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Edited by Stuart Isaacs

European Social Problems is the first book to examine social problems in Europe from the perspective of the social sciences. Key issues around health, crime, poverty, immigration, ethnicity, gender and education are addressed. An examination of the role of the institutions of the E.U. in solving…

Paperback – 2016-12-31 
Routledge

Edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Petersen-Badali, Michael Freeman

While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the…

Paperback – 2016-12-16 
Psychology Press

Edited by Anne C. Petersen, Frosso Motti, Silvia H. Koller, Suman Verma

The youth of the world are our most important assets. When youth develop positively, they have the power to benefit themselves, their families, communities, and societies. These tremendous benefits accrue for many generations, so investments in youth represent a highly cost-effective opportunity…

Paperback – 2016-12-15 
Psychology Press

Edited by Christopher Kelen, Bjorn Sundmark

This book explores representations of child autonomy and self-governance in children’s literature.The idea of child rule and child realms is central to children’s literature, and childhood is frequently represented as a state of being , with children seen as aliens in need of passports to Adultland…

Hardback – 2016-12-09 
Routledge
Children's Literature and Culture

Edited by Heather Montgomery

This landmark publication from Routledge reflects the widespread recognition of Childhood Studies as a significant and mature area of cross-disciplinary study and research. And as serious scholarly work in and around Childhood Studies blossoms as never before, this new four-volume collection from…

Hardback – 2016-08-19
Routledge
Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

Edited by John Boulton

This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote Indigenous communities. Invaluably informed by Boulton’s close working knowledge of Aboriginal communities, the book addresses growth…

Paperback – 2016-05-12
Routledge

Edited by Audra A. Diptee, David V. Trotman

Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts explores childhood and youth in the Global South. The term childhood often conjures images of innocence, vulnerability and the need for protection, but this book suggests that, in colonial contexts, these images need to be re-examined. In fact, as the articles…

Hardback – 2016-05-05
Routledge

Edited by Jennifer Miskec, Annette Wannamaker

This is the first volume to consider the popular literary category of Early Readers – books written and designed for children who are just beginning to read independently. It argues that Early Readers deserve more scholarly attention and careful thought because they are, for many younger readers,…

Hardback – 2015-12-11
Routledge
Children's Literature and Culture

Edited by Manata Hashemi, Martin Sanchez-Jankowski

This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their…

Paperback – 2015-09-16
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Sociology

Edited by Charlotte Faircloth, Diane M. Hoffman, Linda L. Layne

Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of ‘parenting’. Parenting in Global Perspective examines the significance of ‘parenting’ as a subject of professional expertise, and activity in which adults are…

Paperback – 2015-09-04
Routledge
Relationships and Resources

Edited by Dorothea E. Dette-Hagenmeyer, Andrea B. Erzinger, Barbara Reichle

The role of the father in a family and for his children has varied greatly throughout history. However, scientific research into fatherhood began relatively late at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, with a strong focus on the impact of the father on child development. This book focuses on the…

Hardback – 2015-08-07
Routledge

By Ken Dowden

A remarkable number of Greek myths concern the plight of virgins – slaughtered, sacrificed, hanged, transformed into birds, cows, dear, bears, trees, and punished in Hades. Death and the Maiden, first published in 1989, contextualises this mythology in terms of geography, history and culture, and…

Paperback – 2015-07-01
Routledge
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