Sociology: family and relationships

A new edition of the bestselling memoir Shame, including additional content from the author updating her story to the present day.

We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures.

Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law.

From the widely acclaimed HOW TO TALK series, discover tried and tested communication strategies to survive - and thrive - with kids ages 2-7The all-new content in this book deals with struggles familiar to every parent, relative, teacher and childminder.

Weddings have come a long way since the first etiquette books were written.

You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your daughter's wedding.

This book explores the implications and significant ethical, social, economic and health challenges that an ageing world population presents.

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Women highlights the achievements and progress being made by African women across a wide range of sectors in society.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries.

This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000.

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'.

Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries.

From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), infant mortality is high in natural fertility/mortality populations, and human females have a long post-reproductive lifespan.

Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present.

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.

This timely and fascinating feminist ethnography is the first of its kind to focus on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and from other countries of the former Soviet Union.

This timely and fascinating feminist ethnography is the first of its kind to focus on commercial surrogacy workers in Russia and from other countries of the former Soviet Union.

What if we could do better than the family?

From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation.

Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century.

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries.

Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries.

For people born to parents from two socially distinctive racial groups, the answer to the question of racial identity can be far from straightforward.

For people born to parents from two socially distinctive racial groups, the answer to the question of racial identity can be far from straightforward.

Analysis of criminal cases reveals that women suspected of killing their newborn children are some of the most vulnerable in our society and that infanticide is not just a historical issue but one that has modern implications.

Analysis of criminal cases reveals that women suspected of killing their newborn children are some of the most vulnerable in our society and that infanticide is not just a historical issue but one that has modern implications.

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK anti-abortion activists.

Drawing from extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, this book explores the beliefs, motivations and practices of UK anti-abortion activists.

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.

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.

Creative Ageing and the Arts of Care makes a case for cultural participation by older adults to enhance the quality of their lives.

Creative Ageing and the Arts of Care makes a case for cultural participation by older adults to enhance the quality of their lives.

Reproduction has entered a new ice age: the ability to cryopreserve reproductive cells, tissue and embryos are fundamentally changing our understanding of what it means to be a reproductive citizen.

Reproduction has entered a new ice age: the ability to cryopreserve reproductive cells, tissue and embryos are fundamentally changing our understanding of what it means to be a reproductive citizen.

There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her children - even if it means telling a lie.

The existential exclusion of youths from the mainframe of the current global order is an increasingly pressing issue.

The existential exclusion of youths from the mainframe of the current global order is an increasingly pressing issue.

Around the globe, millions of individuals are entangled in justice systems daily.

Around the globe, millions of individuals are entangled in justice systems daily.

While rituals surrounding death may vary by geography, culture, and time, experiencing the loss of a loved one is a universal experience.

The digitalization of society is constructed as a necessary leap that governments and citizens need to take.

The digitalization of society is constructed as a necessary leap that governments and citizens need to take.

Gender can be rendered invisible when the gendered nature of institutions is ignored or when the genders of participants in events or movements are not identified.

Gender can be rendered invisible when the gendered nature of institutions is ignored or when the genders of participants in events or movements are not identified.

While rituals surrounding death may vary by geography, culture, and time, experiencing the loss of a loved one is a universal experience.

This volume of Advances in Gender Research gives space and voice to trans peoples' experiences and interactions with various social institutions, including but not limited to, social media, healthcare and medicalization, the criminal justice system, and the family.

This volume of Advances in Gender Research gives space and voice to trans peoples' experiences and interactions with various social institutions, including but not limited to, social media, healthcare and medicalization, the criminal justice system, and the family.

This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth.

This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth.