Richards Martin - The Wiley Blackwell companion to the sociology of families

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 7
4. Chapter 24

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 7
7. Chapter 15
8. Chapter 20
9. Chapter 24

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The Wiley Blackwell companion to the sociology of families / edited by Judith Treas, Jacqueline Scott, and Martin Richards.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-67353-9 (cloth)
1.Families. 2.FamiliesResearch. I.Treas, Judith. II.Scott, Jacqueline L. III.Richards, Martin, 1940 January 26
HQ519.W547 2014
306.85dc23

2013049095

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Cover image: Laura James, Family Portrait, 1998, acrylic on canvas. Private Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library.

Irma Arriagada is a Chilean Sociologist. She graduated from the University of Concepcin and pursued her studies at the London School of Economics and I.D.E.A., University of Santiago, Chile. She worked at ECLAC-United Nations from 1974 to 2008, is an international consultant for the UN, and a researcher at the CEM-Chile (Womens Studies Center) on gender and family topics. She has published more than 70 papers and edited 5 books. She coauthored Cadenas globales de cuidados: el papel de las migrantes peruanas en la provisin de cuidados en Chile, 2012, UN-Women (Global Care Chains: The Role of Peruvian Migrants in the Provision of Care in Chile).

Loretta Baldassar is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia and Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. Loretta has published extensively on transnational families, including Families Caring Across Borders (with Baldock & Wilding, Palgrave 2007), Intimacy and Italian Migration (edited with Gabaccia, Fordham Uni Press 2011), and many journal articles. Her most recent book is Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care (edited with Merla, Routledge, 2013).

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and since 2013, the Principal Investigator of the ERC project: Methodological CosmopolitanismIn the Laboratory of Climate Change. Since 1997, he is British Journal of Sociology Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and since 2011 has served as a Professor at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de lHomme, Paris. Her publications include