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While the Nordic countries are listed at the top in most international rankings of gender equality and citizens’ feelings of security, studies on the prevalence of sexual victimisation present a different picture, suggesting that the very countries that have invested much in establishing gender equality actually see a high prevalence of sexual violence. This book sheds light on the phenomenon and construction of rape and other forms of sexual violence within the Nordic region, exploring the ways in which rape and sexual violence are dealt with through criminal law and considering governmental policies aimed at combatting it, with a special focus on legal regulations and developments. Thematically organised, it offers new research on perpetrators, victimhood, criminal justice and prevention. Multi-disciplinary in approach, it brings together the latest work from a range of scholars to offer insights into the situation in the five Nordic countries, asking how and why rape and other forms of sexual violence occur, whilst also addressing the timely issues of online sexual cultures, BDSM and the grey areas of sexual offences. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, criminology and law with interests in gender and sexual violence.

Sociology --- gender studies --- criminology

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This book focuses on the coordination between family life and professional career under the condition of repeated mobilities. It analyses the division between the labour force work and the care work of couples of highly-skilled migrants settling in either Switzerland or Germany. A mutually exclusive model provides an innovative understanding of gendered hierarchies in career achievement. The male partners operate three parallel elements: an upward professional career, a family-life implying child(ren), and maintaining their availability to further unplanned relocations. The female partners can only coordinate two of these concurrently. In fact, the male partners combine the three elements by taking advantage of specific, and mostly invisible, care work that the female partner provides.

FAM --- Migration, immigration and emigration --- Gender studies: men and boys --- Sociology: family and relationships --- Gender studies: women and girls

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With attention to the transnational dance world of salsa, this book explores the circulation of people, imaginaries, dance movements, conventions and affects from a transnational perspective. Through interviews and ethnographic, multi-sited research in Havana and several European cities, the author draws on the notion of ‘entangled mobilities’ to show how the intimate gendered and ethnicized moves on the dance floor relate to the cross-border mobility of salsa dance professionals and their students. A combination of research on migration and mobility with studies of music and dance, Entangled Mobilities in the Transnational Salsa Circuit contributes to the fields of transnationalism, mobility and dance studies, thus providing a deeper theoretical and empirical understanding of gendered and racialized transnational phenomena. As such it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration, cultural studies and gender studies.

affect --- careers --- cultural studies --- dance --- ethnicity --- ethnography --- feminism --- gender --- gender studies --- imaginaries --- intimacy --- migration --- mobility --- multi-sited --- professionals --- salsa dancing --- sociology --- students --- transnationalism

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This open access book focuses on family diversity from a legal, demographical and sociological perspective. It investigates what is at stake in the life of homosexuals in the field of family formation, parenting and parenthood, what it brings to everyday life, the support of the law, and what its absence implies. The book shows the paths leading to the adoption of laws while demographic analyses concentrate on the link between registration of same-sex marriages and same-sex parenting with a detailed focus on Spain. The sociological chapters in this book, based upon qualitative surveys in France, Iceland and Italy, underline how the importance of the legal structure influenced the daily life of homosexual families. As such this book is an interesting read to lawyers, demographers, sociologists, behavioural scientists, and all those working in the field.

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging --- Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law --- Demography --- Gender Studies --- Quality of Life Research --- Homosexuality --- Family law --- Equal rights --- Homoparentality/same-sex families --- Same-sex marriage --- Open access --- Sociology: family & relationships --- International law --- Comparative law --- Population & demography --- Gender studies, gender groups --- Personal & public health --- Public health & preventive medicine

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Intersektionalität --- Qualitative Forschung --- Soziale Ungleichheit --- Praxeologie --- Gesellschaft --- Geschlecht --- Qualitative Sozialforschung --- Soziologische Theorie --- Gender Studies --- Soziologie --- Einführung --- Intersectionality --- Qualitative Research --- Social Inequality --- Praxeology --- Society --- Gender --- Qualitative Social Research --- Sociological Theory --- Sociology --- Introduction