Sociology: birth books

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional...  Read More >>

A compassionate, funny and beautifully written exploration of contemporary womanhood - the book may have 'panic'...  Read More >>

We need only scan the latest news headlines to see how bias and prejudice harm adults and children alike-every single...  Read More >>

What is ninkatsu? Who promotes and governs this “active pursuit of pregnancy?” Trying to answer these questions,...  Read More >>

"The Free-Market Family argues for correcting course and using policy to promote family wellbeing in a market-driven...  Read More >>

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In order to become ethically acceptable, surrogacy must change beyond recognition - but we need more surrogacy,...  Read More >>

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When Reproduction meets Ageing questions the nature of reproductive ageing and reproductive biomedicine.  Read More >>

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion...  Read More >>

Inspired by Sarah DiGregorio’s harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, An Intimate History...  Read More >>

The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher...  Read More >>

Surrogacy is growing rapidly even though no informed debate on the social impacts of its normalization has been...  Read More >>

Profiles the voices of those who fight against inequalities of care even while they form alliances with the systems...  Read More >>

Profiles the voices of those who fight against inequalities of care even while they form alliances with the systems...  Read More >>

Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this thought-provoking empirical analysis explores the emotional...  Read More >>

There is less interest in marriage in society today than in years past, in an era marked by technology, gender equality,...  Read More >>

"In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact...  Read More >>

"In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact...  Read More >>

Some children are lucky to be born into the top of the class structure, but that does not mean they'll stay there....  Read More >>

A cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed...  Read More >>

Drawing on access to prominent policy makers, Purcell examines the origins and impact of children’s services reform...  Read More >>

Drawing on access to prominent policy makers, Purcell examines the origins and impact of children’s services reform...  Read More >>

Being Fat examines the history of fat activism in Canada, correlating this history with second wave feminism and...  Read More >>

The first book-length comparison of Roma and African Americans, this work will appeal to scholars of civil rights,...  Read More >>