Sociology - Marriage & Family
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For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage
$30.00 Read moreA provocative, authoritative reckoning with the past and future of marriage, explaining why it’s become more rewarding as well as riskier
Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet f- Author: Coontz, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0593299094
- Language: English
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Drained: Reduce Your Mental Load to Do Less and Be More
$30.00 Read moreA renowned sociologist and researcher reveals how women can build the life they really want
The term mental load has become more familiar in recent years, but the popular understanding of the concept- Author: Ruppanner, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593850904
- Language: English
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The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today
$21.00 Add to cartIn a landmark book that’s “intriguing [and] provocative” and presents “an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox–we idealize marriage and yet we’re so bad at it” (The New York Times).
Andr… [more below]- Author: Cherlin, Andrew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0307386384
- Language: English
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The Intimate Animal: The Science of Sex, Fidelity, and Why We Live and Die for Love
$30.00 Add to cartIn an eye-opening exploration of the most powerful force that drives our species, Kinsey Institute Director Dr. Justin Garcia illuminates the mysteries of how we date, mate and navigate our love lives… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Justin R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0316594032
- Language: English
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No More Mediocre: A Call to Reimagine Our Relationships and Demand More
$29.00 Add to cartFrom licensed educator and TikTok phenom Laura Danger, an insightful and practical guide that will teach you how to recognize unproductive dynamics at home, transform your relationships, find your com… [more below]
- Author: Danger, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0593474783
- Language: English
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The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood
$32.00 Add to cartThe real history of being an orphan in America is nothing like the myth, and nothing like the American dream.
The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to fo- Author: Martin, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030342
- Language: English
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The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty
$27.00 Read moreOur Culture Magazine Best Book of 2023
“Rushton’s work is generous, thoughtful, and honest, taking care neither to romanticize nor to disparage the choice to become a parent.”
–Jenny Hamilton, Bookli- Author: Rushton, Gina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1662602383
- Language: English
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Accidental Rebel: My Story of Interracial Love and Loss
$28.95 Add to cartAccidental Rebel: My Story of Interracial Love and Loss is a poignant and courageous memoir that chronicles Annie Waxman’s journey of love, self-discovery, and resilience against the backdrop of 1960s
- Author: Waxman, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1957232269
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
$17.95 Read moreInspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. Th
- Author: Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1629631108
- Language: English
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I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement
$18.95 Read moreSixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corpor
- Author: Zucker, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1558612882
- Language: English
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Regretting Motherhood: A Study
$15.95 Read moreA provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices–and an ‘unspoken taboo’–that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhood
Women who opt not to be mother- Author: Donath, Orna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1623171377
- Language: English
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Love Life for Every Married Couple: How to Fall in Love, Stay in Love, Rekindle Your Love
$18.99 Add to cartPhysician Ed Wheat has helped thousands of couples improve their love lives and build happier marriages. In Love Life for Every Married Couple he’ll help you improve your marriage through sharing, tou
- Author: Wheat, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 1980
- ISBN10: 310425115
- Language: English
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Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
$25.99 Add to cart“[Schulte’s] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America’s leisure time, and how do we get it back?”–Lev Grossman, Time
When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two,- Author: Schulte, Brigid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062381
- Language: English
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Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother’s Secrets
$27.00 Read moreBlending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.
“Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark- Author: Wills, Clair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 374611866
- Language: English
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
$19.99 Add to cartOne of TIME’s Best New Books to Read This Summer
“Brilliant–a keen, elegantly written, and scorching account of the American family today. Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomiz
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062412264
- Language: English
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Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be
$29.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?
Our culture tells pare
- Author: Carney, Timothy P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 006323646X
- Language: English
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Queer Power Couples: On Love and Possibility
$29.95 Add to cartThis photographic celebration of queer love and excellence gathers fourteen LGBTQ+ power couples, offering a glimpse into the journeys that led to their meaningful relationships and thriving careers. … [more below]
- Author: Winter, Billie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1797214853
- Language: English
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He Never Came Home: Interviews, Stories, and Essays from Daughters on Life Without Their Fathers
$16.00 Read moreHe Never Came Home is a collection of 22 personal essays written by girls and women who have been separated from their fathers by way of divorce, abandonment, or death. The contributors to this collec… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Regina R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1932841997
- Language: English
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Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection from Soul to Psychedelics
$17.99 Add to cart“Psychiatrist and family therapist Julie Holland dives into the neuroscience of connection and helps us to understand how we’ve lost touch with a basic human need and how we can get it back”–
- Author: Holland, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0062862898
- Language: English
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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
$17.95 Add to cartWhat if we could do better than the family?
We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment- Author: Lewis, Sophie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1839767197
- Language: English
