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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stepfamilies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Action Styles And Symbols In Kinetic Family Drawings Kfd
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stress And The Family Coping With Normative Transitions Coping with Normative Transitions Vol 1 Psychosocial Stress Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Black Families In Crisis The Middle Class
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ExistentialDialectical Marital Therapy Breaking The Secret Code Of Marriage Frontiers in Couples and Family Therapy
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Taylor & Francis How To Win As A Stepfamily
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Custody Evaluation Handbook
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marriage A Search For Healing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fathers Who Fail
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Becoming A Stepfamily Patterns of Development in Remarried Families Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Book S
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Taylor & Francis Mothers and Daughters II Psychoanalytic Inquiry 261 v 26 No 1
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Taylor & Francis Inc Black Families Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Book Synopsis The condition and characteristics of the black family have been subjects of intense debate since at least the 1960s, when the Moynihan Report and the culture of poverty theses held sway. Since then a consistent theme has been that black families are pathological. Despite the fact that research has been inconclusive and contradictory, political debate and policy have been strongly influenced by the pathology theme. This volume presents alternative approaches toward understanding the special characteristics of black families. Extending a special issue of The Review of Black Political Economy, the book focuses on the economic circumstances and decision making of these families, employing Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. It examines the general responses of black families to various external factors such as economic systems, and to Internal factors such as interpersonal relationships. This compendium of current thinking and research will be of interest to professionalTable of Contents1: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives; 1: Back to Basics: The Significance of Du Bois’s and Frazier’s Contributions for Contemporary Research on Black Families; 2: Ecological Perspectives; 2: Black Families and the Black Church: a Sociohistorical Perspective; 3: Black Hospitals: Institutional Impacts on Black Families; 4: Federal Government Policies and the “Housing Quotient” of Black American Families; 5: Economic Forces, Structural Discrimination and Black Family Instability; 3: Family Form and Functioning; 6: Parental Values Transmission: Implications for the Development of African-American Children; 7: Sickle Cell Anemia, Child Competence, and Extended Family Life; 8: Gender Differences in the Perception of Black Male-Female Relationships and Stereotypes; 9: Polygamy and the Declining Male to Female Ratio in Black Communities: a Social Inquiry; 4: Health Outcomes and Economic Resources; 10: Hypertension as a Manifestation of the Stress Experienced by Black Families; 11: The Employed Black: the Dynamics of Work-Family Tension; 12: Values, Beliefs, and Welfare Recipiency: is there a Connection?; 5: Intracultural Perspectives; 13: Family Environment, Educational Aspiration, and Performance in St, Vincent; 14: Child Care and Female Employment in Urban Nigeria; 15: West Indian Families in the United States; 6: Policy and Social Service Delivery Systems; 16: Developing Intervention Models for Black Families: Linking Theory and Research; 17: Counseling Black Families at Inner-City Church Sites; 18: Empowering Black Families; 19: Retrospective and Exegesis: Black Families Reconceptualized
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Motherhood Childhood and Parenting in an Age of
Book SynopsisMotherhood, as a celebrated yet underappreciated role, is often thought of as a natural process, something instinctive that we refine by watching our own mothers and others in our community. We rarely think of motherhood as something that is time and culturally specific, yet, like culture itself, it is socially constructed, and both motherhood and childhood evolve over time. With the rise in educational attainment of mothers in the American population, the expectations associated with childhood increasingly include not just education but cognitive development and extracurricular activities as the partnership between parents and education intensifies in the joint project of human development of children. Motherhood, Childhood, and Parenting in an Age of Education offers a new way to conceptualize the high demands of contemporary parenthood. It traces the emerging narrative about the good mother, changes in the underlying assumptions of what constitutes the good mother, Trade Review"What makes this an important contribution is that it links changes in the wider society (and even the world as in the world educational revolution) to changes in what constitutes the good mother without pretending that we now know what constitutes good motherhood. That is, the book avoids essentialist traps and pretentious universal application claims while still showing how consequential the models of the good mother have become for mothers, children, and their societies. This will be a salient text for students, teachers, and researchers for years to come."