By Tiziana Nazio

This book deals with the process of the diffusion of cohabitation in Europe and discusses its impact upon fundamental changes in family formation. It makes...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36841-4 (Routledge)

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Responses to State Retrenchment

Edited by Stefan Svallfors, Peter Taylor-Gooby

Throughout the world, politicians from all the main parties are cutting back on state welfare provision, encouraging people to use the private sector instead and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46326-3 (Routledge)

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The Family and State in Ageing Societies

Edited by Sara Arber, Claudine Attias-Donfut

The ageing of Western societies has provoked extensive sociological debate, surrounding both the role of the state and whether it can afford the cost of...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46327-0 (Routledge)

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Fusion or Fission?

Edited by Thomas Boje, Bart Van Steenbergen, Sylvia Walby

Are the recent developments in Europe bringing countries together or pulling them apart? The leading experts in this book (including Sheila Allen, Marlis Buchmann, Piotr...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46328-7 (Routledge)

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Edited by Martin Kohli, Alison Woodward

European social development over the last century has been characterized by an increasing inclusiveness of people into the ever-larger collectives of the nation state, the...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46329-4 (Routledge)

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Accounting for Rape

Psychology, Feminism and Discourse Analysis in the Study of Sexual Violence

By Irina Anderson, Kathy DohertyJane Ussher

Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-21174-1 (Routledge)

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Edited by Moira Plant, Martin Plant

Millions of us make use of psychoactive—or mind-altering—drugs. Such drugs, both legal and otherwise, can cause pleasure or pain (or both). So, too, can sex,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41948-2 (Routledge)

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Edited by Jens Alber, Tony Fahey, Chiara Saraceno

Recent enlargement to the east made the European Union a more diverse social space and brought it into more direct contact with the social and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42467-7 (Routledge)

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A Wider Social Role for Sport

Who's Keeping the Score?

By Fred Coalter

Sport is perceived to have the potential to alleviate a variety of social problems and generally to ‘improve’ both individuals and the communities in which...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36350-1 (Routledge)

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Next Wave Cultures

Feminism, Subcultures, Activism

Edited by Anita Harris

Whereas once young women’s feminist activism could be easily identified, today this resistance seems obscure, transitory, and disorganized. In Next Wave Cultures, established and emerging...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95710-6 (Routledge)

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