Sociology: birth books

310 books were found.

Fertility Rates and Population Decline: No Time for Children?

Fertility Rates and Population Decline: No Time for...

Author: A. Buchanan ,  A. Rotkirch
ISBN: 9781137030382
Format: Hardback
$84.99

While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring...  Read More >>

Unsafe Motherhood: Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala

Unsafe Motherhood: Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity...

Author: Nicole S. Berry
ISBN: 9780857457912
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying...  Read More >>

Making 'Postmodern' Mothers: Pregnant Embodiment, Baby Bumps and Body Image

Making 'Postmodern' Mothers: Pregnant Embodiment, Baby...

Author: M. Nash
ISBN: 9780230355439
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment...  Read More >>

The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters

The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our...

Author: Jeffrey Zaslow
ISBN: 9781592407415
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Zaslow takes readers to a multi-generational family-owned small-town bridal shop to explore the emotional lives...  Read More >>

Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone

Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American...

Author: Ralph Richard Banks
ISBN: 9780452297531
Format: Paperback
$35.00

A distinguished Stanford law professor examines the steep decline in marriage rates among the African-American middle...  Read More >>

Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies

Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives...

Author: Gillian Bentley ,  Ruth Mace
ISBN: 9780857456410
Format: Paperback
$55.00

Studying offspring care in a various human societies, & other mammalian species, a wide range of specialists such...  Read More >>

The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition

The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents,...

Author: Katherine S. Newman
ISBN: 9780807007433
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Why are adults in their twenties and thirties boomeranging back to or never leaving their parents' homes in the...  Read More >>

Books and babies: Pregnancy and young parents in schools

Books and babies: Pregnancy and young parents in schools...

Author: Robert Morrell ,  Deevia Bhana
ISBN: 9780796923653
Format: Paperback
$85.26

Being pregnant and a young parent in South African schools is not easy. Books and babies examines why this is the...  Read More >>

The Magic Room: A Story about the Love We Wish for Our Daughters

The Magic Room: A Story about the Love We Wish for Our...

Author: Jeffrey Zaslow
ISBN: 9781592406616
Format: Hardback
$71.28

Zaslow takes readers to a multi-generational family-owned small-town bridal shop to explore the emotional lives...  Read More >>

Be a Good Soldier: Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels

Be a Good Soldier: Children's Grief in English Modernist...

Author: Jennifer Fraser
ISBN: 9781442643130
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the demand...  Read More >>

The Heart in the Womb: An Exploration into the Roots of Human Love and Social Cohesion

The Heart in the Womb: An Exploration into the Roots...

Author: Amali Lokugamage
ISBN: 9780956966704
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Modern-day life and our highly stressed, risk-averse society has led to a medicalised, fearful model of childbirth,...  Read More >>

Violence Against Women: Myths, Facts, Controversies

Violence Against Women: Myths, Facts, Controversies...

Author: Walter DeKeseredy
ISBN: 9781442603998
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological...  Read More >>

Economic Equality and Fertility in Developing Countries

Economic Equality and Fertility in Developing Countries...

Author: Robert Repetto ,  Robert Repetto
ISBN: 9781617260438
Format: Hardback
$164.00

Reviews sociological, economic, and demographic literature pertaining to the relationship between income and fertility...  Read More >>

Wohlstand ohne Kinder?: Soziooekonomische Rahmenbedingungen und Geburtenentwicklung im internationalen Vergleich

Wohlstand ohne Kinder?: Soziooekonomische Rahmenbedingungen...

Author: Thusnelda Tivig ,  Golo Henseke
ISBN: 9783642149825
Format: Hardback
$314.16

Die Autoren gehen von drei moeglichen Strategien zur Bewaltigung der Folgen des demografischen Wandels aus und untersuchen...  Read More >>

Unsafe Motherhood: Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala

Unsafe Motherhood: Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity...

Author: Nicole S. Berry
ISBN: 9781845457525
Format: Hardback
$93.50

Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying...  Read More >>

Surviving Teenage Motherhood: Myths and Realities

Surviving Teenage Motherhood: Myths and Realities

Author: H. Stapleton
ISBN: 9780230579200
Format: Hardback
$154.00

This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation...  Read More >>

Who Chooses?: American Reproductive History Since 1830

Who Chooses?: American Reproductive History Since 1830...

Author: Simone Caron
ISBN: 9780813035048
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Analyzes the forces at play in shaping reproductive policy in the United States. This book reveals that despite...  Read More >>

The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today

The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the...

Author: Andrew J. Cherlin
ISBN: 9780307386380
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Previously published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.  Read More >>

Rural Unwed Mothers: An American Experience, 1870-1950

Rural Unwed Mothers: An American Experience, 1870-1950...

Author: Mazie Hough
ISBN: 9781851964000
Format: Hardback
$252.00

Drawing extensively from agency records, newspaper accounts, sociological studies and court documents, Hough explores...  Read More >>

Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teen Childbearing

Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teen...

Author: Frank Furstenberg
ISBN: 9780871543295
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Teen childbearing has risen to frighteningly high levels over the last four decades, jeopardizing the life chances...  Read More >>

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