Sociology: family, kinship and relationships Books
New York University Press Failing Families Failing Science
Book SynopsisWork life in academia might sound like a dream: summers off, year-long sabbaticals, the opportunity to switch between classroom teaching and research. Yet, when it comes to the sciences, life at the top U.S. research universities is hardly idyllic. Based on surveys of over 2,000 junior and senior scientists, both male and female, as well as in-depth interviews, Failing Families, Failing Science examines how the rigors of a career in academic science makes it especially difficult to balance family and work. Ecklund and Lincoln paint a nuanced picture that illuminates how gender, individual choices, and university and science infrastructures all play a role in shaping science careers, and how science careers, in turn, shape family life. They argue that both men and women face difficulties, though differently, in managing career and family. While women are hit harder by the pressures of elite academic science, the institution of scienceand academic science, in particularis not accommodatTrade ReviewFailing Families, Failing Science makes an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on gender and science and to the particular aspect of that scholarship focused on work-life balance.The particular contribution of this study is the inclusion of men in the surveys and interviews, allowing the understanding of what may really be gender differences or discrimination compared to generational or disciplinary differences.As the authors rightly suggest, little change will occur in addressing this complex, decades-old problem until it is seen as a problem that both men and women scientists want solved.This volume will add the perspective of mens reasons and insights, along with those of women, to the demand for change. -- Sue V. Rosser,author of Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in ScienceEcklund's and Lincoln's conclusions about the lives and aspirations of scientists may strike some as sheer heresy. But these are the very ones who need to read this book. -- Judith Blau,author of Race in the Schools: Perpetuating White Dominance?The authors very effectively integrate cutting edge sociology research findings with both the quantitative and qualitative results of their study. * PsycCritiques *This very accessible monograph would be excellent for undergraduate of graduate courses on gender, family, or work and occupations. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press The Trouble with Snack Time
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important study of the ways in which feeding children reflects larger social anxieties, from issues of class and racial identities to morally loaded ideas about nutrition and childrearing. While recognizing the centrality of parental engagement to children’s lives, Patico compellingly asserts the need for governmental interventions to bring about structural changes that don’t rely on moralized notions of individual parental care. Everyone interested in how America feeds its children—or fails to—should read this book." -- Darra Goldstein, Founding Editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture"A beautifully written account of the double bind faced by many contemporary parents: how to be ‘engaged’ and ‘concerned’ about their children’s eating, without being overly ‘neurotic’ or ‘anxious.’ Thick with detailed ethnographic observation, the book illuminates the politics of parenting from the ground up, forcing the reader to reflect on why children’s eating has become both individualized and moralized in recent years, as well as pushing us to consider other, more collaborative possibilities. In addition to parents themselves, this highly readable book will be of interest to those across the social sciences, particularly scholars of parenting, gender, food, and health." -- Charlotte Faircloth, University College London"This book is rife with interesting details, describing a life that will be familiar to many academics." * CHOICE *"The Trouble With Snack Time by Dr. Jennifer Patico explores this food environment through a fascinating ethnography of an Atlanta charter school and its surrounding neighbourhood." * Agriculture and Human Values *
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New York University Press Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
Book SynopsisReveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSongHow did reproductive justicedefined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parentbecome recognized as a human rights issue? In Reproductive Rights as Human Rights, Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home. An indispensable read, Reproductive Rights as Human Rights provides a much-needed intersectional perspeTrade Review"Through careful analysis and deep, multi-method research, Luna brings to light the story of the struggle of Black women seeking to redefine the reproductive justice movement. In doing so, the book examines some of the most urgent questions of today: how do people come together to redefine their own liberation not only through rights granted by the state, but also in the ways they relate to each other? Further, how does their work push the boundaries of social change, helping us to reimagine a different world? In an uncertain world with yawning gaps between the world we want and the world we have, this book provides fresh insight that scholars and organizers alike desperately need." -- Hahrie Han, author of How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century"Zakiya Luna makes an essential contribution to the growing understanding of the crucial contributions women of color have made to historical and contemporary intersectional movements that embrace both anti-racism and feminism. She also tells a critical story of how the social movement organization SisterSong adapted international human rights discourse in the US domestic context to forge a struggle for reproductive justice." -- Jennifer Nelson, author of More Than Medicine: A History of the Women’s Health Movement"Reproductive Rights as Human Rights is a necessary contribution to the scholarship on the reproductive justice movement and the reader will come to understand the movement through Luna’s work." * Mobilization *
£73.80
New York University Press Just Like Family
Book SynopsisWinner, 2023 Animals and Society's Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association The rise and increasingly important role of companion animals in our families From homemade meals for our dogs to high-end feline veterinary care, pets are a growing multi-billion-dollar industry in the United States. In Just Like Family, Andrea Laurent-Simpson explores the expanding role of animals in what she calls "the multi-species family," providing a window into a world where almost 95 percent of adults who share their homes with dogs and cats identifyand ultimately treattheir animal companions as legitimate members of their families. With an insightful eye, Laurent-Simpson examines why and how these animals have increasingly become an important part of our households. She highlights their various roles in our lives, including as siblings to our existing children, as animal children themselves, and in some cases, even as grandchildren, particularly as fertility rates decline and a growing number of younger couples choose to live a childfree lifestyle. Ultimately, Laurent-Simpson highlights how animalsand their place in our liveshave changed the structure of the American family in surprising ways. Just Like Family provides a fascinating inside look at our complex relationships with our beloved animal companions in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewIn this fascinating book, Laurent-Simpson discusses how nontraditional families such as childfree families, LGBTQ families, and grandparent families have helped to make the multispecies family the norm. As people began to focus less on survival and more on happiness—the family structure evolved along with it—with dogs right by our side. Laurent-Simpson also considers the impacts of the multispecies family on the birthrate in the United States, which hit a record low in 2020. * The Bark *Deftly weaving identity theory, family studies, symbolic interactionism, and animal studies, Just Like Family has broad versatility and reach in sociology. In this book, Laurent-Simpson delivers the rare combination of readability, relatability and rigor. She provides compelling stories from pet parents as well as examples from popular culture that show, quite clearly, the ways in which companion animals have nosed their way from pets to family members and in so doing, created a new family structure. The importance of this transition in family form is thoroughly explained and supported with reference to multiple fields. Additionally, with the use of triangulation in data collection, this book is a great exemplar of qualitative research and would be excellent for a qualitative methods class, in addition to courses focusing on family or identity. -- Beth Montemurro, author of Deserving Desire: Women's Stories of Sexual EvolutionWhen a subtle social change happens slowly, over the course of many decades, it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly how the present moment came to be. Such is the case with pets becoming members of the family. With a wealth of heartwarming stories and informative demographic analyses, Andrea Laurent-Simpson shows how family structures have evolved to include beloved animal companions. These contemporary multi-species families have created their own identities, roles, and boundaries to define 'family' for themselves. From 'pet parents' taking care of their 'animal kids,' to children seeing themselves as 'siblings' to their companion animals, Laurent-Simpson demonstrates how animal companions moved from being “owned” to claiming a status as a member of the family. -- Elizabeth Cherry, author of For the Birds: Protecting Wildlife Through the Naturalist GazeIncreasing numbers of people now regard their companion animals as members of the family. Although some critics consider this very idea frivolous, Andrea Laurent-Simpson takes people’s claims seriously and investigates how we incorporate non-human beings into a group long regarded as uniquely human. The resulting analysis sheds valuable light on the dynamics of the more-than-human family. With its impeccable research and graceful prose, Just Like Family holds insights for scholars and lay readers alike. -- Leslie Irvine, editor of We Are Best Friends: Animals in SocietyAndrea Laurent-Simpson’s book skillfully combines the micro and macro level of analysis…It is, therefore, a very versatile research approach, which gives the whole picture of the changes to American families and the position of companion animals in American society. * Symbolic Interaction *Just Like Family is joy to read. It should find a significant lay and academic audience and would contribute considerably to a range of college courses including sociology of the family, social psychology, and human animal studies. * Social Forces *Laurent-Simpson (Southern Methodist Univ.) contends that the American family unit has changed over time to incorporate a multispecies dimension as household pets have come to be increasingly considered part of the family, representing new relationships and transforming existing ones. Utilizing interviews, observational data, and artifacts from popular culture, the author compellingly argues for taking pets seriously as family members. Among her key observations are not just the importance of pets as companions to whom owners devote economic and emotional resources but that the way in which humans understand these relationships as similar to parent/child relationships has changed the way Americans think about these traditional roles. Many of the most intriguing insights call for further investigation, including the gendered dimensions of companion animals in which cultural expectations of motherhood are often transferred onto “pet parents,” reflected in both the attitudes and consumption patterns of interviewees and coinciding with declining fertility rates. In addition, racialized patterns of ownership suggest that the multispecies family is primarily a white phenomenon with significant class-based dimensions. Of interest to family and animal studies scholars, this text provides a fascinating snapshot of the ways pets are active and transformative agents. * Choice *Laurent-Simpson’s clear and accessible writing style makes this book ideal for all readers interested in the companion animal as family, whether for academic inquiry or personal curiosity. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press The Opportunity Trap
Book SynopsisWinner, 2024 Global Sociology Book Award, given by the Canadian Sociological Association Winner of the 2024 Silver Medal for the Canada West Non-Fiction category, given by The Independent Publisher Book AwardWinner of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America's Book Award on Asian AmericaHonorable Mention, 2024 Social Science Category Book Awards, given by the Association for Asian American StudiesHonorable Mention, 2022 Betty and McClung Lee Book Award, given by the Association for Humanist SociologyUnravels how US visa laws fail Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses and familiesThe Opportunity Trap is the first book to look at the impact of the H-4 dependent visa programs on women and men visa holders in Indian families in America. Comparing two distinct groups of Indian immigrant families families of male high-tech workers and female nursesPallavi Banerjee reveals how visa policies that are legally gender and race neutral in fact have gendered and racializeTrade ReviewPowerful and vivid, The Opportunity Trap tells us of the pains wrought by legal dependency on temporary visa workers and their spouses. Both are suspended and indentured by law. This gender comparative study of hi-tech workers and nurses is a must read as it advances our understanding of immigration, the family, and law in the United States. -- Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab StatesThrough her insightful analyses of how dependent visas reflect a gendered and racialized regime that controls immigrant families, Banerjee brilliantly identifies the many contradictions faced by Indian migrant workers and their families in the U.S. The Opportunity Trap beautifully captures how the visa regime devalues and makes invisible those on dependent visas, reworks gender relations and parenting within the household, while also making families excessively beholden to migrant workers' employers. This is an important book that should be widely read. -- Joya Misra, co-author of Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing WorkPallavi Banerjee’s The Opportunity Trap offers a fascinating window into the intimate relationship between migration visas and the work/family lives of skilled migrants and their spousal dependents. * Social Forces *The Opportunity Trap presents a meticulous sketch of the poignant and constrained lives of high-skilled Indian migrants and their families in the United States. Banerjee skillfully illustrates how forced dependency intersects with the social, cultural, and economic perceptions of masculinity. [The Opportunity Trap] opens several new directions for policymakers, scholars, and activists working on gender, labor, and migration. * Gender & Society *Coherent and persuasive. The Opportunity Trap contributes heavily to the scholarship of intersectionality entailing gender, race, ethnicity, class, immigration, and work, as well as to the study of work and family issues. I highly recommend this book for any undergraduate or graduate course on gender or work, or anyone interested in teaching immigration and work from an intersectional perspective. * Work and Occupations *A thoughtful, compassionate, and richly detailed study of the lived experiences of racialized, high-skilled migrant families in the United States. Banerjee vividly describes everyday people’s struggles and failures to affirm their personal dignity and build a good life under such conditions. Rigorous, heartfelt, and intersectional, The Opportunity Trap is an important contribution. -- Neda Maghbouleh * Labour / Le Travail *Banerjee brings the reader into the private lives of these families as they negotiate belonging in a country that both constrains and enables their upward mobility and happiness... Employers, management, undergraduate students, or populations impacted by the visa regime would benefit from reading Banerjee’s book. This book would be a great addition to gender and migration studies courses. * Canadian Ethnic Studies *The Opportunity Trap delivers the kind of multi-scalar analysis that development scholars treasure. In the tradition of feminist global ethnography, Banerjee interrogates the making of the self, the worker, the nation and the institutions that knit them together... This book will be invaluable for undergraduate courses on globalization, gender, families, immigration and development in Asia. * The Journal of Development Studies *The Opportunity Trap offers a nuanced understanding of the outdated and unequal visa system in the US. Banerjee's research centers the people who struggle through the visa regime, making the majority of the book accessible to general audiences. The book’s rich theoretical contributions are ideal for immigration and gender studies courses, and Banerjee’s practical recommendations to reform visa laws makes The Opportunity Trap a digestible and crucial reading for visa policymakers, activists, and other political workers. * Journal of Asian American Studies *Taken together, the focus on gender and its interactions with other intersectional aspects of Indian migrant life in the United States—along with the emphasis on the experiences of dependent visa-holding spouses—makes The Opportunity Trap a valuable contribution to the field of migration studies…this is a book I strongly recommend to scholars working on migration, South Asian diasporas, and related fields. