The General Household Survey is a multi-purpose continuous survey which collects information on a range of topics from people living in private households in Great Britain. It covers a range of core topics every year including household and family information, employment, education, health and income.
At the approach of the twenty-first century, the United Nations remains the main hope for world peace. This straightforward analysis by longtime observers and recognized scholars sets out the fundamental features of the structure of the UN and traces the political issues in which it is involved.
This text was introduced to provide one occupational classification for use by the government. This revised edition includes sections on managerial and computing and related occupations, as well as specific occupations associated with the environment and conservation.
The Pink Book provides detailed estimates of the UK balance of payments for the last 11 years and is one of the UK's key economic statistical series. The current account (trade in goods and services, income and current transfers), capital account, financial account and the international investment position are all covered. The book also includes a chapter on the geographical breakdown of the current account, with explanatory text and definitio...
This text analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender, sexuality and subjectivity in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". It draws on a range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts, and sees the film as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire.
The first issue of the 2010 volume (Issue 94) will feature some of the many high-quality submissions to the Journal, which have been accepted following rigorous peer-review. It brings together new feminist writing that intervenes in a range of current debates and issues.
Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE and A Level coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization and sample questions with guideline answers.
What are the characteristics of feminist interventions in the areas of fashion and beauty in the 21st century? Undoubtedly there have been drastic changes since the feminist dress codes of the late seventies and early eighties. But has the rejection of former feminist positions on dress and make-up led to a depoliticised acceptance of the status quo? This issue looks at how feminists are addressing questions surrounding fashion and beauty today.
For the first time in its thirty year history Feminist Review devotes a special issue to religion and spirituality. This issue of Feminist Review, edited by Lyn Thomas and Avtar Brah, explores a range of religious and spiritual practices through the lens of gender, and encompasses both theoretical and empirical approaches. Recent work on the gendering of secularisation theories and on women's practice of faith and spirituality has complicated ...
Theorizations of globalized media are interrogated through studies of actual media use in transnational contexts, including bloggers in the Iranian diaspora and young Dutch Morrocan women creating their own spaces through text messaging, emerging and established producers discuss how their work creates feminist interventions in the media landscape.
The goal of 'Gendering Diasporas' is to stimulate critical reflection among feminist scholars about the formation of diaspora as a site of political aspiration and solidarity, and as a social, cultural and political framework of analysis.
An alien entity that can take any living form invades an isolated scientific research station in the Antarctic. John Carpenter's "The Thing "is best known for some of the most startling visual effects - surreal, lurid, shocking perversions of the human body - ever committed to celluloid. At London's National Film Theatre in 1995, Quentin Tarantino named "The Thing" as one of his favorite films. Yet when it was released in 1982, it fared badly ...
Presents statistics on marriages solemnised, dissolved and annulled in England and Wales. The marriage tables look at characteristics of couples such as age and previous marital status. Divorce information includes age and marital status at the time of marriage, duration of marriage, age at divorce, and the grounds for divorce.
