Regulating the Lives of Women is a key milestone in the efforts to apply a ‘gender-lens’ to welfare and explores the history of womens’ relationship to the welfare state.
Queer Families and Relationships After Marriage Equality centers critical questions and the experiences of those often disadvantaged or excluded by ma..
Drawing from critical and intersectional perspectives, Queer Activism After Marriage Equality explores the questions and issues facing the next chapte..
This book offers an authentic look at lesbian identity and culture from multiple perspectives, from Australia to India to the Americas._x005F_x005F_x0..
This book presents the first published comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between law and masculinities. It provides a..
Women and men are more alike than we might think. In this accessible and enthusiastic introduction Mary Holmes explains how sociological approaches to..
Drawing on contemporary philosophies of feminist ethics as well as psychoanalytic theorists, this book addresses a gap in theoretical work on contempo..
The book investigates the features and effects of feminism in contemporary Japan, in non-government (NGO) women’s groups, government-run women’s centr..
This book examines young women in Japan, focusing in particular on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood and relations with J..
This book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male..
Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there i..
This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of ma..