Routledge Library Editions: Marriage
About the Book Series
This 20-volume set has titles originally published between 1939 and 1991. It looks at marriage in a broad context from a variety of perspectives, including anthropological, health, historical, psychological, and sociological. Individual titles cover mediation, divorce and separation, marriage guidance, disability, sexual health, along with wider issues such as kinship, wardship, marriage in India and Africa and the subordination of women internationally. This collection is an excellent resource for those interested in the place of marriage in society.
Marital Violence: The Community Response
1st Edition
By Margaret Borkowski, Mervyn Murch, Val Walker
June 25, 2025
In the early 1980s the subject of violence in marriage was in danger of being overlooked once again, as new social problems dominated the political scene, and the Government pursued policies of retrenchment that were likely to deprive refuges of the necessary central government support. Yet ...
Communication, Marital Dispute, and Divorce Mediation
1st Edition
By William A. Donohue
June 24, 2025
Few Americans escape the experience of divorce, either first-hand or through the dissolutions of marriages of friends or relatives. According to the author, mediation offers a good alternative to the strictly adversarial divorce process that was so prevalent before such programs began to emerge. ...
Conciliation in Separation and Divorce: Finding Common Ground
1st Edition
By Lisa Parkinson
June 24, 2025
Originally published in 1986, reissued here with a new preface, this study of the origins and early development of family conciliation services in Britain outlines their philosophy, methods of work and reported results, illustrated with case examples. The examples demonstrate that disputes ...
Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Verneys of Claydon House
1st Edition
By Miriam Slater
June 24, 2025
The great issues and conflicts of the early seventeenth century were played out not only on the stages of the Court and Parliament, and, latterly, on the battlefield, but within the confines of the family. Originally published in 1984, in this pioneering study of the Verney family, based on more ...
Handicapped Married Couples: A Welsh Study of Couples Handicapped from Birth by Mental, Physical or Personality Disorder
1st Edition
By Ann Craft, Michael Craft
June 24, 2025
Despite handicaps of low mental ability, deprived backgrounds or psychiatric and physical disability, most married couples with disabilities manage to give and receive much personal satisfaction and pleasure in their marriages. This is of special interest to professionals and social workers, who in...
In-Laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England
1st Edition
By Sybil Wolfram
June 24, 2025
Originally published in 1987, this book presented for the first time a unified treatment of English kinship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This system, far from being a patchwork of historical accidents, has a remarkably logical overall structure, permeating both law and custom. To ...
Marriage Under Stress: A Comparative Study of Marriage Conciliation
1st Edition
By Gerald Sanctuary
June 24, 2025
In the 1960s divorce was increasing around the world and marriage conciliation services were a necessary development to deal with those who wanted to seek help for their problems. Originally published in 1968, the purpose of this title was to give some account of the widely differing types of ...
Marriage, Religion and Society: Pattern of Change in an Indian Village
1st Edition
By Giri Raj Gupta
June 24, 2025
Originally published in 1974, the conclusions of the book are based on intensive field-work during 1963-66 in a village in south-east Rajasthan, India. Although the marriages of 158 boys and 163 girls were studied, the relevance of the conclusions drawn extends far beyond the village and its region...
Married to Melanesia
1st Edition
By Muriel Jones
June 24, 2025
‘We were married after three years at opposite ends of the world…. We then, too rapidly for comfort, made off in a snowstorm for the South Seas…. All this we imprudently did in our late forties.’ Thus Muriel Jones introduces her account, originally published in 1974, of how she came to start her ...
The Queen's Wards: Wardship and Marriage under Elizabeth I
1st Edition
By Joel Hurstfield
June 24, 2025
Originally published in 1958, this new impression of The Queen’s Wards from 1973 made available once more a work that remains a significant contribution to the history of society and government in Elizabethan England. The Court of Wards was a bizarre institution with roots going back to feudal ...
Making a Go of It: A Study of Stepfamilies in Sheffield
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Burgoyne, David Clark
June 23, 2025
Originally published in 1984, Making a Go of It presents findings from a study of remarried couples in Sheffield between 1976 and 1979. Including case studies from the families involved, it also discusses marriage as a social institution and some of the main theoretical and methodological issues ...
Marriage: Studies in Emotional Conflict and Growth
1st Edition
Edited
By Lily Pincus
June 23, 2025
‘What are marriage difficulties really all about?’ This fundamental question, and the allied one of how help can be given to those in trouble in their marriages, constitute the theme of this book. Originally published in 1960, the authors were a group of caseworkers who over the previous ten years ...