Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. She has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers -- students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasants -- who, whether as a consequence of the sing…
Xinran tells of her experiences and travails as a mother and her observation of other women as mothers.
Deals with the complexities of family relations and practices, and shows how these have been imagined, addressed or elided in the policy making. This title offers an approach to the analysis of meanings afforded to the family in different policy, legal and welfare contexts in Sw…
This work is concerned with the complexities of family relations and practices in the recent past and how these have been imagined, addressed or elided in policy making. It offers an innovative approach to the analysis of meanings afforded to the family in different policy, lega…
Changing Relations of Welfare uses rich and varied sources to offer an innovative approach to the analysis of meanings afforded to the family in different policy, legal and welfare contexts in Sweden, Denmark and Britain. Through the presentation of a historically informed, comp…
This work presents a comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models - republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and social citizenship in Denmark.
The Second Edition of Understanding Family Policy continues to provide the conceptual framework, offered in the First Edition, which enables students and professionals to examine and analyze government policies and their impact on the family. Features new to this edition include…
