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More Than Two - A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory (Paperback): Eve Rickert, Franklin Veaux More Than Two - A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory (Paperback)
Eve Rickert, Franklin Veaux; Foreword by Jessica Fern
R770 R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Save R60 (8%) In Stock
Undoing Whiteness in Disability Studies - The Special Education System and British South Asian Mothers (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Undoing Whiteness in Disability Studies - The Special Education System and British South Asian Mothers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Sana Rizvi
R3,116 Discovery Miles 31 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a nuanced way to conceptualise South Asian Muslim families' experiences of disability within the UK. The book adopts an intersectional lens to engage with personal narratives on mothering disabled children, negotiating home-school relationships, and developing familiarity with the complex special education system. The author calls for a re-envisioning of special education and disability studies literature from its currently overwhelmingly White middle-class discourse, to one that espouses multi-ethnic and multi-faith perspectives. The book positions minoritised mothers at the forefront of the home-school relationship, who navigate the UK special education system amidst intersecting social inequalities. The author proposes that schools and both formal and informal institutions reformulate their roles in facilitating true inclusion for minoritised disabled families at an epistemic and systemic level.

Loving My Gay Child - A Mother's Journey to Acceptance (Hardcover): Sushma Agarwal Loving My Gay Child - A Mother's Journey to Acceptance (Hardcover)
Sushma Agarwal
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Socioeconomic Status and Functional Ability Among Older Adults (Hardcover): Dorothy Mccawley Socioeconomic Status and Functional Ability Among Older Adults (Hardcover)
Dorothy Mccawley
R2,235 Discovery Miles 22 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I'm Grateful For... - A Double Gratitude Journal (Hardcover, Leather Bound ed.): Mikayla Cantrell I'm Grateful For... - A Double Gratitude Journal (Hardcover, Leather Bound ed.)
Mikayla Cantrell
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Media, Family Interaction and the Digitalization of Childhood (Hardcover): Anja R. Lahikainen, Tiina Malkia, Katja Repo Media, Family Interaction and the Digitalization of Childhood (Hardcover)
Anja R. Lahikainen, Tiina Malkia, Katja Repo
R3,142 Discovery Miles 31 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a first-class repository of new knowledge on how media and family routines intertwine in daily interactions. The multi-method approach reveals how varying forms of media affect the interaction between children and their parents. Avoiding criticism of these interactions, the contributors instead offer an impartial view of the natural occurrences in media-related family life. The first section of the book maps contemporary family life by providing methodological, theoretical and time-use reflections on media use and family communication. It goes on to reach into the private zone of family interaction through video-documented episodes, providing the reader with detailed interactional analyses. This exposes how the boundaries between virtual interaction and face-to-face interaction have become blurred. Offering a comprehensive picture of the complexity of digital family life, this book exposes the challenges and opportunities of modern parenting. Discussing largely unexplored phenomena that are applicable internationally, this book will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students in the fields of social sciences. Professionals such as psychologists, therapists and social workers will also benefit from the impartial insight this work gives into the media's impact on modern family interaction. Contributors include: I. Arminen, S. Danby, A. Kallio, A.R. Lahikainen, T. Malkia, E. Mantere, J. Marsh, P. Nikken, S. Raudaskoski, K. Repo, E. Suoninen, S. Tiilikainen, S. Valkonen

Brothers and Sisters - Sibling Relationships Across the Life Course (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Ann Buchanan, Anna Rotkirch Brothers and Sisters - Sibling Relationships Across the Life Course (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ann Buchanan, Anna Rotkirch
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited volume presents unique insights on sibling relationships in adulthood in the early 21st century, focusing on three themes: relations beyond childhood and school years; factors shaping social support provision between siblings; and changes in family life and how these impact sibling relations. Comprised of chapters from distinguished international family scholars, this book examines sibling dynamics across age, race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, geography, and social environments. It answers important questions such as, to what extent do siblings support each other at different stages of the life cycle? How do cultural practices and family obligations impact on sibling support? How does sibling support differ when looking at surrogates, migrant families, polygamous families, and siblings with disabilities? These contributions expand and contribute greatly to the field of sibling studies and will be of interest to all students and scholars studying and researching family relationships.

Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession - Findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study (Hardcover, New):... Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession - Findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study (Hardcover, New)
Brigid Van Wanrooy, Helen Bewley, Alex Bryson
R4,928 Discovery Miles 49 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How have employment relations evolved over the last decade? And how did workplaces and employees fare in the face of the longest recession in living memory? Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession examines the state of British employment relations in 2011, how this has changed since 2004, and the role the recession played in shaping employees' experiences of work. It draws on findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study, comparing these with the results of the previous study conducted in 2004. These surveys - each collecting responses from around 2,500 workplace managers, 1,000 employee representatives and over 20,000 employees - provide the most comprehensive portrait available of workplace employment relations in Britain. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the changes made to employment practices through the recession and of the impact that the economic downturn had on the shape and character of the employment relationship.

Intimate Migrations - Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans (Hardcover, New): Deborah A Boehm Intimate Migrations - Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans (Hardcover, New)
Deborah A Boehm
R3,083 Discovery Miles 30 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to "come and go." Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of the United States' rigid immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find themselves living long distances from family members and unable to easily cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Transnational Mexicans experience what Boehm calls "intimate migrations," flows that both shape and are structured by gendered and familial actions and interactions, but are always defined by the presence of the U.S. state. Intimate Migrations is based on over a decade of ethnographic research, focusing on Mexican immigrants with ties to a small, rural community in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi and several states in the U.S. West. By showing how intimate relations direct migration, and by looking at kin and gender relationships through the lens of illegality, Boehm sheds new light on the study of gender and kinship, as well as understandings of the state and transnational migration.

Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood - Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Adelaida R Del... Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood - Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Adelaida R Del Castillo, Gibran Guido
R3,626 Discovery Miles 36 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. In many ways, the contributors reveal the significance of fathering and representations of fatherhood in the context of queer male sexuality and identity across generations, cultures, class, and Mexican immigrant and Mexican American families. They further reveal how father figures-godfathers, grandfathers, and others-may nurture and express love and hope for the queer young men in their extended family. Divided into six sections, the book addresses the complexity of father-queer son relationships; family dynamics; the impact of neurodiverse mental health issues; the erotic, unsafe, and taboo qualities of desire; encounters with absent, estranged or emotionally distant fathers; and a critical analysis of father and queer son relationships in Chicano/Latino literature and film.

The Gender Trap - Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls (Hardcover, New): Emily W Kane The Gender Trap - Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls (Hardcover, New)
Emily W Kane
R3,101 Discovery Miles 31 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A detailed account of how gender is learned and unlearned in the home From the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ground zero for where children learn about gender. Despite recent awareness that girls are not too fragile to play sports and that boys can benefit from learning to cook, we still find ourselves surrounded by limited gender expectations and persistent gender inequalities. Through the lively and engaging stories of parents from a wide range of backgrounds, The Gender Trap provides a detailed account of how today's parents understand, enforce, and resist the gendering of their children. Emily Kane shows how most parents make efforts to loosen gendered constraints for their children, while also engaging in a variety of behaviors that reproduce traditionally gendered childhoods, ultimately arguing that conventional gender expectations are deeply entrenched and that there is great tension in attempting to undo them while letting 'boys be boys' and 'girls be girls.'

I'm Grateful For... - A Double Gratitude Journal (Hardcover, Leather Bound ed.): Mikayla Cantrell I'm Grateful For... - A Double Gratitude Journal (Hardcover, Leather Bound ed.)
Mikayla Cantrell
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I'm Grateful For... - A Double Gratitude Journal (Hardcover, Leather Bound ed.): Mikayla Cantrell I'm Grateful For... - A Double Gratitude Journal (Hardcover, Leather Bound ed.)
Mikayla Cantrell
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Quit - Proven Strategies To Rekindle, Restore, and Reinvent Your Marriage When Walking Away Seems Right (Hardcover): Ayanna... I Quit - Proven Strategies To Rekindle, Restore, and Reinvent Your Marriage When Walking Away Seems Right (Hardcover)
Ayanna Kilgore, Jonathan Kilgore
R636 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Youth Cultures in a Globalized World - Developments, Analyses and Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Gerald Knapp, Hannes... Youth Cultures in a Globalized World - Developments, Analyses and Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Gerald Knapp, Hannes Krall
R4,247 Discovery Miles 42 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the relation between the phenomenon of globalization, changes in the lifeworld of young people and the development of specific youth cultures. It explores the social, political, economic and cultural impact of globalization on young people. Growing diversity in their lifeworlds, technological development, migration and the ubiquity of digital communication and representation of the world open up new forms of self-representation, networking and political expression, which are described and discussed in the book. Other topics are the impact of globalization on work and economy, global environmental issues such as climate change, political movements which put "nationalism first", change of youth`s values and the significance of body, gender and beauty. The book highlights the challenges of young people in modern life, as well as the way in which they express themselves and engage in society - in culture, politics, work and social life.

Routledge Library Editions: Marriage - 20 Volume Set (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: Marriage - 20 Volume Set (Hardcover)
Various
R52,653 Discovery Miles 526 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This 20-volume set has titles originally published between 1939 and 1991. It looks at marriage in a broad context from a variety of perspectives, including anthropological, health, historical, psychological, and sociological. Individual titles cover mediation, divorce and separation, marriage guidance, disability, sexual health, along with wider issues such as kinship, wardship, marriage in India and Africa and the subordination of women internationally. This collection is an excellent resource for those interested in the place of marriage in society.

Incarceration and Generation, Volume I - Multiple Faces of Confinement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Silvia Gomes, Maria Joao... Incarceration and Generation, Volume I - Multiple Faces of Confinement (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Silvia Gomes, Maria Joao Leote De Carvalho, Vera Duarte
R3,400 Discovery Miles 34 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects. Volume I explores an array of experiences, dynamics, cultures, interventions and impacts of incarceration in specific generations: childhood, youth and emerging adulthood, adulthood and older age. It covers topics such as: the expansion of the penal landscape; deprivation of liberty regarding children, the problem of unaccompanied migrant children; the incarceration of young adults and adults, exploring its impacts within and beyond incarceration and the consequences of imprisoning older populations. Volume II examines intergenerational relations issues within different contexts of incarceration. This collection discusses public policies and the role of the state and the citizen deprived of liberty. It speaks to academics in criminology, sociology, psychology, and law, and to practitioners and policymakers interested in incarceration.

Families in America (Hardcover): Deirdre A. Gaquin, Mary Meghan Ryan Families in America (Hardcover)
Deirdre A. Gaquin, Mary Meghan Ryan
R2,854 Discovery Miles 28 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Families in America presents a wide selection of information from the American Community Survey that helps us describe American living arrangements, relationships, marriages, births, children, and incomes. Each section includes a large selection of information for the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia. This is followed by a more limited selection of data for 381 metropolitan areas, 980 counties with populations of 50,000 or more, and 795 cities with populations of 50,000 or more. Families in America includes details about both family and nonfamily households and includes topics such as multi-generational households, same-sex partner households, grandchildren living with grandparents, and nonrelatives in family households. In addition, information related to age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, income, poverty, and health insurance for various household types is included.

I'm Grateful For... - A Double Gratitude Journal (Hardcover, Leather Bound ed.): Mikayla Cantrell I'm Grateful For... - A Double Gratitude Journal (Hardcover, Leather Bound ed.)
Mikayla Cantrell
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leisure in Later Life (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Tania Wiseman Leisure in Later Life (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Tania Wiseman
R3,890 Discovery Miles 38 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated in later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are many unanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, older people, and this book asks what it is really like to be old at the beginning of the 21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in the context of the subtle politics of the day to day. Throughout the chapters, the author highlights the often missing depictions of older people who enjoy and enact bold, informed agency as part of their everyday lives. Drawing upon secondary data from the Mass Observation Archive, a social thesis of leisure and ageing emerges that challenges the individualism inherent in 'active ageing.' It is proposed that the idea of 'active ageing' creates complex constraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations. The stories in this book advocate for an appreciation and re-evaluation of passive leisure in later life, and the enjoyment and freedom it can bring. The project is therefore useful to students and researchers of leisure studies, gerontology and sociology of ageing.

The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought (Hardcover): Brent Waters The Family in Christian Social and Political Thought (Hardcover)
Brent Waters
R4,562 Discovery Miles 45 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Brent Waters examines the historical roots and contemporary implications of the virtual disappearance of the family in late liberal and Christian social and political thought. Waters argues that the principal cause of this disappearance is late liberalism's fixation on individual autonomy, which renders familial bonds unintelligible. He traces the history of this emphasis, from its origin in Hobbes and Locke, through Kant, to such contemporary theorists as Rawls and Okin. In response, Waters offers an alternative normative account of the family's role in social and political ordering, drawing upon the work of Althusius, Grotius, Dooyeweerd, and O'Donovan.

The Basics of Adoption - A Guide for Building Families in the U.S. and Canada (Hardcover): James L. Dickerson, Mardi Allen The Basics of Adoption - A Guide for Building Families in the U.S. and Canada (Hardcover)
James L. Dickerson, Mardi Allen
R1,704 Discovery Miles 17 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With about 70,000 domestic and international adoptions each year in the United States and Canada, adoption remains a major means of building families in both countries. Its continued success can be inferred not only from the yearly statistics, but from a report issued in 2003 by the U.S. Census Bureau. To the surprise of many, the report announced the existence of 1.6 million adopted children in the U.S. under the age of eighteen. Written by a former social worker who has placed hundreds of children in foster and adoptive homes and a clinical psychologist who has counseled adopted children and parents, this book offers a comprehensive look at the adoption process by merging the best of social work with the best of psychology. Adoption can be a frustrating and intimidating undertaking for the unprepared. This guide provides prospective adoptive parents with the insider information that they need to navigate the process-and it provides students with the sort of expert opinion that they need to grasp the academic theory they receive in the classroom. Highlights include: An insider's look at the home study process Advice on single-parent adoptions Advice on gay parent adoptions Advice on parenting adopted children A look at adoption procedures in both the United States and Canada Information about international adoptions A directory of adoption agencies in the United States and Canada

Plural Marriage for Our Times - A Reinvented Option?, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Philip L. Kilbride, Douglas... Plural Marriage for Our Times - A Reinvented Option?, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Philip L. Kilbride, Douglas R Page
R1,973 Discovery Miles 19 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This thoroughly revised second edition offers a child-centered, international perspective as it urges America to de-stigmatize alternate family forms. In this book's first edition, Philip L. Kilbride showed polygamy as the preferred marriage pattern in most parts of the nonwestern world and explained how plural marriage is surfacing in western countries to address economic and spiritual crises. In Plural Marriage for Our Times: A Reinvented Option? Second Edition, Kilbride and his coauthor, Douglas R. Page, update and enhance this thesis in light of contemporary circumstances, new studies, and current legal debates. This new edition examines plural marriage's benefits for children. It extends the discussion of polygamy and religion, especially the Muslim perspective on marriage and family; considers the illegal polygamy of immigrants; and looks at multiple marriage in African American communities, where "crisis polygamy" is a growing phenomenon. The authors suggest Americans consider plural marriage as a viable practice that can help reduce the divorce rate, better protect women and children, and serve as an alternative to the "fractured family" so prevalent in America today. Includes an extensive bibliography

Care of the State - Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children's Homes in Late Socialist Hungary (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Care of the State - Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children's Homes in Late Socialist Hungary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Jennifer Rasell
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Care of the State blends archival, oral history, interview and ethnographic data to study the changing relationships and kinship ties of children who lived in state residential care in socialist Hungary. It advances anthropological understanding of kinship and the workings of the state by exploring how various state actors and practices shaped kin ties. Jennifer Rasell shows that norms and processes in the Hungarian welfare system placed symbolic weight on nuclear families whilst restricting and devaluing other possible ties for children in care, in particular to siblings, friends, welfare workers and wider communities. In focussing on care practices both within and outside kin relations, Rasell shows that children valued relationships that were produced through personal attention, engagement and emotional connections. Highlighting the diversity of experiences in state care in socialist Hungary, this book's nuanced insights represent an important contribution to research on children's well-being and family policies in Central-Eastern Europe and beyond.

Marriage Warrior - Sharpen Your Sword. Win Her Heart. Live in Peace. (Hardcover): Dan White, Lydia White Marriage Warrior - Sharpen Your Sword. Win Her Heart. Live in Peace. (Hardcover)
Dan White, Lydia White
R634 R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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