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Women, Gender, and Social Psychology

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women, Gender, and Social Psychology

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women, Health, and Healing: Toward A New Perspective (Routledge Revivals)

Originally published in 1985, this collection of essays expands the understanding of both health itself and the ways in which women may experience their roles as consumers and providers of health care. The authors represent a number of disciplines – anthropology, sociology and political science – and examine issues of public concern on both sides of the Atlantic. Many important health questions are discussed, including the increasing use of high technology methods on obstetrical care, HRT, the treatment of frail elderly women, occupational health, health issues of sport and fitness, and health care systems of the UK, US and Canada as they relate to women in various social circumstances.

Women, Health, and Healing: Toward A New Perspective (Routledge Revivals)

Originally published in 1985, this collection of essays expands the understanding of both health itself and the ways in which women may experience their roles as consumers and providers of health care. The authors represent a number of disciplines – anthropology, sociology and political science – and examine issues of public concern on both sides of the Atlantic. Many important health questions are discussed, including the increasing use of high technology methods on obstetrical care, HRT, the treatment of frail elderly women, occupational health, health issues of sport and fitness, and health care systems of the UK, US and Canada as they relate to women in various social circumstances.

Women in Charge: The Experiences of Female Entrepreneurs (Routledge Revivals)

Why do women start their own businesses? Is it solely because they are searching for financial success, or for other reasons? On the basis of detailed interviews with a number of women who have started their own businesses, this book, first published in 1985, reveals the significance of factors that are directly related to women’s experiences at home, at work, and in the wider society. The author’s analysis shows how business start-up enables many women, but not all, to achieve forms of economic and social independence that they would not otherwise enjoy. Further, they illustrate ways in which business proprietorship has a wide variety of effects upon individuals, and upon their personal relationships and life styles. They refute the notion of a single entrepreneurial experience and argue that the causes and consequences of business start-up are highly conditioned by the extent to which women are committed to traditionally prescribed roles and to profitability. The findings of this book will have important implications for the formulation of small business policies. It will also be of particular value to those interested in women’s studies and small business management.

Women in Charge: The Experiences of Female Entrepreneurs (Routledge Revivals)

Why do women start their own businesses? Is it solely because they are searching for financial success, or for other reasons? On the basis of detailed interviews with a number of women who have started their own businesses, this book, first published in 1985, reveals the significance of factors that are directly related to women’s experiences at home, at work, and in the wider society. The author’s analysis shows how business start-up enables many women, but not all, to achieve forms of economic and social independence that they would not otherwise enjoy. Further, they illustrate ways in which business proprietorship has a wide variety of effects upon individuals, and upon their personal relationships and life styles. They refute the notion of a single entrepreneurial experience and argue that the causes and consequences of business start-up are highly conditioned by the extent to which women are committed to traditionally prescribed roles and to profitability. The findings of this book will have important implications for the formulation of small business policies. It will also be of particular value to those interested in women’s studies and small business management.

Women-in-Law: Explorations in Law, Family, and Sexuality (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1985, Women-in-Law is a collection of essays examining the complex interactions of law, sexuality, and the family. It explores the ways in which legal ideology and practice affect women and looks at issues such as child custody, domestic violence and prostitution in the light of new research. The contributors review the history of feminist involvement with the law and analyse the law’s fundamental failure to improve the status of women. They also assess strategies for change in view of the current backlash against women’s rights and the traditional role of law in the subjugation of women. This book will be of interest to students of law, political science, sociology, gender studies, and sexuality studies.

Women-in-Law: Explorations in Law, Family, and Sexuality (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1985, Women-in-Law is a collection of essays examining the complex interactions of law, sexuality, and the family. It explores the ways in which legal ideology and practice affect women and looks at issues such as child custody, domestic violence and prostitution in the light of new research. The contributors review the history of feminist involvement with the law and analyse the law’s fundamental failure to improve the status of women. They also assess strategies for change in view of the current backlash against women’s rights and the traditional role of law in the subjugation of women. This book will be of interest to students of law, political science, sociology, gender studies, and sexuality studies.