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *In addition to introducing a new intersectional parenting approach, Banerjee invites family scholars to further investigate a powerful theme: unpacking the privileges that stem from pre-migration class location of families in the midst of oppressive conditions fueled by the U.S. visa regime. * Journal of Family Studies *
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New York University Press In Our Hands
Book SynopsisA call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families. Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women's paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families' incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child carebut although most developed countries offer state-funded child care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in prosperous times, child care is rarely a priority for U.S. policy makers. In In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy, Elizabeth Palley and Corey S. Shdaimah explore the reasons behind the relative paucity of U.S. child care and child care support. They examine the history of child care advocacy and legislation in the United States, from the Child Care Development Act of the 1970s that was vetoed by Nixon through the Obama administration's CTrade ReviewPalley and Shdaimah's book is at its best in revealing the tensions among child care advocates. * The American Prospect *Adeep dive into the history of child care policy in the United States and an examination of the cultural forces which have influenced the debate as well as the lawmakers, advocates and stakeholders who have shaped the availability of child care in America today. * NBC News *[T]he book makes a scholarly contribution with its comprehensive approach and rich detail regarding the history and current status of child care policy. Use of policy theories, furthermore, contributes to our understanding of policymaking more broadly. * Political Science Quarterly *This books main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S. However, Palley and Shdaimahs research into what child care advocates actually think about their own work brings a unique perspective on this issue. Their discussion of these interviews, which happily includes a number of quotes from subjects, is both interesting and thought-provoking. Based on this research, the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change. In Our Hands was clearly a labor of love for its two authors . . . . The book is scholarly in tone and scope, but there is an underlying note of urgency that amplifies the authors arguments. * Law and Politics Book Review *This book offers an approachable, intelligent treatment of child care that is suitable for undergraduate and graduate academic audiences, activists, policymakers, and the general public. * Journal of Women, Politics & Policy *The authors make a compelling case that for too long, child care has been marginalized as an issue, in part because it has been framed as a personal responsibility . . . As authors Elizabeth Palley and Corey Shdaimah document inIn Our Hands, this draconian choice between providing cash or care is not a personal failure. It is a collective failure reflected in the lack of a national child care policy. * Families and Work Institute *This book provides a great overview of barriers within the political system and illustrates many of the unmet needs of families and children in the current system. The analysis of the child care movement as an effective social movement adds to the current literature and provides insights for practitioners about how to move forward. * Affilia *A first rate comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the history of child care in the United States and the failure to address adequate policy for the poor. The book provides an extensive literature review and assessment of the political process at the national and state levels. Palley and Shadimah highlight the reasons for the inability of pro child care forces to develop an effective coalition. This book presents a long overdue look at the absence of national policy on child care and suggests some possible approaches to address this issue in the future. -- Joyce Gelb,Professor Emerita, City College and Graduate Center CUNYA first rate piece of public policy advocacy which advances in a most comprehensive form the issue of a national policy for child care in this country. [This book] incorporates the essence of many political debates and the actual language of the people who attempted to move forward with the child care agenda over the past decades. -- David Katner,Tulane UniversityIn their quest to understand why the United States lags so far behind Western Europe in supporting early child care, Dr. Palley and Dr. Shdaimah interviewed advocates, researchers and others who have been working to address the issue. -- Bonnie Eissner * Erudition *This book tells us why, despite a growing number of women in the workforce and the well-documented struggles of working families across the economic spectrum to access and afford child care, the U.S. has been unable to make any headway on a problem that touches so many families. Palley and Shdiamah look through the lens of social movement theory to remind us that in the context of U.S. culture and politics, building a broad based movement around child care is essential if we are to move from a piecemeal approach to comprehensive policy. The authors' conversations with long-time advocates and activists lead to provocative questions about how to reframe the child care issue toward building a broad-based movement in the context of today's challenges and opportunities. This book is a must-read for advocates, union leaders and activists, early childhood workers and educators. -- Denise Dowell ,Early Learning and Care Programs, CSEAWhether you are a parent, provider or policy wonk, this book will help you understand why quality child care is so difficult to find and even more challenging to afford. It will then lift your spirits with some reasonable solutions. -- Dana E. Friedman,Founder and President, The Early Years InstitutePalley and Shdaimah have done a commendable job at tackling such a difficult task. Given the fragmentation of U.S. childcare policy, their rich, historical analysis provides an important integration of multiple sources of data and literature. Their interviews with respondents from a variety of interest groups, experts, and childcare advocates provide key insights into how childcare isframed and why it is not viewed as a necessary public good in the USA . . . . [T]his book makes an important contribution. It clearly shows the mechanisms underlying childcare policy developments in the USA and israther unique in its social movement approach to understanding childcare advocacy. * Community, Work & Family *Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US. . . . This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Framing 3 History 4 The Role of Interest Groups 5 Current U.S. Child Care Policies 6 Women and Child Care 7 Strategic Framing of Child Care 8 Child Care as a Social Movement 9 If We Have a Major Social Problem, Why Is There No Movement for Change? Afterword Appendix 1: A Brief Note on Research Methods Appendix 2: Interview Guide for Interest Groups and Organizations Including Unions Appendix 3: Study Respondents by Organization and Role Appendix 4: Conservative Organization Websites Reviewed Notes References Index About the Authors
£22.79
New York University Press In Our Hands
Book SynopsisA call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families. Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women's paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families' incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child carebut although most developed countries offer state-funded child care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in prosperous times, child care is rarely a priority for U.S. policy makers. In In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy, Elizabeth Palley and Corey S. Shdaimah explore the reasons behind the relative paucity of U.S. child care and child care support. They examine the history of child care advocacy and legislation in the United States, from the Child Care Development Act of the 1970s that was vetoed by Nixon through the Obama administration's CTrade ReviewPalley and Shdaimah's book is at its best in revealing the tensions among child care advocates. * The American Prospect *Adeep dive into the history of child care policy in the United States and an examination of the cultural forces which have influenced the debate as well as the lawmakers, advocates and stakeholders who have shaped the availability of child care in America today. * NBC News *[T]he book makes a scholarly contribution with its comprehensive approach and rich detail regarding the history and current status of child care policy. Use of policy theories, furthermore, contributes to our understanding of policymaking more broadly. * Political Science Quarterly *This books main contribution, and it is a valuable one, is to illuminate some of the specific organizational and strategic hurdles that lie in the way of a universal, government-supported child care system. Many commentators have lamented the United States failure to establish such a system, and indeed, as noted above, the first part of the book is mainly a synthesis of the substantial literature examining child care policy both outside and inside the U.S. However, Palley and Shdaimahs research into what child care advocates actually think about their own work brings a unique perspective on this issue. Their discussion of these interviews, which happily includes a number of quotes from subjects, is both interesting and thought-provoking. Based on this research, the authors are able to offer a remarkably fine-grained critique of current advocacy efforts, along with very specific recommendations for change. In Our Hands was clearly a labor of love for its two authors . . . . The book is scholarly in tone and scope, but there is an underlying note of urgency that amplifies the authors arguments. * Law and Politics Book Review *This book offers an approachable, intelligent treatment of child care that is suitable for undergraduate and graduate academic audiences, activists, policymakers, and the general public. * Journal of Women, Politics & Policy *The authors make a compelling case that for too long, child care has been marginalized as an issue, in part because it has been framed as a personal responsibility . . . As authors Elizabeth Palley and Corey Shdaimah document inIn Our Hands, this draconian choice between providing cash or care is not a personal failure. It is a collective failure reflected in the lack of a national child care policy. * Families and Work Institute *This book provides a great overview of barriers within the political system and illustrates many of the unmet needs of families and children in the current system. The analysis of the child care movement as an effective social movement adds to the current literature and provides insights for practitioners about how to move forward. * Affilia *A first rate comprehensive and contemporary analysis of the history of child care in the United States and the failure to address adequate policy for the poor. The book provides an extensive literature review and assessment of the political process at the national and state levels. Palley and Shadimah highlight the reasons for the inability of pro child care forces to develop an effective coalition. This book presents a long overdue look at the absence of national policy on child care and suggests some possible approaches to address this issue in the future. -- Joyce Gelb,Professor Emerita, City College and Graduate Center CUNYA first rate piece of public policy advocacy which advances in a most comprehensive form the issue of a national policy for child care in this country. [This book] incorporates the essence of many political debates and the actual language of the people who attempted to move forward with the child care agenda over the past decades. -- David Katner,Tulane UniversityIn their quest to understand why the United States lags so far behind Western Europe in supporting early child care, Dr. Palley and Dr. Shdaimah interviewed advocates, researchers and others who have been working to address the issue. -- Bonnie Eissner * Erudition *This book tells us why, despite a growing number of women in the workforce and the well-documented struggles of working families across the economic spectrum to access and afford child care, the U.S. has been unable to make any headway on a problem that touches so many families. Palley and Shdiamah look through the lens of social movement theory to remind us that in the context of U.S. culture and politics, building a broad based movement around child care is essential if we are to move from a piecemeal approach to comprehensive policy. The authors' conversations with long-time advocates and activists lead to provocative questions about how to reframe the child care issue toward building a broad-based movement in the context of today's challenges and opportunities. This book is a must-read for advocates, union leaders and activists, early childhood workers and educators. -- Denise Dowell ,Early Learning and Care Programs, CSEAWhether you are a parent, provider or policy wonk, this book will help you understand why quality child care is so difficult to find and even more challenging to afford. It will then lift your spirits with some reasonable solutions. -- Dana E. Friedman,Founder and President, The Early Years InstitutePalley and Shdaimah have done a commendable job at tackling such a difficult task. Given the fragmentation of U.S. childcare policy, their rich, historical analysis provides an important integration of multiple sources of data and literature. Their interviews with respondents from a variety of interest groups, experts, and childcare advocates provide key insights into how childcare isframed and why it is not viewed as a necessary public good in the USA . . . . [T]his book makes an important contribution. It clearly shows the mechanisms underlying childcare policy developments in the USA and israther unique in its social movement approach to understanding childcare advocacy. * Community, Work & Family *Palley and Shadaimah have produced an excellent mixed methods study on the state of child-care policy in the US. . . . This excellent book will help readers understand a difficult problem and serve as a call to arms for change. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Framing 3 History 4 The Role of Interest Groups 5 Current U.S. Child Care Policies 6 Women and Child Care 7 Strategic Framing of Child Care 8 Child Care as a Social Movement 9 If We Have a Major Social Problem, Why Is There No Movement for Change? Afterword Appendix 1: A Brief Note on Research Methods Appendix 2: Interview Guide for Interest Groups and Organizations Including Unions Appendix 3: Study Respondents by Organization and Role Appendix 4: Conservative Organization Websites Reviewed Notes References Index About the Authors
