and, mitigate your weaknesses will change the way you and your colleagues work.

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Book SynopsisThe heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherhood’s impacts on how scientific research is conducted, particularly when it comes to field research. Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from current women scientists’ experiences of conducting field research across a variety of sub-disciplines while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers’ experiences in order not just to promote healthier, more inclusive, nurturing, and supportive environments in physical, life, and social sciences, but also to revolutionize how we conceptualize research. Trade Review“Upending the common assumption that being a field researcher and mother are incompatible, this important volume not only provides insightful tips for merging parenthood and site-based research, but it also reveals the varied ways that caregiving for children can actually strengthen our connections in the field and provide a valuable lens for understanding and interpreting our data. Mothering from the Field is an indispensable resource for field researcher-mothers across the academy.” -- Shannon Elizabeth Bell * field researcher-mother of two and author of Fighting King Coal *"Mothering From the Field provides just the right mix of academic research on women in field- work-intensive fields, discussion of the institutional responsibilities of the academy, cautionary tales of the struggles of combining parenting and field work, and (to me) most importantly, practical 'can do' advice on how to do 'what needs to be done.' I recommend taking this book and your kids (and a sturdy stroller) and going for it!" -- Rachel Connelly * co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Upending the common assumption that being a field researcher and mother are incompatible, this important volume not only provides insightful tips for merging parenthood and site-based research, but it also reveals the varied ways that caregiving for children can actually strengthen our connections in the field and provide a valuable lens for understanding and interpreting our data. Mothering from the Field is an indispensable resource for field researcher-mothers across the academy.” -- Shannon Elizabeth Bell * field researcher-mother of two and author of Fighting King Coal *"Mothering From the Field provides just the right mix of academic research on women in field- work-intensive fields, discussion of the institutional responsibilities of the academy, cautionary tales of the struggles of combining parenting and field work, and (to me) most importantly, practical 'can do' advice on how to do 'what needs to be done.' I recommend taking this book and your kids (and a sturdy stroller) and going for it!" -- Rachel Connelly * co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents Introduction1 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY AND BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMADPart I Women and Mothers Doing Field Research: What Do We Know? 9 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY1 Women Working in the Field: Perspectives from STEM and Beyond 11 KELLY WARD, LISA WOLF-WENDEL, AND LINDSEY MARCO2 Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology 27 STACEY L. CAMPPart II The Truth Is, It Will Be Hard: The Difficulties of Doing Field Research for Mothers 43 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD3 Malaria and Spider-Man: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Niger with a Three-Year-Old 47 KELLEY SAMS4 Birthing in the Field 62 LYDIA ZACHER DIXON5 Looking at the Field from Afar and Bringing It Closer to Home 76 CECILIA VINDROLA-PADROSPart III Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Importance of Networks and Family Support 89 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD6 Parenting through the Field: Criminal Justice Ethnography, Cinematography, and Field Photography in Africa with Our Babies 91 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MUNTAQUIM MUHAMMAD7 Privilege, (In)Competence, and Worth: Conflicting Emotions of the Student-Mom and Her Support Community 108 GRACE KARRAM STEPHENSON, JOHN STEPHENSON, AND JOANNE FLORENCE KARRAM8 Fathering in Support of Fieldwork: Lactation and Bourgeois Feminism (and More Privileged White People’s Problems) 124 BRIAN C. WOLFPart IV This Too Shall Pass: Field Research before, during, and after Motherhood 135 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY9 Lactating in the Autopsy Room: Mothering from the Field When the Field Is a Morgue and Your Child Is a Nursing Infant 139 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY10 Fieldwork Adventures on the Mommy Track 155 ANNE HARDGROVE11 Mommy in the Field: Raising Children and Breeding Plants 171 KIMBERLY GARLAND CAMPBELLPart V What Is the Field, Anyway? Mothers Redefining Field Methodologies 181 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY12 Entangled Knowledge: On the Labor of Mothering and Anthropological Fieldwork 185 SARAH KELMAN13 “Manman, Poukisa Y’ap Rele M Blan?” (Mama, Why Are They Calling Me a White?): Research and Mothering in Haiti 201 MARYLYNN STECKLEY14 Birthing the Social Scientist as Mother 222 DEIRDRE GUTHRIE15 Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field 239 APRILLE ERICSSON, DAWN ERICSSON PROVINE, ARIELLE ERICSSON WHITE, MIKAE PROVINE, PIERRE ERICSSON, BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD, AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLYPart VI Practical Solutions to Complex Problems: Because Mothers Can Do Anything! 251 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD16 “I Don’t Know How You Do It!”: Countering a Narrative That Presumes That Researching and Mothering Are Incompatible 253 RYANNE PILGERAM17 Ethnographic Research in Africa: The Hidden Costs of Conducting Fieldwork for Mothers with Children 264 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD Conclusion 272 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY Acknowledgments 281 Notes on Contributors 283 Index 293

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Book SynopsisThe heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherhood’s impacts on how scientific research is conducted, particularly when it comes to field research. Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from current women scientists’ experiences of conducting field research across a variety of sub-disciplines while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers’ experiences in order not just to promote healthier, more inclusive, nurturing, and supportive environments in physical, life, and social sciences, but also to revolutionize how we conceptualize research. Trade Review“Upending the common assumption that being a field researcher and mother are incompatible, this important volume not only provides insightful tips for merging parenthood and site-based research, but it also reveals the varied ways that caregiving for children can actually strengthen our connections in the field and provide a valuable lens for understanding and interpreting our data. Mothering from the Field is an indispensable resource for field researcher-mothers across the academy.” -- Shannon Elizabeth Bell * field researcher-mother of two and author of Fighting King Coal *"Mothering From the Field provides just the right mix of academic research on women in field- work-intensive fields, discussion of the institutional responsibilities of the academy, cautionary tales of the struggles of combining parenting and field work, and (to me) most importantly, practical 'can do' advice on how to do 'what needs to be done.' I recommend taking this book and your kids (and a sturdy stroller) and going for it!" -- Rachel Connelly * co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *“Upending the common assumption that being a field researcher and mother are incompatible, this important volume not only provides insightful tips for merging parenthood and site-based research, but it also reveals the varied ways that caregiving for children can actually strengthen our connections in the field and provide a valuable lens for understanding and interpreting our data. Mothering from the Field is an indispensable resource for field researcher-mothers across the academy.” -- Shannon Elizabeth Bell * field researcher-mother of two and author of Fighting King Coal *"Mothering From the Field provides just the right mix of academic research on women in field- work-intensive fields, discussion of the institutional responsibilities of the academy, cautionary tales of the struggles of combining parenting and field work, and (to me) most importantly, practical 'can do' advice on how to do 'what needs to be done.' I recommend taking this book and your kids (and a sturdy stroller) and going for it!" -- Rachel Connelly * co-author of Professor Mommy: Finding Work-Family Balance in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents Introduction1 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY AND BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMADPart I Women and Mothers Doing Field Research: What Do We Know? 9 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY1 Women Working in the Field: Perspectives from STEM and Beyond 11 KELLY WARD, LISA WOLF-WENDEL, AND LINDSEY MARCO2 Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology 27 STACEY L. CAMPPart II The Truth Is, It Will Be Hard: The Difficulties of Doing Field Research for Mothers 43 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD3 Malaria and Spider-Man: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Niger with a Three-Year-Old 47 KELLEY SAMS4 Birthing in the Field 62 LYDIA ZACHER DIXON5 Looking at the Field from Afar and Bringing It Closer to Home 76 CECILIA VINDROLA-PADROSPart III Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Importance of Networks and Family Support 89 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD6 Parenting through the Field: Criminal Justice Ethnography, Cinematography, and Field Photography in Africa with Our Babies 91 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MUNTAQUIM MUHAMMAD7 Privilege, (In)Competence, and Worth: Conflicting Emotions of the Student-Mom and Her Support Community 108 GRACE KARRAM STEPHENSON, JOHN STEPHENSON, AND JOANNE FLORENCE KARRAM8 Fathering in Support of Fieldwork: Lactation and Bourgeois Feminism (and More Privileged White People’s Problems) 124 BRIAN C. WOLFPart IV This Too Shall Pass: Field Research before, during, and after Motherhood 135 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY9 Lactating in the Autopsy Room: Mothering from the Field When the Field Is a Morgue and Your Child Is a Nursing Infant 139 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY10 Fieldwork Adventures on the Mommy Track 155 ANNE HARDGROVE11 Mommy in the Field: Raising Children and Breeding Plants 171 KIMBERLY GARLAND CAMPBELLPart V What Is the Field, Anyway? Mothers Redefining Field Methodologies 181 MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY12 Entangled Knowledge: On the Labor of Mothering and Anthropological Fieldwork 185 SARAH KELMAN13 “Manman, Poukisa Y’ap Rele M Blan?” (Mama, Why Are They Calling Me a White?): Research and Mothering in Haiti 201 MARYLYNN STECKLEY14 Birthing the Social Scientist as Mother 222 DEIRDRE GUTHRIE15 Two Notes on Bringing Children Other Than Your Own in the Field 239 APRILLE ERICSSON, DAWN ERICSSON PROVINE, ARIELLE ERICSSON WHITE, MIKAE PROVINE, PIERRE ERICSSON, BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD, AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLYPart VI Practical Solutions to Complex Problems: Because Mothers Can Do Anything! 251 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD16 “I Don’t Know How You Do It!”: Countering a Narrative That Presumes That Researching and Mothering Are Incompatible 253 RYANNE PILGERAM17 Ethnographic Research in Africa: The Hidden Costs of Conducting Fieldwork for Mothers with Children 264 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD Conclusion 272 BAHIYYAH MIALLAH MUHAMMAD AND MÉLANIE-ANGELA NEUILLY Acknowledgments 281 Notes on Contributors 283 Index 293

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Book SynopsisRedefining Multicultural Families in South Korea provides an in-depth look at the lives of families in Korea that include immigrants. Ten original chapters in this volume, written by scholars in multiple social science disciplines and covering different methodological approaches, aim to reinvigorate contemporary discussions about these multicultural families. Specially, the volume expands the scope of “multicultural families” by examining the diverse configurations of families with immigrants who crossed the Korean border during and after the 1990s, such as the families of undocumented migrant workers, divorced marriage immigrants, and the families of Korean women with Muslim immigrant husbands. Second, instead of looking at immigrants as newcomers, the volume takes a discursive turn, viewing them as settlers or first-generation immigrants in Korea whose post-migration lives have evolved and whose membership in Korean society has matured, by examining immigrants’ identities, need for political representation, their fights through the court system, and the aspirations of second-generation immigrants.Trade Review"Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea is requisite reading not only for students and scholars intrigued by South Korea, but also for those interested in contemporary struggles over multiculturalism and migration, family forms and gender relations, and identity and conviviality. Minjeong Kim and Hyeyoung Woo have assembled a collection of pathbreaking and illuminating essays." -- John Lie * author of Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits *“In a country that views itself as ethnically homogeneous, South Korea has witnessed a growth in multicultural or multiethnic families. In this excellent edited volume, Minjeong Kim, Hyeyoung Woo, and their colleagues explore the growth and variety of these families, whose presence challenges the notion of 'pure' Koreans as the only Koreans.” -- Grace Kao * co-author of The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood *"Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea is requisite reading not only for students and scholars intrigued by South Korea, but also for those interested in contemporary struggles over multiculturalism and migration, family forms and gender relations, and identity and conviviality. Minjeong Kim and Hyeyoung Woo have assembled a collection of pathbreaking and illuminating essays." -- John Lie * author of Japan, the Sustainable Society: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life i *“In a country that views itself as ethnically homogeneous, South Korea has witnessed a growth in multicultural or multiethnic families. In this excellent edited volume, Minjeong Kim, Hyeyoung Woo, and their colleagues explore the growth and variety of these families, whose presence challenges the notion of 'pure' Koreans as the only Koreans.” -- Grace Kao * co-author of The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescenc *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction to Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea by Minjeong Kim and Hyeyoung Woo Part I: Negotiating Identities Chapter 1: To Be Accepted as We Are: Multiple Identity Formation of Filipina Marriage Immigrants through Jasmine Lee by Ilju Kim Chapter 2: Money Matters in Immigrant Motherhood by Julie S. Kim Chapter 3: Developing and Negotiating Social Identity among Korean Women with Pakistani Husbands by YoonKyung Kwak Part II: Making Lives under Immigration Control Chapter 4: Precarious Family Making among Undocumented Migrant Women by Hyun Mee Kim and Yu Seon Yu Chapter 5: Open Sesame: Korean Chinese Kinship Relations and Codes to Reclaim Time in South Korea by Sohoon Yi Part III: Claiming Rights and Building Lives Chapter 6: Unbearable Weightiness of Marriage: Citizenship and Marriage in Multicultural South Korea by Nora Hui-Jung Kim Chapter 7: Integration, Mobility, and Wellbeing after Divorce: Patterns and Strategies of Social Relationships among Intra-Asia Marriage Immigrants in South Korea by Hsin-Chieh Chang Part IV: Meanings of Multicultural Family and Intergenerational Relationships Chapter 8: Being Labeled as a “Multicultural Family” in South Korea: The Stories of Korean Wives, Filipino Husbands, and Their Children by Minjung Kim Chapter 9: Happy Mothers, Successful Children: Marital Satisfaction and Educational Aspirations among Second-Generation Immigrant Children in South Korea by Harris Hyun-soo Kim Chapter 10: Second Generation Disadvantage: Health of Adolescents from Multicultural Families in South Korea by Hyeyoung Woo, Lindsey Wilkinson, Wonjeong Jeong and Sojung Lim Concluding Remarks: Going Forward by Minjeong Kim Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors About the Editors Index