Women’s Rights at Work: Campaigns and Policy in Britain and the United States

The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1985, The Word and the World is a significant, empirically-based contribution to the sociological analysis of scientists’ discourse and scientific culture. It also offers a radical departure from established forms of sociological discourse which has far-reaching implications for all areas of sociological study. The central aim of this book is to widen the range of textual forms used in empirical sociological research, and thereby to increase sociologists’ ability to furnish interesting, valid and practically useful conclusions. The unusual textual forms employed for the purposes of sociological analysis are ‘the play’, ‘the investigative inquiry’, ‘the participant-analyst dialogue’, and ‘the parody’. One of the main substantive topics that provides the material for these explorations in form is the ‘scientific debate’. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, rhetoric, linguistics and science.

The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1985, The Word and the World is a significant, empirically-based contribution to the sociological analysis of scientists’ discourse and scientific culture. It also offers a radical departure from established forms of sociological discourse which has far-reaching implications for all areas of sociological study. The central aim of this book is to widen the range of textual forms used in empirical sociological research, and thereby to increase sociologists’ ability to furnish interesting, valid and practically useful conclusions. The unusual textual forms employed for the purposes of sociological analysis are ‘the play’, ‘the investigative inquiry’, ‘the participant-analyst dialogue’, and ‘the parody’. One of the main substantive topics that provides the material for these explorations in form is the ‘scientific debate’. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, rhetoric, linguistics and science.

Working With Offenders (Practical Social Work Series)

'Quite simply, it is the most useful book on probation work that I have ever read.' Rob Voakes, Probation Journal

Zeit und Kultur: Geschichte des Zeitbewußtseins in Europa

"(...) Es ist ein Genuß, sich mit den Gedanken des Autors über den Zusammenhang von Zeit und Kultur im Laufe der Jahrtausende auseinanderzusetzen.(...)"Feldbacher Anzeigenblatt"(...) Eines der gefragtesten Bücher, die quer zu allen Disziplinen liegen".Die Zeit"(...) Der Autor hat einen bedeutenden und eminent wichtigen, vor allem auch klaren Beitrag zum Zeitproblem geliefert - eines der Bücher, von denen Rezensenten sich wünschen, daß Politiker, Bischöfe, Gewerkschaftler und Arbeitgeber sie sorgfältig lesen möchten".Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Zur Didaktik des politischen Unterrichts: Wissenschaftliche Voraussetzungen Didaktische Konzeptionen Unterrichtspraktische Vorschläge

Zur politischen Didaktik interkulturellen Lernens: Ein Planungskonzept für internationale Jugendarbeit (Schriften des Instituts für angewandte Kommunikationsforschung #1)

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of bop in the late 1930s and '40s. Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 leading jazz figures, over a 10-year period, to preserve for posterity their recollections of the transition in jazz from the big band era to the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed, including both the acclaimed and the unrecorded, tell in their own words how this renegade music emerged, why it was a turning point in American jazz, and how it influenced their own lives and work. Placing jazz in historical context, Gitler demonstrates how the mood of the nation in its post-Depression years, racial attitudes of the time, and World War II combined to shape the jazz of today.

Portrait of an Expatriate: William Gardner Smith, Writer (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)

LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr., has written a lively and informative biography of a Black writer of merit whose works have not enjoyed the wide readership they deserve. Interweaving discussion and criticism of William Gardner Smith's literary work with an account of his life, Hodges provides summaries and critical evaluations of Smith's novels and his nonfiction. He gives us insight into the experience of Black writers who chose to live abroad and looks searchingly at the problem of alienation.

