An examination of mate selection in the online realm

The use of online matchmaking has increased dramatically over recent years and has become a popular means for individuals to find an intimate partner. The consequences of such services, for both individuals and the larger society, remain largely unknown. International chapters address the nature ...

Black mothers and attachment parenting

Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises ‘natural’ activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills. Parents’ choices are thus made deeply sign...

Contemporary perspectives on research on child care in early childhood education

This volume explores how nonparental child care influences children's development and learning. It highlights the importance of child care quality over type or age of admission. The book reviews research showing that both family and quality of child care significantly impact development.

Elder care and the family

This collection covers topics such as financial strains of elder care, healthcare decision making, family communication, mobility and family residence, stress and burnout, gender differences in the provision of elder care, elder abuse, mental deterioration and family care, stressors related to ca...

Enemy feminisms

From the author of Abolish the Family, an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms, making the case instead for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we need. In recent years, “white feminism” and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won’t ma...

Families and family values in society and culture

This book gathers researchers from 22 countries to explore intergenerational family solidarity within their unique historical, cultural, social, and economic contexts. It integrates perspectives from various disciplines, offering insights into family relations, values, and policies across Europe.

Intimacy

This book explores the concept of intimacy in cultural psychology, highlighting its fluid boundaries and its role in identity formation. It examines how intimacy spaces are redefined in a globalized world and considers intimacy as culture in the making, emphasizing its lived experience and its im...

Liberalism, childhood and justice

This radical and critical account of family justice explores children’s wellbeing and ethical issues in children’s upbringing through the lens of political philosophy. Fowler reconceptualises what constitutes children’s wellbeing, the duties of parents to promote children’s wellbeing and the coll...

Love in india

This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.

Perfume dreams

Residual

Writing alongside the specter of premature death, Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black women’s interior lives and domestic spaces through meditations on literature, cinema, installations, and archival research to reaffirm her own way of being.In the long aftermath of her mother’s death, Tisa ...

Social research matters

From the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research is conducted and ‘matters’ at particular times. This fascinating work covers key developments in the field that remain of vital concern to society and dem...

Stress and quality of working life

This eighth edition of the Stress and Quality of Working Life series offers theories and methods on coping with stress and quality of working life issues. It addresses traditional, work-from-home, and hybrid workplace models, providing insights from international experts on managing stress at wor...

Substance use and the family

Featuring a broad variety of chapters across the many issues pertaining to substance use and addiction, topics include those such as spousal addiction and marital quality, parenting and substance use, financial tolls of addiction upon families, coping with adolescent substance use and addiction, ...

The reproductive bargain

An insightful analysis of gender relations’ role in the Japanese economy’s transition from unstoppable growth to inescapable stagnation.

Warped

With same-sex marriage now a national right, this timely volume insists on the continuation of the struggle for LGBT rights.

Why who cleans counts

Every household has to perform housework, and researchers know a lot about what predicts who does which chores, drawing frequently from theoretical explanations that highlight the importance of power dynamics. This book moves beyond the existing scholarship by using quantitative, nationally repre...