Social groups, communities and identities

This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism.

This book sociologically investigates the contemporary Catholic Church's stance on gender diversity and "e;gender ideology"e; and explores ways to adapt the social science perspectives on sex, gender, and gender fluidity in the Church's moral teachings, applying Pope Francis's inductive synodal theology.

This book sociologically investigates the contemporary Catholic Church's stance on gender diversity and "e;gender ideology"e; and explores ways to adapt the social science perspectives on sex, gender, and gender fluidity in the Church's moral teachings, applying Pope Francis's inductive synodal theology.

This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism.

This book draws upon qualitative interviews with lower-middle class men with adult children.

This book represents one of the initial comprehensive studies of TED Talks on Islam.

This book presents a novel perspective on immobility, a topic often overlooked in urban planning and transport studies.

This book establishes a lay social spirituality for health care practitioners that pursues the Catholic Church’s social teachings on the preferential option for the poor, structural sin, and health care reform to address today’s commodification of the health care system where maximizing profit and patient’s capacity to pay become the primary consideration.

This book centres on religious heritage-making where religion as a rich and diverse manifestation of culture and community empowerment lead to the transformation of place.

The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes.

The study presented in this book explores the cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English, drawing on the research fields of Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Sociolinguistics and World Englishes.

This book describes the battle between major Middle Eastern and Asian Muslim-majority states to control the definition of Islam in the 21st century.

This book describes the battle between major Middle Eastern and Asian Muslim-majority states to control the definition of Islam in the 21st century.

The book is about the role of religious leadership in settling disputes of a legal nature within religious communities and the effects of this process on immigrant integration in Canada and the USA.

This book offers an invaluable study on class composition in Leipzig, the city renowned for its pivotal role in the downfall of state socialism.

This book explores portraits of significant women living in central and southeastern Europe whose lives and activities remain unknown, uncovering their lifestyles as well as the social entanglements relating to their education.

This book explores portraits of significant women living in central and southeastern Europe whose lives and activities remain unknown, uncovering their lifestyles as well as the social entanglements relating to their education.

This book considers the growing popularity of solo motherhood via gamete donation and how this type of "e;cyborg conception"e; is narrated in medicine, bioethics, fiction, and memoir.

This book explores the decolonization of Holy Cross education in Bangladesh.

This book explores the decolonization of Holy Cross education in Bangladesh.

This Handbook is the first of its kind addressing gender issues in health in five countries of the South Asian Region, namely: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

This book is a comprehensive introductory text to the subject of Western Muslims' diverse interpretations, discussions and practices of Shari'a with a particular focus on their daily lives in the West.

This book is a comprehensive introductory text to the subject of Western Muslims' diverse interpretations, discussions and practices of Shari'a with a particular focus on their daily lives in the West.

This book explores the way stories that emerge from the garden and are consumed in the digital space can become a nourished method of environmental communication.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary exploration of gender, public health, and disease with a focus on urban areas impacted by climate change.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary exploration of gender, public health, and disease with a focus on urban areas impacted by climate change.

This book investigates the origins and development of the theory of four stages of liberation in Pali literature.

This book investigates the origins and development of the theory of four stages of liberation in Pali literature.

What is the relevance of feminist ideas for understanding women's experiences of disability?

This book examines labor market policy and institutional reforms and their impact on outcomes in the Chinese labor market, utilizing both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

Swedish children's cinema has a long and rich history.

This book provides a comprehensive manual for researchers, practitioners, policymakers as well as students striving to achieve environmental sustainment.

This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature.

This book takes a strengths-based approach to focus on different aspects of mental health.

Terms such as "e;patient engagement"e;, "e;centricity"e;, and "e;patient first"e; are often loosely used to describe a company vision, a joint objective in establishing an ethos which incorporates the person who matters the most, the patient.