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In the four years before the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe versus Wade decision, women seeking abortions had to subject theme......more

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At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with h......more

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This book presents a dialogue between scholars on different aspects of reproductive technologies. If we continue to work......more

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Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisi......more

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This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special comple......more

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Introduction Marriage is one of the vigorously researched topics for last many decades. It is important because it is di......more

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Developing the new framework of ’life-mix’, which considers the mixed patterns of caring and working in different period......more

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Strengthen your marriage for a lifetime with these fun, easy-to-use communication tools How does good marriage communica......more

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Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there was a dramatic reversal of women’s rights, and the state revived many premo......more

With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural ......more

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This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in ......more

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1.1 Introduction 1.2 Marriage in India 1.3 Single Employee and Dual Employee Married Couples 1.4 Mental Health 1.5 Marit......more

BACKGROUND We often would possibly hear everybody say that we have to adjust the situation; therefore; Adjustment is ess......more

INTRODUCTION ’Five women in India die every hour during childbirth: World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 45,000 mothe......more

"Losing Sleep analyzes the messages parents receive about infant sleep, including how race, class, and gender shape our ......more

"Losing Sleep analyzes the messages parents receive about infant sleep, including how race, class, and gender shape our ......more

Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one w......more

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol......more

How parenting became a verb, from Dr. Spock and June Cleaver to baby whispering and free-range kids. When did "parenting......more

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INTRODUCTION What Is Marriage? The human society, ever since, has witnessed the diffusion and evolution of multiple inst......more

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THE PROBLEM UNDER INVESTIGATION: About six and half decades have passed when India got independence, but the women are l......more

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Both nationally and internationally, the south Indian state of Kerala has been an object of study for its matrilineal ki......more

In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing......more

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India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of socie......more

"Antebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurpri......more

The family is humanity’s oldest and most basic social institution, but today it is fragile, fractured, and fraught in ma......more

The family is humanity’s oldest and most basic social institution, but today it is fragile, fractured, and fraught in ma......more

Young people are very often the driving forces of political participation that aims to change societies and political sy......more