Generations of social thinkers have assumed that access to legitimate paid employment and
a decline in the 'double standard'would eliminate the reasons behind women's participation …

In the late 1 980s and early I 990s, the poor and working-class white boys and men whom
we interviewed have narrated" personal identities" as if they were wholly independent of …

Homes are powerfully defined by smells, sounds, textures and objects, all of which reflect
how people live their everyday lives. From spray-painting the toilet wall to relaxing in the …

The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored both
historically and sociologically with one consistent conclusion: male concepts of courage and …

Own or Other Culture challenges those anthropologists who suggest that fieldwork in
the'West'is easy or merely a reiteration of what is already'known'to either Westerners or non …

O THE THEORETICAL even more than to the applied sociologist, prosti-tution sets a
profound problem: Why is it that a practice so thor-oughly disapproved, so widely outlawed …

Feminists and other scholars have debated theoretically what exactly is being purchased in
the prostitution transaction and whether sex can bea service like any other', but they have …

Part I of this report sets out to review current debates and existing research on “the demand
side of trafficking”. This task is complicated by two sets of problems. First, the myriad …

The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through
which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and …

First published in 2001. This volume is based on the author's visit to Japan in Summer 1986
on his findings about some of the questions he was asked whilst there. He was 25 and these …