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Families

Here are entered works on the sociological concept and structure of families as well as works on the everyday life, interactions, and relationships of family members.

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• Social institutions

• Birth order
• Domestic relations
• Home
• Households
• Kinship
• Marriage
• Matriarchy
• Parenthood
• Patriarchy

• Families -- Africa
• Families -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Families -- Alaska
• Families -- Appalachian Region
• Families -- Australia
• Families -- Biblical teaching
• Families -- Bibliography
• Families -- Books and reading
• Families -- Brazil
• Families -- Canada
• Families -- Caricatures and cartoons
• Families -- Central America
• Families -- China
• Families -- Colombia
• Families -- Congresses
• Families -- Cross-cultural studies
• Families -- Drama
• Families -- Economic aspects
• Families -- England
• Families -- Europe
• Families -- Fiction
• Families -- Folklore
• Families -- France
• Families -- Germany
• Families -- Great Britain
• Families -- Great Plains
• Families -- Greenland
• Families -- Guyana
• Families -- Health and hygiene
• Families -- History
• Families -- Humor
• Families -- Hungary
• Families -- India
• Families -- Indiana
• Families -- Ireland
• Families -- Italy
• Families -- Japan
• Families -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Juvenile literature
• Families -- Juvenile poetry
• Families -- Kentucky
• Families -- Korea
• Families -- Latin America
• Families -- Longitudinal studies
• Families -- Louisiana
• Families -- Massachusetts
• Families -- Medical care
• Families -- Mexico
• Families -- Miscellanea
• Families -- Netherlands
• Families -- New England
• Families -- New York (State)
• Families -- Ontario
• Families -- Periodicals
• Families -- Philippines
• Families -- Poetry
• Families -- Poland
• Families -- Prayers and devotions
• Families -- Qur'anic teaching
• Families -- Religious aspects
• Families -- Religious life
• Families -- Research
• Families -- Russia
• Families -- Russia (Federation)
• Families -- Scotland
• Families -- South Africa
• Families -- Southern States
• Families -- Soviet Union
• Families -- Spain
• Families -- Study and teaching
• Families -- Sweden
• Families -- Time management
• Families -- United States
• Families -- West (U.S.)
• Aunts
• Brothers and sisters
• Children
• Clans
• Cousins
• Daughters
• Dependents
• Domestic relations
• Dual-career families
• Dysfunctional families
• Families in literature
• Families of military personnel
• Families of royal descent
• Family policy
• Family recreation
• Family services
• Jewish families
• Kinship -- Terminology
• Middle class families
• Migrant laborers' families
• Murder victims' families
• Nephews
• Nieces
• Parents
• Parents-in-law
• Poor families
• Prisoners' families
• Racially mixed families
• Rural families
• Sexual minorities' families
• Single-parent families
• Sons
• Stepfamilies
• Tribes
• Uncles
• Upper class families
• Veterans' families
• Work and family
• Working class families

• Families -- Social aspects
• Families -- Social conditions
• Family life
• Family structure
• Relationships, Family
• Structure, Family

• Families: Beyond the Nuclear Ideal (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Daniela Cutas and Sarah Chan (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Marriage and the American Ideal (1960), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris; With Some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. (EETS original series #42; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1870), by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical Theory of the Family, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
• La Famiglia: Per le Nozze della Signorina Elena Palumbo col Signor Donato Sarri (in Italian; Trani: V. Vecchi, 1897), by Orazio Palumbo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Life at Home, by William Aikman (page images at MOA)
• Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• In Laws, Pro and Con: An Original Study of Inter-Personal Relations (New York: Association Press, c1954), by Evelyn Millis Duvall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes (study guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers Who Use the Accompanying Study Guide (teacher's guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Mother-Tempers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Marion J. Levy (HTML at UC Press)
• What is Right With Marriage: An Outline of Domestic Theory (New York: D. Appleton, 1929), by Robert C. Binkley and Frances Williams Binkley (multiple formats with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
• The New Life and Future Mating (Omaha: Olerich Pub. Co., 1927), by Henry Olerich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Marriage and the Child (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940), by James H. S. Bossard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Who Owns the Family? God or the State? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Ray R. Sutton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy (1931), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Zaragueta: Comedia in Dos Actos Original (revised edition, in Spanish, with English notes and vocabulary; New York et al.: Silver Burdett and Co., c1915), by Miguel Ramos Carrión and Vital Aza, ed. by George Carter Howland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zaragueta, or, Money Talks: A Comedy in Two Acts (Chicago: T.S. Denison and Co., c1920), by Miguel Ramos Carrión and Vital Aza, trans. by Clarence Stratton
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Three-Sheet (New York: Liveright, 1932), by Tiffany Thayer, illust. by Edward Staloff (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American Family: A Novel of To-Day (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1918), by Henry Kitchell Webster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Avery (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1902), by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie (in German; Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, c1909), by Thomas Mann (Gutenberg text)
• Cloudy Jewel (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1920), by Grace Livingston Hill, illust. by Henry Weston Taylor
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Cloudy Jewel (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Grace Livingston Hill (Gutenberg text)
• Diana Tempest (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1893), by Mary Cholmondeley
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Fidelity: A Novel (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1915), by Susan Glaspell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Gertrude Haviland's Divorce (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Inez Haynes Gillmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• His Family (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Ernest Poole (Gutenberg text)
• Narcissus (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922), by Evelyn Scott (Gutenberg text)
• Norston's Rest (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1877), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
• Poor Relations (London: M. Secker, 1919), by Compton Mackenzie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Poor Relations (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1920), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (new edition, with pictures from the play; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910), by Anne Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Seraph: A Tale of Hungary (New York: G. M. Allen, c1893), by Leopold Sacher-Masoch, trans. by Emma M. Phelps
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Told by an Idiot (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Rose Macaulay
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Von Toodleburgs: or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1868), by F. Colburn Adams, illust. by Alfred R. Waud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Young Archimedes, and Other Stories (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1924), by Aldous Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dark Other (Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1950), by Stanley G. Weinbaum, illust. by Jon Arfstrom (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Angéline de Montbrun (in French), by Laure Conan
  • PDF at ebooksgratuits.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Author of Beltraffio, by Henry James (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Author of Beltraffio; The Middle Years; Greville Fane; and Other Tales (Macmillan and Co., 1922), by Henry James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Donald and Dorothy (New York: The Century Co., 1906), by Mary Mapes Dodge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Idiot at Home (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by F. T. Richards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In Macao, by Charles A. Gunnison (Gutenberg text)
• Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1906), by William De Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text)
• The Man Who Wins, by Robert Herrick (Gutenberg text)
• Rainbow Valley (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1919), by L. M. Montgomery
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• A Manifest Destiny (New York: Brentano's, 1926), by Arthur D. Howden Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Amazing Years (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by W. Pett Ridge
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mary Marie (1920), by Eleanor H. Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Mary Marie (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Helen Mason Grose (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, trans. by David Wyllie (Gutenberg text)
• The Enemy (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Chester, illust. by A. B. Wenzell
  • multiple format at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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