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This volume seeks to address the rising expectations of working parents in advanced Western welfare states for work-life balance and quality of life, and the tensions that ensue from these expectations within individual lives, households, work organizations, and policy frameworks.

This volume seeks to address the rising expectations of working parents in advanced Western welfare states for work-life balance and quality of life, and the tensions that ensue from these expectations within individual lives, households, work organizations, and policy frameworks.

One of the UK's most contentious sociologists presents a new theory for explaining current and future patterns of women's choices between employment and family work. Preference theory constitutes a major break from male-centred theorizing in sociology and economics in the 20th century. Extensive examples from the USA and Britain illustrate how current social and economic changes are altering women's work-lifestyle choices.

One of the UK's most contentious sociologists presents a new theory for explaining current and future patterns of women's choices between employment and family work. Preference theory constitutes a major break from male-centred theorizing in sociology and economics in the 20th century. Extensive examples from the USA and Britain illustrate how current social and economic changes are altering women's work-lifestyle choices.

In this book the author treats art as an action performed by the artist as agent, rather than examining it from the point of view of its audience as contemplators.

In this original and iconoclastic book, Julian Dodd argues for what he terms 'the simple view' of the ontological nature of works of pure, instrumental music. According to the simple view's first constituent thesis - the type-token theory - such works are eternally existent types of sound-sequence-event and, hence, items discovered rather than created by their composers. According to the simple view's second constituent thesis - timbral sonicism - musical works are identical just in case they sound exactly alike.

This is the first complete edition of the works of William Congreve (1670-1729), one of Britain's most important literary figures. The texts of the plays, novel, poetry, opera, and letters are presented in original spelling. The editor, D.F. McKenzie, has added his own thorough notes at the end of each volume.

This is the first complete edition of the works of William Congreve (1670-1729), one of Britain's most important literary figures. The texts of the plays, novel, poetry, opera, and letters are presented in original spelling. The editor, D.F. McKenzie, has added his own thorough notes at the end of each volume.

World Authorship brings together the real-world contexts of authorship and the literary worlds of fiction, and updates Michael Foucault's 'author function' by significantly expanding the network of people and practices involved in literature. At the heart of all contributions is one key question: where is the human element in world literature?