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  • Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London

    by Joshua Stuart-Bennett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society. It focuses on the extent of women’s ‘dirty work’, when maternal problem management was fundamental to the general maintenance of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Damned Whores and God's Police

    by Anne Summers ...
    Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It's hard to imagine an Australia where these abuses were not yet fully ... Read more

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  • Power to Teach

    Learning Through Practice

    by Wendy Robinson ...
    Series series Woburn Education Series
    This book illustrates hitherto unexamined connections between the present state of teacher education in the UK and past models of practice. It locates contemporary debates within ongoing historical tensions over what constitutes a sound and proper start to a career in teaching. Questions as to the constituents of a professional training, the essential skills, knowledge and attitudes desired of an ... Read more

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  • Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies

    by David Garland ...
    First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today's sociology of punishment. It is now republished with a new Preface by the author.'Punishment and Welfare' explores the relation of punishment to politics, the historical formation and development of criminology, and the way in which penal reform grew out of the complex set of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    by Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals)

    The Pre-history and After-life of Class

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1982, Professor Bauman’s discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Research Methods in Law

    Edited by Dawn Watkins ...
    Explaining in clear terms some of the main methodological approaches to legal research, the chapters in this edited collection are written by specialists in their fields, researching in a variety of jurisdictions.Covering a range of topics from Feminist Approaches to Law and Economics, each contributor addresses the topic of ‘lay decision makers in the legal system’ from their particular ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Importance of Being Innocent

    Why We Worry About Children

    by Joanne Faulkner ...
    The Importance of Being Innocent addresses the current debate in Australia and internationally regarding the sexualisation of children, predation on them by pedophiles and the risks apparently posed to their 'innate innocence' by perceived problems and threats in contemporary society. Joanne Faulkner argues that, contrary to popular opinion, social issues have been sensationally expounded in moral ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Obscenity and Film Censorship

    An Abridgement of the Williams Report

    Edited by Bernard Williams ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political principles examined are of continuing interest and remain a crucial point of reference for discussions on obscenity and censorship. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, and with a specially commissioned preface written by ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Education! Education! Education!

    by Stephen Prickett ...
    The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality' of university departments is now assessed by managerial exercises based on commercial audit practice. As a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing Professional Identities

    Knowledge, Performativities and the 'New' Professional

    Edited by Mike Dent, Stephen Whitehead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    This book addresses the nature of current shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability. Connecting with current debates concerned with work and identity, the book will present a range of theoretical and empirical accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing specialists in various organizational arenas as they seek to adapt to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others

    by Robert Dingwall ...
    Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis's renowned compilation of diverse studies—written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers into the sociology of the professions—was groundbreaking when first published in 1983 and has influenced scholars, practitioners, and professionals since. Not limited to one occupation or field, as are most such works, this collection examines across ... Read more

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