Gender, family and society / Faith Robertson Elliot ; edited by Jo Campling.
By: Elliott, Faith Robertson.
Contributor(s): Campling, Jo
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Material type: 
BookPublisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1996Description: xii, 368 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0333524306 ; 0333524292 .Subject(s): Family | Sex roleDDC classification: 306.8 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 306.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00086465 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Bibliography: (pages 221-249) and indexes.
Introduction -- Ethnic differentiation, gender and family life -- Economic restructuring and unemployment: a crisis for masculinity? -- Population ageing and the 'problem' of care -- Violence and sexual abuse in family life -- AIDS: battleground of competing moralities -- Epilogue.