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Book SynopsisStudies have shown that married couples have better mental and physical health than unmarried people. Leading scholars and policy makers propose that marriage can provide similar benefits to people in both same-sex and different-sex relationships. Though research on the health and well-being of same-sex couples is a new and growing field, Marriage and Health: The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples represents the forefront of marriage and health research and the far-reaching policy implications for the health of same-sex couples. This collection of essays presents new perspectives that address current opportunities and challenges faced by people in same-sex unions in multiple domains of well-being, including physical and mental health, social support, socialized behaviors, and stigmas. The book offers a broad view of same-sex couples’ experiences by examining not only marriage and civil unions, but also dating and cohabiting relationships as well as same-sex sexual experiences outside of relationships. Trade Review“We are only at the beginning of understanding how marriage and other types of romantic unions influence mental and physical health for same-sex couples. The editors of Marriage and Health have deftly brought together the best evidence available to tell us what is currently known and where we need to go in the future. This volume serves as a guide to the most important questions, challenges, and strategic directions for research on same-sex relationships—all essential to protecting and maximizing the health and well-being of sexual minority populations.” -- Debra Umberson * author of "Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity" *“Marriage and Health: The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples is a welcome and overdue addition to the burgeoning literature on sexuality and health. By addressing a critical question—Does marriage matter for the well-being of those in sexual minority unions in similar ways as it does for those in heterosexual unions?—from multiple vantage points, this unique collection of cutting-edge studies is more than the sum of its parts and provides essential theoretical and empirical foundations for future research. It is my sincere hope that this important book will be widely read and stimulate a next generation of data collection and investigation.” -- Andrew S. London * co-editor of "Life Course Perspectives on Military Service" *"The editors should be commended for the breadth with which they treat the topic and the progress this collection represents in helping to empirically normalize same-sex marriage....Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: The Health and Well-Being of Sexuality Minority Couples Hui Liu, Corinne Reczek and Lindsey Wilkinson Part I: Mental Health Chapter 1: Serious Mental Illness in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Unions Dustin Brown, Corinne Reczek and Hui Liu Chapter 2: Well-Being during Time with a Partner among Men and Women in Same-Sex Unions Sarah Marie Flood and Katherine Rose Genadek Chapter 3: Consequences of Unequal Legal Recognition: Same-Sex Couples’ Experiences of Stress Prior to Obergefell v. Hodges Eli Alston-Stepnitz, David M. Frost and Allen J. LeBlanc Chapter 4: Postpartum Depression and Anxiety in Male-Partnered and Female-Partnered Sexual Minority Women: A Longitudinal Study Abbie E. Goldberg, JuliAnna Z. Smith and Lori E. Ross Part II: Health Behaviors Chapter 5: Health and Health Behaviors among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Coupled Adults With and Without Children Justin T. Denney, Jarron M. Saint Onge, Bridget K. Gorman and Patrick M. Krueger Chapter 6: Couples’ Conjoint Work Hours and Health Behaviors: Do Gender and Sexual Identity Matter? Wen Fan Chapter 7: Union Status and Overweight/Obesity among Sexual Minority Men and Women Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill, Bridget K. Gorman and Navya R. Kumar Chapter 8: Same-Sex Contact and Alternative Medicine Usage among Older Adults Lacey J. Ritter and Koji Ueno Part III: Physical Health, Mortality and Health Care Chapter 9: Activity Limitations Disparities between Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Russell L. Spiker Chapter 10: Same-Sex Unions and Adult Mortality Risk: A Nationally-Representative Analysis Andrew Fenelon, Christina Dragon, Corinne Reczek and Hui Liu Chapter 11: Access to Health Care for Partnered and Non-Partnered Sexual Minorities Matt Ruther and Ning Hsieh Chapter 12: Law and Same-Sex Couples’ Experiences of Childbirth Emily Kazyak and Emma Finken Chapter 13: Married in Texas: Findings from a LGBTQ Community Needs Assessment Kara Sutton and Richard K. Scotch Part IV: Relationship Quality, Experience and Identity Chapter 14: Social Context and The Stability of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Relationships Kara Joyner, Wendy Manning and Barbara Prince Chapter 15: Same-Sex Marriage and Mental Health: The Role of Marital Quality Sara Mernitz, Amanda Pollitt and Debra Umberson Chapter 16: First Sexual Experience with a Same-Sex Partner in the United States: Evidence from a National Sample Karin L. Brewster, Kathryn Harker Tillman and Giuseppina Valle Holway Chapter 17: Two Sides of a Coin”: Nuances of Maternal Identity for Lesbian Mothers Rachel L. Henry Conclusion: Future Directions for Research on Health of Sexual Minority Couples Corinne Reczek, Hui Liu and Lindsey Wilkinson

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Book SynopsisInquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen’s engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community,and kinship spaces, the author outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage in North India, especially in legal spaces. Tracing organically evolving notions of sexual consent and legal subjectivity, Courting Desire underlines how non-normative decisions regarding marriage become possible in a region otherwise known for high instances of honor killings and rigid kinship structures. Aspirations for consensual relationships have led to a tentative attempt to forge relationships that are non-normative but grudgingly approved after state intervention. The book traces this nascent and under-explored trend in the North Indian landscape. Trade Review“Courting Desire offers an unusual mix of ethnographic perspectives, exploring the pursuit of love and the critical role played by legal institutions in changing times. Srinivasan presents a rich canvas of messy human realities, while making a persuasive argument for the stable yet transformative value of law.” -- Ann Grodzins Gold * author of Listening to the Heron's Words: Reimaging Gender and Kinship in North India *“With captivating stories of love and elopement, Rama Srinivasan offers readers a refreshing new view of shifting paradigms on marriage and consent in North India. While elopement challenges both patriarchy and kinship, the courtroom offers young couples a legal validity and a new sense of personhood. This richly woven account mixes the interplay of changing gender roles, political economies, Bollywood films, and the democratic state for a delightful, intimate read into modern India.” -- Erin Patrice Moore * author of Gender, Law, and Resistance in India *New Books Network: New Books in Gender interview with Rama Srinivasan * New Books Network: New Books in Gender *Table of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION Terms of Endearment: Living and Loving in North India Part 1. Localizing Marriage 1. Civil Marriage in Post-Independence India: Birth of a Utopic Idea 2. Of Rebellious Lovers and Conformist Citizens 3. Love, Marriage, and the Brave New World Part 2. State and Subjectivity: Capacity to Aspire in Post-Agrarian North India 4. Gender Trouble and a State of Illusions 5. Instituting Court Marriage: The Legal Fiction of Protection Petitions 6. Consenting Adults and the State: Social Change Through Conformity Part 3. The Politics of Love, Marriage, and a Liveable Future 7. Towards an Alternative Future: Eloping Couples, Citizenry, and Social Mobility Conclusion. Closures, New Beginnings, and Happily Ever After? Acknowledgments Appendix

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Book SynopsisInquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of a private citizen’s engagement with state and law. Through ethnographic research in courtrooms, community,and kinship spaces, the author outlines the transformations in material culture and political economy that have led to renewed negotiations on the institution of marriage in North India, especially in legal spaces. Tracing organically evolving notions of sexual consent and legal subjectivity, Courting Desire underlines how non-normative decisions regarding marriage become possible in a region otherwise known for high instances of honor killings and rigid kinship structures. Aspirations for consensual relationships have led to a tentative attempt to forge relationships that are non-normative but grudgingly approved after state intervention. The book traces this nascent and under-explored trend in the North Indian landscape. Trade Review“Courting Desire offers an unusual mix of ethnographic perspectives, exploring the pursuit of love and the critical role played by legal institutions in changing times. Srinivasan presents a rich canvas of messy human realities, while making a persuasive argument for the stable yet transformative value of law.” -- Ann Grodzins Gold * author of Listening to the Heron's Words: Reimaging Gender and Kinship in North India *“With captivating stories of love and elopement, Rama Srinivasan offers readers a refreshing new view of shifting paradigms on marriage and consent in North India. While elopement challenges both patriarchy and kinship, the courtroom offers young couples a legal validity and a new sense of personhood. This richly woven account mixes the interplay of changing gender roles, political economies, Bollywood films, and the democratic state for a delightful, intimate read into modern India.” -- Erin Patrice Moore * author of Gender, Law, and Resistance in India *New Books Network: New Books in Gender interview with Rama Srinivasan * New Books Network: New Books in Gender *Table of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION Terms of Endearment: Living and Loving in North India Part 1. Localizing Marriage 1. Civil Marriage in Post-Independence India: Birth of a Utopic Idea 2. Of Rebellious Lovers and Conformist Citizens 3. Love, Marriage, and the Brave New World Part 2. State and Subjectivity: Capacity to Aspire in Post-Agrarian North India 4. Gender Trouble and a State of Illusions 5. Instituting Court Marriage: The Legal Fiction of Protection Petitions 6. Consenting Adults and the State: Social Change Through Conformity Part 3. The Politics of Love, Marriage, and a Liveable Future 7. Towards an Alternative Future: Eloping Couples, Citizenry, and Social Mobility Conclusion. Closures, New Beginnings, and Happily Ever After? Acknowledgments Appendix

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Book SynopsisOutdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to modern, public to private, collective to individual. Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the complex, nuanced, and multidirectional nature of these cultural transformations. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that, while the second demographic transition is unfolding in many advanced Western societies, it is not necessarily a normative form of societal transition. Working instead from a framework of "new familism," Shu and Chen show that Chinese new familism consists of both old and new values, including the persistence of some traditional beliefs and practices, accompanied by a transition to modern perceptions of gender, and adaption to some modern forms of family formation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)— a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.Download the open access book here.Trade Review"Shu and Chen identify a distinctive pattern of 'flexible traditionalism' that reinforces the notion of separate spheres and heightens gender differences in marriage and family life. An important and original book that will further the debate on how and why Chinese women and men are charting a different course than their peers in Europe and North America." -- Deborah S. Davis * coeditor of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban Chin *"The radical transformations in the Chinese system of gender, family, and marriage do not neatly fit the prevailing theories of modern social change, nor are they outside the global transitions of the last century. Shu and Chen masterfully integrate China's uniquely "flexible traditionalist" system into that broader story of social change, providing a powerful introduction to Chinese social change for all gender and family scholars." -- Philip Cohen * author of Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families G *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword BY PÉTER BERTA 1 Introduction: The Second Demographic Transition and the Chinese Gender and Family System 2 From Patriarchy to New Familism: The Chinese Gender and Family System 3 Flexible Traditionalism Ideology: Global Comparison and Historical Transformation 4 Changing Patterns of Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, and Fertility 5 New Familism: Changing Gender, Family, Marriage, and Sexual Values 6 Fertility and Divorce: Are Number and Gender of Children Associated with Divorce 7 Marital Dynamics: Housework, Breadwinning, Decision-Making, and Marital Satisfaction 8 Conclusion: Convergence, Contradictions, and Changes in the Future AcknowledgmentsNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisOutdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to modern, public to private, collective to individual. Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the complex, nuanced, and multidirectional nature of these cultural transformations. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that, while the second demographic transition is unfolding in many advanced Western societies, it is not necessarily a normative form of societal transition. Working instead from a framework of "new familism," Shu and Chen show that Chinese new familism consists of both old and new values, including the persistence of some traditional beliefs and practices, accompanied by a transition to modern perceptions of gender, and adaption to some modern forms of family formation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)— a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.Download the open access book here.Trade Review"Shu and Chen identify a distinctive pattern of 'flexible traditionalism' that reinforces the notion of separate spheres and heightens gender differences in marriage and family life. An important and original book that will further the debate on how and why Chinese women and men are charting a different course than their peers in Europe and North America." -- Deborah S. Davis * coeditor of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban Chin *"The radical transformations in the Chinese system of gender, family, and marriage do not neatly fit the prevailing theories of modern social change, nor are they outside the global transitions of the last century. Shu and Chen masterfully integrate China's uniquely "flexible traditionalist" system into that broader story of social change, providing a powerful introduction to Chinese social change for all gender and family scholars." -- Philip Cohen * author of Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families G *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword BY PÉTER BERTA 1 Introduction: The Second Demographic Transition and the Chinese Gender and Family System 2 From Patriarchy to New Familism: The Chinese Gender and Family System 3 Flexible Traditionalism Ideology: Global Comparison and Historical Transformation 4 Changing Patterns of Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, and Fertility 5 New Familism: Changing Gender, Family, Marriage, and Sexual Values 6 Fertility and Divorce: Are Number and Gender of Children Associated with Divorce 7 Marital Dynamics: Housework, Breadwinning, Decision-Making, and Marital Satisfaction 8 Conclusion: Convergence, Contradictions, and Changes in the Future AcknowledgmentsNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize​ This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel "different, mixed up, upside down." Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration details how Somali gendered identities are contested, negotiated, and (re)produced within a framework of religious and politico-national discourses, finding that the most significant catalysts for challenging and changing harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis. Described as “an important and urgent monograph," this book will be a key text relevant to scholars of migration, transnational families, personal life, and gender. Written in a beautiful and accessible style, the book voices the participants with respect and compassion, and is also recommended for scholars of qualitative social research methods. Trade Review"Attentively observed and provocatively argued, this book explores the dynamic inter-relationship between culture, religion, ethnicity, and gender, and how migration remakes people’s understandings of their relationships. It is not only brilliant but beautiful too, capturing the creativity in struggles to craft places in the world. Truly inspirational reading." -- Bridget Anderson * co-editor of Citizenship and Its Others *“In this sensitively-described and expertly analysed ethnography of marriage among Somalis in Bristol, Natasha Carver shows how migration has unsettled Somali cultural norms of womanhood and masculinity. Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration is an exemplary transnational sociology of how identities are constituted." -- Seán McLoughlin * co-editor of Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities *"An exciting insight into marriage, gender, and refugee migration." * Weekendavisen *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Transcription Symbols Series Foreword by Péter Berta 1: Introduction 2: Context and Narrative: Speaking With and Speaking About 3: Atrocity Stories about Divorce 4: Personal Accounts of Relationship Breakdown 5: Being Responsible: Providing for the Family 6: Doing Responsibility: Caring for the Family 7: Somalinimo: An Existential Crisis? 8: Regendering Somaliness in the British Context 9: Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of marriages between Japanese nationals and migrants from three broad ethnic/cultural groups - spouses from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries. It reveals how the marriage migrants navigate the intricacies and trajectories of their marriages with Japanese people while living in Japan. Seen from the lens of ‘gendered geographies of power’, the book explores how state-level politics and policies towards marriage, migration, and gender affect the personal power politics in operation within the relationships of these international couples. Overall, the book discusses how ethnic identity intersects with gender in the negotiation of spaces and power relations between and amongst couples; and the role states and structural inequalities play in these processes, resulting in a reconfiguration of our notions of what international marriages are and how powerful gender and the state are in understanding the power relations in these unions. Trade Review"This is a useful book for any discussion of contemporary marriage practices in Japan. I would use this book as a secondary source in my Japanese literature classes. It provides important background information as well as nice case studies that I could use as points of comparison with the fiction I assign for my students to read."— Anne Sokolsky, International Institute for Asian Studies "International Marriage in Japan: Russian-Speaking Women Married to Japanese Men," by Viktoriya Kim— Hurights Osaka newsletter New Books Network interview with Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto— New Books Network - Japanese Studies "A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on gender and marriage migration in Japan. Shedding light on various aspects of cross-border relationships, cross-cultural parenting and family formation, The Politics of International Marriage in Japan vibrantly illuminates individual engagement in the dynamics and differences of gender, capital, culture, and nation that are embedded in marriage and migration."— Kumiko Nemoto, author of Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan "A novel and valuable contribution to the growing field of research on international marriages. Bringing together three bodies of research on different nationality groups of migrant spouses, with key themes in the study of marriage-related migration, and the Japanese framework of uchi/soto, this book provides a distinctive and ambitious analysis of the diversity of international marriages in Japan."— Katharine Charsley, co-author of Marriage Migration and IntegrationTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction. The Politics of International Marriage in Japan 1 Cross-Border Marriage Studies Through the ‘Lens’ 2 Historical Roots and Contemporary Changes in International Marriages 3 Who Marries Whom? 4 The Politics of Love: Migration Regimes, Individuals and Images 5 Spaces for Negotiation 6 Choices and Constraints 7 Parents’ Strategies to Raise Bilingual/Bicultural Children 8 International Divorce Politics and Transnational Strategies of Spouses Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth exploration and analysis of marriages between Japanese nationals and migrants from three broad ethnic/cultural groups - spouses from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries. It reveals how the marriage migrants navigate the intricacies and trajectories of their marriages with Japanese people while living in Japan. Seen from the lens of ‘gendered geographies of power’, the book explores how state-level politics and policies towards marriage, migration, and gender affect the personal power politics in operation within the relationships of these international couples. Overall, the book discusses how ethnic identity intersects with gender in the negotiation of spaces and power relations between and amongst couples; and the role states and structural inequalities play in these processes, resulting in a reconfiguration of our notions of what international marriages are and how powerful gender and the state are in understanding the power relations in these unions. Trade Review"A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on gender and marriage migration in Japan. Shedding light on various aspects of cross-border relationships, cross-cultural parenting and family formation, The Politics of International Marriage in Japan vibrantly illuminates individual engagement in the dynamics and differences of gender, capital, culture, and nation that are embedded in marriage and migration." -- Kumiko Nemoto * author of Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan *"A novel and valuable contribution to the growing field of research on international marriages. Bringing together three bodies of research on different nationality groups of migrant spouses, with key themes in the study of marriage-related migration, and the Japanese framework of uchi/soto, this book provides a distinctive and ambitious analysis of the diversity of international marriages in Japan." -- Katharine Charsley * co-author of Marriage Migration and Integration *New Books Network interview with ?Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto * New Books Network - Japanese Studies *"International Marriage in Japan: Russian-Speaking Women Married to Japanese Men," by Viktoriya Kim? * Hurights Osaka newsletter *"A welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship focused on gender and marriage migration in Japan. Shedding light on various aspects of cross-border relationships, cross-cultural parenting and family formation, The Politics of International Marriage in Japan vibrantly illuminates individual engagement in the dynamics and differences of gender, capital, culture, and nation that are embedded in marriage and migration." -- Kumiko Nemoto * author of Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan *"A novel and valuable contribution to the growing field of research on international marriages. Bringing together three bodies of research on different nationality groups of migrant spouses, with key themes in the study of marriage-related migration, and the Japanese framework of uchi/soto, this book provides a distinctive and ambitious analysis of the diversity of international marriages in Japan." -- Katharine Charsley * co-author of Marriage Migration and Integration *New Books Network interview with Viktoriya Kim, Nelia Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto * New Books Network - Japanese Studies *"International Marriage in Japan: Russian-Speaking Women Married to Japanese Men," by Viktoriya Kim * Hurights Osaka newsletter *"This is a useful book for any discussion of contemporary marriage practices in Japan. I would use this book as a secondary source in my Japanese literature classes. It provides important background information as well as nice case studies that I could use as points of comparison with the fiction I assign for my students to read." -- Anne Sokolsky * International Institute for Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction. The Politics of International Marriage in Japan 1 Cross-Border Marriage Studies Through the ‘Lens’ 2 Historical Roots and Contemporary Changes in International Marriages 3 Who Marries Whom? 4 The Politics of Love: Migration Regimes, Individuals and Images 5 Spaces for Negotiation 6 Choices and Constraints 7 Parents’ Strategies to Raise Bilingual/Bicultural Children 8 International Divorce Politics and Transnational Strategies of Spouses Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMaking the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. The book uncovers how "becoming modern" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making "right" choices. The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the "right" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of "freedom," but rather as a burden of responsibility.Trade Review"In Making the Right Choice, Abeyasekera navigates the micro-politics of class and gender in contemporary Sri Lanka with skill and grace, providing the reader with a compelling picture of the fraught territory of marriage in twenty-first century Sri Lanka. Throughout, the argument is highly original and incisive, yet written with a novelist’s eye for the telling detail."— Jonathan Spencer, co-editor of The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives "With delicate prose and thoughtfulness, Abeyasekera draws us into the heart of middle-class Colombo, where personal choices on who to love reflect back on family narratives of progress and social mobility. Offering fresh perspectives on agency and responsibility, she moves between life stories across generations to unravel how, in South Asia, marriage is inexorably tied to crafting a self that is both modern and moral."— Ammara Maqsood, author of The New Pakistani Middle Class "Asha Abeyasekera gives us exquisitely wrought portraits of three generations of women in modernizing Sri Lanka as they navigate decisions of who, when, how, and why to marry. Attending to their stories about their marriages, Abeyasekera reveals the repertoires of meaning that enable the women to produce selves that honor traditional kin obligations while embodying modern values of personal choice and self-determination."— Jeanne Marecek, co-author of Gender and Culture in Psychology: Theories and PracticesTable of ContentsContents Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction 1 – Sinhala Marriage Practices: Then and Now 2 – Making the ‘Right’ Choice 3 – Structuring the ‘Right’ Choice 4 – The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages 5 – The Valued Self: Singleness 6 – The Vindicated Self: Divorce Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIndigenous Motherhood in the Academy highlights the experiences and narratives emerging from Indigenous mothers in the academy who are negotiating their roles in multiple contexts. The essays in this volume contribute to the broader higher education literature and the literature on Indigenous representation in the academy, filling a longtime gap that has excluded Indigenous women scholar voices. This book covers diverse topics such as the journey to motherhood, lessons through motherhood, acknowledging ancestors and grandparents in one’s mothering, how historical trauma and violence plague the past, and balancing mothering through the healing process. More specific to Indigenous motherhood in the academy is how culture and place impacts mothering (specifically, if Indigenous mothers are not in their traditional homelands as they raise their children), how academia impacts mothering, how mothering impacts scholarship, and how to negotiate loss and other complexities between motherhood and one’s role in the academy.Trade Review“This book on Indigenous Motherhood eloquently weaves together the beauty, strength, and resilience of those who transform academic spaces for the benefit of Indigenous students, families, and communities. This is the book I yearned for as a graduate student and Indigenous mother-scholar.” -- Jennifer Brant * University of Toronto, co-editor of 'Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murder *"Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy is a brilliantly felt and witnessed act of collective Indigenous scholarship from a fiercely honest new generation of teachers and intellectual leaders who affirm their whole selves as the heart of nurturing present and future Indigenous generations." -- Dian Million, (Tanana) * author of Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights * "A much need contribution to Indigenous scholarship, Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy weaves together rich, powerful stories of Indigenous women who have navigated through the colonized, patriarchal spaces of academia while centering their Indigenous motherhood at the core of their journeys. A very inspirational and critical read for those seeking to understand the experiences of Indigenous women in academia." -- Susana Geliga * PhD, Lakota/Taino, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Naive American Studies Program, Un *Table of ContentsIntroductionSection I: East-ThinkingAn Indigenous boy occupying the academy and the intergenerational (motherly) teachings that led him thereChristine A. Nelson (K’awaika/Diné)“She had no use for fools”: Stories of Dibé Łizhiní mothersTiffany S. Lee (Diné/Lakota)Nine Months of Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy: A Rainbow Journey From the Islands to Na’NeelzhíínLeola Tsinnijinnie-Paquin (Diné)M(othering) and the AcademySusan Faircloth (Coharie Tribe of North Carolina)My Children Are My Teachers: Lessons Learned as a Kanaka Maoli Mother-ScholarNicole Reyes (Native Hawaiian)Dreams of Hózhó Within the Womb: A Navajo Mother’s Letter to Her Newest LoveNizhoni Chow-Garcia (Diné)Section II: South-PlanningHollo Micha Oh Chash: Drawing from our Choctaw ancestors’ wisdom to decolonize motherhood within the academyMichelle Johnson-Jennings (Choctaw), Alayah Johnson-Jennings (Choctaw, Quapaw, Sac & Fox, Miami Nations), & Ahnili Johnson-Jennings (Choctaw, Quapaw, Sac & Fox, Miami Nations)Mvskoke Eckvlke (Muscogee Motherhood) in Academic SpacesDwanna L. McKay (Mvskoke)The (Time) Line in the SandMiranda Belarde-Lewis (Tlingit/Zuni)Protection and the Power of ReproductionShelly Lowe (Diné)A Glint of Decolonial Love: An Academic Mother's Meditation on Navigating and Leveraging the UniversityTria Blu Wakpa (Powhatan Descent)Honoring our Relations (Collective Stories)Section III: West-LivingWidening the Path: Reflection of Two Generations in AcademiaSymphony Oxendine (Cherokee/Choctaw) & Denise Henning (Cherokee/Choctaw)Mothers and Daughters are ForeverRenée Holt (Diné and Nimiipuu)A Journey of Indigenous Motherhood Through the Love, Loss and the P&T ProcessRobin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn (Kiowa/Apache/Umatilla/Nez Perce/Assiniboine)Indigenous Motherhood in STEMOtakuye Conroy Ben (Oglala Lakota)Kuhkwany Kuchemayo ‘Aaknach, An Iipay Mother’s/Teacher’s StoryTheresa Gregor (Iipay/Yoeme)Impact of a Pandemic on Indigenous MotherhoodSection IV: North-AssuringOur Journey Through HealingSloan Woska-pi-mi Shotton (Otoe-Missouria/Iowa/Wichita/Kiowa/Cheyenne) & Heather J. Shotton (Wichita/Kiowa/Cheyenne)Motherhood, Re-ImaginedPearl Brower (Iñupiaq/Armenian/Chippewa)Weaving Fine Baskets of Resilience:Resilient Mothering in the Academy as Kanaka Nation BuildingErin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright (Native Hawaiian)Hā‘ena-i-ku‘u-poli: A Letter to My DaughterKaiwipuni Lipe (Native Hawaiian)A Hidden Cartography: Matrilinealizing the Terrain of AcademeCharlotte Davidson (Diné)Berries and Her Many Lectures: The Work of StoryworkStephanie Waterman (Onondaga/Turtle Clan)Tying The BundleNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisIntimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.Trade Review"Intimate Connections is an elegant and nuanced ethnographic account of gendered intimacy as experienced by women in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Eschewing simplistic formulations such as 'love vs. arranged marriages' and 'agency vs. gendered subordination,' Anna-Maria Walter instead pushes us to consider emotions anew, in particular 'love,' as sites of embodied, ethical formation of the self, and as significant to gendered norms that shape marriage and emergent forms of conjugality." -- Attiya Ahmad * author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait *"Intimate Connections is a richly ethnographic account of women’s and men’s experiences of kinship and sexuality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, showing how young women’s changing expectations of marriage and love are reforming the institution from within." -- Katherine Lemons * author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism *"Intimate Connections is an elegant and nuanced ethnographic account of gendered intimacy as experienced by women in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Eschewing simplistic formulations such as 'love vs. arranged marriages' and 'agency vs. gendered subordination,' Anna-Maria Walter instead pushes us to consider emotions anew, in particular 'love,' as sites of embodied, ethical formation of the self, and as significant to gendered norms that shape marriage and emergent forms of conjugality." -- Attiya Ahmad * author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait *"Intimate Connections is a richly ethnographic account of women’s and men’s experiences of kinship and sexuality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, showing how young women’s changing expectations of marriage and love are reforming the institution from within." -- Katherine Lemons * author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Foreword by Péter Berta Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transcription 1 Politics of the Sensible 2 Embodying Modest Reserve 3 Arranging Affection 4 Fearing Passion 5 Romancing Marriage Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisArranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women. Trade Review"Arranged marriage is unhooked from its stereotypes and stigmas in this volume. What we get instead are new and unexpected insights into an enduring, flexible, portable, and hybrid mode of heterosexual conjugality. An excellent scholarly and pedagogical tool!" -- Jyoti Puri * (Simmons University), author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law i *“As a set of practices that are constantly mutating and notoriously difficult to pin-down statistically, arranged marriages have aroused much interest, debate, and judgment in scholarly, feminist, and activist circles. The present volume of thoroughly researched and sharply analyzed essays offers a global view of this complex institution that helps the reader to develop a dynamic understanding of arranged marriage practices, departing from received notions. A must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary reality of a deep historical practice.” -- Rochona Majumdar * (The University of Chicago), author of Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal *“The collection highlights the blurred lines between arranged and forced marriages, on the one hand, and arranged and ‘love’ marriages, on the other hand. It underlines the dynamics of these marriages, both historically, over time, and processually, in time, through evocative and sensitively documented case studies, each essay stressing the evolving relations between individual agency, gender, generation, and power in changing economic, technological, and demographic circumstances. Many of the case studies are surprising and thought-provoking, and the remarkable achievement in bringing them all together in a single volume is to underline both the similarities and differences in familial relations across the world.” -- Pnina Werbner * (Keele University), author of Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult *“This thoughtful collection of essays reveals deep variation in the lived experiences of arranged marriage in today’s border crossing world. A valuable contribution to scholarship on the politics of marriage and the diverse meanings of choice, consent, love, and intimacy.” -- Sara L. Friedman * (Indiana University), author of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Ta *“This book offers fresh perspectives on contemporary practices of arranged marriage, and as such should be regarded as a pioneering work. In particular, it makes an important new contribution by exploring where, how, and with what consequences arranged