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By: Marie Fortune

ISBN: 9780826411280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work is aimed at those caught in the middle between those for whom only heterosexual marriage or "anything goes" are paradigms of suitable behaviour. It explores what it means to be in an intimate relationship surrounded by domestic violence and continued silencing of women's voices.


(Hardback)

By: Wanning Sun

ISBN: 9781350329607
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Wanning Sun

ISBN: 9781350329645
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1984
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on Soviet sociological studies, Soviet fiction and film, and mass media reports, this volume explores the ways in which Soviet attitudes about love, sex, marriage, friendship, and children have been influenced by the evolution of Soviet ideology, politics, and economy since the Bolshevik revolution.


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By: Keith Barret

ISBN: 9780007193875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An hilarious spoof self-help book from the star of Marion & Geoff and host of the new hit BBC comedy The Keith Barret Show.


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By: Elizabet Douvan

ISBN: 9780275950316
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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What factors influence the relationship of a newly married couple The authors of this book examine the determinants of marital instability in the early years of marriage. Conclusions are based on the results of a survey of 199 black couples and 174 white couples throughout the first four years of marriage.


(Hardback)

By: Jaimee L. Hartenstein

ISBN: 9781440868368
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: James M. Henslin

ISBN: 9780029144756
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1992
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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This text takes a chronological view of marriage from dating to divorce or widowhood. It covers such topics as birth, childlessness, step-families, and working mothers. Among the contributors are Lilian Breslow, Randall Collins and Pepper Schwartz. A free instructor's manual is available.


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By: Theodore K. Rabb

ISBN: 9780691615318
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this volume the articles are primarily on European history, but their subject matter indicates the remarkable variety, both of the marriage and fertility patterns of past societies, and of the methods scholars have used to investigate them. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to


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By: Theodore K. Rabb

ISBN: 9780691642819
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Lynn D. Wardle

ISBN: 9780275976538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: David Orgon Coolidge

ISBN: 9780313361401
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Heather Merle Benbow

ISBN: 9781498522625
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Marriage is a central trope in popular portrayals of Germanys largest ethnic minority. In exploring Turkish-German matrimony in popular genres including autoethnography, chick lit, wedding film and ethno-sitcom, this book reveals the fascinating interactions of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in contemporary Germany.


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By: Stephanie Coontz

ISBN: 9780143036678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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In this surprising landmark book, family historian Coontz explodes every cherished assumption about marriage, starting with the notion of the traditional marriage.


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By: Lisa Cubbins

ISBN: 9780275961473
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A research project in which 2418 individual interviews are used, this reports the findings from the major, baseline study of Russian marriages conducted in 1996.


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By: Rebecca Kukla

ISBN: 9780742533578
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examining the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding, this book states that late eighteenth century practices reshaped mothers' bodies. As a result, it is difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.


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By: Rebecca Kukla

ISBN: 9780742533585
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examining the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding, this book states that late eighteenth century practices reshaped mothers' bodies. As a result, it is difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.


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By: Estella Tincknell

ISBN: 9780340740804
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Taking as its starting point the 'problem' of how the family has been mediated in popular film, television, literature and social policy over the last 50 years, this book explores the ways in which struggles over sexuality, identity, gender and power have informed the conceptualisation and representation of the family as an institution.


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By: Morten G. Ender

ISBN: 9780275972660
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection contains thirteen essays by researchers studying children, adolescents, youth, and adults in a service organization family context, including the military, the State Department, international educators, and non-governmental organizations.


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By: Becky Freeman

ISBN: 9780310242949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Zondervan
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This book is a potpourri of the best, most usable, fun advice on how to be the kind of mother a daughter will want to be when she grows up and has a little girl of her own.


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By: F. Furedi

ISBN: 9781137338013
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority.


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By: Alfred Kahn

ISBN: 9780865691834
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents historical perspectives on single mothers and antipoverty strategies in the US and several other industrial societies. The authors, specialists in family policy, discuss family and personal life of single mothers, their work and income (usually low), and issues such as child care, housing, and stress.


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By: Linda Rennie Forcey

ISBN: 9780275926588
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A great deal has been written about the bond between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. In her examination of the mother/son relationsip, the author ultimately questions whether or not mothers foster sexist masculinity and whether they can be blamed for male dominance..


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By: Linda Rennie Forcey

ISBN: 9780275923235
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A great deal has been written about the bond between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. In her examination of the mother/son relationsip, the author ultimately questions whether or not mothers foster sexist masculinity and whether they can be blamed for male dominance..

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