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This international collection features the most influential scholarship published during the past few decades on the concept of the family and related issues. An invaluable resource for students and researchers alike, the four volumes cover the following themes: Vol. 1: Family Groups Vol. 2: Family and Gender Issues Vol. 3: Family Ties Vol. 4: Family and Society The scope offers an international range of material, and includes key work from the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia, and Asia.

Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores the figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours. More troublingly, she also serves as a model neoliberal worker who upholds white privilege and notions of mastery, capacity, and productivity. Amanda Watson makes the controversia...

In der Politik wird die sogenannte Vergreisung der Gesellschaft meist als Problem gesehen, z.B. fur die Rentenkassen oder das Gesundheitssystem, doch sind mit dem hohen Alter auch positive Aspekte verbunden: Das Buch beleuchtet in interdisziplinarer Sicht Probleme, Herausforderung und Chancen der Hochaltrigkeit - sowohl aus gesellschaftlicher, vor allem aber aus individueller Perspektive. Mit einem modernen, biopsychosozialen Ansatz werden wichtige Themen wie das alternde Gehirn, die psychologis...

During the past thirty years, the study of medieval families has emerged as a focus of discussion in European history. Largely unexplored in professional publications and teaching curricula until the 1970s, family history is now accepted as an aspect of medieval history essential to the development of the period's institutions and culture, and a field useful to comparative family studies. The present volume brings together essays by historians, art historians, and literary scholars about the st...

The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children, racially diverse communities or societies, these 'racial crossings' were a lasting Victorian concern. But in an era of imperial expansion, when slavery was abolished, colonial wars were fought, and Britain itself was reformed, these concerns were more than academic. In both the British empire and imperial Britain, racial crossings shaped what people thou...

This Brief addresses the causes, assessment, and treatment of ADHD in Lebanese schoolchildren. It details how the disorder is currently defined in Lebanese elementary schools and examines schoolteachers’ understanding of and conceptions about ADHD across three domains: general knowledge; symptoms and diagnosis; and treatment. This concise volume presents the authors’ research into Lebanese schoolteachers’ knowledge of ADHD and their ability and readiness to address the psychological and academic...

Helicopter parents-the kind that continue to hover even in college-are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really damage their children and burden universities? In this book, sociologist Laura T. Hamilton illuminates the lives of young women and their families to ask just what role parents play during the crucial college years. Hamilton vividly captures th...

„Lebenslage“ und „Lebenswelt“ nehmen in der Diskussion zu theoretischen Verortungen Sozialer Arbeit seit Jahren eine herausragende Position ein. In dem Buch wird auf der Folie dieser theoretischen Konzepte das Alter(n) in den Blick genommen. Dabei geht es - am Beispiel unterschiedlicher Lebenslage- und Lebensweltdimensionen - um die Betrachtung von Partizipations- und Teilhabechancen einerseits und Gefahrenpotentiale sozialer Ausschließung andererseits. Im Zentrum stehen die Themen „Wohnen im Al...

Sarah Pat O'Brien's father walks out of her life when she is seven years old. All that remain are dreams of where he might be and when he will return to rescue the family from the poverty, disease and discrimination they suffer. But he doesn't come back; and with the promise of a better life, they leave Dublin for England, like so many in the 1950s. Years on, when Sarah Pat has children of her own, her shadowy memories drive her to trace her father. A long and painful search reveals he was a sol...

Dieser zweite Band von Kinder brauchen [Zwischen]Raume versteht sich als ein Pladoyer fur die Schaffung eines Rahmens bzw. zeigt Handlungsmoeglichkeiten im selbstbestimmten, kindlichen (Er-)Lebensraum durch uns Erwachsene auf. Das Buch ist mit seinen Beitragen nicht als Ratgeber, sondern vielmehr als Anreger zu sehen. Die hier geschilderten Beispiele dazu spiegeln weder ein Entweder-Oder, noch ein Schwarz-Weiss, sondern sind so bunt wie unsere Welt in ihren Facetten vielfaltig ist. Im Mittelpunk...

Die zwei Beiträge dieses Bandes geben einen differenzierten Überblick über die Erwerbsbeteiligung und -situation älterer Arbeitnehmer, ihre Beschäftigungschancen und -risiken, die Ausstiegspfade aus dem Erwerbsleben und des Übergangs in den "Ruhestand" sowie der Entwicklung der Einkommens- und Vermögenssituation im Alter im letzten Jahrzehnt und über Auswirkungen möglicher Änderungen im Rentensystem auf das Afterseinkommen. Beide Autoren widmen sich unter anderem den erheblichen Veränderungen i...

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a revolution in contraceptive behaviour as the large Victorian family disappeared. This book offers a new perspective on the gender relations, sexual attitudes, and contraceptive practices that accompanied the emergence of the smaller family in modern Britain. Kate Fisher draws on a range of first-hand evidence, including over 190 oral history interviews, in which individuals born between 1900 and 1930 described their marriages and sexual relat...