Family and Gender Policy
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Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw
Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually an...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Gendered Lives
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Anke C. Plagnol
The focus of the book is on inequalities in production and reproductive activities, as played out over time and in specific contexts. It examines the different forms that gendered lives take in the household and the workplace, and explor...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
Edited by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson
This multidisciplinary book explores gender politics in the discourses and practices of development in rural China. The contributors – scholars in political science, anthropology, gender, development and Chinese studies – examine how dif...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Rosemary Crompton, Clare Lyonette
Both women and men strive to achieve a work and family balance, but does this imply more or less equality? Does the persistence of gender and class inequalities refute the notion that lives are becoming more individualised? Leading inter...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Work–Family Balance, Gender and Policy
Jane Lewis
This important book looks at the three main components of work–family policy packages – childcare services, flexible working patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care – across EU15 Member States, with comparative ref...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Women and Employment
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi
How is women’s employment shaped by family and domestic responsibilities? This book, written by leading experts in the field, examines twenty-five years of change in women’s employment and addresses the challenges facing women today.eBook:Find out more$62.36
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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
Edited by Jane Lewis
The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Heather Hofmeister
Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Careers assesses the effects of globalization on the life courses of women in thirteen countries across Europe and America in the second half of the 20th century.eBook:Find out more$71.96
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Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy
Edited by Diane Perrons, Colette Fagan, Linda McDowell, Kath Ray, Kevin Ward
Contemporary societies are characterised by new and more flexible working patterns, new family structures and widening social divisions. This book explores how these macro-level changes affect the micro organisation of daily life, with r...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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Gender, Generation and Poverty
Sylvia Chant
In Gender, Generation and Poverty Sylvia Chant challenges the ‘feminisation of poverty’ on the basis of recent fieldwork in The Gambia, Philippines and Costa Rica. Interviews with over 220 women and men of different ages at the grassroot...eBook:Find out more$62.36
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Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
Edited by Barbara Hobson, Jane Lewis, Birte Siim
An important contribution to the current literature on gender and social politics, this book challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work, and social policy. Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics...eBook:Find out more$55.16
