Sociology: family, kinship and relationships Books
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Altern mit Stigma: Gesellschaftliche und psychosoziale Perspektiven des Älterwerdens in stigmatisierten Lebenskontexten
Book SynopsisErstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum wird die Lebenswirklichkeit von Menschen, deren Älterwerden mit gesundheitlichen und gesellschaftlichen Stigmata verbunden ist, systematisch in den Blick genommen. Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund oder Behinderung, mit chronischen Erkrankungen wie HIV/Aids, mit langjähriger Drogen- oder Psychoseerfahrung, schwul, lesbisch oder trans* lebende Menschen weisen im Alter aufgrund ihrer Zugehörigkeit zu einer stigmatisierten Gruppe spezifische psychosoziale Bedarfe auf. In dem Sammelband werden diese Bedarfe anhand aktueller Forschungs- und Praxisbefunde adressiert und innovative Perspektiven eines selbstbestimmten Alterns aufgezeigt.Table of Contents 1 Altern mit Stigma: eine Einführung 2 Migration als Stigma im Kontext von normativen Vorstellungen des aktiven und erfolgreichen Alterns 3 Behinderung im Alter 4 Drogenkonsum/-abhängigkeit im Alter – Stigmatisierung und Ausgrenzung 5 Wo sind die älteren Menschen mit Schizophrenien? Altern mit (schizophrener) Psychose 6 Alter(n) von Trans* und Inter* in stigmatisierenden Verhältnissen 7 Stigma und Identitätskonstruktionen am Beispiel von Homosexualitäten 8 Älterwerden mit HIV und Aids in Deutschland 137Über die Autor*innen
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Brill I Fink Mein Schmerz Und Die Anderen
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Familiensoziologie
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£22.80
Centaurus Verlag & Media KG Schwangerschaftsabbruch: Statistische,
Book SynopsisSchwangerschaftsabbruch ist ein Thema mit dem sich viele Menschen unserer Gesellschaft auf die ein oder andere Art und Weise konfrontiert sehen – als Betroffene, Familienangehörige, Freunde, Berater oder Ausführende. Ein Thema, welches viele betrifft aber selten in seiner Ganzheitlichkeit betrachtet wird.Dieses Buch soll Beratern der Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung, aber auch allen Interessierten, einen Überblick über verschiedene Aspekte eines Schwangerschaftsabbruchs und dessen eventuellen Folgen geben. Schwerpunkte des Buches sind die soziologischen und die psychologischen Aspekte eines Abbruchs. Es wird Wert darauf gelegt, das Thema nicht emotional-politisch zu betrachten, sondern es aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Blickwinkeln heraus zu beleuchten. So werden in diesem Buch Begriffe definiert, statistische Daten, juristische Grundlagen und soziologische Ursachen betrachtet. Ebenfalls mit einbezogen werden medizinische und psychologische Aspekte sowie die Frage, welche Bedeutung diese Informationen für die Soziale Arbeit im Tätigkeitsfeld der Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung haben. Ziel ist es, den Leser in die vielfältige Thematik einzuführen und ihn zu ermutigen, sich mit dem Thema auseinanderzusetzen.
£999.99
Ediciones Urano Arte de Reunirse, El
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£18.25
Bloomsbury India Love and Marriage in Mumbai
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£12.34
Springer The State as Parent: International Research Perspectives on Interventions with Young Persons
Book SynopsisThe thirty-five chapters in this book are edited versions of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop, State Intervention on Behalf of Children and Youth, which took place in Maratea, Italy, February 20-24, 1989. The Workshop was attended by leading child welfare researchers from most of the Western countries. Represented were scholars and practitioners from disciplines as diverse as law, social work, neurology, economics, political science, education, psychology, and psychiatry. This variety of disciplines considerably enriched the discussions at the Workshop and is reflected in a set of interesting and, we believe, potentially useful research papers. This book is divided into four sections, each dealing with dominant themes of state intervention. The first section deals with research on organizing for state intervention and related ways of providing accountability. The second section deals with research on young persons in conflict with the law, the third with research on child abuse and the final section with research on children in care. Many of the matters addressed in these papers relate to more than one of the topical theme headings and, therefore, might well have been located in different sections of the volume. Each section is introduced by an introductory statement that provides an overview of the papers and issues addressed, and suggests an agenda of research work to be undertaken. These introductions are based largely on workshop discussions and do not necessarily represent the views of their identified authors.Table of ContentsI Introduction: Research On Organization and Accountability For State Intervention.- 1. Independent Representation of Children in Protection Proceedings.- 2. Adolescent Childbearing and Prevention Strategies: Battleground for Testing the Limits of Government Intervention.- 3. The American Indian Child Welfare Act: Achievements and Recommendations.- 4. Policy Development as a Hegemonic Strategy: Example of the Child and Family Services Act in Ontario.- 5. Decentralizing Child Welfare Services: An Assessment of Service Impact, Costs and the Morale of Staff.- 6. Managing the Family Contacts of Children Absent in Care, Professional and Legislative Issues: The Experience of England and Wales.- 7. Efficiency in Foster Family Care: Proceeding with Caution.- 8. The State as Parent: Assessing Outcomes in Child Care.- 9. Child Care Placement Outcomes.- II Introduction: Research On Young Persons In Conflict With The Law.- 10. Social Change, Legal Transformation, and state Intervention: Youth Justice in the Arab Republic of Egypt.- 11. The Scottish Children’s Hearing System: Community or State Control?.- 12. Custodial Control or Community Alternative?: An Examination of the Impact of the 1982 Criminal Justice Act in One Local Authority.- 13. Evaluating Conflicts Between Intention and Outcome Within Changing Canadian Juvenile Justice Policy: Just Listen to What the Data Says!.- 14. Tackling the Conflict: A Framework Analysis of Dispute Settlement.- 15.Closed Units in Institutions for Children.- 16.Law Policies and Implications for the Youth Welfare System: The Hamburg Example.- 17. Hind the Gap: The Creation of the Non-Divertible.- 18. Deviant Interventions or Deviant Youth?.- III Introduction: Research On Child Abuse.- 19. Child Abuse, Social Theory, and Everyday State Practices.- 20. Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse: State Intervention in Canada.- 21. Sexual Abuse Prevention Training: Issues of State Intervention.- 22. False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: Implications for Policy and Practice.- 23. The Use of Criminal Sanctions in Child Abuse and Neglect.- IV Introduction: Research On Children In Care.- 24. Evaluation of Foster-Family-Based Treatment in Comparison with Other Programs: A Preliminary Analysis.- 25. Foster Care Breakdown: A Study of a Special Teenager Fostering Scheme.- 26. Intensive Home-Based Family Treatment: Client Outcomes and Issues for Program Design.- 27. A Belgian Approach to Work Rehabilitation.- 28. Research on Trends in Intervention on Behalf of Children and Youth in Aarhus, Denmark.- 29. In Care, In Contact?.- 30. The Effectiveness of Permanent Substitute Family Placement for Older Children in Care.- 31. An Examination of Long Term Foster Family Care for Children and Youth.- 32. Patterns of Care: The First Twelve Months.- 33. Effectiveness Analysis of Residential Child Care Services in Belgium.- 34. Integrating Professional and Community Resources for Young Persons.- 35. The Transition From Long Term Care to Adoption.- Authors.- Name Index.
£42.74
Penguin LLC US The Balancing Act
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The University of Chicago Press Until Choice Do Us Part
Book SynopsisFor centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely debating - about the meaning of marriage. This book offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the start of the twentieth century.Trade Review"In this fascinating and timely study, Clare Virginia Eby shines in her ability to brings us closer to the emotional and cultural aspects of the Progressive era, and her argument for marriage as a laboratory is extremely compelling. Until Choice Do Us Part will make a terrific addition to seminars on women and gender history, family history, and the history of sexuality-not to mention a number of other disciplines." (Jennifer Fronc, author of New York Undercover)"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring
Book SynopsisEuropean and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. This title demonstrates how this approach, though long since discredited, has permeated Western ideas about the family.Trade Review"This is a much-needed book about powerful conceptual frameworks that have been profoundly influential for centuries.... Reading History Sideways should be compulsory reading for any scholar working on families, especially demographers and family historians." (Population Studies) "An exceptional work. Arland Thornton's intellectual breadth is remarkable, as is the creativity of his argument and the evidence he marshals for it. His ideas are strikingly original and extremely important, and his argument is careful and thoughtful." (Linda Waite, University of Chicago) "An intellectual feast." (Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University)"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Love in Africa Emersion Emergent Village
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that argues for the importance of paying attention to the many different cultural and historical strands that constitute love in Africa. It covers such topics as the reception of Bollywood movies in 1950s Zanzibar, and the effects of a Mexican telenovela on young people's ideas about courtship in Niger.
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The University of Chicago Press American Taxation American Slavery
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that argues for the importance of paying attention to the many different cultural and historical strands that constitute love in Africa. It covers such topics as the reception of Bollywood movies in 1950s Zanzibar, and the effects of a Mexican telenovela on young people's ideas about courtship in Niger.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Uncivil Unions
Book SynopsisPresents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage.Trade Review"Is it philosophy or political theory or literary analysis? Is it history of ideas or gender studies or cultural studies? I am convinced that this is an utterly original, brilliantly insightful, and scrupulously argued contribution to all of these areas. I cannot think of any text that treats this period with this kind of richness. A powerful, sound, and insightful work." (Richard T. Eldridge, Swarthmore College)"
£38.00
University of Chicago Press Becoming an Ex The Process of Role Exit
Book SynopsisExploring a wide range of role changes, Ebaugh focuses on voluntary exits from significant roles and the common stages--from disillusionment with a particular identity to search for alternative roles to turning points and finally to the creation of an identity as an ex.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Mehinaku The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian
Book SynopsisFocusing on the language and symbols of reform, Fineman argues that by advocating measures based on equality of treatment rather than of outcome, liberal feminists disregarded the socioeconomic factors that simultaneously place women at a disadvantage in the market and favor their taking on primary domestic responsibilities.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Battered Child
Book SynopsisThis standard textbook on battered children updates and adds to the previous editions, while retaining their multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach. It contains chapters on the current treatment and prevention of child abuse, covering paediatrics, psychiatry, and social and legal studies.
£33.00
The University of Chicago Press Uncertain Honor Modern Motherhood in an African
Book SynopsisOffers an intimate look at the lives of African women trying to reconcile motherhood with new professional roles in a context of dramatic social change. The author argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change.Trade Review"Jennifer Johnson-Hanks provocatively begins where other studies end. Rather than assuming a generic 'modernity' that inexplicably shapes pregnancy decisions, she probes deeply to find a complex tangle of lived realities that shape the maternity/education nexus among Beti women in Cameroon. A bold and beautifully realized meditation on schooling and education." - Alma Gottlieb, author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come From"
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The University of Chicago Press Get Out of My Room A History of Teen Bedrooms in
Book SynopsisTeenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and maybe slam the door). Even in our era of Snapchat and hoverboards, bedrooms remain a key part of teenage life, one of the only areas where a teen can exert control and find some privacy. And while these separate bedrooms only became commonplace after World War II, the idea of the teen bedroom has been around for a long time. With Get Out of My Room!, Jason Reid digs into the deep historical roots of the teen bedroom and its surprising cultural power. He starts in the first half of the nineteenth century, when urban-dwelling middle-class families began to consider offering teens their own spaces in the home, and he traces that concept through subsequent decades, as social, economic, cultural, and demographic changes caused it to become more wi
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The University of Chicago Press Law Family and Women Toward a Legal Anthropology
Book SynopsisFocusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts allows him to present a compelling image of the social processes that affected the shape and function of the law. The numerous law courts of Italian city-states constantly devised and revised statutes. Kuehn traces the permutations of these laws, then examines their use by Florentines to arbitrate conflict and regulate social behavior regarding such issues as kinship, marriage, business, inheritance, illlegitimacy, and gender. Ranging from one man's embittered denunciation of his father to another's reaction to his kinsmen's rejection of him as illegitimate, Law, Family, and Women provides fascinating evidence of the tensions riddling family life in Renaissance Florence. Kuehn shows how these same tensions, often articulated in and throu
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The University of Chicago Press The Modernization of Fatherhood A Social and
Book SynopsisRevealing the extent to which some of yesterday's fathers were involved with their children, this text recounts how fatherhood was reshaped during the Machine Age into the configuration we know today.Table of ContentsPrologue: 1932 1: The Modernization of Fatherhood 2: The Historical Roots of Standard North American Fatherhood 3: Fatherhood and the Baby Doctors 4: Men and Infants 5: Fathercraft 6: Fatherhood and the Popular Press 7: "Dear Mr. Patri" 8: "Honor Thy Father" 9: Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Social Organization of Sexuality
Book SynopsisBased on personal interviews with a probability sample of 3432 American women and men between the ages of 18 and 59, this study explores the extent to which sexual conduct and general attitudes toward sexuality are influenced by gender, age, marital status and other demographic characteristics.
£37.00
The University of Chicago Press Gay Fatherhood Narratives of Family and
Book SynopsisChronicles the lives of gay men, exploring how they cope with political attacks from both the 'family values' right and the 'radical queer' left - while also shedding light on the evolving meanings of family in twenty-first-century America.Trade Review"Gay Fatherhood is doubly a magnificient achievement: it not only offers an exemplary investigation into the lived experience of gay parenting, but also shows how the struggles and triumphs of these gay men and their children can act as a kind of lens into how American cultures more broadly understand family, love, responsibility, and belonging." - Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine"
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The University of Chicago Press Gay Fatherhood
Book SynopsisChronicles the lives of gay men, exploring how they cope with political attacks from both the 'family values' right and the 'radical queer' left - while also shedding light on the evolving meanings of family in twenty-first-century America.Trade Review"Gay Fatherhood is doubly a magnificent achievement: it not only offers an exemplary investigation into the lived experience of gay parenting, but also shows how the struggles and triumphs of these gay men and their children can act as a kind of lens into how American cultures more broadly understand family, love, responsibility, and belonging." - Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Black Extended Family
Book SynopsisMisunderstood and stereotyped, the black family in America has been viewed by some as pathologically weak while others have acclaimed its resilience and strength. Those who have drawn these conflicting conclusions have gnerally focused on the nuclear familyhusband, wife, and dependent children. But as Elmer and Joanne Martin point out in this revealing book, a unit of this kind often is not the center of black family life. What appear to be fatherless, broken homes in our cities may really be vital parts of strong and flexible extended families based hundreds of miles awayusually in a rural area. Through their eight-year study of some thirty extended families, the Martins find that economic pressures, including federal tax and welfare laws, have begun to make the extended family's flexibility into a liability that threatens its future.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Worries of the Heart
Book SynopsisThroughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates of widowhood have been remarkably high in Kenya. This book explores how the challenges and frustrations of both colonial rule and independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community.Trade Review"I am not sure how to categorize Kenda Mutongi's magisterial book. Mutongi has gotten under the skin of her material - and what we read is a living document: surely essential for every reading household in Kenya, for schools, and for every department of African studies. It is at once a literary and academic achievement." - Binyavanga Wainaina, winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Relationship The Heart of Helping People
Book SynopsisLike the subject about which she writes, Perlman engages the reader immediately, permitting a view into the author's rich and varied experiences, threaded throughout with profound compassion for all those who seek, suffer, and strive. . . . [This is] a welcome and wise effort, written with grace, sense and deep humanism. Were it in my power I would make it mandatory reading for all those who seek to offer others help.Shirley Cooper, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Intimate Disconnections Divorce and the Romance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A panorama of Japanese mores and attitudes toward marriage, many of them in flux as people negotiate dependences and self-interest. . . . Japan isn’t known as a model for marital romance, a sentiment that is reflected in Intimate Disconnections. But in the spirit of anthropology that aims to explain without judgment or prescription, Alexy’s book helps understand a society moving away from equating marriage with normalcy." * Japan Times *“Intimate Disconnections offers an extraordinarily rich account of changing expectations for marriage, intimacy, and relationality in contemporary Japan. Alexy’s deeply empathetic analysis of divorce is destined to enrich our empirical understanding of this globally increasingly common life decision and its legal, economic, and emotional consequences.” * Hirokazu Miyazaki, Northwestern University *“This is a rich ethnographic study about increasing divorce in Japan, public discourses on later-life divorce (jukunen rikon), and popular images of divorced women’s empowerment that Alexy explores in depth. This accessible and carefully crafted book will be an important addition to the fields of cultural anthropology and gender studies, with Alexy’s nuanced depiction of gender dynamics, the labor market, and socioeconomic structures in contemporary Japan.” * Akiko Takeyama, University of Kansas *"I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in understanding the current marriage and divorce landscape in Japan... the book also includes excellent insights into the legal, economic, and labour realities in contemporary Japan, providing a useful overview of shifts over the past two decades." * New Voices in Japanese Studies *"In Intimate Disconnections, cultural anthropologist Allison Alexy paints an exceptionally nuanced picture of the performance of divorce in early twenty-first century Japan based on several years of participant observational fieldwork, during which she was able to conduct many interviews... Alexy’s interpretation is original and goes beyond the usual simplistic explanations in terms of general dissatisfactions with or ambivalence toward traditional ideals of masculinity and femininity." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Intimate Disconnections is a fascinating study of not just how marriages end through divorce, but the place of discourses about divorce on intimate practices. The strength of Alexy's work lies in her stories, particularly of older men and women, working out the anxieties and fall outs of what later life-divorces foreclose and/or open." * PoLAR *"Intimate Disconnections provides fascinating insight into the troubles of Japanese marriages, gleaned by Alexy over meals or drinks, in one-on-one interviews, and during small group counseling sessions and discussions. . . . The author’s sensitive handling of these intimate, often painful, stories helps us understand the challenges of divorce and the shifting ground of intimacy in marriages during the economic transformations of the last several decades." * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Allison Alexy is utterly sensitive to the situations of the women and men she talks with—several of them her personal friends—who did, or are going through, or will divorce. . . She does a lot of the heavy theoretical lifting as well." * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsA Note on Names Introduction: Freedom and AnxietyPart I The Beginning of the End 1 Japan’s Intimate Political Economy 2 Tips to Avoid DivorcePart II Legal Dissolutions 3 Constructing Mutuality 4 Families Together and ApartPart III Living as an X 5 The Costs of Divorce 6 Bonds of Disconnection Conclusion: Endings and New Beginnings Acknowledgments Appendix A: Profile Summaries Appendix B: All Quotes in Original Japanese Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Intimate Disconnections Divorce and the Romance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A panorama of Japanese mores and attitudes toward marriage, many of them in flux as people negotiate dependences and self-interest. . . . Japan isn’t known as a model for marital romance, a sentiment that is reflected in Intimate Disconnections. But in the spirit of anthropology that aims to explain without judgment or prescription, Alexy’s book helps understand a society moving away from equating marriage with normalcy." * Japan Times *“Intimate Disconnections offers an extraordinarily rich account of changing expectations for marriage, intimacy, and relationality in contemporary Japan. Alexy’s deeply empathetic analysis of divorce is destined to enrich our empirical understanding of this globally increasingly common life decision and its legal, economic, and emotional consequences.” * Hirokazu Miyazaki, Northwestern University *“This is a rich ethnographic study about increasing divorce in Japan, public discourses on later-life divorce (jukunen rikon), and popular images of divorced women’s empowerment that Alexy explores in depth. This accessible and carefully crafted book will be an important addition to the fields of cultural anthropology and gender studies, with Alexy’s nuanced depiction of gender dynamics, the labor market, and socioeconomic structures in contemporary Japan.” * Akiko Takeyama, University of Kansas *"I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in understanding the current marriage and divorce landscape in Japan... the book also includes excellent insights into the legal, economic, and labour realities in contemporary Japan, providing a useful overview of shifts over the past two decades." * New Voices in Japanese Studies *"In Intimate Disconnections, cultural anthropologist Allison Alexy paints an exceptionally nuanced picture of the performance of divorce in early twenty-first century Japan based on several years of participant observational fieldwork, during which she was able to conduct many interviews... Alexy’s interpretation is original and goes beyond the usual simplistic explanations in terms of general dissatisfactions with or ambivalence toward traditional ideals of masculinity and femininity." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Intimate Disconnections is a fascinating study of not just how marriages end through divorce, but the place of discourses about divorce on intimate practices. The strength of Alexy's work lies in her stories, particularly of older men and women, working out the anxieties and fall outs of what later life-divorces foreclose and/or open." * PoLAR *"Intimate Disconnections provides fascinating insight into the troubles of Japanese marriages, gleaned by Alexy over meals or drinks, in one-on-one interviews, and during small group counseling sessions and discussions. . . . The author’s sensitive handling of these intimate, often painful, stories helps us understand the challenges of divorce and the shifting ground of intimacy in marriages during the economic transformations of the last several decades." * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Allison Alexy is utterly sensitive to the situations of the women and men she talks with—several of them her personal friends—who did, or are going through, or will divorce. . . She does a lot of the heavy theoretical lifting as well." * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsA Note on Names Introduction: Freedom and AnxietyPart I The Beginning of the End 1 Japan’s Intimate Political Economy 2 Tips to Avoid DivorcePart II Legal Dissolutions 3 Constructing Mutuality 4 Families Together and ApartPart III Living as an X 5 The Costs of Divorce 6 Bonds of Disconnection Conclusion: Endings and New Beginnings Acknowledgments Appendix A: Profile Summaries Appendix B: All Quotes in Original Japanese Notes Bibliography Index
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Marriage and Cohabitation Population and
Book SynopsisSituating their argument in the context of the Western world's five-hundred-year history of marriage, this work reveals what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a society where marriage and the relationships between women and men have changed dramatically.Trade Review"Impressive... family demographers will find it invaluable, and other kinds of scholars and researchers will find it very useful. The authors point out that the predictors of entering into cohabitation and marriage are different, and they discuss how cohabitation may affect decisions about marriage.... The research reported here is important." - Noval D. Glenn, University of Texas at Austin"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Marriage and Cohabitation Population and
Book SynopsisSituating their argument in the context of the Western world's five-hundred-year history of marriage, this work reveals what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a society where marriage and the relationships between women and men have changed dramatically.
£31.00
University of Chicago Press Navajo Kinship and Marriage
Book SynopsisThe Navajo are one of the most studied people in the world, yet their social organization is one of the least well understood. In this volume Gary Witherspoon offers a theoretical approach to kinship based on its cultural dimensions.Table of ContentsForeword David M. Schneider Preface 1: Kinship as a Cultural System 2: Mother and Child and the Nature of Kinship 3: Marriage and the Nature of Affinity 4: Father and Child 5: The Descent System 6: The Concepts of Sex, Generation, Sibling Order, and Distance 7: Kinship and Affinal Solidarity as Symbolized in the Enemyway 8: Social Organization in the Rough Rock-Black Mountain Area 9: Residence in the Subsistence Residential Unit 10: Subsistence in the Subsistence Residential Unit 11: Unity in the Subsistence Residential Unit 12: The Navajo Outfit as a Set of Related Subsistence Residential Units 13: The Web of Affinity 14: The Social Universe of the Navajo Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press What Kinship IsAnd Is Not
Book SynopsisIn this pithy two-part essay, the author reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. He also shows that mutuality of being is a symbolic notion of belonging, not a biological connection by 'blood'.Trade ReviewJanet Carsten, University of Edinburgh "Clearly destined to become something of a classic in kinship studies in anthropology. This is partly because of the huge breadth of Marshall Sahlins's scholarship, which takes in everything from Aristotle to the most up-to-date references in the study of kinship, including a wonderful range of standard and lesser-known works along the way. But this of course is not just a work of synthesis; it is also an original, brilliant, and, above all, creative contribution to current debates in the discipline." Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro "The work of Marshall Sahlins has continuously inspired whole academic generations of anthropologists. As with many of his previous interventions, this bold and incisive essay will be hailed as a beacon of lucidity in the somewhat foggy conceptual landscape of current anthropology. The all too neglected structuralist insight of the radical identity between sociality and semiosis is rescued and developed by Sahlins in a wonderfully refreshing way, with the help and the benefit of an easy, capacious scholarship that embraces everything from philosophy to linguistics to contemporary ethnography (from the Nichomachean Ethics to Benveniste on pronouns, from Amazonian couvade to Maori gift-exchange). This book musters deep and convincing arguments in favor of a thoroughly relational human ontology, bodying forth a renewed notion of internal or intrinsic relationality, which runs counter to the current infatuation with substances and impenetrable essences. It shows that what is natural in human culture is what is cultural in human nature: kinship, precisely." Alan Rumsey, Australian National University "What Kinship Is - And Is Not is a tour de force, even by Sahlinsian standards. Kinship is one of the oldest topics in anthropology, but by the 1970s it began to lose its centrality, partly under the weight of critiques which denied the cross-cultural validity of 'kinship' as an analytical category. Sahlins develops an incisive counter-critique of that position while at the same time radically reframing kinship as 'mutuality of being,' which he takes to be a pan-human phenomenon. A superb piece of anthropological writing, this book does a wonderful job of ethnographically substantiating that concept, along the way making several other major contributions to anthropological theory." Thomas Trautmann, University of Michigan "In What Kinship Is - And Is Not, Marshall Sahlins argues that kinship is culture, not biology, and he does so in the pure, uncompromising, vivid way of which he is the master. We now have the case for the cultural interpretation in the strongest imaginable form, which is at the same time a case for not splitting the difference in the quandary at the heart of kinship studies. It is a service of inestimable value, and all who study kinship will benefit." Robert Parkin, Anthropological Quarterly "Marshall Sahlins is one of the great names of modern anthropology, but thus far he has not counted as one of the key figures in the study of kinship... but [The Use and Abuse of Biology] and the present text both show that Sahlins is knowledgeable about kinship and entirely capable of contributing something new to debates concerning it... He has clearly ransacked the most recent literature in the search for relevant ethnography, though he also finds support for his argument in some of the older literature, going back to Tylor in 1865, and even to Plato. The basic theme, therefore, is not new, though his treatment of it is. Sahlins has given this phenomenon a name - "mutuality of being" - and that in itself will compel us to take notice of it."