–Francisco O. Ramirez, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University"Reading this book changes the way you think about how education has transformed motherhood and childhood over the past century, including the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Schaub’s compelling analysis is full of insights, creatively contrasting everyday notions and academic arguments with a wealth of evidence embedded in an accessible, engaging narrative of shifting intergenerational relationships. An important sociological contribution, it unmasks how the ever-tighter intersection between schooling and the family influences roles, expectations, and identities of childhood and parenthood everywhere." –Justin J.W. Powell, University of Luxembourg"The worldwide explosion of education has dramatically impacted parenting -- and motherhood in particular. Dr. Schaub impressively analyzes this transformation, based on her own research, the wider literature, and her own personal reflections. This unique book will be of great interest to those concerned with modern familial and educational arrangements".John W. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, emeritus, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. An Invitation2. The Good Mother Goes to School3. The "Good Childhood" Is a Delicate Balancing Act4. The Institutional Invasion5. The "Good Mother" Is an Engaged Parent6. The Normative Lens7. Before the Invasion8. The Invited Invasion as a Joint Project with the FamilyReferences
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Adolescent Boys of East London
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1966, this is a sociological study of boys growing up in East London. Previous books from the Institute of Community Studies had looked at the lives of other residents of Bethnal Green couples with young children, middle-aged Mums', old people, widows. Now the subject is adolescent boys a study of them not in isolation nor primarily as a problem' group but as young people moving between childhood and adulthood in the setting of a particular local community. What is it like to grow up in a district like Bethnal Green? How do the boys adjust to the process? What part is played by school, work, youth club, family? What are the boys' relationships with their fellows and with girls? Where does delinquency fit in? To help answer such questions, a sample of 246 boys aged 14 to 20 were interviewed. The statistical analysis of this survey has been supplemented by illustrative material from diaries, tape-recorded interviews, and informal observation. The outcoTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The District and the Boys 2. The Fraternities of the Street 3. Girls, Sex and Marriage 4. Family and Kinship 5. School 6. Work 7. Youth Clubs 8. Delinquency 9. In Conclusion – Growing up in a Working-Class Community. Appendices: (1) Methods of Research (2) Interview Schedule and Interviewers’ Instructions (3) Diary Instructions and Sample Diary (4) Classifying Boys into ‘Types’ (5) List of References. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sex in Marriage
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1963, Sex in Marriage presents down to earth, practical guidance on the emotional and physical aspects of life, love and marriage. The authors both experienced psychotherapists, have felt that a new approach was needed. The book explains in a straightforward and thorough manner the sources of satisfaction and the roots of discontent that lie beneath the surface of any marriage. It traces marriage from the beginning, through its middle years and into its older stages, including considerations that are concrete and practical but still have a fundamental and sound emotional base. The book illustrates how attitudes in sex and marriage go back to childhood and how early experiences, though forgotten, can still exercise important influences. In helping to alleviate old guilts and anxieties, the book makes an essential contribution. This is an interesting read for sociologists, psychologists and for general readers. Table of ContentsPart One: Backgrounds 1. Toward building a good marriage 2. What do you marry me for? 3. Marriage starts at birth Part Two: When marriage is new 4. The first night 5. Initial sexual adjustments Part III: Keeping love alive 6. Love and sharing 7. Sex and sharing Part Four: Taking responsibilities in stride 8. Pregnancy and childbirth – shared adventure 9. While our children our growing 10. Facing differences 11. When our children are almost grown Part V: Still looking ahead 12. Growing older instead of old 13. If life brings another marriage Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marriage and the Family
Book SynopsisMarriage and the Family: Mirror of a Diverse Global Society is a comprehensive text about marriage and the family in sociology, family science, and diversity studies. The book is divided into four parts: studying marriage patterns and understanding family diversity; developing and maintaining intimate relationships; tackling family issues and managing household crises; and appreciating contemporary living arrangements in a diverse American society and across the global community. Marriage and the Family is unique in its focus on diversity as well as its global perspective. Diversity Overview boxes feature vignettes of family diversity in America. Global Overview boxes invite students to experience family life in different areas of the world. Indeed, families become a mirror that helps students see a diversifying American society and a globalizing world.Table of ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION TO MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY Chapter 1 Meanings of Marriage and the Family Chapter 2 Studying Marriage and the Family Chapter 3 Family Diversity in America Chapter 4 Racial and Ethnic Families Chapter 5 Gender and Socialization PART II DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF RELATIONSHIPS Chapter 6 Sexuality and Sexual Relationships throughout Life Chapter 7 Love Chapter 8 Dating, Courtship, and Mate Selection Chapter 9 Marriage and Relationships Chapter 10 Preparing for Children and Child AdoptionPART III CHALLENGES TO MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY Chapter 11 Parenting Chapter 12 Balancing Paid Work, School Work, and Family Work Chapter 13 Family Issues and Domestic Violence Chapter 14 Communication, Power, and Conflict ResolutionPART IV DYNAMICS IN FAMILY LIVING ARRANGMENTS Chapter 15 Break up, Separation, and Divorce Chapter 16 Remarriage and Trends in Living Arrangements
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Men Masculinities and the Care of Children
Book SynopsisSharing the care of children in families is increasingly becoming the norm in modern-day society as more mothers enter paid work and government campaigns endeavour to increase the number of men working in childcare. However, running alongside debates of gender imbalance in childcare, there has also been mounting anxiety from the media and public about the risks of child abuse, often perceived as being mostly perpetrated by men and calling for firmer regulation of men's involvement with children.This book asks whether men's care for children, both as fathers and practitioners, actually differs at all from the care provided by mothers and female carers? In what ways do men and concepts of masculinity need to change if they are to play a greater role in the care of children or are such societal perceptions based on outdated gender stereotypes? Bringing together cutting-edge theory, up-to-date research and current practice, this book analyses the role of both fathers and male proTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Images and Representations2. Discourses and Debates3. Ideas and Perspectives4. Identities and ExperiencesConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminism Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity
Book SynopsisIn this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become a self or, in modernity, an autonomous subject. These assumptions make it difficult to be a mother and a subject, an autonomous creator of meaning. Insofar as mothers nonetheless strive to regain their subjectivity when their motherhood seems to have compromised it, theirs cannot be the usual kind of subjectivity premised on separation from the maternal body. Mothers are subjects of a new kind, who generate meanings and acquire agency from their position of re-immersion in the realm of maternal body relations, of bodily intimacy and dependency. Thus Stone interprets maternal subjectivity as a specific form of subjectivity that is continuous with the maternal body. Stone analyzes this foTrade Review"This is a brave and thought-provoking analysis by a respected feminist philosopher of the ways our culture (and psychoanalysis in particular) distorts the story so as to render the mother’s subjectivity either silent or inaudible." --Christine Battersby, University of Warwick, UK "This book is a welcome and provocative contribution to feminist and psychoanalytical theories of motherhood and philosophical conceptions of subjectivity. [...] By providing a feminist articulation of maternal subjectivity, Stone's book represents an important intervention into all three disciplines: psychoanalysis, feminism, and philosophy. [...] The book should be of great interest not only to feminist psychoanalysis but also to anyone concerned with affective, embodied, and relational models of subjectivity." --Ewa Ziarek in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"Stone consistently problematizes the idea, dominant in western thought, that self has to be separated from mother. [...] Stone’s use of examples from art and literature to illustrate her argument [...] brings clarity and accessibility to her analysis. Stone’s philosophical approach is highly relevant for feminist psychology" --Wendy Hollway in Feminism and Psychology"Stone’s work gives a strong philosophical response to a problem haunting many new mothers. In the process, she offers an intellectually rigorous and innovative approach to the question of maternal subjectivity and its nature. Those engaged in feminist psychoanalysis will no doubt encounter stimulating hypotheses and new paths for further investigation." --Allison B. Wolf in Feminism and Philosophy"Alison Stone considers the idea that the rejection of the maternal is integral to the dvelopment of subjectivity. [...] Her analysis is situated within the contemporary context, considering the impact that culture has on psyche. She draws primarily from psychoanalytic theory, from the classical to the contemporary feminist. [...] Ultimately, we can see how expertly Stone describes the ambiguity of the maternal situation." --Sarah LaChance Adams, University of Wisconsin-Superior, in Hypatia PhilosophyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Maternity Between Body and Subjectivity 1. From Mothering to Maternal Experience 2. Parricide and Matricide 3. Maternal Space 4. Re-Assessing Mother-Daughter Relationships 5. Ambivalence and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter 6. Maternal Time 7. Maternal Loss. References. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Joint Action
