Social Services category: 2206 books
Enforcing Normalcy
Disability, Deafness, and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.
Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of...
Development Asia—Racing to Reach the Millennium Development Goals
October–December 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly was a major breakthrough in the fight against poverty. Not only did it draw out firm commitments from nations but it also promoted greater transparency and urgency by putting the spotlight on...
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State
New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect...
by Wang Xiaoqi
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China’s outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve decision-making in government and reshape the management system in face of a more complex economy, post-Mao authorities have implemented a number...
A People's War on Poverty
Urban Politics, Grassroots Activists, and the Struggle for Democracy in Houston, 1964-1976
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In A People’s War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site...
by Sherrow O. Pinder
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable,...
School Lunch Politics
The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American culture, from its origins in early twentieth-century...
by Joshua C. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v. Coakley striking down a Massachusetts law regulating anti-abortion activism marked the reengagement of the Supreme Court in abortion politics. A throwback to the days of clinic-front protests, the decision seemed a means to reinvigorate the old street politics...
Active Ageing
Solidarity and Responsibility in an Ageing Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Current demographic changes are a major factor in the increasing societal interest in the contributions older generations can make to the development and cohesion of society. This Centre for European Studies study argues that the traditional view of ageing is gradually being replaced by a new perspective,...
Welcome to Fostering
A Guide to Becoming and Being a Foster Carer
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.
Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise...
by Dr. Janice G. Weber
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
The first comprehensive text on stress and crisis management specifically tailored to courses focusing on the family
Organized by stress model, this book helps readers understand the relationships among models, research, crisis prevention, and crisis management with individuals and families....
by Martin Charlesworth, Natalie Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
When you think of poverty in Britain today, do you picture innocent children going without food or scroungers lounging on the sofa all day watching TV and cheating on benefits claims? For Christians, what we think about the poor in our nation needs to be shaped by biblical values, but can so often...
by C Balagopal
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
A glimpse into the intricacies and challenges of governing remote and overlooked areas in the North East 'Balagopal, this is Kerala. This is not Manipur!' This was a refrain that I often heard and was something that I only gradually came to understand. It was clearly based on the unstated premise...
The Adoption Experience
Families Who Give Children a Second Chance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
This is a book of real life stories of adopters which takes the reader through every stage of the adoption process starting with the moment when they decide that adoption is the right option for them to the stories of adoptees brought up by adoptive parents.
In between, the book looks at all...