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(in)fertile male bodies
Esmée Sinéad Hanna and Brendan Gough examine men’s experiences of fertility and lifestyle practices, exploring personal experiences of the role of lifestyle in the quest for conception as well as the broader promotion of ‘lifestyle’ within both clinical and online material as a key aspect for ‘im...
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A relational approach to the qanon movement
QAnon can no longer be treated as a ‘fringe issue’. In this crucial contribution to our understanding of how family relationships and dynamics deal with and are affected by conspiratorial beliefs, Mulcahy and Simpson explore how the social and relational consequences of QAnon belief affect both i...
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Advances in trans studies
Advances in Trans Studies: Moving Toward Gender Expansion and Trans Hope explores transgender peoples’ experiences and interactions across various social contexts and institutions. With clear implications for policy and advocacy, this volume demonstrates the promise of an empirical turn in transg...
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Affective medievalism
The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages.
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Anti-abortion activism in the uk
Taking a lived religion approach that draws on extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK explores the sacred and profane commitments of anti-abortion activists and counter-demonstrations outside clinics, examining the contestations over...
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Black youth aspirations
This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth. Examining the transition out of adulthood and imagined futures of black youth, Maja helps us understand how black youth aspirations might be raised, and how a better future for young people can be achieved.
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Care and coronavirus
Arguing that COVID-19 heightened the attention paid to care and the ways in which care is vital for the maintenance of ourselves and the world around us, Care and Coronavirus calls for a reflection on the failures and successes of care during the pandemic and in its aftermath so that we can plan ...
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Career and family
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose betwee...
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Childhood, youth and activism
Considering the meanings of activism by and for children and young people in the twenty-first century, this edited collection is a valuable resource for scholars, educators and practitioners interested in the intersections of childhood and youth studies, activism and movements for social change.
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Children and youth as ‘sites of resistance’ in armed conflict
During the chaos and devastation of armed conflict, children and youth often emerge as powerful agents of change and resilience. The first of two volumes, this is a compelling exploration of their profound roles as active participants, often functioning as sites of resistance within the complex d...
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Children and youth in armed conflict
This book contains an Open Access chapter. The second of two volumes, the chapters offer a compelling exploration of how children and youth endure conflict and how their stories are told and retold in the public sphere, influencing advocacy, policymaking, and community responses worldwide.
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Children and youths’ migration in a global landscape
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Children and Youths' Migration in a Global Landscape interrogates how transnational mobility shapes the lives of the relatively young, and addresses questions that encourage us to consider what it means to be a transnationally mobile child or youth in...
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Children, youth and time
Providing fresh insight at a crucial moment of global disruption, Children, Youth and Time reflects on the complex concept of time as perceived and experienced by children and young people in relevant societal and generational contexts.
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Chinese families
Chinese societies have undergone a tremendous amount of social, political, and economic change, which have been a catalyst for substantial shifts in fundamental structures within Chinese families. This edited collection focuses on the continuities and changes in gender and inter-generational rela...
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Cohabitation and the evolving nature of intimate and family relationships
Given the tremendous diversity in cohabiting couples, as well as the increasing prominence of this form of intimate relationships, this volume provides a more thorough comprehension of the structures, effects, and intimate practice of cohabitation around the world.
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Conjugal trajectories
Multidisciplinary in scope and using predominantly qualitative approaches, Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions focuses upon relevant trajectories to better comprehend the evolving nature of conjugal relationships and its implications for family life moving for...
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Creative ageing and the arts of care
Making a case for cultural participation by older adults to enhance the quality of their lives and building on concepts of adult human development and empowerment, Elizabeth Brooke reframes 'active ageing' to include forms of creative expression and cultural participation crucial to transforming ...
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Criminal justice responses to maternal filicide
Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's resp...
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Digital parenting burdens in china
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Presenting the first English language book on this topic, authors Sun Sun Lim and Yang Wang offer valuable insights into understanding how family life around is shifting in the face of digitalisation not only in C...
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Disability and the family
Disability and the Family provides a broad examination of disability and the family. Including diverse theoretical and methodological submissions which explore the many issues pertaining to how families deal with disability issues.
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Donors
Drawing on interviews with donors, their kin and fertility counsellors, the authors discuss what donation stories can tell us about contemporary understandings of connectedness, time and morality in the context of reproduction and family life, and consider how reproductive ‘openness’ might be don...
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Doubled up
How sharing a home with extended family or friends serves as a crucial, but imperfect, private safety net for families with childrenMore than fifteen percent of US children—over eleven million—live in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. These households are even ...
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Education and the family
Chapters cover a wide array of topics, such as: family emotional support for students, family stressors and education, gendered nature of parental support, cultural variation in parental engagement and involvement, among others.
