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By: Wornie L. Reed

ISBN: 9780865690196
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Using black families as the central unit of analysis, the authors identify fundamental issues requiring concentrated attention and policy changes.

Both factors external to the black family and consideration internal to it are studied.


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By: Alan J. Hawkins

ISBN: 9780275972721
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The contributors address hot-button issues such as same-sex marriage, effects of divorce on children, and the role of fathers in addition to issues such as the permanence of marriage, covenant marriage, and the role of religion in marriage.


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By: Alan J. Hawkins

ISBN: 9780275972738
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The contributors address hot-button issues such as same-sex marriage, effects of divorce on children, and the role of fathers in addition to issues such as the permanence of marriage, covenant marriage, and the role of religion in marriage.


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By: Jason Pierceson

ISBN: 9780739128657
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores policy innovation for same-sex couples throughout the Americas and includes same-sex marriage legislation, civil unions, and other new developments for same-sex couples throughout the Americas at both national and sub-national levels. This scholarship is inn...


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By: Jason Pierceson

ISBN: 9780739128664
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Julie Whitlow

ISBN: 9781498516983
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book shows how the first lesbians to marry in the United States are using or avoiding the word wife at this historic juncture when the definition of marriage is undergoing a shift. It will interest the LGBTQ community and its allies, political activists, feminists, and scholars of sociology, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and gender.


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By: Julie Whitlow

ISBN: 9781498517003
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book shows how the first lesbians to marry in the United States are using or avoiding the word wife at this historic juncture when the definition of marriage is undergoing a shift. It will interest the LGBTQ community, its allies, political activists, feminists, and scholars of sociology, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and gender.


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By: Maggie Scarf

ISBN: 9781594483998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Intimate Partners" comes this unexpected--and surprisingly positive--exploration of the benefits awaiting married baby boomers in their bonus years.


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By: Mark Baker

ISBN: 9780671702540
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1997
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Based on interviews with 100 people across the country, this is primarily a portrait of the baby boomers, whose stories reveal sex in all its variety, and examine the emotions that make it so powerful. Entertaining and enlightening, this book puts sexuality back into a meaningful human context. Insightful and candid, this is a revealing look at our intimate private lives.


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By: Mark J. Williams

ISBN: 9780275963682
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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They may or may not identify themselves as bisexual, but during significant periods of their life span they act bisexually. Studies of human sexuality world-wide indicate the incidence of bisexuality ranges from high to low prevalence in all literate and many nonliterate societies.


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By: Carl Jones

ISBN: 9780897892087
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1989
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Joanne Finnegan

ISBN: 9780897892865
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written as a gift for other parents to help them cope with the pain and loneliness of decision making, this book will also be a valuable resource for medical professionals, adoption and social workers, counselors and spiritual advisors, and friends and family of the parents.


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By: Katherine Davies

ISBN: 9781526182562
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar sociological themes.


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By: Katherine Davies

ISBN: 9781526142177
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Drawing on innovative qualitative data sources, Siblings and sociology demonstrates the sociological significance of sibling relationships, explaining why siblings matter as a relational form capable of influencing us throughout the life course and as a lens through which to re-imagine familiar sociological themes.


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By: James Peinkofer

ISBN: 9780865693135
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Aya Ezawa

ISBN: 9781498529983
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on life history interviews of single mothers in Japan, this detailed study examines the socioeconomic consequences of becoming a single mother and pursuing a lifestyle outside of the married mother and housewife norm in contemporary Japan.


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By: Aya Ezawa

ISBN: 9781498529969
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on life history interviews of single mothers in Japan, this detailed study examines the socioeconomic consequences of becoming a single mother and pursuing a lifestyle outside of the married mother and housewife norm in contemporary Japan.


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By: Kate Boyer

ISBN: 9781786603074
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Spaces and Politics of Motherhood considers motherhood through themes at the cutting-edge of social and feminist theory including: materiality and material agency; place and memory in the formation of maternal identity; issues relating to parenting in public, and the politics of combining breastfeeding with wage-work.


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By: Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman

ISBN: 9780275953812
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pasley and Ihinger-Tallman provide a critical analysis of the current literature on stepparenting and summarize the progress made in research, theory, and practice related to stepfamilies. research related to relationships within stepfamilies and the development of new roles within stepfamilies;


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By: Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman

ISBN: 9780313285028
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A critical analysis of the current literature on step-parenting. Early chapters treat theoretical concerns and present models useful to the study of step-parenting. Later chapters summarize research related to relationships within step-families and the development of new roles within step-families.


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By: Alan page Fiske

ISBN: 9780029066874
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1993
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Karen S. Jewell

ISBN: 9780275929855
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Jewell proposes new steps to economic independence for black families that would place this responsibility within all sectors of society, arguing that social policies and their absence have affected the status of black family structures.


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By: James L. Dickerson

ISBN: 9780275987992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Taking a look at the adoption process, this guide provides prospective adoptive parents with the insider information that they need to navigate the process, and it provides students with the expert insight they need to grasp classroom theory. It also includes a directory of adoption agencies in the United States and Canada.


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By: Gareth Moore

ISBN: 9780826485687
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this highly readable book Gareth moore examines some of the principle arguments and styles of argument advanced by Christians, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, in support of Christian standards in sexual ethics.

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