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  • Inheritance Matters

    Kinship, Property, Law

    Edited by Suzanne Lenon, Daniel Monk ...
    This book makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage to make sense of fundamental questions of our time.Drawing on historical, literary, sociological, and legal analysis, this rich collection of original, interdisciplinary and international contributions demonstrates how inheritance is and has always been about far more than the set of legal ... Read more

    Was $97.99 USD Now $49.99 USD

  • Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969

    Edited by Ms Joanna Miles, Daniel Monk, Professor Rebecca Probert ...
    The enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was a landmark moment in family law. Coming into force in 1971, it had a significant impact on legal practice and was followed by a dramatic increase in divorce rates, reflecting changes in social attitudes.This new interdisciplinary collection explores the background to the 1969 Act and its influence on law and society. Bringing together scholars from ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage

    Interdisciplinary Reflections

    Edited by Nicola Barker, Daniel Monk ...
    The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks, rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a legal reform process that commenced with the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Yet, at the same time, for others ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Feminist Perspectives on Child Law

    Edited by Jo Bridgeman, Daniel Monk ...
    Series series Feminist Perspectives
    Feminist Perspectives on Child Law is a collection of interdisciplinary socio-legal essays which explore the complex relationship between childhood,gender and the law. Drawing on a wide range of feminist and critical theories and empirical research, these original essays challenge the gender neutrality of law; they explore the shifting constructions of childhood by law, legal practice and popular ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914

    by Dr Jose Harris ...
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  • Family Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathan Herring ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? Family Law: A Very Short Introduction gives the reader an insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. It examines how laws have had to respond to social changes in family life, from rapidly rising divorce rates to surrogate mothers, and gives insight into family courts which are required to ... Read more

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  • Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

    Edited by Gail Lewis ...
    Series series Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
    This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between past and present, it ... Read more

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  • Education and the Professions

    by History of Education Society ...
    Part of the educational system in England has been geared towards the preparation of particular professions, while the identity and status of members of some professions have depended significantly on the general education they have received.Originally published in 1973, this volume explores the interaction between education and the professions. It also looks at the education of the main ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Law and Crime

    by Gerry Johnstone, Tony Ward ...
    Series series Key Approaches to Criminology
    What is the definition of ′crime′? Law and Crime helps the criminologist to understand how the law constructs crime and how one might engage in critical analysis of such legal constructions. It uses a thematic approach to comprehensively explore the relationship between criminal conduct, criminal justice and the law.The book introduces key topics in criminal law scholarship for criminologists, ... Read more

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  • Hanoverian Britain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Mark Knights ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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  • Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Essays on Gender, Family and Empire

    by John Tosh ...
    Series series Women And Men In History
    In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginning, having written A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999), and co-edited Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain**since 1800 (1991). Here he brings together ... Read more

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  • The Locus of Care

    Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity

    Edited by Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus of Care provides an historical perspective on welfare detailing who carers were in the past, where care was provided, and how far the boundary between family and state or informal and organised institutions have ... Read more

    $65.99 USD