Women in the thraldom of man has led sometimes, in one form or another, to the most horrible abuses. In this book, originally published in 1939, the author traces and analyses the institutions of marriage and family in India. The book is of especial interest as a sociological study of a curious and cruel form of organized inhumanity.

In this book, originally published in Britain in 1971, and reissued here with a new preface, Eleanor Hamilton provides an enlightened and practical guide to the problems of sex and love for the increasing number of young men and women who wanted to enjoy a full and rich relationship before marriage, still frowned upon at the time.

First published in 1979, the purposes of the study detailed in this book were to give an account of the authors’ research concerning married couples with mental disabilities, to suggest some ways in which service to such couples might be improved, and to provide material for teaching purposes.

Originally published in 1954, Dr Henry Olsen, in this comprehensive survey of the problems of sexual adjustment, draws fully from a very wide and thoroughly grounded experience. Since 1937, he had been closely connected with the instruction in sexual hygiene in Denmark.

First published in 1974, Muriel Jones tells of how she came to start her married life in her 40s in Melanesia, of the impact of Christianity on a pagan people, and of their changing way of life. Her story takes one about as far as it is possible to go from an urban civilisation and reveals the resources of her own character.

‘What are marriage difficulties really all about?’ This question, and the allied one of how help can be given to those in trouble in their marriages, are the theme of this book. First published in 1960, the authors were a group of caseworkers who over ten years had treated and studied the problems of about 2,000 married couples.

Despite the vast difference between first and third world societies, the subordination of women to men seems to be a universal fact. Originally published in 1984, the chapters in this book look specifically at the marital bond/contract, and locate the subordination of women in terms of that contract.

First published in 1974, and based on intensive field-work during 1963-66 in a village in south-east Rajasthan, India. The marriages of 158 boys and 163 girls were studied, but the relevance of the conclusions drawn extends far beyond the village and its region revealing the changing themes and values in Indian society.

This book, first published in 1974, was a significant contribution to the comparative sociology of the family at the time, providing an exercise in methodology in which the aim has been to evolve ways of documenting and comparing two major aspects of change in conjugal family relationships.

First published in 1984, this title 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 which bear upon the study of family and domestic life.