Book SynopsisJoint Action: Essays in honour of John Shotter brings together a cross-disciplinary group of fifteen respected international scholars to explain the relevance of John Shotter's work to emerging concerns in twenty-first century social science. Shotter's work extends over forty years and continues to challenge conventional scientific thinking across a range of topics. The disciplines and practices that Shotter's work has informed are well established throughout the English-speaking world. This is the first publication to examine the importance of his influence in contemporary social sciences and it includes authoritative discussions on topics such as social constructionism, democratic practice, organisational change, the affective turn and human relations. The geographical diversity and disciplinary breadth of scholarly contributions imbues the book with international scope and reach.Joint Action presents a contempTable of Contents1. Refracting Shotter 2. John Shotter, uniqueness and poetics: Parallels with Ernst Cassirer 3. "Images of ‘Man’": One revolution around another (in roughly forty winks) 4. Well, err; actually…: John’s battle with language and certainty 5. Critique, construction and confluence: Journeying with John Shotter 6. The ethics of relational process: John Shotter’s Radical Presence 7. On being good researchers: Virtue, sympathetic co-experience and polyphonic unmasking 8. With feeling 9. Responsive improvisation: The shape of emergent dialogue 10. The power of the particular: Notes for an organisational science of singularities 11. Twenty-one words that made a difference: Shifting paradigms 12. Suppose Shotter had not read Dreyfus? 13. Anticipating hope 14. Constructing goes live: Soft self/other differentiation, sound processes and legein 15. John Shotter’s contribution to a better way
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Great Psychologists as Parents
Book SynopsisDoes it make you a better parent if you have pioneered scientific theories of child development? In a unique study, David Cohen compares what great psychologists have said about raising children and the way they did it themselves. Did the experts practice what they preached? Using an eclectic variety of sources, from letters, diaries, autobiographies, biographies, as well as material from interviews, each chapter focuses on a key figure in historical context. There are many surprises. Was Piaget, the greatest child psychologist of the 20th century, the only man to try to psychoanalyse his mother? How many sons of great gurus have had to rescue their father from a police station as R.D Laing''s son did? And why did Melanie Klein''s daughter wear red shoes they day her mother died? The book covers early scientists such as Darwin, psychoanalysists such as Freud and Jung, to founders of developmental psychology including Piaget and Bowlby as well as Dr Spock. It gives a Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Charles Darwin: The First Child Psychologist 3. John B. Watson: A behaviourist's tragedies 4. Sigmund Freud: A man who analysed his daughter in secret 5. Carl Jung: The Archetypal Prick, a provocative title 6. Melanie Klein and her daughter 7. Piaget: His mother and psychoanalysis 8. Benjamin Spock: The Conservative radical 9. John Bowlby: the man with the bowler hat 10. Burrhus Skinner: the man who caged his daughters? 11. R.D Laing: Violence in the family 12. Carl Rogers and unconditional personal regard 13. The good enough psychologist?; References
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ClimateResilient Development
Book SynopsisThe concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. This book critically discusses climate-resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of multilateral climate management strategies and processes. It analyses innovative climate policy options at national, (inter-)regional, and local levels from a mainly Southern perspective, thus contributing to the topical debate on alternative climate governance and resilient development models. Case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America give a ground-level view of how ideas from resilience could be used to inform and guide more radical development and particularly how these ideas might help to rethink the notion of ''progress'' in the light of environmental, social, economic, and cultural changes at multiple scales, from local to global. It integrates theory andTrade Review"...the book offers a variety of highly empirical and broad thinking chapters that offer both localized examples and expansive visions of climate-resilient development. It offers valuable information for students and analysts seeking examples of climate-related challenges. " - Tim Forsyth, Progress in Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Why This Book? Why Now? 2. Finding a Panacea? An Introduction into Climate-Resilient Development Part II: The Contribution of Local, Regional, and National Approaches to Climate-Resilient Development, or What Good Practices Can Be Disseminated or Mainstreamed? 