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1. Parenting in Global Perspective

   Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics

   Edited by Charlotte Faircloth, Diane M. Hoffman, Linda L. Layne

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of ‘parenting’. Parenting in Global Perspective examines the significance of ‘parenting’ as a subject of professional expertise, and activity in which adults are...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Critical Approaches to Care

   Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures

   Edited by Chrissie Rogers, Susie Weller

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   What does ‘care’ mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care for, care with and care about themselves and others? How do such relationships and practices relate to broader social...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing

   Edited by Rosalind Edwards, Suki Ali, Chamion Caballero, Miri Song

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   People from a ‘mixed’ or ‘inter’ racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual interest internationally. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Transnational Families

   Ethnicities, Identities and Social Capital

   By Harry Goulbourne, Tracey Reynolds, John Solomos, Elisabetta Zontini

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social...

   Published May 10th 2011 by Routledge
5. Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse

   By Sophia Bowlby, Linda McKie, Susan Gregory, Isobel Macpherson

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities. The book comprises three parts. The first explores contrasting social...

   Published January 13th 2010 by Routledge
6. Researching Families and Communities

   Social and Generational Change

   Edited by Rosalind Edwards

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social and economic developments. But how can we think about and research the nature of the present in...

   Published April 28th 2008 by Routledge
7. Teenagers' Citizenship

   Experiences and Education

   By Susie Weller

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   The introduction of compulsory citizenship education into the national curriculum has generated a plethora of new interests in the politics of childhood and youth. Citizenship for Teenagers explores teenagers’ acts of and engagement with citizenship in their local communities and examines the role...

   Published March 28th 2007 by Routledge
8. Marginalised Mothers

   Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting

   By Val Gillies

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor...

   Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge
9. Sibling Identity and Relationships

   Sisters and Brothers

   By Rosalind Edwards, Lucy Hadfield, Helen Lucey, Melanie Mauthner

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Sibling Identity and Relationships explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing new insights into sibling identity and relationships. Drawing on social constructionist and psychodynamic perspectives, it discusses who constitutes a sibling,...

   Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge