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This insightful volume argues that care workers-those looking after children, the elderly, and people with disabilities-require security similar to any other group of workers. It provides a valuable overview and analysis of care work as a relevant social policy phenomenon in industrialized and developing countries around the world, while exploring pivotal questions such as how provisions for care are made, who is to benefit, and who is to pay.

The Irish battle for legal contraception was a contest over Irish exceptionalism: the belief that Ireland could resist global trends despite the impact of second-wave feminism, falling fertility, and a growing number of women travelling for abortion. It became so lengthy and so divisive because it challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. The Catholic Church argued th...

The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is a story of gender, religion, social change, and failing efforts to reaffirm Irish moral exceptionalism.

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Drawing on a multidisciplinary group of experts from many countries, this Handbook is intended to be a reference work that provides students and scholars in policy-related disciplines a wide-ranging perspective on the diverse ways that family policies respond to modern issues and trends over the life course. The Handbook is divided into two main parts. The first part offers a panoramic introduction to the setting and issues which contemporary ...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The central interest of this innovative book is the role and significance of family in a context of poverty and low-income. Based on a micro-level study carried out in 2011 and 2012 with 51 families in Northern Ireland, it offers new empirical evidence and a theorisation of the relationship between family life and poverty.

This is a comprehensive study of the problems which the city of Dublin faced between the famine and World War One. The decline of the city's traditional industries and the rising proportion of casual labourers in the population gave rise to intense poverty which resulted in excessively high death-rates and a housing crisis

This volume provides a review of the modern reception of the English emblem, as documented in the companion bibliography. It begins with a definition of the genre, and reviews general studies of the European emblem, followed by general studies of the English emblem.

The roots of many problems facing Ireland's economy today can be traced to the first two decades following its independence. Opening previously unexplored areas of Irish history, this is the first comprehensive study of industrial development and attitudes toward industrialization during a pivotal period, from the founding of the Irish Free State to the Anglo­Irish Trade Treaty.As one of the first postcolonial states of the twentieth century, ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Infinite, si dice spesso ironicamente, sono le vie del Signore. Così, è potuto accadere e sta accadendo che l'interesse per la teologia si è ravvivato in questi anni, persino in Italia, per l'intervento delle donne, nella loro ricerca delle radici remote, nella cultura di tutti, della patologia sessista. Questo libro di Mary Daly, teologa e femminista americana, è un classico di questa ricerca. E, in un senso che si vuole nuovo, fuori da vecch...

Excerpt from A Retrospect: Being Memorials of Some Who Have Long Since Departed This LifeFor the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them and shall lead them unto living foun tains of waters And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Amen Even so, come, Lord Jesus - Revelation vii. 13 - 17 and 20.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbook...

Charming Daly (Feminist Ethics/Boston College, Pure Lust, 1984, Gyn/Ecology, 1978, etc.) gives us her side of the story in this "account of my time/space travels and ideas." Daly has always dispensed pretty strong medicine, and in the last few years seems to have opened her own sanatorium: This book employs the same fractured vocabulary and inverted syntax that she established as her lingua franca in Gyn/Ecology. We are taken through the four ...

Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice

This volume of the Index Emblematicus deals with three early 17th-century works: Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, by William Camden / The Mirrour of Maiestie, by H.G. / Amorum Emblematta by Otto van Vee.