... the similarities and differences between categories of transgender experience. The book argues for the importance of theorising gender diversity in relation to social structures, discursive formations, subjective understandings, embodied corporalities, and cultural (and subcultural) practices. feminism medical...

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... to Female and Female to Male transgender practices, and draws on interviews with people who identify as transsexual and those who articulate more fluctuating gender identities. Additionally, it explains how the social structures of gender and sexuality impact upon understandings, practices, and experiences...

... Winkelmann Gleed A and Seely J globalisation transnational communities family life old age economic structures social structures nation state This chapter considers some of the challenges raised by the development of globalisation for understanding changes to family life. Debates around the theme...

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... in the neighbourhood and generating new forms of solidarity, especially between residents in similar economically disadvantaged positions. Some of these new forms of solidarity in diversity have a transformative effect, that is, they question existing and normalised social structures and relationships. assimilationism...

... needs, poverty, community-based support, and humiliation. The chapter ends with an account of the experiences of young people, and comments on the broader social structures and processes that are involved. children Lay M Papadopoulos I sexual abuse Convention on the Rights of the Child UNCRC Every...

...This chapter explores the social structures that affect the development of human agency. Its main issue is the rise of the ideal of autonomy, as a developmental norm, that is a major consequence of the transformation of public policies. In addition, the fall of traditional society and the growth...

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