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Routledge Library Editions: Marriage


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This 20-volume set has titles originally published between 1939 and 1991. It looks at marriage in a broad context from a variety of perspectives, including anthropological, health, historical, psychological, and sociological. Individual titles cover mediation, divorce and separation, marriage guidance, disability, sexual health, along with wider issues such as kinship, wardship, marriage in India and Africa and the subordination of women internationally. This collection is an excellent resource for those interested in the place of marriage in society.

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Communication, Marital Dispute, and Divorce Mediation

Communication, Marital Dispute, and Divorce Mediation

1st Edition

By William A. Donohue
July 05, 2023

Few Americans escape the experience of divorce, either first-hand or through the dissolutions of marriages of friends or relatives. According to the author, mediation offers a good alternative to the strictly adversarial divorce process that was so prevalent before such programs began to emerge. ...

Conciliation in Separation and Divorce Finding Common Ground

Conciliation in Separation and Divorce: Finding Common Ground

1st Edition

By Lisa Parkinson
July 05, 2023

Originally published in 1986, reissued here with a new preface, this study of the origins and early development of family conciliation services in Britain outlines their philosophy, methods of work and reported results, illustrated with case examples. The examples demonstrate that disputes ...

Family Life in the Seventeenth Century The Verneys of Claydon House

Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Verneys of Claydon House

1st Edition

By Miriam Slater
July 05, 2023

The great issues and conflicts of the early seventeenth century were played out not only on the stages of the Court and Parliament, and, latterly, on the battlefield, but within the confines of the family. Originally published in 1984, in this pioneering study of the Verney family, based on more ...

Handicapped Married Couples A Welsh Study of Couples Handicapped from Birth by Mental, Physical or Personality Disorder

Handicapped Married Couples: A Welsh Study of Couples Handicapped from Birth by Mental, Physical or Personality Disorder

1st Edition

By Ann Craft, Michael Craft
July 05, 2023

Despite handicaps of low mental ability, deprived backgrounds or psychiatric and physical disability, most married couples with disabilities manage to give and receive much personal satisfaction and pleasure in their marriages. This is of special interest to professionals and social workers, who in...

In-Laws and Outlaws Kinship and Marriage in England

In-Laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England

1st Edition

By Sybil Wolfram
July 05, 2023

Originally published in 1987, this book presented for the first time a unified treatment of English kinship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This system, far from being a patchwork of historical accidents, has a remarkably logical overall structure, permeating both law and custom. To ...

Making a Go of It A Study of Stepfamilies in Sheffield

Making a Go of It: A Study of Stepfamilies in Sheffield

1st Edition

By Jacqueline Burgoyne, David Clark
July 05, 2023

Originally published in 1984, Making a Go of It presents findings from a study of remarried couples in Sheffield between 1976 and 1979. Including case studies from the families involved, it also discusses marriage as a social institution and some of the main theoretical and methodological issues ...

Marital Violence The Community Response

Marital Violence: The Community Response

1st Edition

By Margaret Borkowski, Mervyn Murch, Val Walker
July 05, 2023

In the early 1980s the subject of violence in marriage was in danger of being overlooked once again, as new social problems dominated the political scene, and the Government pursued policies of retrenchment that were likely to deprive refuges of the necessary central government support. Yet ...

Marriage Studies in Emotional Conflict and Growth

Marriage: Studies in Emotional Conflict and Growth

1st Edition

Edited By Lily Pincus
July 05, 2023

‘What are marriage difficulties really all about?’ This fundamental question, and the allied one of how help can be given to those in trouble in their marriages, constitute the theme of this book. Originally published in 1960, the authors were a group of caseworkers who over the previous ten years ...

Marriage Under Stress A Comparative Study of Marriage Conciliation

Marriage Under Stress: A Comparative Study of Marriage Conciliation

1st Edition

By Gerald Sanctuary
July 05, 2023

In the 1960s divorce was increasing around the world and marriage conciliation services were a necessary development to deal with those who wanted to seek help for their problems. Originally published in 1968, the purpose of this title was to give some account of the widely differing types of ...

Marriage, Religion and Society Pattern of Change in an Indian Village

Marriage, Religion and Society: Pattern of Change in an Indian Village

1st Edition

By Giri Raj Gupta
July 05, 2023

Originally published in 1974, the conclusions of the book are based on intensive field-work during 1963-66 in a village in south-east Rajasthan, India. Although the marriages of 158 boys and 163 girls were studied, the relevance of the conclusions drawn extends far beyond the village and its region...

Married to Melanesia

Married to Melanesia

1st Edition

By Muriel Jones
July 05, 2023

‘We were married after three years at opposite ends of the world…. We then, too rapidly for comfort, made off in a snowstorm for the South Seas…. All this we imprudently did in our late forties.’ Thus Muriel Jones introduces her account, originally published in 1974, of how she came to start her ...

Middle Class African Marriage A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants

Middle Class African Marriage: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants

1st Edition

By Christine Oppong
July 05, 2023

In the 1970s among peoples of the third world migration, paid employment, and urban living had caused changes in domestic economies, in decision making in households, and in the sexual division of labour and power. This was particularly so in areas formerly subjected to colonial domination and ...

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