£62.90
New York University Press Queering Family Trees
Book SynopsisArgues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United StatesOne might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and lesbians fought a tough fight and finally achieved equality in the United States through access to legal marriage. But that narrative tells only one version of a very complex story about family and citizenship. Queering Family Trees explores the lived experience of queer mothers in the United States, drawing on over one hundred interviews with African American, Latina, Native American, white, and Asian American lesbian mothers living in a range of socioeconomic circumstances to show how they have navigated family-making. While the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption in 2015 has provided avenues toward equality for some couples, structural and economic barriers have meant that othersespecially queer women of color who often have fewer financial resourcesTrade Review"For those looking to read a comprehensive and critical analysis of the laws and policies that have historically shaped—and continue to shape—families in unequal ways based on the structures of race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality, and other inequalities, Queering Family Trees is a worthwhile read ... an important resource for understanding how lesbians create their families within the context of, and despite, and laws and policies largely meant to keep their families from forming, and invisible once created. At its very basic level, Queering Family Trees encourages us as readers to rethink how to construct our own family trees, and within the confined structure of the family tree, who we include and who we render invisible as 'family.'" * Social Forces *"Patton-Imani’s historical narrative-based exploration forces us to think about the roads not taken, the intersecting side roads of welfare, immigration, adoption, and marginalized families, from the 1990’s through Obergefell." * Jotwell *
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New York University Press Parental Incarceration and the Family
Book SynopsisBrings a family perspective to our understanding of what it means to have so many of our nation's parents in prison. Drawing from the field's most recent research and the author's own fieldwork, this book looks at how incarceration affects entire families: offender parents, children, and care-givers.Trade Review"This richly-referenced book is both scholarly and engaging. Bringing a family focus to issues of incarceration, it combines a sound conceptual foundation and extensive literature review with vignettes and observations of real people who broke the law and are locked up for years. We get to see the impact that our nations correctional policies have on incarcerated mothers and fathers as well as on the children, spouses, and extended family who are left back home. Comprehensive and insightful, this book will become a standard reference for scholars, policy-makers, and anyone concerned about what incarceration does to families and to our society." -- Barbara J. Myers,Virginia Commonwealth University""Skillfully weaves the perspectives of a scientist and clinician with the experiences of incarcerated parents to shed light on child and family outcomes related to one of the largest uncontrolled social experiments in our history." -- J. Mark Eddy,School of Social Work, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Framework for Understanding Parental Incarceration 2. Context and Processes Associated with Incarcerated Parenting 3. Maternal Incarceration 4. Paternal Incarceration 5. The Effects of Incarceration on Families and Children 6. Conclusion: Practice and Policy Implications of a Family Perspective on Parental Incarceration Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Wife Inc.
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America After a half century of battling for gender equality, women have been freed from the necessity of securing a husband for economic stability, sexual fulfillment, or procreation. Marriage is a choice, and increasingly women (and men) are opting out. Yet despite these changes, the cultural power of marriage has burgeoned. What was once an obligation has become an exclusive club into which heterosexual women with the right amount of self-discipline may win entry. The newly exalted professionalized wife is no longer reliant on her husband's status or money; instead she can wield her own power provided she can successfully manage the business of being a wife. Wife, Inc. tells a fiercely contemporary story revealing that today's wives do not labor in kitchens or even homes. Instead, the work of wifedom occurs in online dating sites, on reality television, in social media, and on the campaign trail. Trade ReviewLeonard unearths the complexity of femininity and marriage in the modern day, with attention to the inescapability of women’s historical presence in the domestic sphere ... Wife, Inc. will undoubtedly interest readers in fields of both Media and Women and Gender Studies who will gain intriguing insights from Leonard’s assertions on market-controlled constructions of feminine connection. * Communication Review *A smart and trenchant examination of the notion of the & wife as both a popular culture phenomenon and an economic powerhouse. Suzanne Leonard has once again proved herself to be an incisive interpretative voice. Written in a clear and engaging style, Wife Inc.s readers are in good hands as Leonard walks us through the nuances of wifedom in the twenty-first century. -- Brenda R. Weber,editor of Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality TelevisionHow and why do women in the twenty-first century seek and perform the role of wife? What norms and expectations define it and in what ways does it comply with and deviate from its traditional definitions? Tracking the image of the wife and the aspirant wife across multiple zones of popular culture, Suzanne Leonards brilliant, timely book elucidates the new stakes of wifehood in early twenty-first century culture, unpacking it as a status category, a state of risk and a mode of female labor that demands critical reflection, and the kind of fresh take that she is ideally suited to provide. -- Diane Negra,University College DublinLeonard explores how American women look at and experience marriage. For centuries a pragmatic economic arrangement, modern marriage has become bound up in the pursuit of happiness. . . . Yet even after getting married which is seen as the prize at the end of the romance narrative women often find themselves saddled with another job: the work of being a wife. -- Kate Tuttle,Boston GlobeSlick and sophisticated, Wife Inc. is a fascinating look at the figure of the wife as a mediated phenomenon. As the first book to treat the wife as an icon of post-feminist media culture, this is an extremely timely intervention. The stakes of what Suzanne Leonard sheds light on, especially with regard to political wives, are dramatically raised in our current time. Its topicality, compounded by its engaging style, make this an exciting read for those interested in feminist and political issues in popular culture. -- Hannah Hamad,Cardiff University
£55.80
New York University Press Growing Up Queer
Book SynopsisLGBTQ kids reveal what it's like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses on the voices and stories of youths themselves in order to show how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives. The young people who participated in this research are among the first generation to embrace queer identities as children and adolescents. This groundbreaking and timely consideration of queer identity demonstrates how sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes as opposed to being natural characteristics that one is born with. In addition to showing how youth understand their identities, Growing Up Queer describes how young people navigate queerTrade ReviewMary Robertson...make[s] a reader want to...just enjoy the teens she meets. Theres life in them, deep introspection and philosophical thought, as well as acceptance covered slightly with the scabs of perseverance. Their voices are real and need no explaining. They offer hope. * Washington Blade *Illuminating...Robertson examine[s] how youth today form queer identities.This accessibly written inquiry will be of interest to queer readers, sociologists, and gender studies enthusiasts alike. * Publishers Weekly *A rational and thoughtful examination of the evolving nature of the LGBTQ identification process in children and adolescents. … a groundbreaking and timely book that reveals the complicated and ambivalent nature of the identification process. Robertson argues that queer identity is not solely about gender and/or sexual identity, but is instead an intersectional bouillabaisse of race, class, ability, and more. Growing Up Queer also looks at the heartbreaking social inequality of queerness, where society accepts some kinds of LGBTQ identification but still rejects others it does not find palatable or sufficiently socially compliant. By using their own words, Robertson gives voice to their stories from their own point of view. This is a refreshing yet deep examination of the process of identification, how it has evolved, and future prospects for change and inclusion. -- The AdvocateRobertson shows the mechanisms through which binary conceptions of gender are reinforced, and she examines the intersectional effects of race, class and ability … The book’s main strength lies in rich ethnography and detailed accounts of young people. The methodological discussions are especially nuanced, and the rich histories add to our understanding of what it means to grow up queer today * Choice *Robertson, rather artfully, nestles her work into the empty space in LGBTQ youth research; how youth become gendered, how they become sexual, and how they come to embrace the identity language that fits them with the most precision. Robertson not only adds to the existing research, but also weaves in and out of it, highlighting its relevance, but also indicates where it proves to be archaic. -- Journal of Youth and AdolescenceWith clarity and rich detail, Robertson tells the story of growing up queer and the community organizations and institutions that buoy today's LGBT youth. It is a deeply engaging account of both the dignities and indignities of becoming queer, leaving us with a more complicated portrait of youth resilience and risk. -- Amy L. Best, Author of Fast-Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines and Social TiesThis book works well as an introduction to queer theory, and what is meant by queer as an anti-identification. Growing Up Queer would serve well for both advanced undergraduate and introductory graduate courses focusing on queer theory, gender and sexuality, and qualitative methods. The text also works well in demonstrating young people’s agentic role in constructing their own gender and sexual subjectivities while also demonstrating processes of socialization, paying mind to how gender and sexuality are also done to us, not simply who we are. -- Gender & SocietyWhereas a wide swath of scholarly and mainstream attention to LGBTQ youth has emphasized either their vulnerability or their resilience, Robertson challenges this binary by serving as a conduit for queer youth’s voices and experiences that reflect much more complicated realities. * American Journal of Sociology *
£20.89
New York University Press The Business of Birth
Book SynopsisHow the fear of malpractice affects mothers and reproductive choicesGiving birth is a monumental event, not only in the personal life of the woman giving birth, but as a medical process and procedure. In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth explores the process of giving birth, and the ways in which medicine and law interact to shape maternity care. Focusing on the United States, Roth explores how the law creates an environment where medical providers, malpractice attorneys, and others limit women's rights and choices during birth. She shows how a fear of liability risk often drives the decision-making process of medical providers, who prioritize hospital efficiency over patient safety, to the detriment of mothers themselves. Ultimately, Roth advocates for an approach that protects the reproductive rights of mothers. A comprehensive overview, The Business of Birth provides valuable insight into the impact of the law on mothers, medical providers, maternity care practices, and oTrade Review"If you want to understand the seemingly incomprehensible mess that is American maternity care –among the most expensive and least safe in the world – read this book. Louise Roth unpacks the legal, medical, technological and social forces that bring us to this intolerable situation. And she helps us, all those who care about birth and life, to understand how we can fix it." -- Barbara Katz Rothman, author of Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization"With multiple kinds of data, detailed analysis, and empathy for patients and providers alike, Louise Roth reveals how birth experiences are powerfully and invisibly structured by legal and institutional forces, rather than by individual choice. By situating pregnancy and birth management within broader legal, medical, and cultural systems, The Business of Birth offers concrete solutions that hold the promise of making reproductive justice a reality for everyone." -- Jennifer Reich, author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines"In The Business of Birth, Louise Marie Roth confirms the unpleasant truth that a pregnant woman’s race, class, and education affect the quality of maternity care she receives, contributing to the appalling racial and class disparities in infant and maternal mortality in the United States today. This is a book that everyone concerned with women’s health will want to read." -- Linda C. Fentiman, author of Blaming Mothers: American Law and the Risks to Children’s Health"The Business of Birth is itself an immense contribution to our knowledge about childbirth, tort liability, and reproductive justice in the United States—and it’s eminently readable as well." * American Journal of Sociology *
