Sociology & Social Policy

Argues that birth problems and infant death among the African-American community are signs of systemic discrimination...

Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not?..

Raises feminist issues to remind people why they matter. Young women working together in a group make surprising choices about what to learn, and how to go about learning it. This book confronts questions that are fundamental to women, teachers, students and parents: Why do we read? What can we teac..

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender, disability and sexuality together, has existed for decades as a theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as looking at other disciplines...

Why We Take Drugs provides a timely intervention in the growing debate about the wisdom of the ongoing ‘war on drugs’. Rather than adopting the assumption that drug and alcohol use is a problem that poses a threat to society, this book makes a case for the idea that society is a problem for intoxica..

Why We Take Drugs provides a timely intervention in the growing debate about the wisdom of the ongoing ‘war on drugs’. Rather than adopting the assumption that drug and alcohol use is a problem that poses a threat to society, this book makes a case for the idea that society is a problem for intoxica..

This title was first published in 2001. The West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) was established in the early 1970s to help farmers increase rice production. Africa is the only continent whose population has grown faster than its food production; this shortfall provokes the syndrome of p..

Widowhood in an American City..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...