£76.00
McGill-Queen's University Press An Anatomy of Everyday Arguments Conflict and
Book SynopsisInterpersonal arguments, with their potential for defensiveness and hostility, can be difficult to navigate. This book examines the structure and dynamics of conflict to find new ways forward. Jull analyzes four personal stories through the lens of the Insight approach, an innovative way to decipher and re-shape the direction of everyday conflicts.Trade Review"This book is exciting and potentially generative in new and promising ways. Through its use of autoethnography and personal narrative, An Anatomy of Everyday Arguments is set to make a major contribution. The reflexive prose, layered introspection, and analysis of interpersonal relations make for a welcoming book to which readers are likely to relate in their own ways." Keith Berry, University of South Florida“The presentation and application of the insight approach through personal examples confirms the author’s high level of understanding and competence in insight theory. It is also refreshing to read something completely original, … . We need more works like this that examine theory and demonstrate how to apply it in practice.” Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies
£88.35
John Wiley & Sons Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery
Book SynopsisTrade Review“By presenting Montgomery’s fiction as conversing with past and present creative writers, contributors provide a helpful focal point within the broad framework of the collection, extending prior conceptual understandings of the cultural role of reading.” Irene Gammel, author of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic“This collection [is] valuable and [a rarity] in academic literary studies. It is a book both for scholars and for the “Maud Squad.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery
Book SynopsisTrade Review“By presenting Montgomery’s fiction as conversing with past and present creative writers, contributors provide a helpful focal point within the broad framework of the collection, extending prior conceptual understandings of the cultural role of reading.” Irene Gammel, author of Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic“This collection [is] valuable and [a rarity] in academic literary studies. It is a book both for scholars and for the “Maud Squad.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
£27.90
Columbia University Press RoleSharing Marriage
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£54.40
Columbia University Press Experiencing HIV
Book SynopsisThrough the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS, this text explores the ways in which HIV affects personal, family and work relationships. It draws on the experinces of black and white, heterosexual and gay, women and men with or without symtoms who show how they work through everyday life.
£90.00
Columbia University Press Recognizing Ourselves Ceremonies of Lesbian and
Book SynopsisLewin explores the intersections of kinship, community, morality, and love bound up in same-sex marriage through the experiences of lesbian and gay couples who have sanctified their relationships in commitment ceremonies. Through detailed profiles, Lewin provides the first comprehensive account of lesbian and gay weddings in America.Trade ReviewAn important look at the meaning of the ceremonies for those involved. Library Journal Not a how-to guide, but rather profiles and portraits of same-sex marriages intertwined with the surrounding politics. San Francisco Bay Times
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Columbia University Press Recognizing Ourselves
Book SynopsisLewin explores the intersections of kinship, community, morality, and love bound up in same-sex marriage through the experiences of lesbian and gay couples who have sanctified their relationships in commitment ceremonies. Through detailed profiles, Lewin provides the first comprehensive account of lesbian and gay weddings in America.Trade ReviewAn important look at the meaning of the ceremonies for those involved. Library Journal Not a how-to guide, but rather profiles and portraits of same-sex marriages intertwined with the surrounding politics. San Francisco Bay Times
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Columbia University Press Families We Choose
Book SynopsisThis classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology.Trade ReviewGraceful... Valuable for the ways it demonstrates that, like race, gender and sexual identity, the meaning of kinship is culturally relative--and susceptible to change. The Women's Review of Books The first to analyze the historical conditions, social meaning, and political implications of lesbians and gays' appropriating the language of kinship...A fine book. Contemporary Sociology Represents a new direction in lesbian and gay studies and in the anthropology of American culture. SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society This book demands--and deserves--thorough and careful reading...A well-documented work for gay studies collections. Library Journal Weighs in as an important contribution to current debates about family and family values. American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments 1.The Monkey Cage and the Red Desoto 2. Exiles from Kinship Is Straight to Gay as Family Is to No Family? Deck the Halls Kinship and Procreation From Biology to Choice 3. Coming Out to "Blood" Relatives Disclosing Sexual Identity Categorical Understandings (Or, It's All Relative) Family-Which Family? Conditional Love Discursive Locations Taking Identity, Talking Kinship Selection and Rejection 4. Kinship and Coherence: Ten Stories 5. Families We Choose Building Gay Families Substitute for Biological Family? Friends and Lovers From Friendship to Community Deliberating Difference 6. Lovers Through the Looking Glass The Looking-Glass Other Power "Differentials," Relationship "Roles" The Urge to Merge Narcissism, Kinship, and Class Convictions Couples Versus Community Reflections on Metaphor 7. Parenting in the Age of AIDS The Lesbian Mother as Icon Male-Female Revisited: Insemination and AIDS Of Death and Birth Blood Relatives Respond Parents and Persons 8. The Politics of Gay Families Assimilation or Transformation? Common Ground The Big Picture Reengineering Biogenetics Appendix Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press From Partners to Parents The Second Revolution