3. Shaping Strategies: Factors and Actors in Climate Change Adaptation, 4. Climate Change Adaptation: International Policy and Field Reality in Benin, 5. Building Community-Based Institutions in the Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP) for Green Development), 6.How Good Are Good Practices? Demystifying Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in Mozambique 7.Making a Difference through Integrated Natural Resource Management Programmes (INRM): The Role of KNUST University in Ghana Part III: Climate-Resilient Development, Innovation, and Best Practice – How to Reform and Bypass Inefficiencies in the International Climate Regime 8.Green Gold versus Black Gold – Climate Change, Development and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative: An Alternative Way Forward? 9. Developing Economies in the Current Climate Change Regime – New Prospects for Resilience and Sustainability? The Case of CDM Projects in Asia 10. Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand is Doing? Similar Problem, Opposing Remedies – A Comparison of the Montreal Protocol and UNFCCC 11.Interregional Climate Cooperation: EU-China Relations as a Success Story? 12. How to Bypass Multilateral Gridlocks – Resilient Climate Change Management and Efficient Multi-Level Climate Politics Bottom-up Part IV: The Way Forward to Climate-Resilient Development 12.Conclusions for Research and Policy Agendas
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mothering Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries
Book SynopsisThis pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA. The growth of the mixed race population reflects an increasingly racially and culturally heterogeneous society, shaped by powerful forces of globalisation and migration. Mixed family formations are becoming increasingly common through marriage, relationships and adoption, and there is also increasing social recognition of interracial families through the inclusion of mixed categories in Census data and other official statistics. The changing demographic make-up of Britain and other Western countries raises important questions about identity, belonging and the changing nature of family life. It also connects with theoretical and empirical discussions about the significance of race' in contemporary society. In exploring mothering across racialised boundaries, this volume offers new insights and perspectiTable of Contents1. Introduction Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman 2. ‘Doing the right thing’: transracial adoption in the USA Ravinder Barn 3. The experiences of race in the lives of Jewish birth mothers of children from black/white interracial and inter-religious relationships: a Canadian perspective Channa C. Verbian 4. Researching white mothers of mixed-parentage children: the significance of investigating whiteness Joanne Britton 5. Social capital and the informal support networks of lone white mothers of mixed-parentage children Vicki Harman 6. Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: a story of white working class mothers with mixed-race children Lisa McKenzie
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-evaluation
It is widely acknowledged that children need structure, security, stability and attachment to develop and flourish, and that the father is an important part of this.Issues such as high divorce rates, new family structures, increased mobility, women's liberation and contraception are very common in society. This book sets out to explore what has happened to men and to fathers during all these changes and transitions. Judith Trowell and Alicia Etchegoyen, along with an array of renowned contributors, consider the importance of fathers in various situations, including: the role of the father at different stage of children's development the missing father loss of a father grandfathers. It is argued that the father is important, not only to support the main carer (usually the mother) but also to provide a caring, thinking, comfortable, confident presence.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Labour of Love: Beyond the Self-Evidence of
Book SynopsisAmazed at the stubborn nature of the sexual division of labour in modern society, five Norwegian researchers set out to explore the sources of this pervasive resistance to change. Moving from the neutral concepts of work and money, the lofty notions of love and family and the triviality of domestic organization, social science is made to yield some surprising insights into hidden, secret and perhaps even sacred structures of everyday life. A provocative claim in these pages is that the practical arrangement in the family is informed by the erotic properties of work and semi-religious notions of poverty and dirt - and is sustained by both sexes. This anthology reveals some perplexing aspects of contemporary self-understanding and rediscovers sexual meaning as a pillar of modern culture. The book is an invitation to reconsider the conditions for gender equality and to explore further the cultural tangle behind this persistent tolerance for injustice within European thinking.Trade Review’...this volume represents a fascinating series of insights and provocative reflections on social institutions and issues that might have seemed familiar and well-explored. In this, the authors succeed admirably in one of the central aims of a social science imagination: that of reminding the reader of the strangeness and complexity of much of our most intimate everyday life.’ David H.J. Morgan, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The semantics of love; Shelter from the storm; Money, gifts and gender; Family theory reconsidered; The fearful empty space.
