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S/He: changing sex and changing clothes
- Author:
- GRIGGS Claudine
- Publisher:
- Berg
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 167p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Aims, through an examination of the experience of transsexuals, to enhance understanding of how gender can and does function in powerful, complex, and subtle ways. Highlights how the gender identity of transsexuals relates to hormonal and surgical changes in the body as well as to changes in dress. Investigates the pressures and motivations to conform to expected gender roles, and the ways in which these are affected by social, educational, and professional status. Differences in the experiences of those who change from male to female and those who change from female to male are also examined.
Private markets in health and welfare: an international perspective
- Editor:
- JOHNSON Norman
- Publisher:
- Berg
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 263p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Collection of papers examining the growing role of private markets in the provision and finance of health and social welfare services in the UK, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, the United States, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. Considers whether the principal beneficiaries have been the state, the consumers, or the commercial providers. Includes papers on domiciliary and residential services, housing, and a range of health services.
Managing the welfare state: the politics of public sector management
- Authors:
- CUTLER Tony, WAINE Barbara
- Publisher:
- Berg
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 175p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Looks at what went wrong with Conservative policies designed to transform the nature of public sector management, and provides a critique of these policies.