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Education and the family
Chapters cover topics such as: family economic and cultural resources and school performance and attainment of students, family multilingualism and academic success, family stressors and education, valuation of higher education versus employment and family contestations of public schooling and it...
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Embedded generations
An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949With Embedded Generations, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Grounding her account in the analysis of 260 life history narratives and r...
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Embodiment and representations of beauty
Interrogating beauty's very definition, this volume of Advances in Gender Research explores beauty as an avenue to create alternative knowledge as well as a conduit to engage in critical conversations on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, illness, and fitness.
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Establishing child centred practice in a changing world, part b
Furthering dialogues around the applied relevance of key principles in childhood studies, this diverse edited collection is an important contribution to the fields of education, sociology, childcare and youth policy and practice.
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Facing death
Facing Death
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Families in nigeria
This edited collection focuses upon the diversity, adaptability, and strengths of Nigerian families. Examining intimate relationships, both preceding and within the context of marriage, as well as the dynamics among family members, the chapters investigate how Nigerian families have responded to ...
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Family planning and sustainable development in bangladesh
Exploring tailored family planning strategies for marginalized groups, this work delves into comparative insights from Asian contexts, providing actionable approaches to empower and transform communities, foster sustainable development and improve reproductive health outcomes.
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Family values
The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the m...
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Family, identity and mixedness
Approaching the question of identity through a lens that combines interactionist and intersectional perspectives, and applies two strands of sociological theories, Mengxi Pang invites readers to unravel the process of identity-making and to delineate the effect of family and wider society on the ...
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Fathers, childcare and work
The work-life balance of fathers has increasingly come under scrutiny in political and academic debates and this collection brings together qualitative and quantitative analyses to explore their approaches to reconciling paid work and care responsibilities.
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Flexible work and the family
Building upon the recent global escalation of the remote work phenomenon, Flexible Work and the Family provides timely insights into flexible work’s implications for the increasingly blurred work-life divide.
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Gender and female villains in 21st century fairy tale narratives
For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives o...
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Gender and parenting in the worlds of alien and blade runner
Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner is a comparative, gendered analysis study of Ridley Scott’s contributions to the genre of science fiction and horror cinema, showcasing how patriarchal and gendered expectations regarding women, usually associated with the past, still r...
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Gender visibility and erasure
Gender Visibility and Erasure offers a unique way of focusing on gender by identifying the multiple contexts in which issues of visibility, invisibility, and erasure manifest, considering who is seen and who is ignored, who has voice and who is silenced, who has agency and who is controlled.
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Growing up godless
How children’s non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday lifeThe number of those identifying as “non-religious” has risen rapidly in Britain and many other parts of Europe and North America. Although non-religion and non-belief are especially prevalent among younger people, we know littl...
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Hegemonic masculinity, caste, and the body
Thoughtfully invoking wider conversations around gender, culture, and self-perception, Navjotpal Kaur investigates the intricate interplay between masculinities, space, and identity within Indian Punjab’s Jat Sikh community.
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Indebted
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequen...
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Indian families
Demonstrating the tremendous diversity of families in India, as well as their ongoing evolution, this volume answers a clear call to dive deeper into the intimacy of the domestic sphere in one of the world’s largest and fastest growing societies.
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Intimate relationships and social change
This multidisciplinary volume provides a unique and truly global collection of research on the nature of dating, mating, and coupling, as they occur across a variety of cultures in dynamically shifting societies.
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Just married
The case for marriage equality and monogamy in a democratic societyThe institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage lead to more radical marriage ref...
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Kindergarten panic
How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parentsSchool choice policies have proliferated in recent years, with parents forced to navigate complex admission processes. In New York City, families have more options than ever before, but...
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Lived realities of solo motherhood, donor conception and medically assisted reproduction
This book explores the empirical manifestations of the paradoxical features of reproductive technologies and provides in-depth understandings of solo motherhood through assisted reproduction and by recognising the complex experiences and the lived realities of forming donor-conceived families.
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Making motherhood work
A moving account of working mothers’ daily lives—and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren’t helping...
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Mate selection in china
This book examines the changing nature of dating and mate selection in contemporary China, and addresses a wide array of both causes and consequences concerning mate selection, including economic change, traditional cultural norms, evolving gender roles, and both marriage and fertility aspirations.
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Modern dharma
How middle-class families in Nepal pursue “well-being” in a rapidly changing social landscapeModern Dharma asks how middle-class Nepalis pursue an ethical, good life in a rapidly evolving society. In the aftermath of a decade-long civil war that raged between 1996 and 2006, social change accelera...
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More than just a ‘home’
Considering the ways in which a family socially constructs a home, this is a much-needed investigation into how the house, its architecture, spatial arrangements and internal and external divisions shape and reshape family relationships in the face of constant challenges and change.
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