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