Sociology & Social Policy

This book examines links between gender, race and national identity by analyzing a range of mass-mediated and pop-cultural ‘texts’ in four nations: Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the USA...

Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives examines the popular appeal of evolutionary psychology by viewing it as part of the Darwinian narrative tradition. Focusing on the narrative role of gender, sexuality and reproduction, the book provides a new kind of feminist assessment o..

Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction in Evolutionary Narratives examines the popular appeal of evolutionary psychology by viewing it as part of the Darwinian narrative tradition. Focusing on the narrative role of gender, sexuality and reproduction, the book provides a new kind of feminist assessment o..

Published in 1998. Focusing on gendered aspects of welfare state restructuring, each contributor examines the way in which the welfare state of his or her country has been restructed over the past decade, concentrating on services for elderly people and for children...

This book examines a range of timely issues such as the gender, racial, and class inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries; the ways in which entrepreneurialism – as an ethos to work on and improve the self – is lived out; and the subjective experiences of precarious work ..

This volume represents the present state of the art in theoretical debate in welfare state scholarship, drawing on research from western Europe, North America and Japan...

This book focuses on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic and care work in private settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, the selling of sex – to understand the aspirations and mobilities of migrants in relati..

This book offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes...

Drawing on empirical research, fieldwork, and interviews with participants, this book investigates the social world and small group cultures of American belly dance, examining the various ways in which people use leisure to construct the self and social relationships. A fascinating study of identity..

This book explores gendered aspects in the memory of work by looking at auto/biographical narratives and political writings of women workers in the garment industry. The author draws on cutting edge theoretical approaches and insights in memory studies, neo-materialism and discourse analysis, partic..

Taking recent German debates of diversity terminology as a case example for scrutinizing enactments of genealogy that assume a linear image of progressive generation, this book engages with performative effects of genealogical stories in academic texts that negotiate conceptual belonging...