Family and Gender
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Norms, Gender and Corruption
Edited by Ina Kubbe, Ortrun Merkle
Building upon the body of existing literature that has established the importance of norms in understanding why genders interact with social phenomena differently, and how gender plays a role in most aspects of corruption, this cutting-e...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Poverty and Inequality in East Asia
Edited by Inhoe Ku, Peter Saunders
This insightful book addresses the urgent need for robust evidence on recent trends and factors contributing to poverty and inequality in East Asia. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Gender in Asia
Edited by Shirlena Huang, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
The Handbook on Gender in Asia critically examines, through a gender perspective, five broad themes of significance to Asia: the ‘Theory and Practice’ of researching in Asia; ‘Gender, Ageing and Health’; ‘Gender and Labour’; ‘Gendered Mi...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Social Policy in Changing European Societies
Edited by Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A. Yerkes
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book provides a cutting-edge, in-depth account of social policy research today, how we got here, and where...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Challenges to the Welfare State
Edited by Jolanta Aidukaite, Sven E.O. Hort, Stein Kuhnle
This comprehensive and innovative book demonstrates the dynamics of welfare policies in different socioeconomic settings by providing comparative analyses of the Baltic and Nordic welfare state systems. The book contributes to finding an...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Demographic Change and the Lifecourse
Edited by Jane Falkingham, Maria Evandrou, Athina Vlachantoni
This innovative Handbook offers a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of demographic change across the lifecourse. Chapters highlight major theoretical and methodological advances and present research that sheds light on ...eBook:Find out more$51.96
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A Research Agenda for Political Demography
Edited by Jennifer D. Sciubba
Exploring how demographic dynamism continues to shape the character of societies, this forward-looking Research Agenda offers insights into how the human population has undergone fundamental demographic shifts, and the impact these have ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family
Edited by Norbert F. Schneider, Michaela Kreyenfeld
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Resear... -
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Retiring Women
Philip Taylor, Catherine Earl, Elizabeth Brooke, Christopher McLoughlin
With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women’s choices about if, when and how to retire. Rece...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sexual Harassment, the Abuse of Power and the Crisis of Leadership
James K. Beggan
Within these pages James K. Beggan puts forward a novel approach to understanding sexual harassment by high value superstars in the workplace. The approach integrates ideas derived from evolutionary theory, utility theory, sexual scripti...eBook:Find out more$35.16
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Poverty, Crisis and Resilience
Edited by Marie Boost, Jennifer Dagg, Jane Gray, Markus Promberger
Poverty remains a problem in Europe, raising the need for new solutions. In this thought-provoking book the contributors delve deeply into the everyday lives of poor households to see which practices and resources they apply to improve t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ending Childhood Obesity
Edited by Amandine Garde, Joshua Curtis, Olivier De Schutter
Childhood obesity is one of the most pressing global public health challenges of the 21st century. In response, States need to employ a multisectoral approach including labelling rules, food marketing restrictions and fiscal policies. Ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00