Social Policy in Britain: Themes and Issues

Social Policy in Britain provides a new and comprehensive introduction to the discipline of social policy. Refreshing and exceptionally clear in its approach, it covers all the major issues and debates and provides an extensive guide to the content and process of policy making and policy implementation in Britain. The book is an essential resource for all students of social policy at undergraduate level, in school or college and on a wide range of professional education courses.

Politics & Social Sciences

Campling, Jo

Alcock, Peter

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Households headed by women are a growing presence worldwide. This is the first book to focus on their diversity and dynamics in developing countries. Set within the context of global trends and debates on female household headship, the analysis explores the reasons for the formation and increase in women-headed households in different parts of the world and their capacity for survival in societies where male-headed households are both the norm and ideal. Case-study material from urban and urbanising areas in Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines illustrates the varied routes by which low-income women enter household headship, and the outcomes for women and other household members at the grassroots. While personal experiences of female headship often differ between individuals and countries, women-headed households everywhere are exposed to discrimination and disadvantage. Vital measures to counteract this tendency include increased awareness and acceptance of multiple contemporary forms of household and family life. To this end, Chant calls for greater collaboration in analysis, policy and action for gender equality across the North-South divide.

Women-Headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World

Chant, Sylvia H.

The General Theory of Profit Equilibrium: Keynes and the Entrepreneur Economy

John Maynard Keynes' seminal The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money central to economic debate over sixty years after its publication. This book shows how Keynes' masterpiece is best understood not as an attempt to tackle the immediate policy issues of his age but to extend the range of thought available to economists. Understood as such, it continues to provide the most effective framework to the central issues about the functioning of the economy. The authors offer a clear exposition of Keynes' thought and its continuing relevance for economists in academic, business and government life.

Business & Money

Fanning, Connell

Mahony, David O.

O'Mahony, David

Economics

An examination of social work in both theory and practice. The authors present several models relevant to different aspects of social work.

Modern Social Work Theory: A critical introduction

An approach to the subject of menstruation which claims that women's feelings about their periods are shaped by men's attitudes and the imposition of their views on women. Sophie Law's research covered men as lovers, fathers, husbands, doctors and "experts".

Issues of Blood: The Politics of Menstruation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Palgrave MD

Understanding Poverty

'Alcock has done us all a service. He has written an excellent, readable textbook. ' - Angus Erskine, Benefits 'It will be much used by students and others as a source book on poverty.' - Bob Holman, Community Care This text provides a comprehensive and accessible review of research on and debates about poverty and anti-poverty policy in Britain and beyond. It deals with the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analyses debates about its causes and its possible solution. It is an essential text for students of social policy, sociology and related disciplines.

Alcock, Pete

This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contrubtions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Masculity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient. Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive.

Masculinity in Crisis: Myths, Fantasies, and Realities

Horrocks, Roger

Psychology & Counseling

Waterlow Pub Ltd

Households headed by women are a growing presence worldwide. This is the first book to focus on their diversity and dynamics in developing countries. Set within the context of global trends and debates on female household headship, and using case-study material based on interviews with low-income women in Mexico, Costa Rica and the Philippines, the analysis explores the reasons for the formation and increase in women-headed households in different parts of the world, and their capacity for survival in societies where male-headed households are both the norm and ideal.

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

This text offers a clear and succinct overview of a central debate in the study of the media, drawing together a wide range of theoretical and research-based material from both sides of the Atlantic. Written with a light touch and taking a level-headed approach to competing theories and claims, it is accessibly organized around the three central processes in mass communication - production, representation and reception - and provides comprehensive coverage of all the main topics relevant to the thorny issue of media power.

Media Power: A Sociological introduction

McCullagh, Ciaran

This is a basic guide to community care aimed at both health and social care practitioners. It offers a clear and reader-friendly introduction to policy and practice, covering both the background to, and the structure and dynamics of, contemporary policy and provision. Networks and boundaries of care are discussed, including formal and informal care and multiprofessional working, as are the skills of assessment and care management and issues such as user empowerment and abuse.

The Essentials of Community Care: A Guide for Practitioners

Sharkey, Peter

Macmillan

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Social Policy in Britain: Themes and Issues

Women-Headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World

The General Theory of Profit Equilibrium: Keynes and the Entrepreneur Economy

Modern Social Work Theory: A critical introduction

Issues of Blood: The Politics of Menstruation

Understanding Poverty

Masculinity in Crisis: Myths, Fantasies, and Realities

Women-Headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World

Media Power: A Sociological introduction

The Essentials of Community Care: A Guide for Practitioners