£26.59
New York University Press Boundaries of Love
Book SynopsisHow interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person of a different race? Based on individual interviews with forty-seven black-white couples in two large, multicultural citiesLos Angeles and Rio de JaneiroBoundaries of Love explores how partners in these relationships ultimately reproduce, negotiate, and challenge the us versus them mentality of ethno-racial boundaries. By centering marriage, Chinyere Osuji reveals the family as a primary site for understanding the social construction of race. She challenges the naive but widespread belief that interracial couples and their children provide an antidote to racism in the twenty-first century, instead highlighting the complexities and contradictions of these relationships. Featuring black husbands with white wives as well as black wives with white husbands, Boundaries of Love sheds light on the role of gender in navigating life married to a person of a dTrade Review"Boundaries of Love is a theoretically sophisticated contribution to the sociological literature on race and interracial intimacy. Osuji provides use with the concept of romantic careers"a brilliant way to understand how Blacks and Whites in Brazil and the United States negotiate the meaning of their previous and current emotional and sexual relationships. Osuji's transnational comparative study of interracial couples challenges us to think critically about the ways that these unions leave white supremacy intact in cosmopolitan urban centers of Los Angeles and Rio de Janiero." -- France Winddance Twine,author of Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil"Despite dramatically distinct histories and ideologies of race and intermarriage, Chinyere Osujis in-depth portrayal of the experiences of these couples and their families reveals startling consistencies and differences across the two societies. Boundaries of Love deftly compares how race operates across these two societies and interrogates how national ideologies, race, gender and other social categories together produce particular meanings of race-mixing. This nuanced and pathbreaking study is sure to challenge previous notions of interracial marriage." -- Edward Telles,author of Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America"Her study is comparative and qualitative, rich in detail gleaned from interviews with 103 interracial couples in both locations... Accessible writing and intrinsic interest make this book suitable for all levels." * Choice *
£73.80
New York University Press Growing Up Queer
Book SynopsisLGBTQ kids reveal what it's like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses on the voices and stories of youths themselves in order to show how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives. The young people who participated in this research are among the first generation to embrace queer identities as children and adolescents. This groundbreaking and timely consideration of queer identity demonstrates how sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes as opposed to being natural characteristics that one is born with. In addition to showing how youth understand their identities, Growing Up Queer describes how young people navigate queerTrade ReviewMary Robertson...make[s] a reader want to...just enjoy the teens she meets. Theres life in them, deep introspection and philosophical thought, as well as acceptance covered slightly with the scabs of perseverance. Their voices are real and need no explaining. They offer hope. * Washington Blade *Illuminating...Robertson examine[s] how youth today form queer identities.This accessibly written inquiry will be of interest to queer readers, sociologists, and gender studies enthusiasts alike. * Publishers Weekly *A rational and thoughtful examination of the evolving nature of the LGBTQ identification process in children and adolescents. … a groundbreaking and timely book that reveals the complicated and ambivalent nature of the identification process. Robertson argues that queer identity is not solely about gender and/or sexual identity, but is instead an intersectional bouillabaisse of race, class, ability, and more. Growing Up Queer also looks at the heartbreaking social inequality of queerness, where society accepts some kinds of LGBTQ identification but still rejects others it does not find palatable or sufficiently socially compliant. By using their own words, Robertson gives voice to their stories from their own point of view. This is a refreshing yet deep examination of the process of identification, how it has evolved, and future prospects for change and inclusion. -- The AdvocateRobertson shows the mechanisms through which binary conceptions of gender are reinforced, and she examines the intersectional effects of race, class and ability … The book’s main strength lies in rich ethnography and detailed accounts of young people. The methodological discussions are especially nuanced, and the rich histories add to our understanding of what it means to grow up queer today * Choice *Robertson, rather artfully, nestles her work into the empty space in LGBTQ youth research; how youth become gendered, how they become sexual, and how they come to embrace the identity language that fits them with the most precision. Robertson not only adds to the existing research, but also weaves in and out of it, highlighting its relevance, but also indicates where it proves to be archaic. -- Journal of Youth and AdolescenceWith clarity and rich detail, Robertson tells the story of growing up queer and the community organizations and institutions that buoy today's LGBT youth. It is a deeply engaging account of both the dignities and indignities of becoming queer, leaving us with a more complicated portrait of youth resilience and risk. -- Amy L. Best, Author of Fast-Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines and Social TiesThis book works well as an introduction to queer theory, and what is meant by queer as an anti-identification. Growing Up Queer would serve well for both advanced undergraduate and introductory graduate courses focusing on queer theory, gender and sexuality, and qualitative methods. The text also works well in demonstrating young people’s agentic role in constructing their own gender and sexual subjectivities while also demonstrating processes of socialization, paying mind to how gender and sexuality are also done to us, not simply who we are. -- Gender & SocietyWhereas a wide swath of scholarly and mainstream attention to LGBTQ youth has emphasized either their vulnerability or their resilience, Robertson challenges this binary by serving as a conduit for queer youth’s voices and experiences that reflect much more complicated realities. * American Journal of Sociology *
£66.60
New York University Press The Homeschool Choice
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationThe surprising reasons parents are opting out of the public school system and homeschooling their kidsHomeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled. In The Homeschool Choice, Kate Henley Averett provides insight into this fascinating phenomenon, exploring the perspectives of parents who have chosen to homeschool their children. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Averett examines the reasons why these parents choose to homeschool, from those who disagree with sex education and LGBT content in schools, to others who want to protect their children's sexual and gender identities. With eye-opening detail, she shows us how homeschooling is a trend being chosen by an increasingly diverse subset of American families, at times in order to empoweror Trade ReviewHomeschooling used to be a fringe movement. But the number of homeschoolers has nearly doubled in the last two decades. Why are so many parents opting to homeschool their children? The Homeschool Choice offers fresh insight into how cultural beliefs about parenting, childhood, and the role of the state drive the choice to homeschool today. Not every parent who opts to homeschool is an ardent homeschooler. Some feel forced into this choice when public schools don’t provide what they want for their children, including the “right” lessons around gender and sexuality (whether more or less progressive). With income inequality at an all-time high, Averett offers much needed and thoughtful analysis of how and why some privileged parents divest from public education, and the consequences this has for social inequality. A terrific book, The Homeschool Choice is an urgent call to challenge the individualistic and intensive nature of parenting today, end the privatization of schools and other public services, and embrace the collective care of children. -- Sinikka Elliott, author of Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their TeenagersThrough powerful interviews and discerning prose, The Homeschool Choice examines why more and more U.S. parents decide to homeschool their children. In an era when the rhetoric of choice and individualism loom large, Kate Averett brilliantly shows how parents’ beliefs about childhood, gender, and sexuality lead a diverse group of families to decide that their children are best off “opting out” of public school. Averett astutely reveals what is at stake for society when the brunt of the labor of homeschooling and children’s moral upbringing falls largely on mothers. Thought-provoking and beautifully written, The Homeschool Choice is a must-read for anyone interested in the challenges of parenting, role of government, and future of public education. -- Caitlyn Collins, author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
£62.90
New York University Press Beyond Monogamy
Book SynopsisA man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean for their relationship? More importantly, why is there such a strong cultural taboo against this kind of triangulation and what does it reveal about the social organization of gender and sexuality? In Beyond Monogamy, Mimi Schippers asks these and other questions to explore compulsory monogamy as a central feature of sexual normalcy. Schippers argues that compulsory monogamy promotes the monogamous couple as the only legitimate, natural, or desirable relationship form in ways that support and legitimize gender, race, and sexual inequalities. Through an investigation of sexual interactions and relationship forms that include more than two people, from polyamory, to threesomes, to the complexity of the down-low,' Schippers explores the queer,Trade ReviewBeyond Monogamyis a book that should be read cover to cover if at all possible. * American Journal of Sociology *In this book, Mimi Schippers takes feminist scholars of sexuality to task for failing to theorize compulsory monogamy as a regime of normalcy that enforces gendered, raced, and classed inequalities. Exploring polyqueer sexual practices in film, writing, and her own life, Schippers provides a vivid illustration of the importance of expanding our understandings of sexual and romantic relationships. -- C. J. Pascoe,author of Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High SchoolThis book is a must read for anyone interested in sexuality and intersectionality. Schippers examines the racialized and gendered backdrop against which heterosexuality and monogamy play out in contemporary US culture. Going beyond the individual focus common in much discussion of polyamory, Beyond Monogamy examines the potential collective impacts of non-monogamies and exposes how hetero-masculinity and mono-normativity are socially constructed and far from inevitable. -- Elisabeth Sheff,author of The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families
£21.84
New York University Press Living Apart Together
Book SynopsisArgues for legal reforms to protect couples who live apart but perform many of the functions of a familyLiving Apart Together is an in-depth look at a new way of being a couple and doing familyliving apart together (LAT)in which committed couples maintain separate residences and finances. In Bowman's own 2016 national survey, 9% of respondents reported maintaining committed relationships while living apart, typically spending the weekend together, socializing together, taking vacations together, and looking after one another in illness, but maintaining financial independence. The term LAT stems from Europe, where this manner of coupledom has been extensively studied; however, it has gone virtually unnoticed in the United States.Living Apart Together aims to remedy this oversight by presenting original research derived from both randomized surveys and qualitative interviews. Beginning with the large body of social science literature from outside the UTrade ReviewExplores the psychological strengths and the legal vulnerabilities of mostly unmarried intimate partners who share emotional bonds, affection, sometimes their finances, and almost always a sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, but nevertheless choose to maintain separate residences. Living Apart Together prompts readers to rethink with care what we mean by family, intimacy, monogamy, commitment and relationship: neither marriage nor cohabitation may be as central to adult relational intimacy as we have come to think. -- Robin West, Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law CenterThis eminently readable academic book provides the first socio-legal exploration of the Living Apart Together (LAT) phenomenon in the USA and considers what legal status, if any, such new-style families should have within family law. Drawing on recent empirical research, it exposes the likely scale of LAT couples in the US as some 10 per cent of the adult population and carefully reflects upon their similarities and differences to other more traditional family forms. This is an excellent and stimulating work which confirms how the law should be alert to the changing family fabrics of society. -- Anne Barlow, Professor of Family Law and Policy, University of Exeter Law SchoolBowman casts a spotlight on a widespread but little noticed living arrangement, couples who live in separate residences, known in European census data as LAT, living apart together. She explores the attraction of LAT for couples seeking relationships of equality and intimacy, particularly women, gay males, and older people. -- Sylvia A. Law, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry Emerita, NYU Law SchoolCan our understanding of domestic relations survive the omission of “domestic”? Bowman’s fascinating study of LATs thoroughly explores this question, showing how intimacy and notions of family can defy even foundational assumptions. This engaging book contributes important new data and insights to the literature on contemporary transformations in family life and family law. -- Susan Frelich Appleton, Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
£32.30
New York University Press The Homeschool Choice
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Sex & Gender Section Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationThe surprising reasons parents are opting out of the public school system and homeschooling their kidsHomeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled. In The Homeschool Choice, Kate Henley Averett provides insight into this fascinating phenomenon, exploring the perspectives of parents who have chosen to homeschool their children. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Averett examines the reasons why these parents choose to homeschool, from those who disagree with sex education and LGBT content in schools, to others who want to protect their children's sexual and gender identities. With eye-opening detail, she shows us how homeschooling is a trend being chosen by an increasingly diverse subset of American families, at times in order to empoweror Trade ReviewHomeschooling used to be a fringe movement. But the number of homeschoolers has nearly doubled in the last two decades. Why are so many parents opting to homeschool their children? The Homeschool Choice offers fresh insight into how cultural beliefs about parenting, childhood, and the role of the state drive the choice to homeschool today. Not every parent who opts to homeschool is an ardent homeschooler. Some feel forced into this choice when public schools don’t provide what they want for their children, including the “right” lessons around gender and sexuality (whether more or less progressive). With income inequality at an all-time high, Averett offers much needed and thoughtful analysis of how and why some privileged parents divest from public education, and the consequences this has for social inequality. A terrific book, The Homeschool Choice is an urgent call to challenge the individualistic and intensive nature of parenting today, end the privatization of schools and other public services, and embrace the collective care of children. -- Sinikka Elliott, author of Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their TeenagersThrough powerful interviews and discerning prose, The Homeschool Choice examines why more and more U.S. parents decide to homeschool their children. In an era when the rhetoric of choice and individualism loom large, Kate Averett brilliantly shows how parents’ beliefs about childhood, gender, and sexuality lead a diverse group of families to decide that their children are best off “opting out” of public school. Averett astutely reveals what is at stake for society when the brunt of the labor of homeschooling and children’s moral upbringing falls largely on mothers. Thought-provoking and beautifully written, The Homeschool Choice is a must-read for anyone interested in the challenges of parenting, role of government, and future of public education. -- Caitlyn Collins, author of Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving
£23.74
New York University Press The World Is Our Classroom
Book SynopsisHow travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the move A growing number of families are selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and taking their children out of traditional school settings to educate them while traveling the globe. In The World is Our Classroom, Jennie Germann Molz explores the hopes and anxieties that drive these parents and children to leave their comfortable lives behind out of a desire to live the good life on the move.Drawing on interviews with parents and stories from the blogs they publish during their journeys, as well as her own experience traveling the world with her ten-year-old son, Germann Molz takes us inside a fascinating life spent on trains, boats, and planes. She shows why many parentsdisillusioned with standard public schoolingbelieve the world is a child's best classroom. Rebelling against convention, these parents combine technology and travel to pursue a different versTrade ReviewThe World Is Our Classroom goes the distance, literally. It is a marvelous book. From it, we learn why families are willing to shrug off the conventions of a tethered existence orbiting around home and school and instead forge global identities as they bring far -flung places within their reach. These worldschoolers embrace the idea of travel as education and lifestyle. They travel to parts unknown, imparting skills and sensibilities to their children that offer big dividends for an uncertain future world. Molz offers us good tools to think with, helping us to see up close how modern families navigate a world rattled by economic and social precarity and risk. She reminds us this is a world we must all weather, however. Though their mobile existence is not without emotional and social costs for them, worldschoolers are rich in resources, able to traverse a world in flux, the same world that leaves untold numbers of families insecure and largely left behind. -- Amy L. Best, author of Fast Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social TiesThe World Is Our Classroom provides the first comprehensive examination of worldschooling families. This whirlwind of a book takes the reader on a journey through the lives of worldschooling families from Argentina to Thailand. With the use of mobile virtual ethnography, Germann Molz provides detailed insight into worldschooling as a way of life that emphasizes risk taking, resilience, and ultimately family as parents prepare their kids to be “future-proof” global citizens at the same time as holding family very close. Anyone interested in education, families, globalization, technology, or just a good read should pick up this book. -- Gayle Kaufman, author of Fixing Parental Leave: The Six Month SolutionJennie Germann Molz's investigation into "worldschooling" provides an important contribution to understanding homeschooling, unconventional education, and intensive mothering in response to an uncertain world. Privilege, social class, and global worldviews intersect in this rich ethnography of parenting in the twenty-first century. -- Jennifer Lois, author of Home Is Where the School Is: The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering
£66.60
New York University Press Brown Bodies White Babies
Book SynopsisBrown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, this book is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with race, particularly when brown bodies produce white babies. While the potential of reproductive technologies is far from pre-determined, the ways in which these technologies are currently deployed often serve the interests of dominant groups, through the creation of white, middle-class, heteronormative families. Laura Harrison, providing an important understanding of the work of women of color as surrogates, connects this labor to the history of racialized reproduction in the United States. Cross-racial surrogacy is one end of a continuum in which dominant groups rely on the reproductive potentialTrade Review[A] refreshingly new take...add[ing] complexity to the well-trod feminist discussion... * Signs *Brown Bodies, White Babies reveals fresh insights on the politics of reproduction in the United States and globally by investigating the racialized and gendered meanings of kinship in the context of cross-racial gestational surrogacy when a surrogate is not the same race as the intended parents. Despite surrogacys seemingly radical potential, Harrison brilliantly shows how these arrangements reinforce genetic determinism, white privilege, and the biological concept of race. An important and provocative contribution to critical analyses of assisted reproduction. -- Dorothy Roberts,author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of LibertyAn indispensable contribution, this book historicizes the ideologies of race and racial transmission that cut through the heart of reproductive labor right from wet nursing in the emergent American colonies to present-day cross-racial surrogacy. A must-read for any student of reproductive justice. -- Sharmila Rudrappa,author of Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in IndiaIn a refreshingly clear, engaging, jargon-free voice, Harrison introduces readers to the role of race in the discourse surrounding surrogacy in the United States. Her interdisciplinary, qualitative analysis of cross-racial surrogacy in popular media, legal cases and on websites provides an important addition to the sociology and anthropology of reproduction. -- Elly Teman,author of Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant SelfLaura Harrisons bookBrown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacyprovides readers with a comprehensive and insightful analysis of surrogacy using both intersectional theory and discourse analysis, before concluding with a call for activism and engagement. * Hypatia Reviews *
£23.74
Baylor University Press The Recovery of Family Life
Book SynopsisDefends marriage and family life while exposing the limits and blind spots in powerful revolutionary ideologies. After suggesting a general framework within which to understand the ends and means of family policy, Scott Yenor explores what a liberal society should seek to accomplish in marriage and family policy.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Our New Family Regime? Part 1. The Rolling Revolution 2 Feminism and the Abolition of Gender 3 Contemporary Liberalism and the Abolition of Marriage 4 Beyond Sexual Repression Part 2. Curbs on the Rolling Revolution 5 Sexual Difference and Human Life On the Limits of Feminism Postscript to Chapter 5: On the Nature of Moderate Feminism 6 The Problems of Contemporary Liberalism 7 The Problem with Ending Sexual "Repression" Part 3. The Post-Rolling Revolution World 8 A Sketch of a Better Family Policy 9 Toward a New, New Sexual Regime 10 Choosing One's Choice Consent's Incomplete Guidance for Public Policy 11 The New Problem with No Name 12 Dilemmas of Indirection Maintaining Family Integrity in Late Modernity 13 What Is to Be Said and Done?
£33.11
University of Toronto Press In the Childrens Best Interests
Book SynopsisAmong the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, approximately 40,000 were unaccompanied children. These children, of every age and nationality, were without parents or legal guardians and many were without clear identities. This situation posed serious practical, legal, ethical, and political problems for the agencies responsible for their care.In the Children’s Best Interests, by Lynne Taylor, is the first work to delve deeply into the records of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organization (IRO) and reveal the heated battles that erupted amongst the various entities (military, governments, and NGOs) responsible for their care and disposition. The bitter debates focused on such issues as whether a child could be adopted, what to do with illegitimate and abandoned children, and who could assume the role of guardian. The inconclusive nationality of theTrade Review"Taylor is able to build upon the considerable existing literature on refugees and the American Occupation of Germany. However, her study is most welcome since child refugees are understudied in both…Taylor also breaks important new ground by describing the child search activities in Germany of UNRAA and the IRO, and her well chosen case studies are among the most interesting and gripping parts of her book." -- Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College * European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 no 4, 2018 *"This is less a history of unaccompanied children and more so an investigation of the shifting ground of child welfare policies. In ten fine-grained chapters, readers follow the relief efforts of the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and International Refugee Organization in the immediate postwar period, when various national governments laid claim to displaced children and youth." -- Barbara Lorenzkowski, Concordia University * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol 12 no 2, Spring 2019 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary Introduction 1. UNRRA Gets Started a/ Initial Planning b/ UNRRA's Marginalization c/ UNRRA's Mobilization 2. Unaccompanied Children a/ Temporary Care Programs b/ Child Search - Trial 3. Child Search Launched a/ Child Search - Germanization discovered b/ Child Search - Commitment 4. Legal Complications a/ Mascots b/ Illegitimacy and abandonment c/ Age of majority d/ Adoption e/ Guardianship 5. The Infiltrees a/ The Context b/ Infiltree Children 6. Obstacle: Jugendamt a/The Landesjugendamt and the vexacious matter of 'removal' 7. Obstacle: The ACA Directive 8. Child Search under the IRO a/ Child Search Reprieved b/ Limited Registration Plan c/ The Evolving Debate: Legal Security 9. The Residual a/ Resettlement b/ Children's Courts c/ Transfer into the German economy d/ Closure of the IRO 10. Nationality a/ The Jewish Displaced Persons b/ The Baltic Displaced Persons c/ The Yugoslavian Displaced Persons d/ The Polish Displaced Persons e/ The Ukrainian Displaced Persons f/ The Stateless and the Doubtful or Undetermined g/ Observations 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£62.90
University of Toronto Press Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS
Book SynopsisFrom 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and have many children. Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS by Amy Carney is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers during the Third Reich. The family community, and the place of men in this community, started with one simple order issued by SS leader Heinrich Himmler. He and other SS leaders continued to develop the family community throughout the 1930s, and not even the Second World War deterred them from pursuing their racial ambitions. Carney’s insight into the eugenic-based measures used to encourage SS men to marry and to establish families sheds new light on their responsibilities not only as soldiers, buTrade Review"This is an important work, in which Carney has added to the existing scholarship in the field of family life in the Third Reich by looking beyond mothers and motherhood, to examine fathers and fatherhood." -- Lisa Pine, London South Bank University * European History Quarterly, vol 49 no 3 *"Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS is well documented and a significant contribution to understanding one of the darkest periods in European history. It is especially important today when historical ignorance abounds." -- John A. Dick * Marriage, Families & Spirituality, Vol. 26, No. 1 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Engagement and Marriage Command Establishing SS Families Marriage during the Second World War Sustaining the Family Community during the War Belonging to the Family Community Assessing SS Population Politics and the Family Community Appendices Appendix A: The Engagement and Marriage Command Appendix B: Development of the SS Appendix C: Rank Comparisons Appendix D: Organization of the Allgemeine SS Notes Bibliography Index
£57.79
University of Toronto Press Being Fat
Book SynopsisBeing Fat examines the history of fat activism in Canada, correlating this history with second wave feminism and issues it was debating: femininity, sexuality, and health.Trade Review"Being Fat is an important text that provides a historical and political grounding of fat women organizations in Canada. […] This scholarship is imperative to recognizing and understanding how the fat liberation movement began and provides insight to contemporary forms of resistance." -- Nicholas Villarreal, San Diego State University * Fat Studies *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Fat Women Are Not Few 1. FIFI: Feminist Approaches to Being Fat 2. Between Women: Fat Acceptance Organizations 3. “If Only You’d Lose Weight...”: Femininity, Sexuality, and Fat Activism 4. Dr Fullovitt, MD: Fat Women’s Experiences with Doctors and Dieting 5. “Let Me Hear Your Body Talk”: Aerobics for Fat Women Only 6. Bodies in Fashion: Buying and Selling Plus-Size Clothing Conclusion: When We Rise the Earth Will Shake Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Detailed List of Research Participants Notes Bibliography Index
£46.75
University of Toronto Press StrengthsBased Child Protection