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Cambridge University Press Making Men into Fathers Men Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood
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Cambridge University Press Sex and the State
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Cambridge University Press How Families Still Matter A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations
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Cambridge University Press The AfricanAmerican Family in Slavery and Emancipation
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Cambridge University Press Child Rearing in America
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Cambridge University Press A Place of their Own Family Farming in Eastern Finland Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 81 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 81
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Cambridge University Press Making of the Modern Greek Family Marriage and Exchange in NineteenthCentury Athens 77 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 77
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Cambridge University Press The Developmental Course of Marital Dysfunction
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Cambridge University Press Marriage litigation Medieval Englan Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Book SynopsisThis book tells one part of the long history of the institution of marriage. Questions concerning the formation and annulment of marriage came under the exclusive jurisdiction of the church courts during the Middle Ages. Drawing on unpublished records of these courts, Professor Helmholz describes the practical side of matrimonial jurisdiction and relates it to his outline of the formal law of marriage. He investigates the nature of the cases heard, the procedure used, the people involved and changes over the period covered, all of which add to what is known about marriage and legal practice in medieval England. The concluding assessment of canonical jurisdiction over marriage suggests that the application of the law was more successful than is usually thought.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The sources; 2. Suits to enforce marriage contracts; 3. Suits for divorce and incidental marriage causes; 4. Procedure in marriage cases; 5. Judges, lawyers, witnesses and litigants; 6. Changes and variations in practice; Conclusion; Appendix. Extracts from marriage cases; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Kinship Networks and Exchange 12 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press Unquiet Lives
Book SynopsisThis 2003 study challenges traditional views of married life in eighteenth-century England. It presents a new picture of power in marriage and the household, and shows also that ideas about adultery and domestic violence evolved during this period, influenced by profound shifts in cultural attitudes about sexuality and violence.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This is a carefully researched book that enriches our understanding of marriage in the long eighteenth century.' Reviews in HistoryReview of the hardback: '… subtle, rich and humane picture of the realities and practicalities of marriage as lived.' Women's History MagazineReview of the hardback: '… lively and often trenchant study … Bailey backs up a sensitive reading of texts and contexts with judicious quantification.' HistoryReview of the hardback: '… wide range of issues … important new book …' Journal of Continuity and ChangeReview of the hardback: 'This book successfully meets it's claim to be "a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. ... an excellent analysis of the crazy and changing popular assumptions about male and female bodies which underlines domestic violence. ... full of interesting, minutely researched, historical detail ... a fascinating work for the general reader, and a neccessary work for historians of marriage.' INTAMSTable of Contents1. Introduction: assessing marriage; 2. 'To have and to hold': analysing married life; 3. 'For better, for worse': resolving marital difficulties; 4. 'An honourable estate': marital roles in the household; 5. 'With all my worldly goods I thee endow': spouses' contributions and possessions within marriage; 6. 'Wilt thou obey him and serve him': the marital power balance; 7. 'Forsaking all other': marital chastity; 8. 'Till death us do part': life after a failed marriage; 9. 'Mutual society, help and comfort': conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants 8 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Marriage Developments in the Study of Couple Interaction Advances in Personal Relationships
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Cambridge University Press Identity and Stability in Marriage
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Cambridge University Press Welfare States and Working Mothers
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Cambridge University Press Families and States in Western Europe
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Cambridge University Press Family and Gender in the Pacific
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Cambridge University Press The Importance of Being Innocent Why We Worry About Children Australian Encounters
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Cambridge University Press Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood
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Cambridge University Press Forgotten Children ParentChild Relations from 1500 to 1900
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Cambridge University Press Cradle of the Middle Class
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Cambridge University Press Kinship and Marriage An Anthropological Perspective 0050 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Cambridge University Press Patriarchy Property and Death in the Roman Family 25 Cambridge Studies in Population Economy and Society in Past Time Series Number 25
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