Sexual Politics and Social Control
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780335206704
Subjects: Feminism; Social issues; Offenses Against Women; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; Women's Studies - General; Crimes against; Feminist criminology; Sex differences; Violence; Women
First sentence: When William Beveridge envisaged a welfare system for Britain after the Second World War, he memorably described the necessity for 'an attack upon five giant evils: Want . . . Disease . . . Ignorance . . . Squalor and Idleness' (Beveridge 1942: 170).