Family and Gender
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The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty
Edited by Sylvia Chant
‘. . . this is an essential resource on gender, poverty, and development. The dense analysis and data would be most accessible to graduate students, faculty, and policy analysts, but undergraduates could use the literature review essays ...eBook:Find out more$64.80
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Families, Care-giving and Paid Work
Edited by Nicole Busby, Grace James
‘Balancing paid work and family life remains a significant challenge; indeed, the challenges are intensifying as economic austerity threatens the pursuit of gender equality. This excellent book provides extensive justifications for laws ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Welfare States and Public Opinion
Claus Wendt, Monika Mischke, Michaela Pfeifer
‘. . . offers a fresh perspective. . . as well as interesting empirical findings that advance the research field. . . The cluster analyses of the institutional programme characteristics are by themselves interesting, given the rather wid...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Rosemary Crompton, Clare Lyonette
‘This authoritative book, which brings together chapters by many of the leading experts on the topic, documents the new barriers and continuing constraints that still stand in the way of gender equality. It is essential reading for anyon...eBook:Find out more$40.80
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Work–Family Balance, Gender and Policy
Jane Lewis
A groundbreaking analysis of the challenges facing families and governments in the 21st century. ‘Jane Lewis is a brilliant conceptual innovator and gifted empirical analyst in the field of social policy. This book expertly illuminates...eBook:Find out more$45.60
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Family and the Welfare State in Europe
Agnes Blome, Wolfgang Keck, Jens Alber
‘Most European countries are experiencing a dramatic demographic shift. A combination of falling birthrates and rising life expectancy leads to a significant aging of societies. The authors analyze how the state and the family shape gene...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Women and Employment
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi
‘This excellent collection deserves to be read, and from cover to cover. . . all the contributions focus on the UK situation over the past 25 years, although some offer comparative exemplars and analysis. This national focus makes this c...eBook:Find out more$56.80
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When Marriage Ends
Edited by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Dina Hummelsheim
‘This is a double-faced book, which should be read by everybody who is concerned about the societal effects of divorce. It shows that divorce has negative economic and social consequences, not only in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but also ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Moving People and Knowledge
Louise Ackers, Bryony Gill
‘This book makes a timely contribution to understanding the circulation of scientific knowledge via international mobility. It skillfully combines an analysis of structural and institutional changes, with a focus on individual circumstan...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Jonathan Bradshaw, Aksel Hatland
This book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by ...eBook:Find out more$49.60
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Families, Ageing and Social Policy
Edited by Chiara Saraceno
‘Families, Ageing and Social Policy is unique in that it uses a generational lens – at the micro-level of individual family members and at the macro-level of cohorts – as a mechanism for capturing the relational dynamics of lives at diff...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Children, Changing Families and Welfare States
Edited by Jane Lewis
‘As welfare states grow up, they begin to think more carefully about their future. Jane Lewis is showing them how best to do so. This stellar collection of articles by top European scholars combines creative thinking about the new social...eBook:Find out more$49.60