Book SynopsisExamining the changes that have occurred in families, family research, and family law in the late 20th century, this volume describes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children, rather than to each other.Trade ReviewDescribes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family from an emphasis on partners' relationships with each other to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children. Family TherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction: From Parents to Partners--The Second Revolution in Family Law Part I. From Partners to Parents: The Philosophical Divide 1. Economics and the Family: Reformulating the Old Order 2. Feminism and Political Theory: The Traditional Family and Its Discontents 3. Feminism and Economics: Becker Meets Okin 4. Law, Public Policy, and the Feminism of Difference 5. Liberal Feminism vs. the Feminism of Difference: Or, The Huxtables vs. Grace Under Fire 6. Fineman and Becker: Feminism vs. Economics 7. Morality, Family, and the State 8. What Is the Purpose of Family Policy? Galston vs. Fineman--with the Others Watching from the Sidelines 9. Conclusion Part II. From Partners to Parents: The Empirical Debate 10. History and the Making of the Modern Family (with Apologies to Edward Shorter) 11. Race, Class, and Controversy 12. What Did Happen? Economics Revisited 13. Economics and History: The Chapter Yet to Be Written 14. And What About the Children? 15. Conclusion Part III. From Partners to Parents: The Legal Revolution 16. The Meaning of Marriage 17. Partnership Revisited 18. Child Support and the Parenthood Draft 19. The Remaking of Fatherhood 20. Child Custody at Divorce: Ground Zero in the Gender Wars 21. Welfare Reform and the Permissibility of Motherhood 22. Renegotiating Childhood Conclusion: From Partners to Parents--The Unfinished Revolution
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Columbia University Press Interracial Couples Intimacy and Therapy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis comprehensive, up-to-date book captures the realities of today's interracial couples via authentic and compelling narratives and is a landmark reference for seasoned scholars and practitioners, as well as for students in the social sciences and clinical professions. -- Peter Fraenkel, City College of New York and Ackerman Institute's Center for Work and Family Without fear, Kyle D. Killian inquires into the lives of interracial couples, inviting readers to appreciate how race relations unavoidably makes its way into the most intimate spaces. Adopting a strengths-oriented approach, his book wonderfully weaves history, couple formation, human development theory, family systems approaches, and social constructionist psychotherapy approaches to illuminate interracial couples' lived experience. It is a must addition in counseling psychology, couples therapy, and multicultural counseling courses and a welcome addition to undergraduate courses in family and human development. -- Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Director, Family Therapy Program, University of Massachusetts Boston Killian connects the experiences of twenty interracial couples to literature, cinema, and the intersections of culture, race, gender, and class. Contending that moving beyond silence about race can be transformative, he provides ways that professionals can help interracial couples make sense of their experiences of marginalization, find their voice, and reauthor their family identities in life-enhancing ways. This emancipatory book is for all those who support and celebrate relationships that may not fit society's conventions. -- Fred P. Piercy, Editor, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Killian has made a major contribution to the scholarly literature on multiracialism in the twenty-first century, providing a means to affirm interracial intimacy while reinforcing, rather than rejecting or retiring, an anti-racist political project. This book should be required reading for all those in the helping professions struggling to understand better the matrix of race, gender, class, and sexuality in and beyond their clinical practice. To the extent that they are animated by a desire to live and love in a more just and equal world, rather than a 'free market,' this learned study should appeal to academic and general audiences alike. -- Jared Sexton, University of California, Irvine Killian does an excellent job of discussing the intersections of race, gender, and socioeconomic factors as they affect the development and progression of intimate relationships in the lives of his participants... A strong contribution to the literature on working therapeutically with such couples and to the broader literature on multiracial families. PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. What Interracial Couples Can Tell Us Significance of the Book Unpacking Basic Concepts: Race Interracial in the Age of Obama: The Impact of Color-Blind and "Postracial" Discourses The Politics of Voice: A Note from the Author The Couples 1. Racialized Bodies and Borders in the United States Defining and Demarcating Borders Interracial Borders from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Trends in Black-White Intermarriage Race and Sex Differences in Marriage Rates: The "Marriage Squeeze" Interracial Mate-Selection Theories Summary 2. Crossing a Black-and-White Border: Choosing the Other Attraction and Falling in Love Partners' Reactions to Differences Is There Any Difference? Negotiating Differences in Axes of Power to Establish a Couple Identity In Black and White: The Border of Race He Said Summary 3. Crossing Community Borders: Families of Origin Social Support and Resistance to the Relationship Strategies of Coping with Reactions Multiracial Couples and Social Networks Partner Sensitivity to Racism: The Community Context Summary 4. A Nexus of Borders: The Next Generation The Next Generation and Their Opportunities A Persistent Question: "What About the Children?" Intersections of Gender and Race Intersections of Race and Class White Male and Female Partners About Difference: Social and Political Dimensions Happy Together? Processes Contributing to Couple Identity Formation Couple Identities and Negotiation Styles Summary 5. Raising (and Erasing) Difference: Dominant and Marginalized Discourses in Interracial Couples' Narratives What Is Discourse Analysis? The Discourse of Homogamy The Discourse of Hypersensitivity The Discourse of History's Insignificance What These Findings Say About Multiracial Couples An Overarching Discourse of "No Race Talk" Summary 6. Systemic Interventions with Interracial Couples The Art of Drawing Distinctions Instead of Conclusions What Couples Said About Therapy Couples Who Might Present for Therapy Specific Assessments and Interventions A Narrative Approach to Therapy with Multiracial Couples Summary 7. (Re)presentations of Interracial Couples in Cinema Cinema and Literature: Racial Logics and the Hegemonic Aesthetics of Intimacy Interracial Couples' Own Depictions of Their Intimate Relations Reflecting on the Research and the Researcher: Integrating the Interview Process Are Interracial Couples Different from Intraracial Couples? Salience of Identities: Under Which Conditions Notes Appendix A. Summary of Participant Information Appendix B. Assessment Inventories Appendix C. Directions for Scoring the Assessment Inventories Appendix D. Resources for Interracial Couples and Multiracial Families and Individuals References Index
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Columbia University Press Classical Japanese A Grammar
Book SynopsisClassical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. It includes detailed explanations of basic grammar and explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese. This companion volume includes exercise answers and tables.