Book SynopsisStrengths-Based Child Protection is the first textbook solely dedicated to furthering strengths-based practices in a child protection setting. Carolyn Oliver provides an original, accessible, and practical research-based model that focuses on the key to success in this field: the worker-client relationship.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Section 1 Setting the Scene Chapter 1 Child Protection Practice Chapter 2. Strengths-Based Practice Chapter 3. Strengths-Based Child Protection Practice Chapter 4. Hearing from the Frontlines Section 1 Summary Section 2 Choosing Not to Use Strengths-Based Practice Chapter 5. The Question of Applicability Chapter 6. Relating Therapeutically Chapter 7. Supporting Client Self-Determination Chapter 8. Connecting to Internal and External Resources Chapter 9. Pursuing a Balanced Understanding Section 2 Summary: Choosing Not to Use Strengths-Based Practice Section 3 Firm, Fair and Friendly Practice Chapter 10. Inviting Maximum Collaboration and Using Strengths Chapter 11. Using Authority Purposefully Chapter 12. Being Transparent Chapter 13. Attending to the Interaction Chapter 14. Judging Impartially Chapter 15. Seeing Clients as Human Section 3 Summary Section 4 Becoming a Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 16. Identifying as a Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 17. Educating the Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Chapter 18. Supporting the Strengths-Based Child Protection Practitioner Section 4 Summary: Looking Back, Out and Forward
£24.29
University of Toronto Press In the Childrens Best Interests
Book SynopsisAmong the hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, approximately 40,000 were unaccompanied children. These children, of every age and nationality, were without parents or legal guardians and many were without clear identities. This situation posed serious practical, legal, ethical, and political problems for the agencies responsible for their care.In the Children’s Best Interests, by Lynne Taylor, is the first work to delve deeply into the records of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the International Refugee Organization (IRO) and reveal the heated battles that erupted amongst the various entities (military, governments, and NGOs) responsible for their care and disposition. The bitter debates focused on such issues as whether a child could be adopted, what to do with illegitimate and abandoned children, and who could assume the role of guardian. The inconclusive nationality of theTrade Review"Taylor is able to build upon the considerable existing literature on refugees and the American Occupation of Germany. However, her study is most welcome since child refugees are understudied in both…Taylor also breaks important new ground by describing the child search activities in Germany of UNRAA and the IRO, and her well chosen case studies are among the most interesting and gripping parts of her book." -- Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College * European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 no 4, 2018 *"This is less a history of unaccompanied children and more so an investigation of the shifting ground of child welfare policies. In ten fine-grained chapters, readers follow the relief efforts of the United Nation Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and International Refugee Organization in the immediate postwar period, when various national governments laid claim to displaced children and youth." -- Barbara Lorenzkowski, Concordia University * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol 12 no 2, Spring 2019 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary Introduction 1. UNRRA Gets Started a/ Initial Planning b/ UNRRA's Marginalization c/ UNRRA's Mobilization 2. Unaccompanied Children a/ Temporary Care Programs b/ Child Search - Trial 3. Child Search Launched a/ Child Search - Germanization discovered b/ Child Search - Commitment 4. Legal Complications a/ Mascots b/ Illegitimacy and abandonment c/ Age of majority d/ Adoption e/ Guardianship 5. The Infiltrees a/ The Context b/ Infiltree Children 6. Obstacle: Jugendamt a/The Landesjugendamt and the vexacious matter of 'removal' 7. Obstacle: The ACA Directive 8. Child Search under the IRO a/ Child Search Reprieved b/ Limited Registration Plan c/ The Evolving Debate: Legal Security 9. The Residual a/ Resettlement b/ Children's Courts c/ Transfer into the German economy d/ Closure of the IRO 10. Nationality a/ The Jewish Displaced Persons b/ The Baltic Displaced Persons c/ The Yugoslavian Displaced Persons d/ The Polish Displaced Persons e/ The Ukrainian Displaced Persons f/ The Stateless and the Doubtful or Undetermined g/ Observations 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS
Book SynopsisFrom 1931 to 1945, leaders of the SS, a paramilitary group under the Nazi party, sought to transform their organization into a racially-elite family community that would serve as the Third Reich’s new aristocracy. They utilized the science of eugenics to convince SS men to marry suitable wives and have many children. Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS by Amy Carney is the first work to significantly assess the role of SS men as husbands and fathers during the Third Reich. The family community, and the place of men in this community, started with one simple order issued by SS leader Heinrich Himmler. He and other SS leaders continued to develop the family community throughout the 1930s, and not even the Second World War deterred them from pursuing their racial ambitions. Carney’s insight into the eugenic-based measures used to encourage SS men to marry and to establish families sheds new light on their responsibilities not only as soldiers, buTrade Review"This is an important work, in which Carney has added to the existing scholarship in the field of family life in the Third Reich by looking beyond mothers and motherhood, to examine fathers and fatherhood." -- Lisa Pine, London South Bank University * European History Quarterly, vol 49 no 3 *"Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS is well documented and a significant contribution to understanding one of the darkest periods in European history. It is especially important today when historical ignorance abounds." -- John A. Dick * Marriage, Families & Spirituality, Vol. 26, No. 1 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Engagement and Marriage Command Establishing SS Families Marriage during the Second World War Sustaining the Family Community during the War Belonging to the Family Community Assessing SS Population Politics and the Family Community Appendices Appendix A: The Engagement and Marriage Command Appendix B: Development of the SS Appendix C: Rank Comparisons Appendix D: Organization of the Allgemeine SS Notes Bibliography Index
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Fighting Fat
Book SynopsisWhile the statistics for obesity have been alarming in the twenty-first century, concern about fatness has a history. In Fighting Fat, Wendy Mitchinson discusses the history of obesity and fatness from 1920 to 1980 in Canada. Through the context of body, medicine, weight measurement, food studies, fat studies, and the identity of those who were fat, Mitchinson examines the attitudes and practices of medical practitioners, nutritionists, educators, and those who see themselves as fat. Fighting Fat analyzes a number of sources to expose our culture’s obsession with body image. Mitchinson looks at medical journals, both their articles and the advertisements for drugs for obesity, as well as magazine articles and advertisements, including popular before and after weight loss stories. Promotional advertisements reveal how the media encourages negative attitudes towards body fat. The book also includes over 30 interviews with Canadians who defined themselvTrade Review"Fighting Fat is a pithy, readable text that is deeply researched and clearly argued. For Canadian historians, the book connects weight and dieting to other social histories of class, gender, moral regulation, and health. For international scholars, the book provides an interpretive framework for understanding the medical history of "obesity." Mitchinson categorizes and classifies weight in new ways. She names and then deconstructs gaps in medical logic, ambiguities, and failures in clear and explicit terms that can be applied in other national and disciplinary contexts." -- Jenny Ellison * Fat Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Nutrition Policy: "Dietetic Missionaries" 2. About Obesity 3. Causes of Obesity 4. Treatment: "Stubbornly resistant to treatment" 5. "Dietary drug land" and Surgery 6. Infant, Child, and Teen Obesity 7. Body Image 8. Narratives of Fat Canadians Epilogue Notes on Sources
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University of Toronto Press Being Fat
Book SynopsisIt is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has existed in Canada since the 1970s. Being Fat focuses on the earliest strands of the movement, covering the last decades of the twentieth century. The book explores how fat activists wrestled with feminist issues of the era, including femininity, sexuality, and health. Showcasing the earliest efforts of fat activists in Canada, such as the growth of social initiatives for fat women only, Being Fat helps us recognize the long reach of second-wave feminism and how it shaped activists’ approaches to everyday experiences like shopping, exercise, and going to the doctor.Trade Review"Being Fat is an important text that provides a historical and political grounding of fat women organizations in Canada. […] This scholarship is imperative to recognizing and understanding how the fat liberation movement began and provides insight to contemporary forms of resistance." -- Nicholas Villarreal, San Diego State University * Fat Studies *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Fat Women Are Not Few 1. FIFI: Feminist Approaches to Being Fat 2. Between Women: Fat Acceptance Organizations 3. “If Only You’d Lose Weight...”: Femininity, Sexuality, and Fat Activism 4. Dr Fullovitt, MD: Fat Women’s Experiences with Doctors and Dieting 5. “Let Me Hear Your Body Talk”: Aerobics for Fat Women Only 6. Bodies in Fashion: Buying and Selling Plus-Size Clothing Conclusion: When We Rise the Earth Will Shake Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Detailed List of Research Participants Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press The Child and the Institution
Book SynopsisIt has long been believed that children who must spend much of their lives in institutions inevitably develop personality deficiencies that make them liabilities to society. This book represents the first portion of a longitudinal study of the children of the Neil McNeil Home from infancy into adulthood. The study was begun in 1957 with a twofold purpose: first, to provide a therapeutic environment for children who had already suffered mental and emotional damage from an institutional milieu; and second, to devise methods of institutional care that would conduce to the normal development of children deprived of the usual supports of family relationships. The case histories presented here are interesting documents in themselves, but the book is more than a study of individual cases. It presents a detailed description of the process of creating in a child-care institution something of the atmosphere of a normal home. The conclusions reached depart in significant ways from former studies
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University of Nebraska Press Of Love and War
Book SynopsisBetween 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. During the occupation, American servicemen married approximately 1,800 women from New Zealand and the island Pacific, creating legal bonds through marriage and through children. Additionally, American servicemen fathered an estimated four thousand nonmarital children with Indigenous women in the South Pacific Command Area. In Of Love and War Angela Wanhalla details the intimate relationships forged during wartime between women and U.S. servicemen stationed in the South Pacific, traces the fate of wartime marriages, and addresses consequences for the women and children left behind. Paying particular attention to the experiences of women in New Zealand and in the island Pacific-including Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, and the Cook Islands-Of Love and War aims to illuminate the impact of global war on these women, their families, and Pacific societies. Wanhalla argues that Pacific war brides are an important though largely neglected cohort whose experiences of U.S. military occupation expand our understanding of global war. By examining the effects of American law on the marital opportunities of couples, their ability to reunite in the immediate postwar years, and the citizenship status of any children born of wartime relationships, Wanhalla makes a significant contribution to a flourishing scholarship concerned with the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and militarization in the World War II era. Trade Review“Of Love and War offers a methodological case study that historians of other conflicts can apply to their work in order to demonstrate the effects of war and militarization on women’s lives and the involvement of the U.S. military in regulating the personal lives of soldiers and occupied citizens. Angela Wanhalla paints a rich and compelling picture of the lives of soldiers and civilians in love and war. . . . Fascinating and well-researched.”—Heather Marie Stur, author of Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global SixtiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. War in the South Pacific 2. Pacific Home Fronts 3. Intimate Histories 4. Governing Marriage 5. Departing Pacific Shores 6. Married for the Duration 7. After They Sailed 8. Destinies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press The Heart in the Glass Jar
Book Synopsis The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man's literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and lettersas both symbols and material objectsof northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s. William E. French's innovative study of courtship practice and family formation examines love letters of everyday folk within the framework of literacy studies and explores how love letters functioned culturally and legally. French begins by situating love letters in the context of the legal system, which protected the moral order of families and communities and also perpetuated the gender orderthe foundation of power structures in Mexican society. He then examines reading and writing practices in the communities that the letters came from: mining camps, villages, small towns, and the passionate public sphere that served as the wider social context for the love leTrade Review“Gracefully written, convincingly argued, and accessible to nonspecialists, this book is equally well suited to graduate seminars and undergraduate courses in Mexican history as well as specialized history and/or theory courses on love, courtship, gender relations, and the written word.”—Robert M. Buffington, The Historian“Surprising, intriguing, and sophisticated. . . . This is masterful scholarship with an undercurrent of playfulness.”—William H. Beezley, coeditor of The Oxford History of Mexico “This is a deeply learned book, the mature work of a widely read, accomplished, and innovative historian.”—Ann S. Blum, author of Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884–1943 Table of ContentsHeading (Acknowledgments)Introduction: The Heart in the Glass Jar Section 1: The Letter of the LawSection 2: The Lettered Countryside Section 3: The Body of the Letter PostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex
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University Press of Mississippi Faulkners Families
Book SynopsisFamily played an outsized role in both William Faulkner’s life and writings, often in deeply problematic ways. The dozen essays featured in this collection approach Faulkner’s many families - actual and imagined - as especially revealing windows to his work and his world.
