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  • Marginalised Mothers

    Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting

    by Val Gillies ...
    Series series Relationships and Resources
    Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes for children.Marginalised Mothers provides a detailed and much-needed insight into the lived ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Pushed to the Edge

    Inclusion and Behaviour Support in Schools

    by Val Gillies ...
    While debates rage about educational inequality and the best way to tackle attainment gaps, a pervasive form of in-school segregation is going largely unremarked upon. Internal behaviour support units have become common fixtures in British schools. Young people may be removed from mainstream classrooms for weeks, months or even years to undergo rehabilitative programmes that incur little ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention

    Who's 'Saving' Children and Why

    by Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards, Nicola Horsley ...
    A vital interrogation of the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years is the way to prevent disadvantage. Given the divisive assumptions and essentialist ideas behind early years intervention, in whose interests does it really serve?This book critically assesses assertions that the ‘wrong type of parenting’ has biological and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Family Troubles?

    Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People

    Edited by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Carol-Ann Hooper, Val Gillies ...
    As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the contested terrain between “normal” family troubles and troubled and troubling families. In this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how “troubles” ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Conservative Governments and Social Policy

    by Nick Ellison, Ian Greener, Peter Squires, Anne Daguerre, David Etherington, Catherine Bochel, Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards, Stephen J. Ball, Harriet Churchill, Andrew Defty, Steven Corbett, Jon Glasby, Ann Marie Gray, Stephen D. McKay, Karen Rowlingson, Kirstein Rummery, Peter Somerville ...
    Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015, this book examines key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people, and more.Respected social policy researchers explore the degree to which the positions and policies of recent Conservative governments have differed from the previous Coalition government (2010–15). They ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Making Families

    Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-Parenting

    by Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies ...
    This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen as evidence of such trends. In one of the first British in-depth sociological research studies for ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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  • Children and the Changing Family

    Between Transformation and Negotiation

    Edited by An-Magritt Jensen, Lorna McKee ...
    This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • The Good Ally

    by Nova Reid ...
    ‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready? Let’s get started, we have work to do.’The Good Ally is an urgent call to arms to become better allies against racism and provides a thoughtful approach, centering ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Feeling Power

    Emotions and Education

    by Megan Boler ...
    First published in 1999. Megan Boler combines cultural history with ethical and multicultural analyses to explore how emotions have been disciplined, suppressed, or ignored at all levels of education and in educational theory. FEELING POWER charts the philosophies and practices developed over the last century to control social conflicts arising from gender, class, and race. The book traces the ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • What Should We Tell Our Daughters?

    The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female

    by Melissa Benn ...
    We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward since our mothers' and grandmothers' day, many of the key issues - equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior level in the private, public and political sectors - remain to be tackled. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Formations of Class & Gender

    Becoming Respectable

    by Bev Skeggs ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power.Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Values and Ethics in Social Work

    by Chris Beckett, Andrew Maynard, Peter Jordan ...
    An awareness of one’s own ethical assumptions and how these inform everyday practice is crucial for all student social workers. Social workers who genuinely wish to do the right thing by their services users have no alternative but to constantly think and rethink the principles and assumptions that inform their actions, and this book supports them on their journey to do just that.This third ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD