Product Description: A familiar, yet contentious topic, the subject of family can present difficulties in the classroom, on levels ranging from personal to political and social. Understanding Family Meanings attacks this dilemma head-on, focusing on family meanings in diverse contexts to enhance our understanding of everyday social lives...read more

Product Description: Social scientists increasingly invoke "narrative" in their theory and research. This book explores the wide range of work in sociology, psychology and cultural studies in which narrative approaches have been used to study meaning, subjectivity, politics, and power in concrete contexts...read more

Product Description: A multidisciplinary collection of essays from leading researchers and practitioners, this book explores legal, ethical, social, psychological and practical aspects of surrogate motherhood. The international perspective adopted by this book offers an opportunity for questions of law, policy and practice to be shared and debated across countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book,the second produced by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, is a collection of essays on the subject of law and the human body. As the title suggests, bodies and body parts are not only subject to regulation through formal legal processes, but also the meanings attached to particular bodies, and the significance accorded to some body parts, are aspects ofbroader cultural processes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume brilliantly advances our understanding of the use of narrative in the social sciences. It brings together contemporary work on narrative theory and methods and presents a fascinating range of case-studies, from Princess Diana's Panorama interview to the memoirs of the wives of US nuclear scientists...read more

Product Description: Several jurisdictions have attempted to render divorce more harmonious by abolishing matrimonial 'fault' and facilitating the resolution of divorce disputes by mediation. In Britain, these provisions appear in the Family Law Act 1996...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays is the product of a series of seminars held at the University of Cambridge in 1998 under the auspices of the newly formed Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. The book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of parenthood and its various manifestations in contemporary society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book, the author claims that despite considerable comment in the press and in academia, by professionals and by politicians, about divorce reform and the post-divorce family, much has been left unsaid. There are "undercurrents" of divorce which are not visible and not discussed because they do not fit into a dominant discursive framework for talk about divorce...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)