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'Before the 2010 General Election, David Cameron placed the ''Big
Society'' at the heart of his efforts to rebuild Britain's ''broken
society''. The essays in this volume probe the historical origins
of the concept and seek to evaluate it in the light of both
historical and contemporary evidence. They raise profound questions
about the provenance of the ''Big Society'' and its relevance to
contemporary social concerns. They should be of interest to anyone
who cares about the past, present or future of British social
policy.' - Bernard Harris, University of Southampton, UK 'There is
nothing new about the notion of a Big Society. This book combines
historical scholarship, international research and grassroots
experience to shine a critical spotlight on the rhetoric behind the
coalition government's big idea.' - Bill Jordan, University of
Plymouth, UK 'Armine Ishkanian and Simon Szreter's fascinating book
provides important insights into the way political elites use
slogans and imagery to sway public opinion on social policy issues.
This highly original work will be a major scholarly resource for
years to come.' - James Midgley, University of California,
Berkeley, US The expert contributors to this detailed yet concise
book collectively raise questions about the novelty of the Big
Society Agenda, its ideological underpinnings, and challenges it
poses for policy makers and practitioners. The book is divided into
two sections, history and policy, which together provide readers
with a historically grounded, internationally informed, and
multidisciplinary analysis of the Big Society policies. The
introduction and conclusion tie the strands together, providing a
coherent analysis of the key issues in both sections. Various
chapters in this study examine the limitations and consider the
challenges involved in translating the ideas of the Big Society
agenda into practice. By drawing on international examples, from
developed and developing countries in order to analyze and discuss
Big Society policies, this book will prove invaluable for students,
academics and policy makers. Contributors: M. Albrow, K. Bradley,
L. Charlesworth, R. Fries, J. Harris, M. Hill, M. Hilton, J.
Holgate, A. Ishkanian, M. Ketola, D. Leat, D. Lewis, R. McGill, N.
Ockenden, J. Page, C. Pharoah, L. Richardson, J. Stuart, S.
Szreter, D. Weinbren
Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of
infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and
syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across
the globe and spanning millennia. A multidisciplinary group of
prominent scholars investigates the historical relationship between
sexually transmitted infections and infertility. Untreated
gonorrhea and chlamydia cause infertility in a proportion of women
and men. Unlike the much-feared venereal disease of syphilis--"the
pox"--gonorrhea and chlamydia are often symptomless, leaving
victims unaware of the threat to their fertility. Science did not
unmask the causal microorganisms until thelate nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Their effects on fertility in human history
remain mysterious. This is the first volume to address the subject
across more than two thousand years of human history. Following
asynoptic editorial introduction, part 1 explores the enigmas of
evidence from ancient and early modern medical sources. Part 2
addresses fundamental questions about when exactly these diseases
first became human afflictions, withnew contributions from
bioarcheology, genomics, and the history of medicine, producing
surprising new insights. Part 3 presents studies of infertility and
its sociocultural consequences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Part 4 examines the quite different
ways the infertility threat from STIs was perceived--by scientists,
the public, and government--in late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century Germany, France, and Britain, concluding with a
pioneering empirical estimate of the infertility impact in Britain.
Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, University
of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.
'Before the 2010 General Election, David Cameron placed the ''Big
Society'' at the heart of his efforts to rebuild Britain's ''broken
society''. The essays in this volume probe the historical origins
of the concept and seek to evaluate it in the light of both
historical and contemporary evidence. They raise profound questions
about the provenance of the ''Big Society'' and its relevance to
contemporary social concerns. They should be of interest to anyone
who cares about the past, present or future of British social
policy.' - Bernard Harris, University of Southampton, UK 'There is
nothing new about the notion of a Big Society. This book combines
historical scholarship, international research and grassroots
experience to shine a critical spotlight on the rhetoric behind the
coalition government's big idea.' - Bill Jordan, University of
Plymouth, UK 'Armine Ishkanian and Simon Szreter's fascinating book
provides important insights into the way political elites use
slogans and imagery to sway public opinion on social policy issues.
This highly original work will be a major scholarly resource for
years to come.' - James Midgley, University of California,
Berkeley, US The expert contributors to this detailed yet concise
book collectively raise questions about the novelty of the Big
Society Agenda, its ideological underpinnings, and challenges it
poses for policy makers and practitioners. The book is divided into
two sections, history and policy, which together provide readers
with a historically grounded, internationally informed, and
multidisciplinary analysis of the Big Society policies. The
introduction and conclusion tie the strands together, providing a
coherent analysis of the key issues in both sections. Various
chapters in this study examine the limitations and consider the
challenges involved in translating the ideas of the Big Society
agenda into practice. By drawing on international examples, from
developed and developing countries in order to analyze and discuss
Big Society policies, this book will prove invaluable for students,
academics and policy makers. Contributors: M. Albrow, K. Bradley,
L. Charlesworth, R. Fries, J. Harris, M. Hill, M. Hilton, J.
Holgate, A. Ishkanian, M. Ketola, D. Leat, D. Lewis, R. McGill, N.
