Editors Discuss Women's Publications

IT was only about ten years ago that there were only a few of newspapers and periodicals about women in China. But China has seen a rapid development of newspapers and periodicals on women since it began the policy of reform and opening to the outside world. Today the All-China Women's Federation and local women's federations sponsor and publish 47 different publications about women and children, some of which have a circulation of more than one million. These colorful, influential women's newspapers and periodicals are now some of the most interesting publications in China. Why have these publications been so successful? Recently our staff reporter interviewed several women chief editors about their work. The following interviews are in their own words.     

Editors’ introduction to the special issue on the sociology of digital technology

Theory and Society - An increasing number of sociologists today are examining the social production of digital technology. Although younger researchers may be digital natives and write from...     

Editors’ letter: New research and opportunities in public relations and visual communication

We are proud to present four articles exploring the intersections of public relations and visual communication as a way to move both fields forward, together and separately. The articles focus on health communication, crisis communication, social media, and corporate social responsibility, and the editors end with concrete suggestions for future research, including expanding theory and methodological applications.     

The Evolution of Third Sector Research and the Journal Voluntas: The Editors’ Impressions

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A comment on ‘Reconstructing and re-conceptualising social work in the emerging milieu’

Abstract

The article by McDonald and Jones raises some very important issues for Australian social work, and identifies some of the key decisions that social workers in Australia will be required to make if their practice is to maintain some degree of relevance in the changing context of the early twenty-first century.     

Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue — Bion: Here,There, and In Between

ABSTRACT

We introduce this special issue of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, “Bion: Here, There, and In Between.”     

Revisiting the question of the transnational state: A comment on William Robinson’s “Social theory and globalization”

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