The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies: 4 Volume Set

Few fields of endeavour encompass a wider range of themes and topics or academic disciplines as family studies. Encyclopedia of Family Studies presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of the key concepts, trends, and processes relating to the study of families and family patterns throughout the world.

Reflecting the latest research findings, and contributed from international experts across many relevant fields, alphabetized entries represent a remarkable compendium of topics, concepts, and themes relating to global family structures on both a macro and micro level. From a global perspective, issues covered range from changing birth rates, fertility, and an aging world population to human trafficking, homelessness, famine, and genocide. Other topics, relating to the dynamics of couple, family, and kin relationships range from household divisions of labor, single parent households, stepfamilies, and innumerable others.

With remarkable insights into global family patterns, a breadth of topic coverage, and a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to this dynamic field, Encyclopedia of Family Studies is an invaluable resource for all who study and work in any capacity with families throughout the world community.

Volume I

Editors vii

Contributors xi

Lexicon lxxxiii

Timeline xci

Introduction xcv

Acknowledgments xcix

Family Studies A

Volume II

Family Studies

Volume III

Family Studies

Volume IV

Family Studies

Index

Constance L. Shehan, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Women s Studies at the University of Florida.  Her research and scholarship focus on gender and families, particularly women s work inside and outside the home. Dr. Shehan co–authored  Marriages and Families: Reflections of a Gendered Society (with Kenneth J. Kammeyer)(1996, 2002);  Gendering the Body (with Sara Crawley and Lara Foley)(2007); and edited  Through the Eyes of the Child: Children as Active Agents of Family Lives (1999) . She has published widely on household labor, women s employment, work and health, and parent–child relationships.She is Editor of the  Journal of Family Issues. Dr. Shehan is a Fellow of the National Council of Family Relations (NCFR) and received the organization s Ernest G. Osborne Award for excellence in teaching about families. She also served as Chair of the NCFR s Feminism and Family Studies section and served on the Board of Directors.