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  • Ageing, the Body and the Gender Regime

    Health, Illness and Disease Across the Life Course

    Edited by Susan Pickard, Jude Robinson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    The current (postfeminist) gender order comprises a highly complex coexistence of old and new norms and expectations, freedom and constraints, within a neoliberal social order underpinned by individualism and involving a shift in gender performance by men and women.Health, illness and disease at different points in the life course can be used as a vehicle to illuminate structural and cultural ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Age, Gender and Sexuality through the Life Course

    The Girl in Time

    by Susan Pickard ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    Age, Gender and Sexuality through the Life Course argues that the gendered structure of temporality (defined in the dual sense of everyday time as well as age and stage of life) is a key factor underpinning the stalling of the gender revolution. Taking as its central focus the idealised young woman who serves as the mascot of contemporary success, this book demonstrates how the celebration of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Age Studies

    A Sociological Examination of How We Age and are Aged through the Life Course

    by Susan Pickard ...
    "With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that students will love."- Rosaline Gill, City University London"A scholarly tour de force that brings into focus the various disciplines, histories, literatures and knowledges that have transformed us into modern subjects of age."- Stephen Katz, Trent UniversityAge Studies</e... ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • Why Feminism?

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    by Lynne Segal ...
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  • Making Sense of Fatherhood

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    by Tina Miller ...
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  • Mothering a Bodied Curriculum

    Emplacement, Desire, Affect

    Edited by Stephanie Springgay, Debra Freedman ...
    This collection considers how embodiment, mothering, and curriculum theory are related to practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit gendered, raced, and sexual maternal bodies. Advancing a new understanding of the maternal body, it argues for a 'bodied curriculum' – a practice that attends to the relational, social, and ethical implications of ‘being-with’ other bodies differently, ... Read more

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  • Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia

    The Social and Cultural Logic of Practice and Subjectivity

    by Allon J. Uhlmann ...
    Series series Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
    This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological, historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family, gender and kinship in Australia, which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the cultural basis that underlies kinship practices and argues that the Australian family is characterized by deep cultural and social continuities rather ... Read more

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  • The Affected Teacher

    Psychosocial Perspectives on Professional Experience and Policy Resistance

    by Alex Moore ...
    At a time when teaching and learning policy too often presents itself in a simplistic input-output language of measurable targets and objectives, The Affected Teacher explores the role played by emotionality in how professional life is experienced by school teachers. The book argues that, in the very highly organised and structured social spaces of public institutions, emotionality - or, more ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Family Practices

    by D. Morgan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan shows the continued relevance of the approach with reference to time and space, the body, emotions, ethics and work/life balance. ... Read more

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  • A Good Book, In Theory

    Making Sense Through Inquiry, Second Edition

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  • Modernity and Self-Identity

    Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

    by Anthony Giddens ...
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