Contested Individualization
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Contested Individualization

Debates about Contemporary Personhood

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Contested Individualization

Debates about Contemporary Personhood

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Howard brings together top contributorsin avolume that provides a survey of new research and theoretical work on the topic of individualization. Topics covered include gender, social policy reform, and economy.

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Year
2007
ISBN
9780230609259

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contested Individualization
  3. Contents
  4. Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1 Introducing Individualization
  7. Chapter 2 Three Models of Individualized Biography
  8. Chapter 3 Varieties of Individualism
  9. Chapter 4 Individualization and the Life Course: Toward a Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence
  10. Chapter 5 Individualization as an Interpretive Scheme of Inequality: Why Class and Inequality Persist
  11. Chapter 6 Individualization and Ethical Agency
  12. Chapter 7 Sutured Selves, Queer Connections: Personal Lives at the Cutting Edge of Individualization
  13. Chapter 8 “Lives of Their Own” Free from Violence: Individualization and Child-Welfare Interventions
  14. Chapter 9 The New Social “isms”: Individualization and Social Policy Reform in Canada
  15. Chapter 10 Governing Individuality
  16. Chapter 11 Institutionalized Individualism and the Care of the Self: Single Mothers and the State
  17. Contributors
  18. Reference List
  19. Index