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  • Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World

    Between Self and Other

    by Eve Colpus ...
    Female philanthropy was at the heart of transformative thinking about society and the role of individuals in the interwar period. In Britain, in the aftermath of the First World War, professionalization; the authority of the social sciences; mass democracy; internationalism; and new media sounded the future and, for many, the death knell of elite practices of benevolence. Eve Colpus tells a new ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Everyday Welfare in Modern British History

    Experience, Expertise and Activism

    Edited by Caitríona Beaumont, Eve Colpus, Ruth Davidson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential experts studied in this collection include women, students, children, women who ... Read more

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  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    by Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • A Woman's Place in Education (1996)

    Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Gender and Education

    by Sara Delamont ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1996, this volume includes the presidential address of Sara Delamont, the first female President of Bera written and presented in 1984. The book also includes a selection of papers on gender and education. Topics covered include: female pupils’ experiences, resistance to sex equality messages, science education for girls and women in universities. Providing historical and sociological ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Documentary Research

    In Education, History and the Social Sciences

    by Gary Mcculloch ...
    Documentary sources have become increasingly neglected in education and the social sciences. This book seeks to emphasise their potential value and importance for an understanding of modern societies, while also recognising their limitations, and explores their relationship with other research strategies. This up-to-date examination of how to research and use documents analyzes texts from the past ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Queer Data

    Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

    by Kevin Guyan ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
    Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data?This important book is the first to look at queer data – defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current data practices reflect an incomplete ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Twilight Years

    The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

    by Richard Overy ...
    From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern EnglandBy the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Young, Female and Black

    by Heidi Safia Mirza ...
    Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve.This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the ... Read more

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  • The Moral Economists

    R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism

    by Tim Rogan ...
    A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhat’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted in utilitarian terms, the critique of capitalism in the twenty-first century is primarily concerned with disparities in income and wealth. It was ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Gender and Lifelong Learning

    Critical Feminist Engagements

    Edited by Carole Leathwood, Becky Francis ...
    This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions ... Read more

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  • After the Victorians

    Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain

    Edited by Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen ...
    Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and `improvement' to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. Covering such figures as J.M. Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lord Reith of the BBC, these interdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • Poverty

    by Ruth Lister ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to the meaning and experience of poverty in the contemporary world.The book opens with a lucid discussion of current debates around the definition and measurement of poverty in industrialized societies, before ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD