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661. Poverty

     A Persistent Global Reality

     Edited by Professor John Dixon, John Dixon, David Macarov

     This book addresses the long-standing global issue of poverty. An introductory chapter explores concepts and definitions of poverty, the subsequent chapters providing detailed examinations of poverty in ten different countries: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malta, The Netherlands,...

     Published April 1st 1998 by Routledge
662. Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare

     Edited by John Carter

     Postmodern ideas have been vastly influential in the social sciences and beyond. However, their impact on the study of social policy has been minimal. Postmodernity and the Fragmentation of Welfare analyses the potential for a postmodern or cultural turn in welfare as it treats postmodernity as an...

     Published March 18th 1998 by Routledge
663. Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

     Edited by Gail Lewis

     Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity

     This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education,...

     Published March 4th 1998 by Routledge
664. Remaking the Body

     Rehabilitation and Change

     By Wendy Seymour

     In Remaking the Body, Wendy Seymour interviews men and women who have suffered profound bodily paralysis, and explores how they deal with their appearance, relationships, sexuality, incontinence and sport. She finds that even major impairment hasn't annihilated these people's experience of an...

     Published February 4th 1998 by Routledge
665. Embodying the Social

     Constructions of Difference

     Edited by Esther Saraga

     Series: Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity

     This book opens the series with a consideration of the social construction of social difference. Taking the body as the point of departure, it deals with the processes through which social problems and social inequalities are constructed. In particular, it examines the shifting ways in which our...

     Published February 4th 1998 by Routledge
666. Men, Gender Divisions and Welfare

     Edited by Jeanette Edwards, Jeff Hearn, Prof Jeff Hearn, Jennie Popay

     A fresh look at the balance of responsibilities and control in care-giving, both in the public and private spheres. Using previously unpublished empirical data, contributors focus on male experiences of welfare services....

     Published January 28th 1998 by Routledge
667. Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union

     By Teresa Rees

     Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union provides a critical overview and evaluation of the potential role of the EU in perpetuating or breaking down gender segregation in the EU labour force. Teresa Rees draws upon feminist theoretical frameworks in assessing Equal Opportunitues policies and...

     Published December 31st 1997 by Routledge
668. Women and AIDS

     Negotiating Safer Practices, Care, and Representation

     By Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Linda K Fuller, Nancy Roth

     For many women, the advice “Use a condom!” is not enough to help protect them from HIV infection. As Women and AIDS reveals, “negotiating” safer sex practices is a very complex issue for women who are involved in relationships where they do not enjoy physical, social, or...

     Published December 1st 1997 by Routledge
669. Youth, The 'Underclass' and Social Exclusion

     Edited by Robert Macdonald

     The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s. Anti-work,...

     Published October 1st 1997 by Routledge
670. Homelessness and Social Policy

     Edited by Roger Burrows, Nicholas Pleace, Deborah Quilgars

     The problem of homelessness is deeply emblematic of the sort of society Britain has become. What other social phenomena could better epitomise the end of modernity than our seeming inability to adequately respond to the most basic needs - shelter, warmth, food - of substantial numbers of our '...

     Published October 1st 1997 by Routledge