A critical introduction to the ways in which gender affects mental health experiences and mental health service use. Offering a policy perspective and an overview, the book examines society's responses to mental disorders, trends in mental health care and healthcare legislation.
A critical introduction to the ways in which gender affects mental health experiences and mental health service use. Offering a policy perspective and an overview, the book examines society's responses to mental disorders, trends in mental health care and healthcare legislation.
This text is a comprehensive synthesis of current literature and knowledge regarding gender in organisations. Contributers examine the influence of gender on the conduct of work and the roles and experience of people in the workplace.'
Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
One of a series which promotes scholarship about the experiences of sexual minorities, this book explores the social and cultural significance of the private. The author proposes that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial - and sexual - minority status.
Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
One of a series which promotes scholarship about the experiences of sexual minorities, this book explores the social and cultural significance of the private. The author proposes that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial - and sexual - minority status.
This book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. Her `What's the Problem?' approach encourages students to reflect ......
Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth
In this study of sex and marriage manuals, M.E. Melody and Linda M. Peterson reveal that permissiveness, Prohibition, and persuasion and enforcement; from sermons and hellfire to mutilation and electroshock; have informed popular sex education over the past hundred and twenty years.
An examination of the diagnosis of GID (gender-identity disorder of childhood). It considers how the stigma of illness influences a child's development and what homosexual childhood, freed from the constraints of conventionally acceptable gender expression, might look like.
This major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian love, the gay city and the ways in which the urban landscape and everyday life ......
