This book uses data from Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden to rethink welfare policy.

Based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposia, Just Living Together represents one of the first systematic efforts to focus on cohabitation. The book is ...

Is falling in love the same the world over? What makes a 'happy marriage' in different cultures? How does our society influence us in the way we raise our children? Is modern ...

Examines the gendered division of labour and how it relates to contemporary employment and family life.

This book explains the changes that have occurred in welfare states since the early 1970s and considers some of the policy dilemmas that have arisen. Each of the chapters ...

This is a timely and topical study which compares and contrasts how lone mothers' relationships to paid work and care-giving are constructed across twenty countries, and with ...

A detailed psychological study examining the changing role of the family across different cultures.

This book combines a theoretical and empirical cross-national perspective to examine how societal transformations in European welfare states affect patterns of solidarity ...