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Young Europeans, Work and Family

Edited by Julia Brannen, Susan Lewis, Anne Nilsen

Based on qualitative research carried out with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, Young Europeans, Work and Family examines young…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24846-4 (Routledge)

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Same Sex Intimacies

Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments

By Catherine Donovan, Brian Heaphy, Jeffrey Weeks

Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25477-9 (Routledge)

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Moving Families

By Mary Haour-Knipe

As the world of work becomes increasingly a global one, employees of governments, companies and non-commercial organisations increasingly find themselves obliged to live abroad for…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-1-85728-815-5 (Routledge)

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Children and Material Culture

Edited by Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

This is the first book to focus entirely on children and material culture. The contributors ask:
* what is the relationship between children and the…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-18898-2 (Routledge)

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The Archaeology of Household Activities

Edited by Penelope Allison

This pioneering collection engages with recent research in different areas of the archaeological discipline to bring together case-studies of the household material culture from later…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-20597-9 (Routledge)

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Changing Family Values

Difference, Diversity and the Decline of Male Order

Edited by Gill Jagger, Caroline Wright

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14957-0 (Routledge)

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Families and their Relatives

By Hubert Firth, Forge Firth

As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-17643-9 (Routledge)

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Family Studies

An Introduction

By Jon Bernardes

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-16469-6 (Routledge)

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Child Protection and Family Support

Tensions, Contradictions and Possibilities

By Nigel Parton

Child protection and family support is a major social issue and there is a continuing debate about how policies and practices in relation to child…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14225-0 (Routledge)

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Fathers and Adolescents: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives

By Inge Seiffge-Krenke, Shmuel Shulman

During adolescence children's relationships with their parents undergo profound changes. It seems strange then, that so little has been written so far about half…

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1996 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11792-0 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Changing Relationships
Edited by Malcolm Brynin, John Ermisch
To be published December 8th 2008

Safe Motherhood in a Globalized World
Edited by Barbara Wejnert, SUZANNE K. STEINMETZ, Nirupama Prakash
To be published April 1st 2009

Fatherhood, Sport and Leisure
Edited by Tess Kay
To be published May 15th 2009

Men in the Lives of Young Children: An international perspective
Edited by Deborah Jones, Roy Evans
To be published June 1st 2009

Transnational Families: Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital
By Harry Goulbourne, Tracey Reynolds, John Solomos, Elisabetta Zontini
To be published August 1st 2009

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