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1. International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing

   Edited by Rosalind Edwards, Suki Ali, Chamion Caballero, Miri Song

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   People from a ‘mixed’ or ‘inter’ racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual interest internationally. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Researching Families and Communities

   Social and Generational Change

   Edited by Rosalind Edwards

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social and economic developments. But how can we think about and research the nature of the present in...

   Published April 28th 2008 by Routledge
3. Sibling Identity and Relationships

   Sisters and Brothers

   By Rosalind Edwards, Lucy Hadfield, Helen Lucey, Melanie Mauthner

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Sibling Identity and Relationships explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing new insights into sibling identity and relationships. Drawing on social constructionist and psychodynamic perspectives, it discusses who constitutes a sibling,...

   Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge
4. Making Families

   Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-Parenting

   By Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies

   This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen...

   Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Analysing Families

   Morality and Rationality in Policy and Practice

   Edited by Alan Carling, Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards

   While the family and its role continues to be a key topic in social and government policy, much of the literature is concerned with describing the dramatic changes that are taking place. By contrast, Analysing Families directly addresses the social processes responsible for these changes - how...

   Published February 20th 2002 by Routledge
6. Risk and Citizenship

   Key Issues in Welfare

   Edited by Rosalind Edwards, Judith Glover

   Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterised by anxiety and insecurity.Risk and Citizenship explores how new and diffrent forms of citizenship are...

   Published May 16th 2001 by Routledge
7. Single Mothers In International Context

   Mothers Or Workers?

   By Duncan, Simon; Edwards, Rosalind, Simon Duncan University of Bradford; Rosalind Edwards South Bank University.

   Single mothers caring for dependent children are an important and increasing population in industrialized countries. In some, single mothers are seen primarily as mothers and few have paid work; in others, they are regarded as workers and most have paid work; and sometimes they are seen as an...

   Published May 7th 1997 by Routledge
8. Mature Women Students

   Separating Of Connecting Family And Education

   By Rosalind Edwards South Bank University.

   Published July 13th 1993 by Taylor & Francis