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Columbia University Press How to Live Together Novelistic Simulations of
Book SynopsisIn The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to discover a different way of writing and a new approach to life. The Neutral preceded this work, containing Barthes's challenge to the classic oppositions of Western thought and his effort to establish new pathways of meaning. How to Live Together predates both of these achievements, a series of lectures exploring solitude and the degree of contact necessary for individuals to exist and create at their own pace. A distinct project that sets the tone for his subsequent lectures, How to Live Together is a key introduction to Barthes's pedagogical methods and critical worldview. In this work, Barthes focuses on the concept of idiorrhythmy, a productive form of living together in which one recognizes and respects the individual rhythms of the other. He explores this phenomenon through five textTrade ReviewThis is Roland Barthes at his inventive and idiosyncratic best: a brilliant and suggestive reader, both of literary texts and the social, psychic, and affective spaces of everyday life. -- Diana Knight, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsForeword Preface Translator's Preface Session of January 12 INTRODUCTION Method? (Method. Culture) - Fantasy - My fantasy: idiorrhythmy - Monarchism Session of January 19 INTRODUCTION (continued) Works - Greek network - Traits AKEDIA / AKEDIA Session of January 26 ANACHORESIS / ANACHORESIS Historically - Metaphorically ANIMAUX / ANIMALS 1. Robinson Crusoe (Phases. History) - 2. Anachorites ATHOS / ATHOS History - Space Session of February 2 ATHOS / ATHOS (continued) Way of Life - Ownership - Power AUTARCHIE / AUTARKY BANC / SCHOOL BEGUINAGES / BEGUINAGES History - Space - Way of Life - Socio-Economics - Power - Conclusion Session of February 9 BUREAUCRATIE / BUREAUCRACY CAUSE / CAUSE Christianity - Other sorts of Telos - Bion - Homeostasis CHAMBRE / ROOM 1. The total space Session of February 16 CHAMBRE / ROOM (continued) 2. The room becomes isolated within the house - 3. The room loses its association with the couple ? Cella - The Magnificenza CHEF / CHIEF Session of March 2 CLOTURE / ENCLOSURE Functions (Protection. Definition) - Extreme-experience COLONIE D'ANACHORETES / COLONY OF ANACHORITES 1. Qumran sect - 2. Monks of Nitria - 3. Carthusians - 4. The Solitaires of Port-Royal Session of March 9 COUPLAGE / PAIRING 1. Principle of pairing - 2. Two examples of strong pairing (Lausaic History DISTANCE / DISTANCE DOMESTIQUES / SERVANTS 1. Need = Desire - 2. Need ? Desire Session of March 16 ECOUTE / HEARING Territory and hearing - Repression and hearing EPONGE / SPONGE EVENEMENT / EVENT FLEURS / FLOWERS IDYLLIQUE / IDYLL Session of March 23 MARGINALITES / MARGINALITIES First margin: coenobitism - Second margin: idiorrhythmy MONOSIS / MONOSIS One / Two - The desire for Two - In praise of One NOMS / NAMES Nicknames Session of March 30 NOMS / NAMES (continued) Caritatism - No Name NOURRITURE / FOOD 1. Rhythms - 2. The foods themselves (the divisions of the forbidden: what's forbidden / what's tolerated). The connotations of food Session of April 20 PROXEMIE / PROXEMICS The notion - The lamp - The bed RECTANGLE / RECTANGLE Civilization of the rectangle - The frame - Subversions? REGLE / RULE Regula - Territory - Rule and Custom - Rule and Law Session of April 27 SALETE / DIRTINESS Noteworthy - Meaning - Tact XENITIA / XENITIA Semantic network - False image - Dereality - Conclusion Session of May 4 UTOPIE / UTOPIA BUT WHAT ABOUT METHOD? 1. Traits. Figures. Boxes - 2. Classification - 3. Digression - 4. Opening a dossier - 5. The supporting-text WHAT IS IT TO HOLD FORTH? RESEARCH ON INVESTED SPEECH Seminar Session of January 12 HOLDING FORTH "So Session of March 23 CHARLUS-DISCOURSE 1. Kinetics - 2. Triggers Session of March 30 CHARLUS-DISCOURSE (continued) 3. Allocutionary authority (Andromache. Charlus-Discourse) - 4. Forces ("Psychology." "Psychoanalysis." Intensities) - To take my leave and fix a new appointment SUMMARY NOTES GLOSSARY OF GREEK TERMS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX NOMINUM INDEX RERUM
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Columbia University Press Twentyfirst Century Motherhood
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Andrea O'Reilly Part I: Experience 1. Chicana Mothering in the Twenty-first Century: Challenging Stereotypes and Transmitting Culture, by Jessica M. Vasquez 2. Muslim Motherhood: Traditions in Changing Contexts, by Gail Murphy-Geiss 3. Mothering in Fear: How Living in an Insecure-Feeling World Affects Parenting, by Ana Villalobos 4. Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Female-to-Male Transgender Children, by Sarah F. Pearlman 5. Queer Parenting in the New Millennium: Resisting Normal, by Rachel Epstein 6. Contemporary Mothering Practices in the Context of HIV and AIDS: A South African Case, by Thenjiwe Magwaza Part II: Identity 7. Ambivalence of the Motherhood Experience, by Ivana Brown 8. Supermothers on Film; or, Maternal Melodrama in the Twenty-first Century, by Adrienne McCormick 9. Juno or Just Another Girl? Young Breeders and a New Century of Racial Politics of Motherhood, by Mary Thompson 10. Taking Off the Maternal Lens: Engaging with Sara Ruddick on Men and Mothering, by Andrea Doucet 11. Reproducing Possibilities: Androgenesis and Mothering Human Identity, by Deirdre M. Condit Part III: Policy 12. Mothers of the Global Welfare State: How Neoliberal Globalization Affects Working Mothers in Sweden and Canada, by Honor Brabazon 13. The Erosion of College Access for Low-Income Mothers, by A. Fiona Pearson 14. Academic Life Balance for Mothers: Pipeline or Pipe Dream?, by Michele L. Vancour and William M. Sherman 15. Exclusive Breastfeeding and Work Policies in Eldoret, Kenya, by Violet Naanyu 16. Brown Bodies, White Eggs: The Politics of Cross-racial Gestational Surrogacy, by Laura Harrison 17. What Will Become of Us? New Biotechnologies and the Need for Maternal Leadership, by Enola G. Aird Part IV: Agency 18. From "Choice" to Change: Rewriting the Script of Motherhood as Maternal Activism, by Judith Stadtman Tucker 19. The Mothers' Movement: The Challenges of Coalition Building in the Twenty-first Century, by Patrice DiQuinzio 20. Political Labeling of Mothers: An Obstacle to Equality in Politics, by Marsha Marotta 21. Racially Conscious Mothering in the "Colorblind" Century: Implications for African American Motherwork, by Camille Wilson Cooper 22. It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Mothering on the Internet, by May Friedman 23. Outlaw(ing) Motherhood: A Theory and Politic of Maternal Empowerment for the Twenty-first Century, by Andrea O'Reilly
