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  • Divorce Portals

    The Postdivorce in Asian Contexts

    by Shalini Grover, Shalini Grover, Kaveri Qureshi, Kaveri Qureshi, Geetika Bapna, Livia Holden, Katy Gardner, Asha L. Abeyasekera, Kailing Xie, Asuncion Freznosa-Flot0, Jayaprakash Mishra1, Janet Carsten2 ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Across Asia and its global diasporas, marriage remains a dominant and public institution, and divorce generates widespread comment and concern. Breaking new ground, Divorce Portals reveals divorce to be generative of transformations in individual intimate lives and wider societies. Through compelling, sensitive ethnographic accounts inviting readers into the lives of people undergoing separation ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations

    Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women

    by Kailing Xie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Politics of Development

    Edited by Claire Mcloughlin, Sameen Ali, Kailing Xie, Nic Cheeseman, David E. Hudson ...
    A pathbreaking introduction to the controversial, contested and deeply political topic of development. Written in an engaging and eminently readable style, leading authors invite readers to examine the political dynamics behind some of today’s most complex global issues, from rising inequality and social exclusion to the climate crisis. By confronting false assumptions and dispelling myths, the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Ethics

    Edited by Sarah Banks ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the subject of social work ethics. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Sarah Banks argues that this can be seen as reflecting two very different agendas. On the one hand, it is part of a progressive movement which offers a critique of New Public Management (NPM), or managerialist, approaches ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Understanding Development

    by Paul Hopper ...
    Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype

    Listening to Asian American Youth, 2nd Edition

    by Stacy J. Lee ...
    The second edition of Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth extends Stacey Lee’s groundbreaking research on the educational experiences and achievement of Asian American youth. Lee provides a comprehensive update of social science research to reveal the ways in which the larger structures of race and class play out in the lives of Asian American high school ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Theories and Practices of Development

    by Katie Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development.The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Shanghai Lalas

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas’ everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women’s active and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Exodus

    How Migration is Changing Our World

    by Paul Collier ...
    It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our policies reflect deep anxieties and the quirks of short-term self-interest, with effective ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dreams of Flight

    The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

    by Fran Martin ...
    In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Globalization's Contradictions

    Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation

    Edited by Dennis Conway, Nik Heynen ...
    Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, ... Read more

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  • Sex and Sexuality in China

    Edited by Elaine Jeffreys ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Elaine Jeffreysexplores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behaviours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of China. Commissioned from Western and mainland Chinese scholars of sex and sexuality in China, the chapters in this volume are marked by a diversity of subject material ... Read more

    $68.99 USD