This book investigates how educational anxiety shapes the everyday lives and moral worlds of China's middle-class parents, revealing how emotion, modernity, and meritocracy intersect in a rapidly changing society.
This book which has been created in the framework of the EU-funded COST Action INTERFASOL brings together researchers from 22 INTERFASOL countries, who frame intergenerational family solidarity in the specific historical, cultural, social and economic context of their own country.
Frauen, die in höherem Alter Mutterschaft verwirklichen, erleben diesen Prozess als Differenz zwischen ihrer individuellen Lebensgeschichte und einer alterskritischen gesellschaftlichen Perspektive.
Frauen, die in höherem Alter Mutterschaft verwirklichen, erleben diesen Prozess als Differenz zwischen ihrer individuellen Lebensgeschichte und einer alterskritischen gesellschaftlichen Perspektive.
From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "e;sacred institution"e; of marriage has turned into a public battleground.
In many European countries tensions have arisen between the demands of the labor market and the caregiving responsibilities workers must fulfill at home.
Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence explores the lived experience of Catholic women and men in the post-Reformation century.
Cross-border Marriages and Mobility: Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which is of critical importance to the transformation of Hong Kong.
Cross-border Marriages and Mobility: Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which is of critical importance to the transformation of Hong Kong.
In many European countries tensions have arisen between the demands of the labor market and the caregiving responsibilities workers must fulfill at home.
Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence explores the lived experience of Catholic women and men in the post-Reformation century.
Eine Beziehung zu haben, bedeutet nicht automatisch, in Verbindung zu sein, und eine Verbindung zu haben, bedeutet nicht automatisch, in einer Beziehung zu sein.
Hoffnung statt Zynismus – der Weg für ein besseres Miteinander»Seine Forschung und seine persönlichen Geschichten machen dieses Buch zu einer wertvollen Lektüre für alle, die nach Wegen suchen, in einer oft zynischen Welt positiv zu bleiben.
Eine Beziehung zu haben, bedeutet nicht automatisch, in Verbindung zu sein, und eine Verbindung zu haben, bedeutet nicht automatisch, in einer Beziehung zu sein.
Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negotiated interpersonal relationships and lineage concerns to actively contribute to their families in early modern Italy.
Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negotiated interpersonal relationships and lineage concerns to actively contribute to their families in early modern Italy.
'Houses do not simply represent a form of shelter; in addition they embody the dominant ideology of a society and reflect the way in which that society is organised.
Originally published in 1995, this innovative collection provides a multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on the links between housing, personal wealth and the family in contemporary society.
Originally published in 1995, this innovative collection provides a multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on the links between housing, personal wealth and the family in contemporary society.
The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan seeks to give a broad and, even without prior knowledge of Japan, easily accessible introduction to a range of feminisms in this non-Western context.
