Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers

Barbara Wells

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• In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers , Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.... Lees meer

Raising the Race

Riché J Daniel Barnes

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• Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association Popular discussions of professional women oft... Lees meer

No Real Choice

Katrina Kimport

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• In the United States, the "right to choose" an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn't really ... Lees meer

Queering Marriage

Katrina Kimport

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• Co-Winner of the 2015 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section from the American Sociological Associa... Lees meer

Undoing Motherhood

Katherine M Johnson

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• In 1978 the world's first "test-tube baby" was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatm... Lees meer

Labor of Love

Heather Jacobson

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• While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying ch... Lees meer

Amigas Y Amantes

Katie L Acosta

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• 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title​ Amigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creati... Lees meer

Labor of Love

Heather Jacobson

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• While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying ch... Lees meer

Misconception

Ann V Bell

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• Despite the fact that, statistically, women of low socioeconomic status (SES) experience greater difficulty conceiving children, infertility is genera... Lees meer

Undoing Motherhood

Katherine M Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Families in Focus
• In 1978 the world's first "test-tube baby" was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatm... Lees meer

Misconception

Ann V Bell

• Hardcover | Engels | Families in Focus
• Despite the fact that, statistically, women of low socioeconomic status (SES) experience greater difficulty conceiving children, infertility is genera... Lees meer

At the Heart of Work and Family

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• At the Heart of Work and Family presents original research on work and family by scholars who engage and build on the conceptual framework developed b... Lees meer

Queering Marriage

Katrina Kimport

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• Co-Winner of the 2015 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section from the American Sociological Associa... Lees meer

Caring on the Clock

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• A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story to soothe a child to sleep... Lees meer

Amigas Y Amantes

Katie L Acosta

• Hardcover | Engels | Families in Focus
• 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title​ Amigas y Amantes (Friends and Lovers) explores the experiences of sexually nonconforming Latinas in the creati... Lees meer

Caring on the Clock

• Hardcover | Engels | Families in Focus
• A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story to soothe a child to sleep... Lees meer

Adult Supervision Required

Markella B Rutherford

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• Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and ch... Lees meer

Raising the Race

Riché J Daniel Barnes

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• Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association Popular discussions of professional women oft... Lees meer

Like Family

Margaret K Nelson

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• For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the Un... Lees meer

Saving Face

Angie Y Chung

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• Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The many images used to describe the prototypical Asian family have given rise t... Lees meer

The End of International Adoption?

Estye Fenton

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• Since 2004, the number of international adoptions in the United States has declined by more than seventy percent. In The End of International Adoption... Lees meer

No Real Choice

Katrina Kimport

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• In the United States, the "right to choose" an abortion is the law of the land. But what if a woman continues her pregnancy because she didn't really ... Lees meer

Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan

Amy Brainer

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• In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Amy Brainer provides an in-depth look at queer and transgender family relationships in Taiwan. Brainer i... Lees meer

Do Babies Matter?

Mary Ann Mason, Nicholas H Wolfinger, Marc Goulden

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• The new generation of scholars differs in many ways from its predecessor of just a few decades ago. Academia once consisted largely of men in traditio... Lees meer