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Columbia University Press Mad Mothers Bad Mothers and What a Good Mother Would Do
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MO - University of Illinois Press Fatherhood Politics in the United States
Book SynopsisAre fathers being marginalized in the contemporary family? Responding to fears that they are, the self-proclaimed fatherhood responsibility movement (FRM) has worked since the mid-1990s to put fatherhood at the centre of US national politics. This title reveals the internal struggles, and traces the myths that drive this powerful movement.Trade Review"Anna Gavanas brings a vital international perspective to a uniquely American phenomenon. Her approach to the fatherhood responsibility movement is that of a social anthropologist sensitive to culture as well as politics. The result is an original yet troubling portrait of contemporary American gender relations." -- John Gillis, Professor of History, Rutgers University
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University of Illinois Press Revising Eternity 27 Latterday Saint Men Reflect
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Revising Eternity indeed revises any misguided notions we might have of uniformity in the Latter-day Saint experience, boldly and candidly opening to view the sometimes intense, sometimes joyous, sometimes sorrowful lives of a wide variety of writers, and with its myriad perspectives the book invites us to more deeply know and thus achieve greater empathy with one another."--Patrick Madden, author of Disparates: Essays"This is a fascinating compilation, detailing as it does what happens when an exigent definition of righteousness and propriety meets the reality of human nature--a work at once sad, sobering, heartening, and above all enlightening. Highly recommended."--Levi S. Peterson, author of A Rascal by Nature, a Christian by Yearning: A Mormon AutobiographyTable of ContentsForeword: Mormon American Masculinities, Ideal and Actual Patrick Q. Mason xiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: Personal, Contingent, and Incomplete Views on Eternal Marriage Holly Welker 1Part I. Revised Expectations Transgressors Stephen Carter 19A husband considers the ways his happymarriage violates the ideal praised by theProclamation on the FamilyBy the Drinking Fountain Eric Robeck 25A couple’s relationship seems like a Latter-dayfairy tale—until he loses his faithMy One and Only Clyde Kunz 31A gay man considers the way Latter-day Saints’expectations for straight marriage affect his ownsearch for a relationshipThere’s Something about Mary Kim Siever 37A husband learns to love his wife more deeply bystudying the example of her love for himFor Jess, after Eighteen Years of Marriage: Seven Fragments on Love; Or, Some Things I Carry Tyler Chadwick 42In a love letter to his wife, a husband lists someof the familiar mysteries he cherishes in theirmarriageAn Apology I’ve Been Working on for a While Joey Franklin 44A husband reflects on the division of labor inhis marriage and how it affects his and his wife’ssenses of selfNever Good Enough Michael Carpenter 52A lifetime of failing to meet Latter-day Saintideals exacts a tragic costMormon AF Nicholas Don Smith 58A stand-up comic from American Fork, Utah,reflects on what it means to be Mormon andsingleLiken the Scriptures Andrew Spriggs 63A young husband realizes that his gay marriageis the most Mormon thing about his lifeThe Care Package Kevin Barnwell 71A husband who has left the church works to findthe perfect anniversary gift for his still devout wifePart II. Sex and Its Consequences Fertility Theric Jepson 77After the birth of their fourth child, a husbandundergoes a vasectomy to spare his wife anymore worry about fertilityOpposites Robert Raleigh 82Newlyweds discover that their intense physicalattraction is not a strong enough basis for ahappy marriage—or even a satisfying sex lifeEternity in an Hour Boyd Jay Petersen 92On the eve of a trip abroad, a husband learnsthat his wife of thirty-three years is gay, afterwhich they negotiate a respectful separationPie Month Scott Russell Morris 105A young couple agrees to eat pie every day duringthe month of March 2014 while they also try toconceive a childThe Highest T. Kay Browning 119A young man determined to marry early learnsto be the man of integrity his marriage requiresof him, especially as he reckons with what the#MeToo movement means for menBeing Jane John Doe 129A bisexual cross-dresser and his wife learn tohave a mutually fulfilling sex life while honoringtheir temple covenants to one anotherSoul Mates Scott Blanding 133A gay man and a straight woman navigate amarriage both believe they committed to before birthHiding in Plain Sight David Nicolay 141A husband’s ability to connect to his wife isundermined by decades of sexual shame overmasturbation7:06 A.M. Kelland Coleman 151A lonely husband briefly attains the intimacy hehas longed for with his wife when she admits toherself and to him that she is gayUnsealed Dan Smith 160A husband learns that trying to practicepolygamy to please his wife does not heal theirtroubled marriagePart III. In Sickness and in Health Fear and Trepanation Ted Smith 171A midlife crisis helps a husband understandhow valuable his marriage is, just before it isthreatened by a dire medical crisisI’m Not Who I Thought You Married John B. Dahl 180A young husband is forced to confront his ownmisconceptions about mental illness when he isdiagnosed with depression—and discovers thatdoing so strengthens instead of harms his marriageHolding On and Letting Go Joseph Broom 190After decades in a straight marriage, a gay mandiscovers happiness with the love of his life—onlyto lose him to cancer after a short marriageDisability Check Caleb Scoville 198A young man reckons with the way his bipolardisease wreaks havoc on his marriageThe House of Infinite Regret Scot Denhalter 207Addiction to prescription narcotics destroys a life,a marriage, and a familyFrom Patriarchy to Matriarchy: A Marital and Spiritual Journey Thomas W Murphy 218A young man from an abusive household vows tocreate a family free of violence and coercion withhis wife, after which they learn about alternativeforms of strength and leadership—and aboutaspects of their own backgrounds—when theirwork leads them to Indigenous communitiesThe Marriage Bed: An Essay and Three Poems Robert A. Rees 231A widower reflects on his happy marriage andthe joy of sharing a bed with his belovedGlossary 239Discussion Questions 243Bibliography 245Contributors 249
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