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Working Mothers in Europe
Edited by Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert
‘Working Mothers in Europe will appeal to readers with an interest in public policy development and mothers’ experiences of work–family balance (or imbalance). I envisage that Australian readers will be most interested in the sections ex...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Work, Family and Childcare
Joris Ghysels
‘Based on economic theory and empirical evidence of European social reality, Joris Ghysels analyses micro-data using up-to-date econometrics. He thereby produces innovative insights and suggestions for policy change which will be of inte...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
Edited by Barbara Hobson, Jane Lewis, Birte Siim
‘Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics is a significant new book. The authors take seven key concepts – care, citizenship, social exclusion, contractualism, de-commodification, representation, social capital – and explore thes...eBook:Find out more$49.60
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Solidarity Between the Sexes and the Generations
Edited by Trudie Knijn, Aafke Komter
‘The strength of the book lies in the comprehensive coverage of the expanded Europe and its diverse welfare perspectives, taking gender and intergenerational solidarity as the core of the discourse. The volume includes theoretical, empir... -
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The End of Marriage?
Jane Lewis
‘In this meticulously argued book, Jane Lewis tackles one of the most fraught and contested issues of our time: the contemporary meanings of marriage. The separation of marriage and sex, she argues, has now been followed by the separatio... -
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The Economics of the Family and Family Policy
Francisco Cabrillo
‘Francisco Cabrillo’s book is a masterful and much needed overview of the economics of the family, one of the “heterodox” subjects in which economists have in the last decades proved the fruitfulness of their analytic apparatus. Written...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Early French Feminisms, 1830–1940
Felicia Gordon, Máire Cross
‘Previously untranslated and often unpublished, these writings - especially Pelletier’s fragmentary memoirs, which will certainly spark a controversial reassessment of that often enigmatic and troubled feminist pioneer - will delight ser... -
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The Economics of the Family
Edited by Nancy Folbre
‘This is an extremely useful collection of essays by economists on the family that will be of great value to all those social scientists who would like to have a ready reference to the way in which the debates over the new economics of t... -
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THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR, THE STATE AND SOCIAL WORK IN BRITAIN
Jane Lewis
‘Professor Lewis has made a characteristically crisp contribution both to the history of voluntarism and to the current debate on its future. I particularly like the way in which she identifies both the continuities and the changes in t... -
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FEMINIST CULTURAL STUDIES
Edited by Terry Lovell
Feminist Cultural Studies is a key reference collection covering a broad spectrum including ethnographic studies, audiences and reading, culture in the making of subjectivity, and popular culture such as film, television, dance, make-up ... -
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WOMEN AND MARKET SOCIETIES
Edited by Barbara Einhorn, Eileen J. Yeo
‘Women in Market Societies provides an interesting read on issues central to feminist economics. Although this book was originally published in 1995, the issues remain relevant and the analysis continues to provide texture for continuing... -
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Feminism
Edited by Susan M. Okin, Jane Mansbridge
This important reference collection focuses on central issues in contemporary feminist debate. It includes sections on the critique of mainstream political theories, the feminist reconstruction of political concepts, the impact on moral...