marriage practices intersect with rights-based discourses about forced marriage and child marriage – that is, with state concerns to prevent human trafficking and to protect women and children from sexual exploitation. As this book shows, arranged marriage is thriving, in fluid and flexible contemporary forms, embedded in processes of transnational migration, modernization, and the sustaining of ethnic, national, and religious differences." -- Alison Shaw * (University of Oxford), author of Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain *“Euro-American discourse on marriage in diasporic communities often becomes hopelessly entangled in the supposed binary relationship between arranged and love marriage. This book does an excellent job of exploring the fluidity of marital arrangements and the agency individuals exercise within the patriarchal constraints without losing sight of the coercion and violence that might underlie some of these arrangements.” -- Sonalde Desai * (University of Maryland), author of Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transiti *“Arranged Marriage is a compelling collection that forces readers to rethink their assumptions about love, marriage, and choice. Although “modern” is a word rarely associated with such unions, Arranged Marriage persuasively demonstrates that these marriages are not an outdated relic of the past. By providing a thoughtful and nuanced picture of this age-old practice, Arranged Marriage leaves it up to the reader to decide whether the good outweighs the bad.” -- Marcia Zug * (University of South Carolina), author of Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches *“Highlighting processual and contextual understandings of arranged marriage, and a de-essentializing approach, this timely collection shows the continued vibrancy, versatility, and variability of current arranged marriage practices – and their crucial importance for studies of marriage and relationality.” -- Janet Carsten * (University of Edinburgh), author of After Kinship *“Berta’s edited volume is a deep dive into the nuances of the varied processes of arranged marriages – from love-choice to trafficking. Each chapter reads like a novel, taking us through rich collections of stories grounded in ethnography and legal records in communities as diverse as Canadian Mormons, Israelis, Chinese, South Asians, Roma, and Syrian refugees. I look forward to the debates with my students.” -- Erin Patrice Moore * (University of Southern California), author of Gender, Power and Resistance in India *“This volume interrogates arranged marriage in all its complexities and ambiguities across the globe. It illuminates how migration, legal institutions, technology, and transnational cultural flows interweave with shifting marital practices in Europe, North America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Australia.” -- Keera Allendorf * (Indiana University), co-editor of Special Issue on Developmental Idealism (Sociology of Development *“This comprehensive approach to arranged marriage looks both at the dark side of arranged marriages, where women are treated as objects and vulnerable to severe exploitation, and a more nuanced look from a global perspective on how arranged marriage can suit the needs of different populations around the world. There is a high level of scholarship among the invited authors for this book of curated articles and it is hard to imagine anyone who is interested in arranged marriage not needing this book.” -- Pepper Schwartz * (University of Washington), co-author of The Gender of Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Possibilities *“This valuable collection shows both the diversity of arranged marriages, and the manner in which the practice has changed globally to adapt to current social, economic, political, and media settings. The authors refute the simplistic binary between “arranged” and “love” marriages in contemporary societies. The volume also sheds light on forced marriages and how a marriage which might seem consensual may not be so. Must reading for scholars of Marriage Studies anywhere.” -- Janet Afary * (University of California), author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran *Table of Contents Series Foreword PÉTER BERTA Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage– From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency PÉTER BERTA PART ONE Regulating Arranged Marriage 1 Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage SERENA PETRELLA 2 From FamilySafety Net to the WorldWide Web of Immigration Fraudsters: The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians NOORFARAH MERALI PART TWO (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage 3 Arranged Marriage as a Process: From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged Divorce and Arranged Remarriage PÉTER BERTA 4 Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia HELENA ZEWERI 5 Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent CHRISTINA JULIOS PART THREE Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage 6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach YAFA SHANNEIK AND SCHIRIN VAHLE 7 From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt: Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China PAN WANG PART FOUR Modernizing Arranged Marriage 8 Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility SHALINI GROVER 9 Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA 10 “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel SIMA ZALCBERG BLOCK PART FIVE Diasporizing Arranged Marriage 11 Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians RAKSHA PANDE 12 The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora in Chicago FARHA TERNIKAR Afterword MARIAN AGUIAR Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisArranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women. Trade Review"Arranged marriage is unhooked from its stereotypes and stigmas in this volume. What we get instead are new and unexpected insights into an enduring, flexible, portable, and hybrid mode of heterosexual conjugality. An excellent scholarly and pedagogical tool!" -- Jyoti Puri * (Simmons University), author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law i *“As a set of practices that are constantly mutating and notoriously difficult to pin-down statistically, arranged marriages have aroused much interest, debate, and judgment in scholarly, feminist, and activist circles. The present volume of thoroughly researched and sharply analyzed essays offers a global view of this complex institution that helps the reader to develop a dynamic understanding of arranged marriage practices, departing from received notions. A must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary reality of a deep historical practice.” -- Rochona Majumdar * (The University of Chicago), author of Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal *“The collection highlights the blurred lines between arranged and forced marriages, on the one hand, and arranged and ‘love’ marriages, on the other hand. It underlines the dynamics of these marriages, both historically, over time, and processually, in time, through evocative and sensitively documented case studies, each essay stressing the evolving relations between individual agency, gender, generation, and power in changing economic, technological, and demographic circumstances. Many of the case studies are surprising and thought-provoking, and the remarkable achievement in bringing them all together in a single volume is to underline both the similarities and differences in familial relations across the world.” -- Pnina Werbner * (Keele University), author of Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult *“This thoughtful collection of essays reveals deep variation in the lived experiences of arranged marriage in today’s border crossing world. A valuable contribution to scholarship on the politics of marriage and the diverse meanings of choice, consent, love, and intimacy.” -- Sara L. Friedman * (Indiana University), author of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Ta *“This book offers fresh perspectives on contemporary practices of arranged marriage, and as such should be regarded as a pioneering work. In particular, it makes an important new contribution by exploring where, how, and with what consequences arranged marriage practices intersect with rights-based discourses about forced marriage and child marriage – that is, with state concerns to prevent human trafficking and to protect women and children from sexual exploitation. As this book shows, arranged marriage is thriving, in fluid and flexible contemporary forms, embedded in processes of transnational migration, modernization, and the sustaining of ethnic, national, and religious differences." -- Alison Shaw * (University of Oxford), author of Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain *“Euro-American discourse on marriage in diasporic communities often becomes hopelessly entangled in the supposed binary relationship between arranged and love marriage. This book does an excellent job of exploring the fluidity of marital arrangements and the agency individuals exercise within the patriarchal constraints without losing sight of the coercion and violence that might underlie some of these arrangements.” -- Sonalde Desai * (University of Maryland), author of Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transiti *“Arranged Marriage is a compelling collection that forces readers to rethink their assumptions about love, marriage, and choice. Although “modern” is a word rarely associated with such unions, Arranged Marriage persuasively demonstrates that these marriages are not an outdated relic of the past. By providing a thoughtful and nuanced picture of this age-old practice, Arranged Marriage leaves it up to the reader to decide whether the good outweighs the bad.” -- Marcia Zug * (University of South Carolina), author of Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches *“Highlighting processual and contextual understandings of arranged marriage, and a de-essentializing approach, this timely collection shows the continued vibrancy, versatility, and variability of current arranged marriage practices – and their crucial importance for studies of marriage and relationality.” -- Janet Carsten * (University of Edinburgh), author of After Kinship *“Berta’s edited volume is a deep dive into the nuances of the varied processes of arranged marriages – from love-choice to trafficking. Each chapter reads like a novel, taking us through rich collections of stories grounded in ethnography and legal records in communities as diverse as Canadian Mormons, Israelis, Chinese, South Asians, Roma, and Syrian refugees. I look forward to the debates with my students.” -- Erin Patrice Moore * (University of Southern California), author of Gender, Power and Resistance in India *“This volume interrogates arranged marriage in all its complexities and ambiguities across the globe. It illuminates how migration, legal institutions, technology, and transnational cultural flows interweave with shifting marital practices in Europe, North America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Australia.” -- Keera Allendorf * (Indiana University), co-editor of Special Issue on Developmental Idealism (Sociology of Development *“This comprehensive approach to arranged marriage looks both at the dark side of arranged marriages, where women are treated as objects and vulnerable to severe exploitation, and a more nuanced look from a global perspective on how arranged marriage can suit the needs of different populations around the world. There is a high level of scholarship among the invited authors for this book of curated articles and it is hard to imagine anyone who is interested in arranged marriage not needing this book.” -- Pepper Schwartz * (University of Washington), co-author of The Gender of Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Possibilities *“This valuable collection shows both the diversity of arranged marriages, and the manner in which the practice has changed globally to adapt to current social, economic, political, and media settings. The authors refute the simplistic binary between “arranged” and “love” marriages in contemporary societies. The volume also sheds light on forced marriages and how a marriage which might seem consensual may not be so. Must reading for scholars of Marriage Studies anywhere.” -- Janet Afary * (University of California), author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran *Table of Contents Series Foreword PÉTER BERTA Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage– From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency PÉTER BERTA PART ONE Regulating Arranged Marriage 1 Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage SERENA PETRELLA 2 From FamilySafety Net to the WorldWide Web of Immigration Fraudsters: The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians NOORFARAH MERALI PART TWO (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage 3 Arranged Marriage as a Process: From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged Divorce and Arranged Remarriage PÉTER BERTA 4 Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia HELENA ZEWERI 5 Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent CHRISTINA JULIOS PART THREE Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage 6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach YAFA SHANNEIK AND SCHIRIN VAHLE 7 From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt: Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China PAN WANG PART FOUR Modernizing Arranged Marriage 8 Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility SHALINI GROVER 9 Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA 10 “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel SIMA ZALCBERG BLOCK PART FIVE Diasporizing Arranged Marriage 11 Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians RAKSHA PANDE 12 The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora in Chicago FARHA TERNIKAR Afterword MARIAN AGUIAR Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIslamic Divorce in the 21st Century shows the wide range of Muslim experiences in marital disputes and in seeking Islamic divorces. For Muslims, having the ability to divorce in accordance with Islamic law is of paramount importance. However, Muslim experiences of divorce practice differ tremendously. The chapters in this volume discuss Islamic divorce from West Africa to Southeast Asia, and each story explores aspects of the everyday realities of disputing and divorcing Muslim couples face in the twenty-first century. The book’s cross-cultural and comparative look at Islamic divorce indicates that Muslim divorces are impacted by global religious discourses on Islamic authority, authenticity, and gender; by global patterns of and approaches to secularity; and by global economic inequalities and attendant patterns of urbanization and migration. Studying divorce as a mode of Islamic law in practice shows us that the Islamic legal tradition is flexible, malleable, and context-dependent.Trade Review"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century is a wonderful book in which we travel geographically and intellectually. Its importance draws on the variety of national experiences it documents in a truly comparative perspective, as well as on the scholarship of both coeditors and contributors. It is a compulsory read for everybody interested in understanding how Islam is a global phenomenon with a huge array of local declensions." -- Baudouin Dupret * author of Positive Law from the Muslim World: Jurisprudence, History, Practices *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century provides rich empirical data and sophisticated theoretical perspectives on the gendered complexities of kinship and marriage, divorce, inequality, and Islamic law and normativity in nine nations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This engagingly written and compelling volume will be welcomed by scholars in various fields and has great potential for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Michael G. Peletz * author of Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century is a tour de force, offering both breadth and depth on Muslim divorce practices. In addition to presenting scholarship from rarely documented countries, this volume provides a perspective on global connections and the transformations that ensue. It is a must-read for scholars of Muslim family law." -- Arzoo Osanloo * author of The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century is a wonderful book in which we travel geographically and intellectually. Its importance draws on the variety of national experiences it documents in a truly comparative perspective, as well as on the scholarship of both coeditors and contributors. It is a compulsory read for everybody interested in understanding how Islam is a global phenomenon with a huge array of local declensions." -- Baudouin Dupret * author of Positive Law from the Muslim World: Jurisprudence, History, Practices *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century provides rich empirical data and sophisticated theoretical perspectives on the gendered complexities of kinship and marriage, divorce, inequality, and Islamic law and normativity in nine nations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This engagingly written and compelling volume will be welcomed by scholars in various fields and has great potential for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Michael G. Peletz * author of Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century is a tour de force, offering both breadth and depth on Muslim divorce practices. In addition to presenting scholarship from rarely documented countries, this volume provides a perspective on global connections and the transformations that ensue. It is a must-read for scholars of Muslim family law." -- Arzoo Osanloo * author of The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran *Table of ContentsNote on TransliterationList of AbbreviationsSeries Foreword by Péter BertaPreface (Acknowledgment)Chapter 1: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First Century Practice by Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin Part I : State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and RecommendationsChapter 2: Divorce by Khul‘ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women’s Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority by Elisa Giunchi Chapter 3: Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary by Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron Chapter 4: Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa by Fatima Essop Part II: Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital DisputingChapter 5: Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: The Judicial Practices of Divorce on the Ground of Sexual Dissatisfaction within Indonesian Religious Courts by Ayang Utriza YakinChapter 6: “I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me”: Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce In Accra, Ghana by Fulera Issaka-Toure Chapter 7: Undoing Marriage in Lebanon. Divorce within and beyond Family Courts by Jean-Michel LandryPart III: Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household EconomiesChapter 8: Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce and Gender Relations in Mali by Dorothea Schulz and Souleymane DialloChapter 9: A ‘Much-Married Woman’ Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China by Rune SteenbergChapter 10: The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India by Katherine Lemons with Nadia HusseinAfterword: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field and Concluding Thoughts by Erin E. Stiles with Ayang Utriza Yakin Notes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWomen around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.Trade Review"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, Opting Out explores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria *"Provocatively and engagingly, this volume provides compelling ethnographic evidence of the changes marriage is undergoing around the world. The impact of these changes raises profound questions, not only about the future of marriage itself, but which, as these essays show, go to the heart of gender relations and their intersection with politics, economics and religion." -- Janet Carsten * co-editor of Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense *"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, Opting Out explores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter BertaIntroduction: Messing with Marriage by Joanna Davidson and Dinah HannafordPart I. Never Married1. Almost Married: Two Generations of Single Mothers in Namibia by Julia Pauli2. Single in Botswana by Jacqueline Solway3. Freedom to Choose? Singlehood, Gender, and Sexuality in India by Sarah Lamb4. Single Women’s Invisibility in South Korea’s First Decades by Laura C. NelsonPart II. Outside of Marriage5. Pathivratha Precarity: Sex Work on the Other Side of Marriage in South India by Kimberly Walters6. Respectability & Black Brazilian Women’s Decisions to ‘Opt Out’ of Remarriage by Melanie Medeiros7. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality and the Enigma of Bajan Marriage by Carla Freeman8. Messing with Remarriage: The Problem of Widows in Guinea-Bissau by Joanna DavidsonPart III. Within Marriage9. Extramarital Intimacy: Juggling Femininity, Marriage, and Commercial Sex in Contemporary Japan by Akiko Takeyama10. “What’s Wrong with These Mens?”: Reworking relationships and finding foreign love in the new South Africa by Brady G’Sell11. The Appeal of Absent Husbands in Contemporary Senegal by Dinah Hannaford12. “Not a normal wife”: Marrying Activism and Aberrance in Indonesia by Carla JonesAcknowledgmentsBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the autobiographical reflections of prominent women school psychologists who are at or near completion of their careers. It demonstrates the varied and diverse journeys of these women in their own words. The volume examines the ways in which leading women in the field have evolved from primarily frontline service providers to full contributors at all levels of the profession. Chapters offer insights into school psychology movers and shakers and explores how many found a home in academia, where they became trainers of the next generation. In addition, chapters examine the opportunities and restraints that these women leaders confronted across the years. The book celebrates the success of these women and encourages both women and men to pursue roles in the profession. Women Leaders in School Psychology is an informative read for graduate students and scientist-practitioners as well as researchers, professors and other professionals in child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, family studies, social work, public health, clinical and developmental psychology and all related psychology, mental health, and education disciplines.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Some History.- Chapter 2: An Academic’s Path.- Chapter 3: An Australian Story.- Chapter 4: My Path in School Psychology.- Chapter 5: My Long Days’ Journey into NOW!.- Chapter 6: The Role of Serendipity and Opportunity in Shaping a Career in School Psychology.- Chapter 7: A Career of Rich and Rewarding Compromises.- Chapter 8: Journey Toward Multicultural Consultation and Diversity of Perspectives.- Chapter 9: A Career in School Psychology: Some Themes, Many Variations.- Chapter 10: Bridging Practice, Academe, and Cultures as a School Psychologist in Israel.- Chapter 11: Embracing the Academic Life with All its Highs and Lows.- Chapter 12: Perseverance and Joy: Advancing the Lives of Children.- Chapter 13: A Professional Journey: A Privilege and Responsibility.- Chapter 14: My Journey as a School Psychology Advocate.- Chapter 15: Intertwining Journeys and Professional Passions.- Chapter 16: An Alternative Life in the Mainstream, Revisited.- Chapter 17: An Unforeseen Journey.- Chapter 18: Entrepreneurial School Psychologist.- Chapter 19: On becoming a Culturally Competent School Psychologist .- Chapter 20: All Roads Led Me to School Psychology.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what it means to live a purposeful life and outlines the benefits associated with purpose across different life domains. It also demonstrates that purpose in life is not reducible to constructs such as happiness, well-being, or identity development.The importance of having a sense of purpose in life is attracting renewed attention in both scientific and social arenas. Mounting evidence from intricately designed experiments and large-scale studies reveals how pursuing a purpose can make a person happier, healthier, and even lengthen their lifespan. However, existing texts on purpose have said little on why having has these effects, how it may influence our ability to navigate diverse environments, or how best to consider the construct from a multidisciplinary approach that moves beyond psychology.Recognizing this gap in the literature, this book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the topic of purpose, and examines what we can do as researchers, interventionists, and society as a whole to imbue purposefulness in the lives of people across the lifespan. It includes contributions from key figures on topics such as identity, health, youth programs and youth purpose, diversity, aging and work.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction(Anthony Burrow).- Part 1: Purpose as a Catalyst for Healthy Development.- Chapter 2. Is Purpose Good for Your Health?: A Look at Emerging Evidence (Carol Ryff).- Chapter 3. Taking a Purposeful Direction toward Healthy Aging (Patrick Hill).- Chapter 4. TBA (Rachel Sumner).- Part 2: Educating for a Purpose.- Chapter 5. Adolescents’ Self-Transcendent Purposes for Learning in School: Theory and Intervention (David Yeager).- Chapter 6. Discovering Identity and Purpose in the Classroom: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives (Lisa Kiang).- Chapter 7. A Multinational Cultural Perspective on Developing and Educating for Youth Purpose (Seana Moran).- Part 3: The Role of Purpose in a Diverse Society.- Chapter 8. Youth Purpose: A Translational Research Agenda (Kendall Cotton Bronk).- Chapter 9. Paths of Identity: Navigating Stereotypes and Finding Purpose (Leoandra Rogers).- Chapter 10. Purpose as a Motivator for Equity Work (Adia Harvey Wingfield).- Part 4: Purpose in Context.- Chapter 11. Coming of Age on the Edge of Town: Perspectives on Growing Up in the Context of Rural Poverty(Katherine MacTavish).- Chapter 12. Determinants of Purpose in Life: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Analyses (Ying Chen).- Chapter 13. Supporting Youth Purpose in Adolescence: Youth-Adult Relationships as Ecological Assets (Nancy Deutsch).- Chapter 14. Discovering the Possible: How Youth Programs Provide Apprenticeships in Purpose (Reed Larson).- Chapter 15. Concluding Remarks (Anthony Burrow).

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of open adoption from care in Australia. It contributes to the international debate concerning the advantages and disadvantages of face-to-face post adoption contact with birth families.The chapters assess whether adoption provides a better chance of permanence and more positive outcomes than long-term foster care for abused and neglected children in care who cannot safely return to their birth families. They also explore whether open adoption can avoid some of the detrimental consequences of past policies in which adoption was shrouded in secrecy and children frequently grew up with a conflicted sense of identity. The book will appeal to policy makers, practitioners and students of social policy, social work, the law, psychology and psychiatry. It should also be of interest to adult adoptees and adoptive parents, whose experiences it reflects. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction. Part One: Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents and Children When They Entered their Adoptive Homes.- Chapter 2. Issues Facing the Birth Parents and their Implications for Open Adoption. - Chapter 3. The Children.- Chapter 4. The Adoptive Parents.- Part 2: Outcomes of Open Adoption From Care.- Chapter 5. Permanence.- Chapter 6. Post-Adoption Contact and Relationships with Birth Family Members.- Chapter 7. Progress After Placement.- Chapter 8. Adult Outcomes.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Implications for Policy and Practice.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines belonging as a key protective factor for enhancing resilience for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. It focuses on understanding intellectual and developmental disabilities and resilience from systemic and social-ecological perspectives, emphasizing the roles of professionals, families, and communities in combating long-standing segregation and health disparities experienced by individuals and families. The volume explores the dimensions of belonging across diverse professional fields using a person-centered approach that acknowledges the significant lifelong role of family members and emphasizes reflective practice for professionals. Chapters present research and innovative strategies to facilitate belonging when working alongside individuals and families.Key areas of coverage include: Family-professional partnerships in working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across lifespan and community contexts. Spirituality, mental health, and identity in persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Research ethics and design in working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The diverse needs, desires, and preferences of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The importance of individualized planning and approaches in fostering belonging for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Belonging and Resilience in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities is a valuable resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and related professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, public health, and social work as well as related disciplines, including education policy and politics, behavioral health, and psychiatry.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Disability as Diversity: Rethinking Resilience for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Families.- Chapter 2: Dimensions of Belonging for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.- Chapter 3: Schools as Places of Trusting Partnerships and Belonging for Families of Students with Disabilities.- Chapter 4. Using the Universal Design for Learning Framework to Understand the Power of Belonging.- Chapter 5. Identity and Belonging After Trauma.- Chapter 6. Whose Am I? Spiritual Pathways into the Heart of Belonging.- Chapter 7. Belonging and Knowledge Production: Fostering Influence over Science via Participatory Research with People with Developmental Disabilities.- Chapters 8. Belonging and Inclusion: Supporting Individuals and Families Throughout the Future Planning Process.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines resilience in childhood, focusing on positive functioning and development, often in the face of everyday difficulties and adversities. It highlights critical areas in which children and their families can demonstrate resilience and attain positive social, emotional, academic, and behavioral life trajectories. The book describes key factors related to enhancing resilience for children, such as positive relationships with adults, positive school environments, and meaningful connections with others. It provides practical guidelines for promoting resilience in youth and reviews the critical nature of resilience across various situations, critical issues, and different developmental periods. It offers guidance on strategies for fostering resilience in children.Key topics featured include: Raising children to have grit and tenacity. Fostering resilience in children at school and within their families. Nurturing resilience in children with chronic illnesses and posttrauma. Resilient Children is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental, clinical, and school psychology, family studies, public health, and social work as well as all related disciplines, including educational psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and pediatrics.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to Resilience in Children.- Chapter 2. Resilience in Children and Families.- Chapter 3. Resilience for Children Recovering from Trauma.- Chapter 4. Grit and Resilience in Children.- Chapter 5. Discovering Resilience and Well-being in School Communities.- Chapter 6. Enhancing Coping for Children Facing Toxic Stress.- Chapter 7. Association Between Family Relationships and Childhood Resilience.- Chapter 8. Promotion of Resilience for Children in Low-Income Countries.- Chapter 9. Interventions to Promote Resilience in Children with Chronic Illnesses.- Chapter 10. Promoting Resilience in Early Childhood.- Chapter 11. Improving Executive Functioning Contributes to Cognitive Performance and Results in Resilience for Children.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes on different functions, meanings and tensions. Alcohol is shown to play an important role in biographical transitions, such as in the coming of age rituals that mark the passage from adolescences to adulthood, whilst drinking alcohol in adulthood and in later life takes on new meanings, pleasures and risks in light of shifting roles and responsibilities relating to work, leisure and the family. The empirically-informed contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and a range of cultural contexts provides a nuanced examination of the role of alcohol at different life course stages and explores both continuity and change between generations.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course.Part I: Alcohol, Generations and Social Change.- From Abiding to Accelerating to Anomic: Generational Waves of Change in Irish Drinking Culture, 1845-Present.Realities or Mythologies: England’s rural pubs and the life course.Biographical and Generational Perspectives on Drinking in a Mediterranean Culture.‘I Would Never Dream of Drinking on a Lunch Hour, But…’: Intergenerational changes in attitude towards alcohol consumption.Part II: Alcohol, Youth and Adolescence.- Alcohol Use, Age, and (In)Appropriateness: Young adults’ conceptions and performances of ‘age’ in contexts of alcohol use.If You Can’t Beat Them, You Join Them’: Peer pressure and drinking to belong among Nigerian youths.Shifting Conceptions of Moderation, Risk and Danger amongst Non-Drinking University Students in the UK: A Case Study of Hyper-Moderation.Part III: Alcohol in Adulthood.- Blackening the Bride and Stripping the Stag: The Role of alcohol, gender and age in prenuptial wedding rituals.Female Drunkenness and the Life Course in Victorian Lancashire.De-Gendering Alcohol through Food Pairing: Women’s Shifting Position as Culinary Consumers in Japan.‘There’s nothing classy about a drunk 40-year-old’: Drinking biographies and ‘sobriety stories’ amongst women who stop drinking in midlife and beyond.Part IV: Alcohol in Later Life.- Alcohol Use, Its Meaning and Impact in Older AgeAlcohol Consumption in Older Drinkers and Its Links to “Successful Ageing”‘I Don’t Drink Much Now ‘cos I’m Old’: The Life-course and changing drinking practices among older male adults in Nigeria.

