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Using contemporary gender theory to examine gender and rurality beyond that of simply women/femininities, this illuminating book accurately locates the subject of masculinities within the rural/agricultural context. It will speak to academics in social sciences, gender studies as well as management and organization studies.

The study of gender in rural spaces is still in its infancy. Thus far, there has been little exploration of the constitution of the varied and differing ways that gender is constituted in rural settings. This book will place the question of gender, rurality and difference at its center. The authors examine theoretical constructions of gender and explore the relationship between these and rural spaces. While there have been extensive debates in the feminist literature about gender and the intersection of multiple social categories, rural feminist social scientists have yet to theorize what gender means in a rural context and how gender blurs and intersects with other social categories such as sexuality, ethnicity, class and (dis)ability. This book will use empirical examples from a range of research projects undertaken by the authors as well as illustrations from work in the Australasia region, Europe, and the United States to explore gender and rurality and their relation to sexuality, ethnicity, class and (dis)ability.

Pini and Leach bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore them in the context of contemporary social and economic transformations in which global processes that reconstitute gender and class interconnect with and take shape in a particular form of locality - the rural. The book is innovative in that it: Responds to calls for more critical work on the rural 'other', Contributes to scholarship on gender and rurality, but does so through the lens of class. This book places the question of gender, rurality and difference at its centre through its focus on class, Addresses the urban bias of much class scholarship as well as the lack of gender analysis in much rural and class academic work, Focuses on the ways that class mediates the construction and practices of rural men/masculinities and rural women/femininities, Challenges prevalent (and divergent) assumptions with chapters utilising contemporary theorisations of class, With the empirical strongly grounded in-theory, this book will appeal to scholars working in the fields of gender/rurality, identity and class studies. Book jacket.

This edited book brings together empirical studies of young people in paid employment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in different national settings. In the context of increasing youth labour market participation rates and debates about the value of early employment, it draws on multi-level analyses to reflect the complexity of the field. Each of the three sections of the book explores a key aspect of young people's employment: their experience of work, intersections between work and education, and the impact of other actors and institutions. The book contributes to broadening and strengthening knowledge about the opportunities and constraints that young people face during their formative experiences in the labour market. This book will be required reading for all those working in the fields of sociology, employment relations and education

Women and Representation in Local Government opens up an opportunity to critique and move beyond suppositions and labels in relation to women in local government. Presenting a wealth of new empirical material, this book brings together international experts to examine and compare the presence of women at this level and features case studies on the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Finland, Uganda, China, Australia and New Zealand. Divided into four main sections, each explores a key theme related to the subject of women and representation in local government and engages with contemporary gender theory and the broader literature on women and politics. The contributors explore local government as a gendered environment; critiquing strategies to address the limited number of elected female members in local government and examine the impact of significant recent changes on local government through a gender lens. Addressing key questions of how gender equality can be achieved in this sector, it will be of strong interest to students and academics working in the fields of gender studies, local government and international politics.

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The work is made up of three books, divided into seven phenomena, in which eighty of heresies and schisms are presented and rejected: the first book contains three thomases and forty-four heresies (Barbarism, Shamism, Hellenism, Judaism And Samaritanism, with their respective subdivisions, and the heresies that emerged after the incarnation of Christ, from the Simons to the Tazianites), the second two thoms and twenty-three heresies (from the Encrusted to the Arians), the third two thoms and eleven heresies (from Audians to Massaliani). He closes the treaty "the defense of true faith and truth, which is represented by the holy, Catholic and apostolic Church", in which the author summarizes the fundamental points of the Catholic orthodox doctrine - the Trinity, the Incarnation of Christ, the resurrection of Dead, eternal judgment - and the institutional principles governing the Church - the liturgy, the meetings, the.