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  • Journeys through Childhood Studies

    Constructing Identities through Higher Education and the Children’s Workforce

    by Ingrid Richter ...
    Investigating the experiences of a group of female students as they journey into and through higher education, and into work with and for children, Journeys through Childhood Studies offers a critical analysis of the intersectional influences and effects of social division on experiences of higher education and career trajectories.The book explores the influences of gender, race, and class on the ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Illusions Of Post-Feminism

    New Women, Old Myths

    by Vicki Coppock, Deena Haydon, Ingrid Richter ...
    First Published in 1995. As feminists reflect on the impact of the 'second wave' of feminism, and assess the gains of the last thirty years, invariably they have questioned whether claims that women have achieved equality are justified. In the late 1980s, there was a proliferation of popular imagery of 'new' men and 'post-feminist' women, with the concept of 'post-feminism' reinforcing and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Ethical Practice in Social Work

    An applied approach

    by Steven Curry, Michael Collingridge ...
    This innovative text shows why ethics is so important for social work practice, that it is not simply a way of defining and understanding what is good in practice, but is a means by which social work and other caring professions can actually achieve good practice.'Professor Richard Hugman, University of NSWThis book integrates ethical theory and political philosophy into a clear yet challenging ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Gendering Women

    Identity and Mental Wellbeing through the Lifecourse

    by Julia Holdsworth, Suzanne Clisby ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licenceGendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course.Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman – in family life, education, ... Read more

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  • Bourdieu: The Next Generation

    The Development of Bourdieu's Intellectual Heritage in Contemporary UK Sociology

    Edited by Jenny Thatcher, Nicola Ingram, Ciaran Burke, Jessie Abrahams ...
    Series series Sociological Futures
    This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking through and/or with Bourdieu when analysing data. In each chapter, individual authors discuss and reflect upon their own research and the ways in which they put Bourdieu to work. The aim of this book is ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Gender

    by Harriet Bradley ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Gender issues continue to be a prominent concern of academics and policy-makers, and increasingly arise in various forms to be debated in the public sphere and popular media. But what exactly do we mean by gender? How can we best understand gender differences? How are current gender relations changing? What new paths are ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’ taking? What would it be like to live in a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Same Sex Intimacies

    Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments

    by Catherine Donovan, Brian Heaphy, Jeffrey Weeks ...
    Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser extent, of same sex parenting.Based on extensive interviews with people in a variety of non-traditional relationships, this fascinating new book argues ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Factories for learning

    Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy

    by Christy Kulz ...
    Series series New Ethnographies
    Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated flagship secondary school in a large English city, to show how the accelerated marketization and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Empowerment

    A Critique

    by Kenneth McLaughlin ...
    Series series Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society
    ‘Empowerment’ is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good. Here, McLaughlin explores its emergence in the 1960s through to its rise in the 1990s and ubiquity in present day discourse and interrogates its social status, paying particular attention to social policy, social work and health and social care discourse. He argues that a focus on ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities

    Contrasting Identities, Belongings and Wellbeing

    by Eleanor Formby ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities
    The phrase ‘LGBT community’ is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this book explores these questions from the perspectives of over 600 research ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Marginalised Mothers

    Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting

    by Val Gillies ...
    Series series Relationships and Resources
    Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes for children.Marginalised Mothers provides a detailed and much-needed insight into the lived ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Education Policy and Social Class

    The Selected Works of Stephen J. Ball

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Ball’s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lasting contributions he has made to the field of educational policy analysis. This volume contains sixteen key essays divided into three sections:perspectives on policy researchpolicy technologies and ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD