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Gender, family, and society / Faith Robertson Elliot ; consultant editor, Jo Campling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elliot, Faith Robertson.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families.
- Families--Great Britain.
- Great Britain.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- Contemporary struggles over the ordering of sexual and parental relationships take place in the context of mass unemployment, ethnic antagonism, population ageing, a growing awareness of the pervasiveness of violence and sexual abuse in intimate relationships and the eruption of AIDS as a major health crisis. "Gender, Family and Society seeks to provide a sociological understanding of the way in which these key aspects of contemporary social life shape, and are shaped by, gender and family structures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0312129904
- 0312129912
- OCLC:
- 32969652
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