„...Muß kommen, aber nix von Herzen“: Zur Lebenssituation von Migrantinnen — unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Biographien türkischer Frauen (Forschungstexte Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften #20)

Das Phänomen der Migration, die Tatsache, daß Menschen ihre Heimat verlassen, um in einem anderen Land zu leben, ist ein uraltes. Es hat zahlreiche Versuche gegeben, diesen Prozeß zu analysieren, die Auswirkungen zu beschreiben. In unserer Gesellschaft leben seit einem gewissen Zeitraum Menschen, die aus verschiedenen fremden Nationen und Kulturen herstammen. Sie haben den Entschluß gefaßt, ihre Heimat zu ver­ lassen, um hier zu arbeiten und zu leben. Dabei zeigt sich, daß der Prozeß der Auswanderung und des Einlebens in eine neue, fremde Gesellschaft ein sehr konflikthafter ist. Sozialen ga­ gierte Gruppen und Organisationen, Wissenschaftler und Wissen­ schaftlerinnen, pädagogische und sozialpädagogische Fachkräfte, ja, die Betroffenen selber, weisen mit Nachdruck auf die er­ schwerten Bedingungen des Eingewöhnens und Lebens in unserer Gesellschaft hin und fordern Unterstützung und Abhilfe. Forde­ rungen nach politischen und gesetzlichen Maßnahmen spielen hierbei eine zentrale Rolle. Innerhalb der Diskussion über die Lebenssituation von Mi­ granten war die spezifische Situation der Migrantinnen lange Zeit unbeachtet geblieben. Weder die Frauen, die aus eigenem Entschluß die Migration angetreten hatten, noch die, die als Familienmitglieder den vorausgegangenen Verwandten folgten, wurden wahrgenommen. Folglich blieb die Analyse und Beschrei­ bung des Phänomens Migration auf die Lebenswelt der Männer be­ schränkt, und auch Beiträge zur Lösung von Problemen ließen die Situation der Frauen außer acht - Hilfe wurde ihnen nicht zuteil.

Adenauer und die rheinische Republik: Der erste Anlauf 1918–1924

Administration and Development in the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliography (Routledge Library Editions: Society of the Middle East)

This book, first published in 1986, examines the literature on administration, human resources and development in the Arab world. It emphasizes contemporary societies and their internal dynamics, the least known and most critical aspects of Arabic studies.

Administration and Development in the Arab World: An Annotated Bibliography (Routledge Library Editions: Society of the Middle East)

This book, first published in 1986, examines the literature on administration, human resources and development in the Arab world. It emphasizes contemporary societies and their internal dynamics, the least known and most critical aspects of Arabic studies.

Administrative Development

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Administrative Development: An Islamic Perspective

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ageing and Families: A Support Networks Perspective (Routledge Library Editions: Family)

Originally published in 1986, this title was a landmark study of ageing in Australia and a major contribution to the study of gerontology at the time. It highlights major themes on ageing in ‘western’ industrialised societies, as well as pinpointing new, emerging themes. For instance, the initial speculations in the 1960s that informal groups such as the family, neighbours, and friends play crucial helping roles for older people. The book also presents data and summarises past studies that show the common characteristics of those delivering and receiving services, such as the special role of women; and within that gender related services, the special importance of children and spouses, the importance of close proximity when people are chronically disabled, the fact that most retired people manage their own lives without help and in fact provide services to their children, and much more, is dealt with. It also looks at how such informal support works alongside the formal agencies, such as nursing homes. The systematic study of how informal and formal systems link together was one of the gaps in gerontological research at the time.

Ageing and Families: A Support Networks Perspective (Routledge Library Editions: Family)

Originally published in 1986, this title was a landmark study of ageing in Australia and a major contribution to the study of gerontology at the time. It highlights major themes on ageing in ‘western’ industrialised societies, as well as pinpointing new, emerging themes. For instance, the initial speculations in the 1960s that informal groups such as the family, neighbours, and friends play crucial helping roles for older people. The book also presents data and summarises past studies that show the common characteristics of those delivering and receiving services, such as the special role of women; and within that gender related services, the special importance of children and spouses, the importance of close proximity when people are chronically disabled, the fact that most retired people manage their own lives without help and in fact provide services to their children, and much more, is dealt with. It also looks at how such informal support works alongside the formal agencies, such as nursing homes. The systematic study of how informal and formal systems link together was one of the gaps in gerontological research at the time.