Volume 12, Issue 1, published 31/1/2007


Peer Reviewed Articles

Female Involvement in the Miners' Strike 1984-1985: Trajectories of Activism
by Jean Spence and Carol Stephenson

Preserving and Extending the Commodification of Football Supporter Relations: A Cultural Economy of Supporters Direct
by David Kennedy and Peter Kennedy

Out and About: Negotiating the Layers of Being out in the Process of Disclosure of Lesbian Parenthood
by Kathryn Almack

By Slow Degrees: Two Centuries of Social Reproduction and Mobility in Britain
by Paul Lambert, Kenneth Prandy and Wendy Bottero


Special Section: Changing Femininities, Changing Masculinities (Peer Reviewed)
Guest Edited by Elisabetta Ruspini

Introduction: Changing Femininities, Changing Masculinities Social Change, Gender Identities and Sexual Orientations
by Elisabetta Ruspini

Doing Gender on and off the Pitch: the World of Female Football Players
by John Harris

Negotiating 'Normal': the Management of Feminine Identities in Rural Britain
by Fiona Gill

Diversity in Uniform? - Gender and Sexuality Within the Berlin Police Force
by Sonja M. Dudek

Gender Transformations in Higher Education
by The WASS Collective

'It's Made a Huge Difference': Recognition, Rights and the Personal Significance of Civil Partnership
by Beccy Shipman and Carol Smart

Changing Marriage? Messing with Mr. In-Between
by Sean Reynolds

Transmuting Gender Binaries: the Theoretical Challenge
by Surya Monro

''Sex Changes'? Paradigm Shifts in 'Sex' and 'Gender' Following the Gender Recognition Act?'
by Stephen Whittle and Lewis Turner

(Trans)Forming Gender: Social Change and Transgender Citizenship
by Sally Hines

Transsexualism in Spain: a Cultural and Legal Perspective
by Patrícia Soley-Beltran


Book Reviews

The Market (Key Concepts) by Aldridge, Alan
Reviewed by Stefan Bernhard

Keywords in Qualitative Methods: a Vocabulary of Research Concepts by Bloor, Michael and Wood, Fiona
Reviewed by Kevin Meethan

Social Psychology and Modernity by Johansson, Thomas
Reviewed by Sarah L. MacMillen

The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties by Alan Sica and Stephen Turner (Eds.)
Reviewed by Igor Sadaba

Designing Qualitative Research 4th Edition by Marshall, Catherine and Rossman, Gretchen
Reviewed by Markus Schweiger


Books received