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CARE
Personal lives and social policy
Edited by Janet Fink, The Open University
"... will help students and practitioners develop a nuanced
understanding of the meaning and morality of care, and the way
in which this is implicated in the construction of personal
identities and social relationships." Marian Barnes, Institute
of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham
The authors draw upon a range of theoretical approaches and
research evidence to bring into focus some of the different
spaces and places where questions about care, in all its
different dimensions, have been lived out, debated and
struggled over. Each highlights the significance that class,
'race', gender, sexuality and age play in the analysis of care
relations. Among the issues they consider are:
the personal costs and pleasures of care relations experienced
by unmarried women in interwar England;
the blurred boundaries between caring for children perceived as
'victims' and controlling those regarded as 'threats';
the nature of identifications and power relations in the health
services and the ways in which these inform and shape the
racialization of care.
Paperback £17.99 ISBN 1 86134 519 4
176 pages Published in association with The Open University
SEXUALITIES
Personal lives and social policy
Edited by Jean Carabine, The Open University
"This invaluable book explores the normative framework which
strives to police the personal, whilst showing the vital ways
in which the transformation of the intimate sphere reflect back
on the making of social policy. Highly recommended." Jeffrey
Weeks, Professor of Sociology and Executive Dean of Arts and
Human Sciences, London South Bank University
This book 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 through an
examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its
role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects,
discourses, theories, provisions and practices. The processes
involved are explored through such issues as:
the significance of gender relations and identities in
normative constructions of heterosexual marriage, the nuclear
family and parenthood;
the regulatory effects of policy-making on young people's
sexual experiences and activity and their strategies of
resistance;
the normative standards of sexuality and the extent to which
these have marginalized and silenced the sexuality of disabled
people.
Paperback £17.99 ISBN 1 86134 518 6
176 pages Published in association with The Open University
WORK
Personal lives and social policy
Edited by Gerry Mooney, The Open University
"This book draws out the complex and dynamic relationships
between work - in all its manifestations - and social policy.
It is thoughtful, provocative and a much-needed contribution -
one which, I hope, will be read by both students and their
teachers." Chris Jones, Social Policy and Social Work,
University of Liverpool
This book explores questions that are central to our
understanding of how the personal not only is shaped in and
through work, but also contributes to social relations at work.
Among the issues considered are:
that emotional labour is increasingly central to the labour
process of welfare work;
the changing relationship between ageing, work and personal
lives;
the ways through which welfare-to-work policies seek to
regulate personal lives.
Paperback £17.99 ISBN 1 86134 520 8
176 pages Published in association with The Open University
CITIZENSHIP
Peronal lives and social policy
Edited by Gail Lewis, The Open University
"A very interesting and informative book which students will
enjoy engaging with." David Wright, School of Social Policy,
Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent at Medway
Citizenship is both one of the most taken-for-granted and most
contested ideas in British social policy. While some claim that
it defines the parameters of rights and responsibilities in
advanced liberal democracies, others consider it to be among
the most exclusionary of discourses and practices. This book
focuses on the following domains to consider some of the
dimensions of the lived practices and experiences of
citizenship:
the 'high moment' of working-class citizenship that was
embodied in the post-war welfare state;
the conflicts and anxieties experienced by children and parents
in the transition to secondary school;
the struggle of refugees and asylum seekers to gain
right of residence in the UK and the possibility of building a
new life.
Paperback £17.99 ISBN 1 86134 521 6
176 pages Published in association with The Open University
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New this month:
Second in the new Researching Criminal Justice series:
FROM DEPENDENCY TO WORK: ADDRESSING THE MULTIPLE NEEDS OF OFFENDERS WITH
DRUG PROBLEMS
Paperback £14.99 (US$25.00) ISBN 1 86134 660 3
88 pages December 2004
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