Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index.
Introducing individualization / Cosmo Howard -- Three models of individualized biography / Cosmo Howard -- Varieties of individualism / Anna Yeatman -- Individualization and the life course : towards a theoretical model and empirical evidence / Melinda Mills -- Individualization as an interpretive scheme of inequality : why class and inequality persist / Gerd Nollmann and Herman Strasser -- Individualization and ethical agency / Paul Hoggett, Marj Mayo, and Chris Miller -- Sutured selves, queer connections : personal lives at the cutting edge of individualization / Sasha Roseneil -- "Lives of their own" free from violence : individualization and child welfare interventions / Harry Ferguson -- The new social "isms" : individualization and social policy reform in Canada / Janine Brodie -- Governing individuality / Paul Henman -- Institutionalized individualism and the care of the self : single mothers and the state / Michelle Brady.