Ockenden, J. Page, C. Pharoah, L. Richardson, J. Stuart, S.
Szreter, D. Weinbren
Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the
highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major
world economies in 2020? Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter reveal the
deep roots of our vulnerability and set out a powerful manifesto
for change post-Covid-19. They argue that our commitment to a
flawed neoliberal model and the associated disinvestment in our
social fabric left the UK dangerously exposed and unable to mount
an effective response. This is not at all what made Britain great.
The long history of the highly innovative universal welfare system
established by Elizabeth I facilitated both the industrial
revolution and, when revived after 1945, the postwar Golden Age of
rising prosperity. Only by learning from that past can we create
the fairer, nurturing and empowering society necessary to tackle
the global challenges that lie ahead - climate change, biodiversity
collapse and global inequality.
If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then
surely historians should be active contributors to the debates
informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the
first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven
policy advisors around the central development issues of social
protection, public health, public education and natural resource
management. How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction in
shaping particular policy responses? How did the content and
effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries,
and indeed within them? Achieving this is not merely a matter of
seeking to 'know more' about specific times, places and issues, but
recognising the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously
assemble, analyse and interpret diverse forms of evidence. This
book will appeal to students and scholars in development studies,
history, international relations, politics and geography as well as
policy makers and those working for or studying NGOs. -- .
If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then
surely historians should be active contributors to the debates
informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the
first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven
policy advisors around the central development issues of social
protection, public health, public education and natural resource
management. How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction in
shaping particular policy responses? How did the content and
effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries,
and indeed within them? Achieving this is not merely a matter of
seeking to 'know more' about specific times, places and issues, but
recognising the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously
assemble, analyse and interpret diverse forms of evidence. This
book will appeal to students and scholars in development studies,
history, international relations, politics and geography as well as
policy makers and those working for or studying NGOs. -- .
What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution
of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations
as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book
provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in
marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. These
award-winning authors look beyond conventions of silence among the
respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and
inhibition. Based on vivid, compelling and frank testimonies from a
socially and geographically diverse range of individuals, the book
explores a spectrum of sexual experiences, from learning about sex
and sexual practices in courtship, to attitudes to the body,
marital ideals and birth control. It demonstrates that while the
era's emphasis on silence and strict moral codes could for some be
a source of inhibition and dissatisfaction, for many the culture of
privacy and innocence was central to fulfilling and pleasurable
intimate lives.
This volume is an important study in demographic history. It draws
on the individual returns from the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses of
England and Wales, to which Garrett, Reid, Schurer and Szreter were
permitted access ahead of scheduled release dates. Using the
responses of the inhabitants of thirteen communities to the special
questions included in the 1911 'fertility' census, they consider
the interactions between the social, economic and physical
environments in which people lived and their family-building
experience and behaviour. Techniques and approaches based in
demography, history and geography enable the authors to re-examine
the declines in infant mortality and marital fertility which
occurred at the turn of the twentieth century. Comparisons are
drawn within and between white-collar, agricultural and industrial
communities, and the analyses, conducted at both local and national
level, lead to conclusions which challenge both contemporary and
current orthodoxies.
This book examines the dramatic fall in family size that occurred in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It overturns current thinking by showing how much variety there was in the occupational patterns of falling fertility. There are entirely new and surprising findings: births were widely spaced from early in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was far more important than previously imagined. This study uniquely integrates the fields of demographic, feminist and labor with intellectual and political history, and will be of interest to all historians, and social and policy scientists.
This volume is an important study in demographic history. Garrett, Reid, SchÜrer and Szreter use techniques and approaches drawn from demography, history and geography to explore the conditions under which declines in both infant mortality and fertility within marriage occurred in England and Wales between 1891 and 1911. Extensive use is made of previously unavailable census data drawn from thirteen communities in England and Wales, particularly those from the 1911 "fertility" census. The book's sometimes surprising conclusions will be of interest to all historians of Britain and of demography.
What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution
of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations
as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book
provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in
marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. These
award-winning authors look beyond conventions of silence among the
respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and
inhibition. Based on vivid, compelling and frank testimonies from a
socially and geographically diverse range of individuals, the book
explores a spectrum of sexual experiences, from learning about sex
and sexual practices in courtship, to attitudes to the body,
marital ideals and birth control. It demonstrates that while the
era's emphasis on silence and strict moral codes could for some be
a source of inhibition and dissatisfaction, for many the culture of
privacy and innocence was central to fulfilling and pleasurable
intimate lives.
This book examines the dramatic fall in family size that occurred in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It overturns current thinking by showing how much variety there was in the occupational patterns of falling fertility. There are entirely new and surprising findings: births were widely spaced from early in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was far more important than previously imagined. This study uniquely integrates the fields of demographic, feminist and labor with intellectual and political history, and will be of interest to all historians, and social and policy scientists.
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