This book compares the experiences of women leaders and their work-life balance across eight different countries. Collecting stories from a variety of cultures, it offers global insights into the challenges and cultural norms surrounding leadership and work-family integration.
Vulnerable families face multiple challenges, but our service system is siloed, often with devastating effects. This book captures the challenges and hope for the future, presenting promising programs and research from over 40 Australian experts.
How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
Children and Childhoods 2
Decisions about children’s lives depend on images of childhood, yet these are rarely critiqued. Images of Childhood examines public images against research findings, analysing how they are formed and how evidence is used, distorted, or minimised.
Grounded in recent research, this vital book offers a critical review of Chinese migration. It explores the patterns and influences of internal migration, movements to Hong Kong, and migration to Western countries, focusing on migrant families-at-risk.
Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this collection showcases international research findings from such diverse fields as education, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and physiotherapy.
Family
From the “In Defence of the Family” conference, these papers tackle the global challenges facing children and families. They champion a dialogue across cultures to build a more humane and promising future for humanity.
Foundational Social Ritual Practices of Parish Life
What makes a parish strong? This book argues it begins not with structures, but with relationships. Discover the foundational ingredients of community and how social rituals, like sharing a meal, forge the bonds that make a parish truly thrive.
This volume explores linguistic understandings of gender non-conformity and diverse masculinities. Contesting stereotypes and prejudices, it demonstrates that language matters in the everyday experience of gender diversity beyond the traditional binary.
The Construction of Motherhood and Maternal Experiences
Women have been called inadequate, yet are sanctified as perfect mothers. This book offers a new lens on motherhood, examining its history, its experiences across cultures, and the effects of this sacred ideal in a world shaped by poverty, trauma, and social media.
This book explores education’s impact on women’s equality, focusing on technical education and entrepreneurship. It shows how, when given their rightful place in decision-making and economic freedom, women become powerhouses of innovation and partners for prosperity and peace.