Chapter 1: Content and scope -- Chapter 2: Working lives of men aged 60 and older; Chapter 3: Working lives of men aged 45–60 -- Chapter 4 Working lives of men aged 45 and younger -- Chapter 5: Old age fears or concerns -- Chapter 6: Old age plans -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- .This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1…
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Orienting the reader – the legacy of colonialism and cultural imperialism -- Chapter 3. The Aesthetics of beauty – commodification -- Chapter 4. For the woman who wants the world – commodified feminism -- Chapter 5. East meets West – cultural hybridity -- Chapter 6. Men’s voices in women’s magazines -- Chapter 7. Readers’ responses – multi…
1. Introduction -- 2. Geographies of Identity -- 3. The Research -- 4. Pakistan: converging imaginaries in an Islamic state -- 5. Senegal: Muslim youth identities in a secular nation -- 6. Nigeria: Muslim youth and internal others in a multi-religious nation -- 7. Lebanon: National imaginaries, state fragilities and the Shi'a other -- 8. Conclusions: Intersecting nation, religion and gende…
Foreword: Reclaiming the Space for Girls -- Chapter 1. Who Are Girls and Is There a Problem? -- Chapter 2. How We Know What We Know: Knowledge and Evidence -- Chapter 3. See How Far We've Come! Girls' Education in Recent History. And Where Does This Leave Girls Now? -- Chapter 4. The Balance Act -- Chapter 5. Girls at School: The Formation of Learning Identities -- Chapter 6. Post School Pathwa…
1. Introduction: “I Wish I Was a Bird” -- 2. Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far” -- 3. My Methodological Approach: “It Reminds Me of Lots of Things” -- 4. Cars and Schools and Heart is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women -- 5. The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: “I Had Bigger Am…
1. Introduction -- 2. The landscape of elderly care and the proliferation of struggles -- 3. Theorizing elderly care -- 4. Silences that matter -- 5. Regulating care – and struggles about regulation -- 6. Conclusion: A new analytics for (elderly) care.This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political…
Introduction -- From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity -- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing -- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America -- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cult…
This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation where policewomen constitute 15% of the total HKP establishment. What accounts for these dev…
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…
Introduction -- Part I. Affect, Performance and the Neoliberal State -- Chapter 1. The Affective Performance of State Love; Sue-Ellen Case -- Chapter 2. ‘Not Now, Not Ever’; Denise Varney -- Chapter 3. Performing Sovereignty against Jurisprudential Death in an Australian State of Exception; Sandra D’urso -- Chapter 4. Imagining Love in a Neoliberal Japan; Nobuko Anan -- Chapter 5. Nisti S…