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  • Women's Suffrage in Scotland

    by Carole O'Connor ...
    The stories of the Scottish women, rich and poor, rural and urban, who fought for the vote—includes personal and family photos.This lively exploration into the determined Scottish women, primarily of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, who fought to achieve votes for women in a male dominated society delves into some of the antics they embarked on, the tragedies that were dealt them, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Yes She Can

    Why Women Own The Future

    by Ruth Davidson ...
    Narrated by Ruth Davidson, Kate Harper, Sandra Duncan, Sarah Barron, Tania Rodrigues ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    Leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson gleans life lessons learned by inspirational women from around the world in a personal and inspirational book.In Ruth Davidson's YES SHE CAN we meet world-beating women from fields as diverse as science, politics, the military, business and sport. They share their own journeys to the top - whether that's becoming Prime Minister, winning an Olympic ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Everyday Welfare in Modern British History

    Experience, Expertise and Activism

    Edited by Caitríona Beaumont, Eve Colpus, Ruth Davidson ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
    This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential experts studied in this collection include women, students, children, women who ... Read more

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    Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

    by Kevin Guyan ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
    Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data?This important book is the first to look at queer data – defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current data practices reflect an incomplete ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

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  • Young, Female and Black

    by Heidi Safia Mirza ...
    Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve.This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the ... Read more

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  • Gender and Lifelong Learning

    Critical Feminist Engagements

    Edited by Carole Leathwood, Becky Francis ...
    This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions ... Read more

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  • Poverty

    by Ruth Lister ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to the meaning and experience of poverty in the contemporary world.The book opens with a lucid discussion of current debates around the definition and measurement of poverty in industrialized societies, before ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • 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

    $55.79 USD

  • Feminism and 'The Schooling Scandal'

    by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis ...
    Feminism and ‘The Schooling Scandal’ brings together feminist contributions from two generations of educational researchers, evaluating and celebrating the field of gender and education. The focus throughout is on the years of compulsory schooling, examining key concepts in gender and education identified and developed by international thinkers in educational feminism. Topics covered include ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Policing

    Politics, Culture and Control

    Edited by Tim Newburn, Professor Jill Peay ...
    Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner. Arguably the leading policing scholar of his generation, Reiner's work over some 40 years has ranged broadly in this field, taking in the study of police history, culture, organisation, elites and relationships with the media. Always carefully ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Curriculum, Pedagogy and Educational Research

    The Work of Lawrence Stenhouse

    Edited by John Elliott, Nigel Norris ...
    Lawrence Stenhouse was one of the most distinguished, original and influential educationalists of his generation. His theories about curriculum, curriculum development, pedagogy, teacher research, and research as a basis for teaching remain compelling and fresh and continue to be a counterpoint to instrumental and technocratic thinking in education. In this book, renowned educationalists describe ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Law and Order

    An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control

    by Robert Reiner ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on crime. Prisons are crammed to bursting point, and police powers and resources extended repeatedly. After decades of explosive increase in crime rates, these have plummeted throughout the Western world in the 1990s. Yet fear ... Read more

    $24.00 USD