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Announcing a major new book series for 2004 from The Open University
and The Policy Press:
PERSONAL LIVES AND SOCIAL POLICY
Edited by Janet Fink, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University
"<HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS> a groundbreaking series of books that offers a fresh new approach to
social policy. Written in an engaging and accessible style, these texts
will introduce students of policy, social work and social care to the
most important and exciting contemporary debates about sexuality, care,
work and citizenship. A must-read for students and teachers in all
these fields." Rosalind Gill, Gender Institute, London School of
Economics and Political Science
This innovative series published by The Open University and The Policy
Press comprises four interactive texts that successfully weave together
new and challenging questions about the study of social policy with a
range of teaching resources to support the development of the reader's
knowledge and understanding. Drawing on a range of theoretical
approaches, analytical tools and research evidence, they examine the
ways in which the two domains of personal lives and social policy are
each shaped and given meaning by the other.
The four titles in the series are:
Sexualities: Personal lives and social policy
Edited by Jean Carabine
This first book in the series explores the choices that we make about
our sexuality and how these can transform our personal lives. It
analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices.
Paperback £17.99 (US$29.95) ISBN 1 86134 518 6
246 x 189mm 176 pages April 2004
Care: Personal lives and social policy
Edited by Janet Fink
This book considers how normative assumptions about the meanings,
practices and relationships of care are embedded in our everyday lives.
It examines how social policy and welfare practices construct these
relations and give or deny them meaning and validity.
Paperback £17.99 (US$29.95) ISBN 1 86134 519 4
246 x 189mm 176 pages April 2004
Work: Personal lives and social policy
Edited by Gerry Mooney
This book explores the diverse ways in which work helps to
structure the relations between social policy and personal lives, and
considers how the dominant constructions of work as paid employment
impacts on personal lives.
Paperback £17.99 (US$29.95) ISBN 1 86134 520 8
246 x 189mm 176 pages June 2004
Citizenship: Personal lives and social policy
Edited by Gail Lewis
This last book in the series uses citizenship as a lens through which
to explore the relation between personal lives and social policy.
Starting with a discussion of official and popular debates it
considers some of the dimensions of the lived practices and experiences
of citizenship.
Paperback £17.99 (US$29.95) ISBN 1 86134 521 6
246 x 189mm 176 pages July 2004
All four books are course texts for the new Open University course,
Personal Lives and Social Policy (DD305).
For more detailed information, including contents, please visit
www.policypress.org.uk and follow the links from the home page. Copies
can be ordered on inspection for teaching purposes.
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