Marriages and Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society - Hardcover

Lamanna, Mary Ann; Riedmann, Agnes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534525075 ISBN 13: 9780534525071

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

This #1 BEST SELLER for Marriage and Family is the market leader due to its interdisciplinary research, perspectives and application (including Sociology), its focus on decision making and lifespan context, and its thorough, nonbiased coverage of American family issues. Lamanna and Riedmann, scholars, writers and teachers, provide an unmatched up-to-date research base and unparalled coverage of diversity in families, including gender, and cross-cultural comparisons.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Ann Lamanna is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She received her bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University (St. Louis) in political science, her master's degree in sociology (minor in psychology) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her doctorate in sociology from the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of EMILE DURKHEIM ON THE FAMILY (Sage, 2002) and co-author of a book on Vietnamese refugees. She has published numerous articles in law, sociology, and medical humanities journals. Research and teaching interests include family, reproduction, and gender and law. Other research has concerned the sociology of literature, specifically "novels of terrorism," and a sociological analysis of Marcel Proust's novel IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0534525075
• ISBN 13: 9780534525071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 700