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A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945–1980

This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...

Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema

This book adopts a fluid approach to space designed to accommodate wilful, affirmative, and imaginative perspectives of ...

Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects

This book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies ...

Assessing Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Health

Where there are patients, clients, or study participants, there are data. And when data involve personal variables of race, ...

Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced ...

Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision

This book explores the problem of male and female circumcision in modern society from religious, anthropological, psychological, ...

Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education

There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Although today many more women ...

Chronic Diseases and Health Care

CHRONIC DISEASES AND HEALTH CARE: New Patterns of Diabetes, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Fibromyalgia, Low Back Pain, Cardiovascular ...

Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality

This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different ...

Comparative and Global Pedagogies : Equity, Access and Democracy in Education

This book critically examines equality, equity and democracy in education, globally as well as from various perspectives. ...

Complicities : A theory for subjectivity in the psychological humanities

The book examines how we might develop a more socially just psychological theory and practice, which is both systems work ...

Cultural Heritage and Human Rights

The volume addresses a deeply political aspect of heritage preservation and management as it relates to human rights. Social ...

Depression in Latinos

In this concise yet comprehensive volume, leading clinicians, researchers, and academics offer extensive research and clinical ...

Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa

This book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in ...

Education and Social Justice

The book explores the problematic relationship between education, social justice and the State, against the background of ...

Education in the Era of Globalization

Education seems to have lost its orientation in Western culture and is in disarray all over the globe in time of global transitions. ...

Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality : Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives

This aim of this book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating ...

Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education

Does the Nordic model of education still stand by its original principles and safeguard education for all? This Open Access ...

Establishing Medical Reality

This volume approaches the philosophy of medicine from the broad naturalist perspective that holds that philosophy must be ...

Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability : Orientations for Contemporary Research

The contents are organized in three sections reflecting important focal points of Boserup’s own work: Long-Term Socio-Ecological ...

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