Introduction: Setting out on a Journey -- 1. Royal Dynasties -- 2. Noble Dynasties -- 3. Entrepreneurial Dynasties -- 4. The Learned -- 5. Artists -- 6. Statuses on the Move -- 7. Afterthoughts.This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start wi…
Open AccessThis book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The b…
A comprehensive synthesis of research -- A comprehensive synthesis of research -- Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Society -- Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Society -- Collective intelligence and capacity building -- Collective intelligence and capacity building -- ETampere -- ETampere -- Information: a strategic resource for technological change -- Information: a strategic resource for t…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights: A European Perspective -- Chapter 2. Sexual Citizenship: from Social Inclusion to Political Contestation -- Chapter 3. The "Pink Agenda": the Challenges of Promoting Queer-friendly Policies Abroad -- Chapter 4. The Gendered and Sexed Citizen: Different Bodies, Different Rights? -- Chapter 5. Multisexual and Multigender Citizenship: …
Introduction -- Part 1: The significance of care records -- 1. Making sense of a childhood in care -- 2. Making sense of care records -- 3. The impact on care-leavers of information in their records -- Part 2: Accessing records -- 4. Helping care-leavers to find their records -- 5. Supporting care-leavers to receive their records -- 6. Facilitating care-leavers’ access to other sources of inf…
1. 'Every body has its own feminism': Introducing Transcending Borders -- 2. Abortion, Infanticide and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan -- 3. Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives -- 4. 'Impossible to get to know these secret means' – Colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in 'German East …
I. Child Maltreatment and Family Processes -- The Web of Violence: The Role of Families in Vulnerability & Protection across the Span of Childhood -- Creating a Safe Haven: The Complicated Nature of Social Support in Fostering Resilience among Survivors of Child Maltreatment -- "Why didn't you tell?" Helping Families and Children Weather the Process of a Sexual Abuse Disclosure -- A Population-…
1. Introduction -- 2. The Generational and the Gender Contract -- 3. Crafting age-specific national accounts: National Transfer Accounts data and methods for Italy -- 4. Age, Economy and Welfare. National Transfer Accounts results for Italy -- 5. Women Work, Time Transfers and Informal welfare -- 6. Concluding Remarks.This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a E…
Lara Jüssen takes the case of Latin American household and construction workers in Madrid to show how ir/regular labour migrants make citizenship available for themselves through emplacements, embodiments and enactments of citizenship. After describing the sociopolitical context of crisis and resistance in Spain, citizenship is anthropologized in order to approach it through the workplace: the…
1. ‘It would be Better to talk about Death’ -- 2. Improper or Proper conversations? ‘Chatting death stuff’ -- 3. Death: 'It's sexy and stuff' -- 4. Letting Death out of the Box -- 5.‘All Angels are Massive Pissheads’ -- 6. Conclusion. ‘We’re OK with Death’.This book challenges adult assumptions that young-people do not, cannot and should not think about death. The author uses …