The question 'what is citizenship?'is not an easy one to answer in any definitive way. This is
partly because it incorporates a number of different elements, reflecting two major political …

This edited collection examines the risks and issues faced by single parent-families and
their children such as poverty, wealth/asset accumulation, health, well-being and …

Page 1 Welfare Research A Critical Review Fiona Williams Jennie Popay and Ann Oakley
Page 2 Page 3 Welfare Research Page 4 Page 5 Welfare Research: A Critical Review Fiona …

Can feminists count on welfare states—or at least some aspects of these complex systems—
as resources in the struggle for gender equality? Gender analysts of “welfare states” …

Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the
market in modern social thought. The book considers markets as social institutions rather …

The mother-daughter relationship has preoccupied feminist writers for decades, but typically
it has been the daughter's story at centre-stage. Mothering the Self brings together these …

The neighbourhoods and social networks we examined in the previous chapter have been
described as 'mesosystems'–it is these that link individual agency with social structures and …

This paper suggests first, that in the recent literature on welfare states, while family change
has received considerable attention, the issue of gender equality has not. Second, it …

This paper is an attempt at exploring the contemporary neo-liberal contexts in which social
and community services operate and the opportunities for undertaking struggles around …

Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and
widening social and spatial inequalities. Diane Perrons draws on ideas about the new …