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Book SynopsisSocial workers need to work with fathers across many service systems, but lack guidance on how to do so, and most engagement, assessment, and intervention work for family-serving systems is mother- and child-focused. Father-inclusive readings and resources are also limited. Drawing on the expertise of well-regarded research and practice experts in the field, this comprehensive book provides guidance to social work practitioners and researchers on how to engage, assess, and serve fathers. Instructors can use the text to include fathers in courses on the human behavior and social environment, family systems, clinical practice, diversity, or service systems.Social service systems, unfortunately, have often struggled to positively engage men as parents. Recent demographic trends indicate that fathers are providing more direct care to children and single-father households are one of the most rapidly growing demographic groups in the United States. Barriers to their successful engagement include biases and assumptions about men and fathers, a lack of father-friendly policies and practices in the field, limited training on how to work with fathers, and relatively limited father-inclusive social work research until recently. This book addresses these barriers. It is a guide to social workers in their efforts to better serve men as parents, and does so from an ecological and systems perspective. Multiple case examples and practical tools are provided, as well as specific content on major social service systems. Topics explored include: Father Engagement Organizational “Father Friendly” Assessments Interventions with Fathers Setting the Course for Future Theory, Research, and Practice with Fathers Social Work Practice with Fathers: Engagement, Assessment, and Intervention is a book that could be folded into foundation courses in social work or used by practitioners in the field. It is an essential text for graduate students in social work, psychology, sociology, child development, allied health, and similar disciplines and professions, and a go-to resource for helping professionals/practitioners such as social workers, psychologists, and licensed professional counselors. Advanced undergraduate students in these disciplines and professions also will find the text useful in their studies and work.Table of ContentsCh. 1 Introduction Chapter Abstract The introduction chapter provides the need for this text, with a brief overview of the history of the engagement of fathers in social work and common barriers to their successful inclusion. It also outlines the intended audience and purpose. The chapter also provides an overview of the structure of the book, and the content that is covered in subsequent chapters as well as the values that guide the work, making connections to the social work code of ethics. Also included are suggestions for readers on how to incorporate the readings into social work coursework and training and how the material relates to current EBPAS standards. Key words: historical context, ethics, father engagement Part I. Engagement Ch. 2 Framing Father Engagement Chapter Abstract This chapter explores existing definitions and conceptualizations of father engagement, including key terms that are used throughout this section of the book related to engagement. In addition, general models and frameworks related to engagement are reviewed, and when possible examples specific to fathers are described. This chapter includes a a brief overview on the state of the research and conceptual literature related to father engagement, addressing three key questions: What do we know now? What do we still need to know? What is the way forward? These questions guide the structure of the remaining chapters in this section. Keywords: father engagement, definitions of father engagement, models of father engagement Ch. 3 Engaging Individual Fathers and Families from a Developmental and Family Systems Perspective Chapter Abstract This chapter explores the topic of engaging individual fathers/father figures and families across the lifespan. Drawing on life course and developmental theories, this chapter addresses engagement of teen fathers, middle-age fathers and father figures, and older fathers and father figures. Furthermore, this chapter draws on family systems theory to explore changes in family structure over time and how such changes have influenced ways of engaging fathers. This chapter concludes by discussing strategies for engaging fathers that reside in a variety of 21st century family structures, such as resident fathers, non-resident fathers, multi-partner fertility fathers, social fathers, single fathers, LGBTQ fathers, minority fathers, kinship fathers, and cohabiting fathers. Keywords: father engagement, developmental perspectives, life course perspectives, family systems theory Ch. 4 Engaging Fathers within Programs, Organizations and SystemsChapter Abstract This chapter describes father engagement in the context of programs, organizations, and service systems. The role of system structures, physical environments, policies, and processes in engagement of fathers are explored including the interrelationship between the engagement of fathers and their families and these macro-level factors. A general framework of programs, organizational and system engagement factors related to father engagement are presented and case examples are given to illustrate these factors. This general framework is used to organize the subsequent chapters on interventions in service systems. This chapter also includes a description of recommended practices in building and adapting organizations to better serve fathers, including the use of organizational and systems assessments and interventions. Keywords: organizations, systems, engagement, framework Ch. 5 Engaging Fathers in Research and EvaluationChapter Abstract This chapter first uses a historical lens to explore challenges and strategies for engaging various populations of fathers in academic and community-based research and evaluation. A framework for preparing for field work with fathers is presented including practical tools and examples. The chapter includes an overview of successful recruitment techniques that have been used to enroll fathers in both qualitative and quantitative research studies, including agency-based recruitment, social media strategies, and community stakeholder outreach. Tools for retaining fathers in longitudinal studies also is discussed. This chapter highlights ethical debates related to research with fathers, including maternal gatekeeping, incentive structures, and prolonged engagement. Keywords: recruitment, retention, research ethics Part II: Assessment Ch. 6 Assessment with Fathers: Recognizing Strengths, Challenges, and Contexts Chapter Abstract This chapter examines the assessment process with fathers. The chapter begins with an examination of the importance of conducting a comprehensive assessment that focuses on father strengths and challenges. By understanding fathers' strengths, practitioners can build on existing resources, both internal and external. In order to effectively intervene, practitioners must understand the historical and current needs and challenges of fathers. The chapter discusses the relevance of dynamic assessment approaches whereby understanding changes in father’s status, context, and parenting situation are considered over time, rather than assuming these are stagnant factors. Content includes the importance of male-friendly assessment tools and strategies to accurately assess overall health and well-being. The chapter provides recommendations for practitioners and programs to improve assessment processes for fathers and strategies to make assessment more welcoming and useful for fathers. Keywords: fathering, strengths, challenges, context, dynamic assessment Ch. 7 Organizational “Father Friendly” Assessments Chapter Abstract This chapter uses the general framework presented in Chapter 4 to examine approaches to assessing the "father friendliness" of programs and organizations. A team approach is recommended, including collaboration with fathers and families to assess programs and organizations. The chapter provides tools that can be used by individuals or teams to examine program elements for their father-inclusiveness. These tools direct the reader on a process that includes the consideration of program development, theory, and content for the inclusion of fathers. They also direct the readers to consider organizational location, physical appearance, staffing, and staff training for father friendliness. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how these assessments can be used to guide adaptations to programs and changes in organizations to better serve fathers. Keywords: organizations, father friendliness, father inclusion Part III: Intervention Ch. 8 Framing Interventions with Fathers Chapter Abstract This chapter examines how we frame intervention with fathers. The chapter explores definitions and concepts related to intervention, including who is included in services, incorporating multiple parents in interventions, and inclusion of social fathers. This framing impacts who is included and excluded in services, which impacts the family system and success of intervention. Issues related to how we intervene in terms of language, activities, and strategies are explored. The chapter concludes with recommendations for framing interventions and intervening in ways which positively impact the family system as a whole, as well as its individual members, including the father or father figure. Keywords: interventions, family systems, father figures Ch. 9 Expanding Our Understanding of Public Policies to Support Father InvolvementChapter AbstractThis chapter presents approaches to assessing the "father friendliness" of public policies that may impact father engagement. The chapter provides an overview of the policy process, and barriers and supports for including fathers' voices at each stage. Advocacy tools that can be used by individuals, community stakeholders, and fatherhood organizations are included. These tools direct the reader on best practices for assessing the engagement of fathers, administrators, and legislators in discussion about father-friendly policy development. The chapter concludes by providing case examples of father-inclusive policy advocacy, development, implementation, and evaluation.Keywords: public policy, family impact analysis, father engagement Ch. 10 Group Work with Fathers in Federal Pretrial Detention and a Community-Based Residential Setting: Reflections on Practice and Policies Across Contexts Chapter Abstract This chapter describes fathers' experiences with and within the criminal justice system, and the impacts of such involvement on a multitude of relationships within the family system. It examines issues that impact paternal identity and involvement such as, community-level interactions with the police (i.e., stop and arrest patterns), pretrial detention, and incarceration in local, state, and federal detention centers. Interventions geared towards prevention of system involvement, pretrial diversion, and community reentry are examined. This chapter also explores public policy approaches that place fathers at risk for system involvement or facilitate disentanglement from the system over the life course. Keywords: criminal justice, paternal incarceration, reentry, mass incarceration Ch. 11 Engaging Fathers in Child Welfare and Foster Care Settings: Promoting Paternal Contributions to the Safety, Permanency, and Well-being of Children and Families Chapter Abstract This chapter examines fathers in the child welfare system. Readers are informed regarding relevant aspects of engagement and intervention with this subgroup of fathers, which impacts the ability to effectively intervene with fathers in child welfare. Issues related to inclusion in services, from prevention to exist from foster care as well as the needs and challenges of these fathers, and factors that increase engagement and retention in services, are discussed. Biases and practices that deter father inclusion are examined. The chapter concludes with recommendations on engaging, assessing, and intervening with fathers in the child welfare system across multiple system processes, and the life of a case is examined. Keywords: child welfare, child maltreatment, child abuse, prevention Ch. 12 Father-Friendly School Interventions: Helping Schools Create Engagement Opportunities Chapter Abstract This chapter explores current school practices for engaging fathers in the education of their children. It also highlights existing challenges to both recruiting and retaining fathers in school-based parenting interventions and strategies that have been offered in the existing literature for addressing these challenges. This chapter also provides a brief overview of findings from the literature related to "father-friendly" school-based interventions and the outcomes/effectiveness of these programs. Finally, this chapter concludes by highlighting the voices of fathers and/or practitioners and their experiences with participation in interventions delivered in school settings. Keywords: school-based parenting interventions, fathers, school-based parenting programs Ch. 13 Fathers’ Participation in Early Childhood Programs Chapter Abstract This chapter examines the engagement of fathers in early childhood service systems. The chapter begins with a brief discussion of early childhood programs, including home visiting, early head start, and other programs designed to improve the health and educational outcomes of young children. The chapter describes the role of fathers in supporting both children and mothers' engagement and success in these programs, as well as an overview of the current research on engagement of fathers in early childhood programs. The chapter concludes with a set of recommendations for practitioners and programs to improve the engagement of fathers in their services. Keywords: early childhood, Head Start, home visiting Ch. 14 Fathers and Child Support: How Money Transfers and Other Interactions Impact Family Dynamics Chapter Abstract This chapter examines interventions targeted towards fathers who have current child support orders and arrears. The chapter begins with a brief history of the need for and development of federal and state child support services. Barriers and facilitators to fathers' engagement with this system are explored. The chapter describes contemporary shifts in models of service delivery and policies that have been developed to enhance paternal compliance, via support for education and employment services. The chapter also highlights the impact of these programs on child and family well-being. The chapter concludes with a set of recommendations for enhancing child support service engagement. Keywords: child support, arrears, compliance Ch. 15 Engaging Fathers in Intimate Partner Violence Interventions Chapter Abstract This chapter examines the role of fathers, both as perpetrators and victims of interpersonal violence. The chapter begins with a brief discussion of violence prevention and intervention programs, including male anti-violence ally programs, shelter programs and other victim services, and batterer programs. The chapter describes the role of fathers in violence prevention, supporting both children and mothers' health and well-being, as well as an overview of the current research on the prevention of and intervention for fathers who engage in violence behaviors. The chapter concludes with a set of recommendations for practitioners and programs to improve the engagement of fathers in their services, including the development of more programs aimed at serving male victims of violence. Keywords: domestic violence, interpersonal violence, batterers Part IV: ConclusionCh. 16 Setting the Course for Future Theory, Research, and Practice with Fathers Chapter Abstract In this chapter, major themes of the book are summarized, including key principles of engagement and intervention. In addition, trends in social work research, programs, and policies related to father engagement are explored, including trends toward increased federal investment in fatherhood programs and demonstration projects, more father-inclusive family-oriented programming, and attention to co-parenting and other factors that contextualize fathering in families and communities. Ongoing gaps as well as opportunities for further research and novel approaches to father engagement for service providers are described. Additional resources available to the reader seeking additional supports in appendices are described. Keywords: engagement, intervention, researchAppendices Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Social Work Grand Challenges Related to Fathers and Fathering Appendix C: Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) Competency Map for Book Chapters Appendix D: Syllabi Maps Appendix E: Policy Reflection Activity Appendix F: Practice Reflection Activity Appendix G: Case Vignettes Appendix H: Resource List

