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The body in social policy: mapping a territory
- Author:
- TWIGG Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 31(3), July 2002, pp.421-439.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Explores the relevance of recent theorising around the body in social policy. Argues that the body is strongly present within social policy, in both the subject matter and the debates. Discusses how the literature on the body is relevant to social policy and might bring insights that are of benefit to the subject. Focuses on the areas of: health care, community care, disability no-power consumption, and the cross-cutting themes of age, race, gender and sexuality.
'Us' and 'them'? Feminist research, community care and disability
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 33, Winter 1991, pp.22-39.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Feminist research on community care is concerned with women's position in the family. Such research has failed to take on the reality and the interests of those groups of people who receive 'care'. This had led some feminists to conclude that non-sexist forms of community care are impossible and to advocate new forms of institutional care as an alternative. Disabled people experience such research as oppressive and alienating. Research which incorporated the subjective reality of disabled people would ask different questions but, although rejecting institutional care, would still support feminism's rejection of the way that 'community care' too often means 'family care'.
Sexualities: personal lives and social policy
- Editor:
- CARABINE Jean
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Open University
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the choices that people make about their sexuality and how these can transform their personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. The authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy.They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our personal lives, but also highlight how social policy might be used as an instrument of positive change.These processes are explored through such issues as: the significance of gender relations and identities in normative constructions of heterosexual marriage, the nuclear family and parenthood; the regulatory effects of policy-making on young people’s sexual experiences and activity and their strategies of resistance; and the normative standards of sexuality and the extent to which these have marginalized and silenced the sexuality of disabled people.
Aging, disability, and disabled older people in India
- Author:
- PRAKASH Indira Jai
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 15(23), 2003, pp.67-83.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
India is witnessing a demographic revolution, leading to a considerable increase in the proportion of older people in the population. Similarly, life expectancy of both the mentally and physically disabled has improved considerably. About 5% of Indian older people have problems with physical mobility. Aging has become a gender issue in India not only because more women are surviving into old age; they are also vulnerable and disadvantaged in many ways. In most cases they are the only caregivers available for the old and disabled. Older Indians are considered a high-risk group for multiple morbidity. It is estimated that nearly four million Indians suffer from mental problems. India has around 12 million people designated as “handicapped.” However, little information is available about disabled people who grow older. The National Policy on Older Persons, which has been recently formulated, aims at providing an improved quality of life for millions of older Indians. However, the concerns of older disabled and of the disabled who grow old are still treated separately in both policy and practice.
Disability and social participation in Europe
- Author:
- EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Eurostat
- Publisher:
- Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 81p.
- Place of publication:
- Luxembourg
Aims to respond to the growing demand by Member States and the European Commission for internationally comparative statistics on the social situation of people with disabilities. Contents: self reported disability; social participation; sources of income and benefits; satisfaction, socialising and own perception of health.
Research and 'disability': accounts, biographies and policies
- Authors:
- FAWCETT Barbara, HEARN Jeff
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 19(2), 2001, pp.27-44.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This article reviews and re-evaluates a qualitative research project carried out in England in the late 1990s. The project was informed from its inception by the social model of disability, and explores how 'disability' is conceptualised within the accounts of participants defined by others as disabled. It also examines participants' views of community care services. As part of this discussion, notions of collaborative and emancipatory research are appraised. The implications of the findings for policy and practice in the field of social work and social care are discussed.
Adults only: disability, social policy and the life course
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(3), July 2000, pp.421-439.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This article examines the relationship between disability, generation and social policy. The moral and legislative framework for the post-war welfare settlement was grounded in a long-standing cultural construction of 'normal' life course progression. Disability and age (along with gender) were the key components in this construction, defining broad categories of welfare dependency and labour force exemption. The article suggests that, as policy-makers pursue their millennial settlement with mothers, children and older people, they also may be forced to reconstruct the relationship between disabled people and the welfare state.
Social policy review 20: analysis and debate in social policy, 2008
- Editors:
- MALTBY Tony, KENNETT Patricia, RUMMERY Kirstein, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 308p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. Contributions reflect key themes in the UK and internationally. The first part of the collection focuses on developments and change in core UK social policy areas. Part two provides in-depth analyses of topical issues from both UK and international perspectives, while this year's themed section examines 'Gender and policy'.
In an beyond New Labour: towards a new political ethics of care
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Fiona
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 21(4), November 2001, pp.467-493.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Argues for a political ethics of care to balance New Labour's current preoccupation with the ethics of paid work. However, care as a practice invokes different experiences, meanings, contexts and multiple relations of power. The article traces the development of the concept of care taking up, in particular, challenges and differences raised by disability, race and migration. These offer important insights for a new political ethics of care whose key dimensions are spelled out in the final part of the article.
Inlogov informs on equal opportunities
- Editors:
- GRAYSON Lesley, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 90p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Lists sources of information on all aspects of equal opportunities under the following headings: legislation and policy; handbooks, guides and codes of practice; the local authority as an employer; the local authority - influence on the community; and assessments and evaluations.