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Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about th...

The relationship between gender and welfare states is of key importance in understanding welfare states and gender equality and inequality. Western...

Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book e...

A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States.   From the c...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured? How sho...

Despite becoming a big issue in public debate, social mobility is one of the most misunderstood processes of our time. In this accessible and engag...

Despite becoming a big issue in public debate, social mobility is one of the most misunderstood processes of our time. In this accessible and engag...

Feminist scholars have demonstrated how dominant discourses and master narratives frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and ...

Sufism is generally perceived as being spiritually focused and about the development of the self. However, Sufi orders have been involved historica...

Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic ...

After the Second World War, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of ...

This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mi...

This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism by using a wide range of case studies from lesser studied cities across the...

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and p...

Nationally representative studies confirm that LGBTQ individuals are at an elevated risk of experiencing intimate partner violence. While many simi...