While social change regarding trans(sexuality) has evolved within an expanding nexus of concepts, practices, regulations, and institutions, this process has barely been analyzed systematically. Against the background of legislative processes on gender recognition in a society shaped by heteronormative hegemony, Adrian de Silva traces how sexology, the law, federal politics, and the trans movement interacted to generate or challenge concepts of trans(sexuality) from the mid-1960s to 2014 in the Federal Republic of Germany. The interdisciplinary study draws upon and contributes to debates in (trans)gender and queer studies, political science, sociology of law, sexology, and social movements.
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• Machine generated contents note: "Ich bin 'ne Kanackin"
• Beyond Sexual Explicitness
• Resistance Through Insistence
• Feminism's (M)others
• Kanack_in
• Pluralizations and Queerings
• Translingualizations
• Productive Paradoxes
• Situational Analysis of the Group Discussions
• Situational Analysis
• Maps, Gaps, and Traps
• Shaping Discourses, Knitting the Not Yet
• Linking Theoretical Sensitivity with Self-Reflexivity
• Grounded Theory in Multilingual Research
• In-Vivo Coding and Transcultural Translation
• Translanguaging the Coding Process
• In-Vivo Coding
• Living in Translation
• Situating the Group Discussions
• Informant Participants
• the Knowledge that is (not) Power
• The Unsaid in the Said; The Said in the Unsaid
• Digressions and Silences
• The Project Map: A Trefoil Knot
• Not Yet A Code
• Transcultural Locational Feminism
• Turkishness, or Where on Earth?
• "Looking one's Parents in the Eyes."

• Note continued: From Duisburg to Istanbul
• Transcultural Geographies
• Germanness
• the Second Person `I'
• Sexual Emancipation and Its Cultural Limits
• Ozenti Olmak
• Almost the Same but Not Quite
• Feminism
• Aposiopetic Positioning
• Pointing at the Limits of Existing Discourses
• A Question, Not Yet an Answer.

Pinar Tuzcu explores rapper Lady Bitch Ray's performance and particularly her use of the term Kanackin. She combines issues of popfeminism and postmigration through speculative methodology and invites us to forget prescriptive definitions by proposing paradoxicality as a source to diversify our concepts of feminism. By means of Situational Analysis, her study works through the contradictory forms of positioning that occurred in group discussions with Turkish-German university students about Lady Bitch Ray's music videos. In this book, Tuzcu argues that these contradictory forms of positioning bear traces of emergent discourses that reach beyond Western-centric descriptions of feminism in Germany.
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During China's "socio-economic transition period", stretching from 1978 to the present day, the nation's social structure underwent enormous changes. The economic restructuring from a centrally-planned economy to a market-oriented one, combined with the retreat of the state administrative sphere from the labour market, gradually transformed the mechanisms of resource allocation. This has given rise to enlarging gaps between different social groups, which have led to an escalation in tensions between the higher and the lower social strata. In addition, the situation of Chinese women has also changed, with those in contemporary China in a quite different position from their "pre-communist", "traditional" counterparts. Over recent decades, more equalitarian policies have made a great deal of difference, not only to women's self-identification, but also to their social milieu. However, the female employment rate has gradually declined since the economic reforms began, meaning this period has had a major impact on the social status and conditions of Chinese women. These social transformations and differences between the genders have provided an unusual opportunity for scholars and researchers who are interested in social change. As such, this book examines the social structure of contemporary China, exploring how resources are distributed among the different social strata, and how these strata have transformed with the economic reforms and development. In addition, it also investigates the current socio-economic circumstances of Chinese women, especially since many female workers were laid off (xiagang) by state owned enterprises (SOEs) and collectively owned enterprises (COEs) during the "industrial restructuring". In confronting an ever more competitive market environment, has the situation of women degraded or progressed? Do all women face a similar situation, or are there discrepancies that exist amongst them? What are the factors contributing to these divisions? In discussing these questions, this book allows readers to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the current Chinese social structure, and how it has transformed, as well as its influence on gender differentiation.
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• Contents: Literature Review: Background and Relevant Concepts - Research Questions, Hypotheses, and Theoretical Framework - Methodology: Synergy between Quantitative and Qualitative Strategies - Social Capital Analysis of the SRH: Trust, Networks, and Norms - Scale Construction and Scale Validation - Dimensions, Domains, and Model of Service Quality in the SRH - Discussion - Implications and Limitations.
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China has one-fifth of the world's total elderly population. This rapidly aging population presents serious challenges to the state to develop a social service system. To satisfy increasing demands for diversified and continuous care, a policy known as Socializing social welfare was introduced to assist in the reformation of social services. Under the policy, private and non-government sectors are encouraged to provide social services that were previously monopolized by the government. The most significant result of the reform is the growth of Society-run Home for the Aged (SRH) that aimes to provide fee-based institutional care for the elderly. This study examines service quality in the emergent SRH from the perspective of residents and, in the context of Socializing Social Welfare policy reform, explores the influence of social capital in the SRH on service quality. With the findings of the study, possible strategies on policy-making and clarification of government's responsibility are inspired. Moreover, the analysis on social capital reveales the core problems of care service in the SRH and suggestes useful measures for improvement.
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• Introduction
• Growing Up Different: Childhoods and Social Inequalities
• Sentiment, Middle Classes and a Culture of Childhood in Bengal
• Talking to Children, and Talking about Childhoods
• 'Being Good at Studies': The Bhadralok Culture and the Ethos of Education in Bengal
• Afternoons after School: 'Leisure' Culture and Space
• Doraemon to Dance Lessons: Children, Leisure and Cultural Heritage
• Together and Apart: Class, Gender and Generation in children's Culture
• The Children From Memory
• Conclusion.

Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-western' contexts, and finds its middle ground in the context of the urban middle classes in contemporary West Bengal. The author documents areas such as leisure practices and everyday lives of school children in India for three cohorts, where it is possible to have a comparative perspective of childhoods given the existing rich ethnographic and historical research on childhoods in other cultural contexts.
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• Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; 1 The Social Network Perspective; 1.1 A Social Network Perspective to Individual Behavior; 1.2 Basic Concepts in Network Research; 1.3 Processes and Mechanisms of Social Influence; 2 Fertility and Family Formation; 2.1 Fertility and Family Formation: the Situation in Germany; 2.2 Explanations for Fertility Decline; 2.3 The Social Network Perspective in Family and Fertility Research; 2.4 Challenges of Research on Social Networks and Fertility in a Western Context and Research Questions 2.4 Challenges and Resea.

• Researching the Global Everyday of Women Activists: Experiencing and Doing Globalisation - Connecting Threads: Globalisation, Translocalities, Social Movements and Social Space - The Case: Women's Movements and Social Transformation in Malaysia - Gender Equality and Legal Reforms: Women's Organisations in Kuala Lumpur - Protecting Women's Dignity: Women's Organisations in Kelantan - Defending the Quality of Life of Working Women in a Global Economy - Negotiating the Public Sphere in Local and Translocal Settings - Facing Systems of Ignorance: Dress, Cultural Belonging and Education as Mechanisms of Publicness - Challenging Old and Constructing New Notions of Authority and Publicness - Negotiating Rights within Diversity: Translocal Networking and Comparison.
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1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists 1. 1 Researching the global everyday of women activists: Experiencing and doing globalisation Going through the broad spectrum of globalisation research and literature, one might be astonished at how much it assumes the force of global change, and how little of this literature demonstrates this force in an empirically grounded way. This study, being based on six months of empirical research in Malaysia in 2004, sets out to counter this lack of thick description of globalisation processes. It takes up the challenge of researching the "global everyday" (Appadurai 2000, 18) of civil society actors in Malaysia and focuses on how social activists belonging to different branches of the women's movement selectively app- priate, transform and even create global meanings and materialise them in local practices. The methodological endeavour of combining globalisation research and ethnography has been taken up by a diversity of authors. Burawoy and his research team have developed a complex methodological framework by focusing on the experiential dimensions of globalisation. They want to produce a "grounded globalisation" or "perspectives on globalisations from below" (Burawoy 2000b, 338, 341). This perspective is very fruitful, as the notion of experiencing globalisation as "forces, connections, and imaginations" (Burawoy et al. eds. 2000) relocates the global in the local and ties both together in mutual constitution.
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In response to mounting concerns regarding the decline in birthrate in Japan and the increasing aged population, center-based daycare has assumed an important role in Japanese society. In order to tackle the issues of low birthrate and longevity, demand for policies that encourage women to both participate in the workforce and have children is greater than ever. Since 1997, this perceived need has brought about a policy transformation in Japan's postwar system of approved nursery centers (i.e., nursery facilities that meet the national daycare quality standards), which had--until then--operated measures entirely under the control of the municipalities, as part of the child welfare policy of the Japanese government. In order to respond to the urgent need for daycare services and facilities, the government has instigated a policy of privatization throughout its nursery centers system and has relaxed many of the regulations in the field of daycare services provision. However, in the course of the privatization of public nursery centers, the government has been widely regarded as prioritizing "capacity (quantity)" concerns over "quality" concerns when constructing its policies. Because the nursery centers system has undergone legal reform and because quality concerns are on the rise, both researchers and administrative officers have come to recognize how important it is to define and measure quality nursery daycare. With this issue in mind, this study proposes an approach to assess the quality of Japan's nursery daycare against international standards, particularly from the standpoint of a state party's obligations under the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The following research questions are central to this study: To what extent does Japan comply with international standards on daycare quality? Are there international standards that Japan should be permitted exemptions from, and if exemptions are appropriate, what is the rationale for such exemptions? This study is the first detailed examination of Japan's nursery daycare policies under the framework of the UNCRC written in English. The introduction of a daycare quality assessment method to Japan--one that is based on international standards--serves as a useful basis both for the smooth formulation and implementation of nursery policies that ensure daycare provisions (in terms of quantity and quality) and to provide a benchmark against which reasonable judicial rulings can be made on the basis of the "the best interests of the child, " one of the core principles in the UNCRC. Furthermore, it will also help provide some insights into how stakeholders of nursery daycare in OECD countries are able to ensure that daycare quality takes children's best interests into account while also considering the historic, cultural, and social contexts of respective countries.