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Book SynopsisThis handbook compiles the most up-to-date research on transnational families. It employs a dialogue between classical approaches and cutting-edge directions in transnational family research to identify continuities and changes in terms of socioeconomic disparities and actors, and to analyze coexistence. Further, the volume adopts a twofold global and international comparative perspective. On the one hand, it focuses on different migratory flows around the world and describes their entangled logics; on the other, it is written by an international group of contributors, with a diverse range of professional backgrounds. Their contributions are based on sound empirical research, and explore geographical regions around the world. The handbook presents different thematic perspectives on transnational families, including an analytical focus on gender, global sociodemographic inequalities, power asymmetries, and border- and mobility regimes, as well as the organization of transnational care, transnational fatherhood, ageing, family reunions and return. It also includes a variety of methodological approaches to transnational family research, ranging from ethnography, biographical research, and life-course methods, to multi-sited approaches and quantitative surveys. Investigating an emergent debate, it sheds new light on migratory fluxes, their common and specific determinants, the types of actors involved, and ways to empirically and methodologically approach them. This is a must-read reference for social scientists interested in family research, migration, and gender studies. Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Entangled Logics in Transnational Families (Javiera Cienfuegos and Rosa Brandhorst).- PART I: The Importance (and Continuity) of Gender Inequalities.- Families, Female Heads of Household and Feminization of Migration in Central America (Ana Lucía Fernández Fernández).- Adult-Son and Father Relationships Across the Life Course: Reflections on the Korean American Package Deal (Allen Kim).- Raising a Family in the Distance: Family Practices in Contexts of Colombian Migration to Santiago De Chile (Adriana Zapata).- Power Asymmetry in Shared Mothering Arrangements: Filipino Migrant Mothers in France and their Co-Mothers in the Philippines (Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot).- International Marriage, Migration and Transnational Family Life: The Case of Japanese-Filipino Families (Jocelyn O. Celero).- PART II: New (Other) Actors on the Global Scale.- Cultural Identity and Cosmopolitan Attitudes in Zero -Second Generation Transnational Relationships via Materialities (Viorela Ducu & Áron Telegdi Csetri).- Facing Global Processes: Highly Qualified Migrants and their Struggles for Recognition (Javiera Cienfuegos).- Analyzing the Far-Reaching Impacts of the Out-Migration of Female Labor: Barrel Children, Migrant Jamaican Teachers and Dependent Families (Karen Thomas-Brown).- Moral Economies and Transnational Families of Central American Migrants in Mexico and the US (Kristin E. Yarris & Charles Watters).- ‘Familia En El Extranjero’: Transnational Families and the Reconfiguration of Social Inequalities in Cuba (Rosa Brandhorst).- Transnational Families: Brazilian Immigration to the United States, Education and Belonging (Gabrielle Oliveira & Mariana Lima Becker).- Older People and Transnational Family Configurations (Claudio Bolzman).- PART III: Reunification and its Possibilities: Deported and Returned.- Transnational Families and the Impact of Reintegration: Returned Bolivian Women from Spain in between of Social Suffering and Resilience (Sònia Parella & Alisa Petroff).- Uneven Borders: Regulating the Separation and Reunification of Migrant Families (Paola Bonizzoni, Milena Belloni).- Caring from a Distance: Aging Migrants and their Elderly Kin Back in the Homeland (Johanna O. Zulueta).- Transnational Families, Potentiality and being from Somewhen: The Case of an Afghan/Turkmen Family in Istanbul (Diana Ibáñez-Tirado).- The Deportation Experience: Vulnerability and Violence in the Social Reproduction of Transnational Families (Gioconda Herrera).- Dominican Transnational Families and the Impact of Deportation (Nina Nyberg Sorensen).- Legal Trajectories and Transnational Family Engagement of West African Migrants in The Netherlands (Kim Caarls).

