Product Description: The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world. The Encyclopedia's coverage is comprehensive across three dimensions: areas of personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and historical contexts and formations...read more

Product Description: The findings of more than five years' collaboration by the leading European researchers on men and masculinities, this book is the first to adopt a comparative and transnational perspective on men and masculinities in Europe.

Product Description: DEATH. The Final Frontier. The Fat Lady has sung, the house lights are up and the curtain has fallen. The show is over. That's all, Folks! The End. Or so all the physical evidence would seem to suggest. But is it? Who really knows? Who can honestly say, with unswerving probity, that there won't be an encore and that dying definitively equates to no longer living? Not you...read more

Nordic countries are generally regarded as global welfare role models in terms of their image of being gender equal, child-friendly and culturally tolerant. Consequently, the influence of Nordic welfare systems in transnational academic and policy debates has been immense. By focusing on the vital welfare issue of violence by men to female partners and/or their children, this book seeks to reconsider this over-simplistic image.Drawing on new research from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, the book critically examines how men's violence in families is perceived and responded to in the Nordic context. It pays particular attention to the links between violence to women and violence to children, children's perspectives, professional discourses and responses, and legal and policy approaches.With clear links between research, policy and practice, the book is highly relevant to a wide audience, including academics, researchers and students in the fields of social work, health, criminology, sociology, social policy, gender studies, European studies and law. It is also recommended reading for welfare managers, practitioners, and policy makers.

Product Description: Much work has been produced in recent years regarding critical studies of men‘s practices utilizing various feminist and pro-feminist perspectives. This book widens what has hitherto been a dialogue primarily within the Western democracies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text seeks to provide a comparative analysis of child welfare in Denmark using a new research method. First, it is based on semi-structured interviews with a wide range of "actors" in the field of Danish child welfare, including parents of children who have been in the Danish "care system", social workers in the statutory sector, social welfare managers, local politicians, policy "players" at the central governmental level, prominent social policy researchers, workers in voluntary agencies of various sorts, managers of innovative welfare projects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Confronting a wide range of social problems experienced by children and their carers across Europe, and the means by which these problems are dealt with by the welfare systems, this volume draws together material from disparate sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An examination of men and masculinity, which considers the issues involved with both the use of and provision of welfare services by men, and argues that there is a case for restricting their role. The book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social work, social policy and gender studies, as well those interested in masculinity within sociology and psychology...read more