Books written by Simon Duncan

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  Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage

  Tradition, Agency and Bricolage Julia Carter, Simon Duncan. 3. Although this construction of the self is also 'the unreflexive product of a particular cultural tradition, namely Western modernity' (Adams 2003: 234).

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  Cohabitation, Marriage and the Law: Social Change and Legal Reform in the 21st Century

  The members of the advisory group—Dame Margaret Booth, Carol Smart, Rebecca Bailey-Harris, Mark Harper and Mary Macleod—gave advice and feedback as the project progressed. Yunis Alam and Cilizia Armstrong-Gibbons carried out the ...

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  Gender, Economy and Culture in the European Union

  For Jean Gardiner (1997) this approach neglected individual needs to contribute, alongside collective support, to parenting and caring work, thereby alienating workingclass women. In socialist countries, for example Germany's former GDR ...

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  Single Mothers In International Context: Mothers Or Workers?

  She holds a PhD degree in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has over 25 years ... and Education (Taylor & Fancis, 1993) and (with David, Hughes and Ribbens) Mothers and Education: Inside Out?

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  Single Mothers In International Context: Mothers Or Workers?

  ; This edited collection explores these variations, focusing on the interaction between dominant discourses around single motherhood, state policies towards single mothers, the structure of the labour market at national and local levels, ...