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Book SynopsisThis open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in “in-between” positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is “normal” or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences. Table of Contents1. Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all2. One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin’s “Tiger Bites”3. “their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between”: Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese4. Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness5. Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud’s Happiness Has a Slippery Tail6. From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein’s Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn7. The (M)other’s Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women8. Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti9. A Plea for Motherhood: Mothering and Writing in Contemporary Norwegian Literature

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Book SynopsisThis book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK. The majority of deaths in prison custody in England and Wales result from natural causes, yet the experiences of people dying in prison and the impact of these deaths on the wider prison are under-researched areas. It provides a novel insight into the impact of deaths from natural causes on the prison as an institution and challenges existing work juxtaposing occupational philosophies of ‘care’ and ‘control’. It also identifies how end of life care is provided in prisons and the impact this has on culture and relationships shows how deaths from natural causes in prison custody ‘soften’ prison regimes, culture and relationships. It speaks to an international audience by drawing on the global literature including from the US.Table of Contents​1. Introduction2. The carceral geography of death and dying in prison custody3. The governance of mortality and location4. Constructing the dying prisoner5. Caring at the end of life in prison custody6. Evaluating end of life care in prison custody7. After a death8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this book offers an expanded and updated blueprint for more consistently improved practice, emphasizing family process and structure instead of only individual developmental stages. Its chapters deftly summarize the recent knowledge base about families with adolescents and explains how to apply these results across mental health and social services disciplines. The new edition clearly illustrates family concerns and theoretical perspectives through real-world vignettes and cogent use of family assessment measures. Chapters offer a broad understanding of how diversity in all its forms – including race/ethnicity, culture, religion, and sexual orientation – has created a much more nuanced understanding of how families with adolescents are able to function within their environment. Both major challenges to families and communities form the backdrop of the second edition’s focus on forecasting in which the theoretical, empirical, and intervention literatures necessarily move in service to the health and well-being of families with adolescents.Featured topics include: Central concepts of family development, family systems, ecological, attachment, and social learning theories in relation to families with adolescents. Influence of the family on adolescent problem behavior, mental health concerns, substance use issues, educational attainment, and social competence outcomes. Selected studies on parenting behaviors, conflict resolution, and other major aspects of families with adolescents. Application topics in family-based intervention and prevention programs. Integrating theory, research, and applications to create a “triple threat” model. Diversity issues surrounding race/ethnicity, culture, religion, and sexual orientation. Families with Adolescents, Second Edition, is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as professionals and other mental health clinicians, practitioners, and therapists in clinical child and developmental psychology, family studies, human development, sociology, social work, education, and all allied disciplines.Table of ContentsPart 1. Introduction and Overview of Theoretical, Research, and Application Topics.- Chapter 1: Introduction to Families with Adolescents.- Chapter 2: Overview of Theory, Research, and Application Topics in Families with Adolescents.- Part 2. Theorizing About Families with Adolescents.- Chapter 3: Family Development Theory.- Chapter 4: Family Systems Theory.- Chapter 5: Ecological Theory in Family with Adolescents Studies.- Chapter 6: Attachment Theory in Family with Adolescents Studies.- Chapter 7: Social Learning Theory in Family with Adolescents Studies.- Part 3. Research on Families with Adolescents.- Chapter 8: Research on the Parent-Adolescent Dyad.- Chapter 9: Polyadic Research on Families with Adolescents.- Chapter 10: The Family’s Impact on Adolescent Outcomes.- Part 4. Application Topics Concerning Families with Adolescents.- Chapter 11: Family Therapy and other Family Intervention-Based Efforts with Adolescents.- Chapter 12: Prevention Programs for Families with Adolescents.- Part 5. Future Directions in Families with Adolescents Research and Practice.- Chapter 13: Outlook on Theoretical, Research, and Application Efforts in Families with Adolescents.- Chapter 14: The Need to Integrate Theory, Research, and Application Efforts in Families with Adolescents.

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Book Synopsis1. The Public Child.- Part I Media and Regulatory Theatre.- 2. Child Social Media Ban.- 3. The Aboriginal Child and The Neo Colonial State.- Part II Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence.- 4. Believing Children.- 5. Children As Victims In Their Own Right.- 6. Child Sexual Abuse.- 7. Filicide.- Part III Justice Systems.- 8. Blaming Children.- 9. Child Incarceration.- Part IV Sex and Gender.- 10. Sex Education.- 11. Boys.- 12. Transkids.- Part V Speaking Out and Listening In.- 13. Whistleblowing: Adults As Allies In The Justice System.- 14. Anti-Racism: Making Space In The Classroom.- 15. Children Take Action: Climate Change.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative reference assembles prominent international experts from psychology, social work, and counseling to summarize the current state of couple and family therapy knowledge in a clear A-Z format. Its sweeping range of entries covers major concepts, theories, models, approaches, intervention strategies, and prominent contributors associated with couple and family therapy. The Encyclopedia provides family and couple context for treating varied problems and disorders, understanding special client populations, and approaching emerging issues in the field, consolidating this wide array of knowledge into a useful resource for clinicians and therapists across clinical settings, theoretical orientations, and specialties.A sampling of topics included in the Encyclopedia: Acceptance versus behavior change in couple and family therapy Collaborative and dialogic therapy with couples and families Integrative treatment for infidelity Live supervision in couple and family therapy Postmodern approaches in the use of genograms Split alliance in couple and family therapy Transgender couples and families The first comprehensive reference work of its kind, the Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy incorporates seven decades of innovative developments in the fields of couple and family therapy into one convenient resource. It is a definitive reference for therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors, whether couple and family therapy is their main field or one of many modalities used in practice.Table of ContentsAcceptance vs. Behavior change in Couple and Family Therapy,Adult Attachment Interview,Child Sexual Abuse in Couple and Family Therapy,Dyadic Coping Inventory,Emotional Cutoff in Bowen Family Systems Theory,Families with Severe mental Illness,Identified Patient in Family Systems Theory,International Family Therapy Association,Journal of Marital and Family Therapy,Love,Mediation in Couple and Family Therapy,Modum Bad,Multisystemic Family Therapy,Neutrality of Therapist in Couple and Family Therapy,Object Relations Family Therapy,Parenting Wisely Enrichment Program,PFLAG,Reflecting Team Supervision in Couple and Family Therapy,Reframing in Couple and Family Therapy,Single Parent Families,Stages of Change in Couple and Family Therapy,Systemic-Transactional Model of Dyadic Coping,Training Solution-Focused Family Therapists,Values in Couple and Family Therapy,Violence in Couples and Families

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Book SynopsisGemäß dem meritokratischen Prinzip sollte alleine die Leistung eines Schülers, gemessen u.a. durch Schulnoten, dessen Bildungschancen bestimmen. Jedoch weist die umfangreiche empirische Bildungsforschung darauf hin, dass das deutsche Bildungssystem diesem Anspruch bei weitem und bis heute nicht gerecht wird. So belegen zahlreiche Studien ausgeprägte Ungleichheiten der Bildungschancenzwischen verschiedenen Sozialschichten und im Hinblick auf die ethnische Herkunft sowie das Geschlecht. Dabei gehen die angesprochenen empirischen Analysen (und die jeweils zugrunde liegenden theoretischen Konzepte) jedoch implizit häufig davon aus, dass alleine individuelle Determinanten für die festgestellten Bildungsungleichheiten ursächlich sind und es somit für die Bildungschancen vernachlässigbar ist, in welchem Klassen- und Schulkontext bzw. regionalem Umfeld oder sozialem Netzwerk sich eine Schülerin bzw. ein Schüler befindet. Neuere Untersuchungen auf Basis von Mehrebenenanalysen zeigen allerdings, dass auch die Bedingungen in den Klassen, Schulen und Regionen sowie die Lehrkräfte und die Zusammensetzung des Freundeskreises der Schüler einen erheblichen Einfluss auf den individuellen Bildungserfolg haben.Table of ContentsMit Beiträgen von Michael Windzio, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Wilfried Bos, C. Katharina Spieß, Hartmut Ditton, Isabell van Ackeren, Dominik Becker, Volker Stocké, Petra Stanat, Michaela Sixt, Günter Faber, Cornelia Kristen, David Reimer, Martin Neugebauer, Horst Weishaupt, Rolf Becker und Jürgen Schiener.

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Book SynopsisTrotz der offensichtlichen sozialpolitischen Relevanz und großen medialen Aufmerksamkeit des Phänomens Kinderlosigkeit sind das Ausmaß, die Ursachen und die Konsequenzen der Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland bislang unzureichend untersucht worden, mit der Folge, dass in öffentlichen Debatten eine unkritische Verwendung irreführender, wenn nicht falscher Angaben über Kinderlosigkeit vorherrscht. Das Ziel des Bandes besteht vor diesem Hintergrund darin, das Phänomen der Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland analytisch differenziert zu durchdringen und belastbare Daten und Ergebnisse über das Ausmaß und die Struktur, die Ursachen und Folgen von Kinderlosigkeit zu präsentieren.Trade Review"Letztlich liest man jeden der Aufsätze mit Interesse, kann die Fragestellungen nachvollziehen und die Ergebnisse bestaunen." MaxPlanckForschung - Das Wissenschaftsmagazin der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 03/2007"Der Band ist ein sehr guter Einstieg in die derzeit gängigen wissenschaftlichen Zugangsmöglichkeiten zum Thema Kinderlosigkeit. Viele Beiträge arbeiten mit detaillierten Tabellen und instruktiven Graphiken. Hervorzuheben ist besonders die kritische Reflektion der verfügbaren statistischen Daten. Rundum gelungen." www.webcritics.de, 11.12.2007"Der Sammelband beleuchtet das Thema Kinderlosigkeit in Deutschland in zahlreichen Facetten und ist damit eine gelungene Bestandsaufnahme dieses demographischen Phänomens." Eichstätter Familien-Prisma, Herbst 2007"Ein Thema, über das schon eine Reihe spektakulärer Bücher erschienen sind, wird hier auf eine angenehm unspektakuläre Weise betrachtet. Das vorhandene Zahlenmaterial zum Thema 'Kinderlosigkeit' ordnen die Autoren in den europäischen und zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext ein." www.vorwaerts.de, 15.10.2007"Das [...] Buch sei jedem empfohlen, der es genauer wissen will [...]." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 09.08.2007"Das Buch [...] zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie durch die Unvereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie die ungewollte Kinderlosigkeit zunimmt. Im Gegensatz zu marktschreierischen Büchern [...] legt die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung eine Modernisierung der Familie durch die stärkere Einbeziehung der Mütter in den Arbeitsmarkt nahe." www.single-generation.de, 01.06.2007Table of ContentsMöglichkeiten und Grenzen der Analyse von Kinderlosigkeit.- Bildung, Erwerbstätigkeit und Kinderlosigkeit.- Lebenskonzepte und Kinderwünsche bei Frauen und Männern.- Internationale Vergleiche.- Theoretische Erklärungen der Kinderlosigkeit.- Ungewollte Kinderlosigkeit und Reproduktionsmedizin.

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Book Synopsis'Erziehungs- und Bildungspartnerschaften' im Spannungsfeld von Schule, Jugendhilfe und Familie sind derzeit nicht optimal gelöst. Trotz vorhandener Praxis und teilweise langer Traditionen im Bereich der Elternarbeit mangelt es in Deutschland an modernen Konzepten zur Kooperation mit Eltern in der Bildungs- und Erziehungsarbeit. Diese 'Praxisbuch' bietet in einer Vielzahl von Portraits einen tiefen Einblick in gelingende Elternarbeit, der ein Spektrum vom Eltern-Baby-Kurs bis hin zu Eltern-Kompetenz-Trainings eröffnet. Der Band versteht sich auch als Ergänzung zu dem Grundlagenband zu Erziehungs- und Bildungspartnerschaften, indem er in Orientierung an Lebensphasen und Feldern der Elternarbeiten vielfältige Programme darstellt und ganz konkrete Programmprofile gelingender Kooperationsarbeit sichtbar macht.Table of ContentsProgramme und Praxisprofile zur Elternarbeit: Überblick.- Differenzierende Elternarbeit.- Schülerorientierte Elternarbeit.- Lebensphasen und Bereiche: Frühe Kindheit – Schule –Medienorientierte Elternarbeit.- Hilfen zur Erziehung – Beratung.- Materielle Unterstützung – Erziehungskompetenzen – Familienbildung.- Elternmitwirkung und Mitbestimmung.

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