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Cornell University Press After Lavinia
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. In After Lavinia, John Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy.Watkins begins with Virgil''s foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. In the book''s second half, he follows the slow decline of dipTrade ReviewWatkins’s study of marriage diplomacy is a compelling work which proves an indispensable reference for readers of all creeds: from the literary analyst, to the specialist in diplomacy, gender studies or conflict studies, and to the lay reader trying to understand a volatile zeitgeist.... Dismissing the place of literature in the political episteme of a time and of all time has never been better argued as being a major error. Watkins’s opus is not only a major and fresh contribution to the field, it is an enlightening commentary on contemporary politics and on the necessity of a literary view of history. * Cahiers Élisabéthains *Embarks upon an impressive tour of literary history to show how marriage acts served transnational diplomacy.... Historians will benefit from reading John Watkins' intellectually engaging literary history. * H-FRANCE *Watkins's book makes many insightful claims and raises a lot of intriguing questions about premodern mariage diplomacy. * Sixteenth Century Journal *Watkins's work offers a fresh perspective on interdynastic marriage and on diplomacy. As he makes clear throughout the text, Watkins wants to uncover the woman's voice in diplomatic history. Throughout the text, he does just that, creating a strong scholarly analysis that foregrounds gender and affirms the importance of the domestic, the maternal, and the reproductive.... Overall, Watkins's fascinating and ambitious work offers a positive contribution to academic conversations on queenship, marriage, international diplomacy, and literary celebrations and critiques of dynastic marriage. * Clio *Watkins raises authentically interesting questions about politics, gender, and religion, and demonstrates the value of literary sources and literary analysis for this topic. It is especially valuable for assembling a range of texts on interdynastic marriage, including Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, the Venerable Bede, Paul the Deacon, Dudo, William of Apulia, Wace, William of Malmsbury, and others, theological works as well as twelfth- and thirteenth-century vernacular romances and their treatments of royal marriages.... The broad sweep of this study is impressive, displaying the range of possible practices for monarch, marrying in or out, up or down, lateral—or... choosing not to marry at all. * Speculum *After Lavinia... provocatively aims at fostering a discussion about the nature of war and peacemaking in the premodern and modern worlds, and how the intertwined roles of gender, the passions, and, more generally, the irrational played a significant role in pre-Westphalian diplomatic society, and were later dangerously confined to the literary realm. In this sense, After Lavinia is a wonderful and thought-provoking book: it should be essential reading in and beyond the community of scholars working on these topics. * Diplomatica *A powerful, wide-ranging study.... A triumphant, fruitful marriage of critical methodologies and fields. It encompasses literary and cultural history, diplomatic history, international relations, gender studies, and other approaches. Its comparatist focus has much to teach specialists in English literature.... Magisterial. * Modern Language Quarterly *A fascinating interdisciplinary study of marriage diplomacy from the post-Roman period through the seventeenth century.... Watkins draws upon chronicle histories, medieval romances, diplomatic records, international society theory, pastoral verse, political pamphlets, and early modern drama to develop an ambitious and nuanced argument about the changing ideology of political marriages.... Watkins's book is both concise and elegantly structured given its very broad scope. It offers an important contribution to the study of diplomatic cultures, especially by articulating ideological positions that shaped the political roles of women, and scholars of any part of the European Middle Ages and early modern periods will learn a great deal from its longue durée narrative. -- Amanda Walling * Comparative Literature Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Voice of LaviniaPart I. Origins1. After Rome: Interdynastic Marriage during the First Christian Centuries2. Interdynastic Marriage, Religious Conversion, and the Expansion of Diplomatic Society3. From Chronicle to Romance: Interdynastic Marriage in the High Middle AgesPart II. Wanings4. Marriage Diplomacy, Print, and the Reformation5. Shakespeare's Adumbrations of State-Based Diplomacy6. Divas and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century FranceConclusion
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Cornell University Press Commuter Spouses
Book SynopsisWhat can we learn from looking at married partners who live apart? In Commuter Spouses, Danielle Lindemann explores how couples cope when they live apart to meet the demands of their dual professional careers. Based on the personal stories of almost one-hundred commuter spouses, Lindemann shows how these atypical relationships embody (and sometimes disrupt!) gendered constructions of marriage in the United States. These narratives of couples who physically separate to maintain their professional lives reveal the ways in which traditional dynamics within a marriage are highlighted even as they are turned on their heads. Commuter Spouses follows the journeys of these couples as they adapt to change and shed light on the durability of some cultural ideals, all while working to maintain intimacy in a non-normative relationship.Lindemann suggests that everything we know about marriage, and relationships in general, promotes the idea that couples are focusing more andTrade ReviewAn extraordinary, original, and seminal work of meticulous and rigorous scholarship, "Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World" is an unreservedly recommended and core addition to college and university library Contemporary American Sociology collections in general, and Modern Marriage, Family, and Labor Relations supplemental curriculum studies lists in particular. * Midwest Book Review *
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Cornell University Press Citizen Bachelors
Book SynopsisIn 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed a man without a wife is but half a man and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin''s comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship.In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men, while moralists began to decry theTrade ReviewAlthough this book is about men, like the best new works on masculinity Citizen Bachelors repeatedly brings its subject into conversation with women's history. * William and Mary Quarterly *Many single men in eighteenth-century England and America faced heavy, discriminatory taxation, but rather than obliterating 'the solitary state,' such policies served instead to politicize bachelors and to draw them fully to the brink of citizenship. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy writes the history of this remarkable development. His narrative is convincing, elegant, and often astonishing. He explores both the lived experiences of single men and the social construction of bachelorhood as a gendered identity.... McCurdy's narrative... makes a vital contribution to the study of early American manhood and masculinity.... Written in clear, uncluttered prose and offering rich rewards for scholars of gender, sexuality, the family, and the law, Citizen Bachelors should be singled out for careful reading. -- Benjamin Irvin * H-SHEAR *McCurdy succeeds brilliantly in showing how the legal standing of 'bachelors' changed over the course of the colonial and revolutionary eras.... Drawing enlightening comparisons between New England, the Chesapeake, and Pennsylvania, he is able to show how laws across the colonies were moving in a similar direction... [as they] collectively began to carve a space for adult single men in society. McCurdy also unearths some fascinating snapshots of the subjective experience of bachelorhood. -- Rodney Hessinger * Men and Masculinities *MCurdy has produced a valuable volume in this careful and highly readable inventory of early American bachelors and their cultural representations. When combined with the many related works on sexuality in this period, the book helps us understand a world long neglected and misrepresented. It is vital that we appreciate how different colonial society's cultural and sexual norms were from our own; the bachelor we recognize today was not known in early colonial North America. With this useful study, however, we can begin to see how this familiar figure first came into existence. -- David D. Doyle * New England Quarterly *Extensively researched and lucidly written.... An illuminating and substantial work which should be of interest to historians of gender relations in early modern England, colonial British America, and the early American republic. * The English Historical Review *McCurdy has done a marvelous job of highlighting the newborn independence of early American bachelors. * American Historical Review *A very fine book. * The Journal of American History *A thoughtful, intriguing, and valuable contribution to our understanding of early American social, cultural, and political life. * Pennsylvania History *McCurdy's detailed and well-researched book offers an alternate perspective on the late-colonial and Revolutionary eras of American history. Forward-thinking in terms of its subject matter, this book is a must read for historians of American gender, especially those specializing in masculinity studies. * History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Bachelors in Early America 1. "Unmarried Men Are Best Friends, Best Masters, Best Servants": Singles in Early Colonial America 2. "If a Single Man and Able He Shall Make Satisfaction": The Bachelor Laws 3. "Every One of Them Shall Be Chained about the Middle to a Post Like a Monkey": Literary Representations of the Bachelor 4. "I Resolve to Live a Batchelor While I Remain in This Wicked Country": Living Single in Early America 5. "The Bachelor Is the Only Free Man": The Single Man and the American Revolution Epilogue: Bachelors since 1800
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Cornell University Press Why Would I Be Married Here
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReena Kukreja's exceptional book reviews the multiple markers of oppression and victimhood that women face in rural north India. * Indian Express *Why Would I Be Married Here? offers powerful examples of how contemporary forces of neoliberalism reshape the structural oppressions compelling poor women from marginalized communities worldwide into making compromised choices about their bodies, their labor, and their lives. * New Books Network *Kukreja has written a theoretically rich book that combines Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks. * Choice *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Why Would I Be Married Here
Book SynopsisWhy Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyze the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cross-region marriages among dominant-peasant caste Hindus and Meo Muslims in rural North India. Why Would I Be Married Here? reveals how predatory capitalism links with patriarchy to dispossess many poor women from India''s marginalized Dalit and Muslim communities of marriage choices in their local communities. It reveals how, within the context of the increasing spread of capitalist relations, tTrade ReviewReena Kukreja's exceptional book reviews the multiple markers of oppression and victimhood that women face in rural north India. * Indian Express *Why Would I Be Married Here? offers powerful examples of how contemporary forces of neoliberalism reshape the structural oppressions compelling poor women from marginalized communities worldwide into making compromised choices about their bodies, their labor, and their lives. * New Books Network *Kukreja has written a theoretically rich book that combines Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks. * Choice *
£26.99
Stanford University Press Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption
Book SynopsisIt's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China—but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization? Countries that allow their vulnerable children to be cared for by outsiders are typically viewed as weaker global players. However, Leslie K. Wang argues that China has turned this notion on its head by outsourcing the care of its unwanted children to attract foreign resources and secure closer ties with Western nations. She demonstrates the two main ways that this "outsourced intimacy" operates as an ongoing transnational exchange: first, through the exportation of mostly healthy girls into Western homes via adoption, and second, through the subsequent importation of first-world actors, resources, and practices into orphanages to care for the mostly special needs youth left behind. Outsourced Children reveals the different care standards offered in Chinese state-run orphanages that were aided by Western humanitarian organizations. Wang explains how such transnational partnerships place marginalized children squarely at the intersection of public and private spheres, state and civil society, and local and global agendas. While Western societies view childhood as an innocent time, unaffected by politics, this book explores how children both symbolize and influence national futures.Trade Review"Outsourced Children takes us into the world of 'relinquished children' in China. It offers insights into the role of state policy, global competition and transnational circuits in shaping the meanings and value of children within neoliberalism. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in childhood in the global era."—Nazli Kibria, Boston University"Outsourced Children is a provocative analysis of the global assemblages of care around children in Chinese orphanages. Drawing on a deep well of original fieldwork, Wang bring to life the ideologies, economic inequalities, and gendered and raced imaginaries that swirl around children at the intersections of 'soft power' and 'outsourced intimacy.'"—Sara Dorow, University of Alberta"Wang's compelling ethnography shows how state agendas, market imperatives, and conflicting visions of childcare held by Western do-gooders and Chinese caregivers create a transnational market in special needs children that serves different agendas. A caringly crafted, unsettling, yet humane account of how the one-child policy continues to remake our world."—Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University"Wang's vivid and accessible writing, and her ability to raise difficult issues about the best interests of children in local, national, and transnational contexts makes Outsourced Children a compelling read for undergraduate and graduate students, policymakers, and general readers. "—Catherine Ceniza Choy, H-Diplo"A reflexive approach Wang employs in the presentation of her ethnographic study definitely plays a significant role in this book. Readers are able to understand how the author's analyses have come about through the discussion of her own identities and subjectivity, which is a methodological strength of the book. Compelling parts of Outsourced Children include Wang's analysis of a particular type of globalization process in which children are the integral part of the PRC's movement toward modernization as well as how the children serve an important role in Westerners' desire to participate prominently in international humanitarianism."—Kazuyo Kubo, American Journal of Sociology"Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China offers rich insight into global power dynamics at political and personal levels and serves as a catalyst for further inquiries into international relations, experiences of marginalized populations, and the shifting salience of transnational, racial, and ethnic identities."––Michelle Samura, Cala Gin, Dorcas Hot, and Florencia Park, Journal of Asian American StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: Children and the Politics of Outsourced Intimacy in China 2. Survival of the Fittest: Relinquished Children in an Era of "High Quality" 3. From "Missing Girls" to America's Sweethearts: Adoption and the Reversal of Fortune for Healthy Chinese Daughters 4. The West to the Rescue? Outsourced Intimacy in the Tomorrow's Children Unit 5. The Limits of Outsourced Intimacy: Contested Logics of Care at the Yongping Orphanage 6. Waiting Children Finally Belong: The Rise of Special Needs Adoption 7. Conclusion: Retying the Red Thread
£21.59
Stanford University Press Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in
Book SynopsisBorders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America—the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the trauma, distress, and inequalities that occur daily, alongside the stratification of particular family members' access to resources like education, employment, and health care. She also paints a vivid picture of the resilience, resistance, creative responses, and solidarity between parents and children, siblings, and other kin. Castañeda's innovative ethnography combines fieldwork with individuals and family groups to paint a full picture of the experiences of mixed-status families as they navigate the emotional, social, political, and medical difficulties that inevitably arise when at least one family member lacks legal status. Exposing the extreme conditions in the heavily-regulated U.S./Mexico borderlands, this book presents a portentous vision of how the further encroachment of immigration enforcement would affect millions of mixed-status families throughout the country.Trade Review"In this superior work of scholarship, Heide Castañeda allows readers to experience the sorrow, pain, and trauma current immigration laws and practices have inflicted not just on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members with some form of legal status. Engaging and brilliantly observed, Borders of Belonging makes an incredibly timely and policy-relevant argument about the interlocking fates within mixed-status families. This book is poised for instant success within and beyond the classroom." -- Roberto G. Gonzales * author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America *"This book's investigations into sibling relationships, the Rio Grande region, and the impacts of illegalization on U.S. citizen family members is important and original. Through the use of compassionate personal narratives, Castañeda humanizes the anguish and resilience of the book's protagonists. An essential and engrossing read." -- Susan Bibler Coutin * University of California, Irvine *"Borders of Belonging is a brilliant, powerful, unprecedented book. It is an absolute must read for everyone. This book is critical not only for all who are interested in immigration in the United States and around the world, but also for anyone who cares about families, children, and parents. Castañeda skillfully portrays real families in the Rio Grande Valley who are navigating the unintended, harmful consequences of immigration and social policies, displaying their deep compassion and care for one another. As they experience powerful discrimination and racism, these families display resilience and solidarity across lines of difference, actively resisting inequality in their midst. The families and individuals—immigrants and citizens—whom the reader comes to know in these pages offer us all models for a more healthy and equal society and teach us important lessons for our communities, schools, health care systems, and public policies." -- Seth M. Holmes * author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States *"This work powerfully and effectively addresses the situation of undocumented migrants to the United States caught up in the larger political crisis of immigration policies and enforcement. This inspired and moving work of ethnography is cast at the level of everyday life and the complexities of undocumented status, though the author fully grasps the formal levels of policy making and enforcement that led to such difficult challenges for families in the Rio Grande borderlands...Recommended."––G. E. Marcus, CHOICE"One of Castañeda's contributions lies in legitimizing the family as a uniform social unit with potential for action and adaptation in the face of adverse conditions. By positing the family as a mediator of culture, Castañeda redefines the boundaries of social life and the ways they can be understood to gauge the impacts of policies that, though aimed at individuals, inevitably affect those around them."––Javier Porras Madera, NACLA Report on the Americas"Borders of Belonging illuminates a poorly understood aspect of life in a way that is compelling, clear, theoretically and methodologically grounded, timely and compassionate....essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the complex and layered human experience of immigration in the United States today." -- Faidra Papavasiliou * General Anthropology *"Drawing on meticulous ethnographic interviews with various members of families in the Rio Grande Valley, Castañeda tells a fascinating story, nuanced and attentive to the specifics of the geographic region of 'the Valley'....Future research should build off this excellent work and document similarities and differences across varying geographic and local contexts throughout the United States and, perhaps, around the world." -- Joanna Dreby * Social Forces *"Borders of Belonging is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the lived experience of US immigration laws and their enforcement....[An] insightful examination into both the visible and invisible effects of US immigration policy." -- Jane Lilly López * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Borders of Belongingis a policy-relevant and accessible piece of work that provides extremely significant insight in the spill-over effects of tightened border control and draconian migration policies. Through vivid descriptions of the harmful consequences of these policies, the book attests to the ways in which family members become the 'collateral damages' of these politics of migration. I appreciate Heide Castañeda's commitment to bringing to life the daily reality of mixed-status families as they navigate borders, belonging and family-life." -- Elsemieke van Osch * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Illegality and the Immigrant Family chapter abstractThis chapter lays out the three main arguments of the book: (1) that the construction of "illegality" for some members in a family influences opportunities and resources for all, including legal residents and U.S. citizens; (2) that people are not simply passive victims of this circumstance, but are resilient and creative, and mobilize to challenge its effects; and (3) that the incorporation experiences of mixed-status families are significantly framed by place, in this case the U.S.–Mexico border region. The chapter defines "mixed-status" families as those comprised of at least one undocumented member and at least one other person with any authorized legal status or transitional status. It also describes the study methods and outlines the chapters of the book. 1Belonging in the Borderlands chapter abstractThis chapter examines how local context uniquely shapes pathways of incorporation and the everyday experiences of mixed-status families. Local configurations of laws, practices, and attitudes reflect how specific geographic settings provide unique mobilities, resources, opportunities, and disadvantages. Place matters. The chapter examines the geographic, cultural, and political landscape of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, which in some ways may be viewed as a pocket of inclusion because of its ethnic makeup, the dominance of the Spanish language, and its strong binational frame of reference. However, the historical marginalization and illegalization of Mexican migration through U.S. immigration laws provide an important backdrop for understanding the experience of illegality for families. This is strengthened by relentless and constant surveillance associated with the militarized border, including checkpoints that supplement and intensify interior enforcement. 2United Yet Divided: Mixed-Status Family Dynamics chapter abstractThis chapter examines the dynamics of mixed-status families, including shared norms, interpersonal tensions, and systems of mutual support. As legal status stratifies the household, creating divisions and even resentment, the central pattern is nonetheless family unity. Family relationships necessarily challenge simplistic distinctions between citizens and immigrants, and underscore the impossibility of assigning rigid juridical categories to entangled social lives. Juxtaposing the perspectives of various members within the same family illustrates how those experiences played out in complex ways. Mutual support is critical, and certain family members take on specific roles. Finally, the progress of the entire family and the social mobility of subsequent generations are viewed as linked to children's educational success. 3"Little Lies": Disclosure and Relationships Beyond the Family chapter abstractThis chapter turns outward to explore relationships between mixed-status families and others in their communities. Disclosure—that is, to whom, when, and why people talk about their own or their family's status—is a major concern, with both undocumented persons and U.S. citizens describing "little lies," acts of concealment, and feeling as if they must live a double life. Even close friendships and intimate romantic relationships are affected, as those in mixed-status families face difficulties adhering to normative expectations of dating and courtship. Disclosure is weighed against the possible repercussions, including stigmatization, discrimination, ridicule, and fear of denunciation by friends, lovers, neighbors, co-workers, and even other family members. Finally, the chapter explores empowered disclosure, or strategic "coming out" as undocumented, and its role in creating new identities and political subjectivities. 4Estamos Encerrados: Im/mobilities in the Borderlands chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on spatial restrictions to mobility, including the various checkpoints, the fear of driving that exposes people to apprehension, and the racialization of illegality and its effects on inspection practices. Legal status within the family becomes embodied as stratified forms of mobility. Many people are relegated to life within this small strip along the border, and describe feeling "trapped in a cage." The geographies of policing mobility in the border region are distinct by virtue of the constraints of the international border, the 100-mile buffer zone, and specific enforcement practices. Due to shifting legal terrains and requirements, a range of legal driving opportunities often coexist within a single family. For everyday driving practice and during inspection at one of the many checkpoints, racialization is a recurring theme. The chapter shows how fear, anxiety, and pressure are all part of the affective nature of the dynamic borderlands. 5Additional Borders: Education, Work, and Social Mobility chapter abstractThis chapter examines the social mobility of children who grow up in mixed-status families, including the barriers and secondary borders they encounter as they try to go to college, obtain jobs, and become independent. Early experiences in schools are generally inclusive and positive, but this shifts in high school and with the pressures of applying for and attending college. Youth living in the borderlands may be unable or unwilling to attend college in the nation's interior, past the Border Patrol checkpoints, including U.S. citizens who restrict themselves from moving away from undocumented family members, thus affecting their own social mobility. Financial barriers, discrimination, and feelings of alienation coexist alongside educational success in college. Rarely explored elsewhere has been young adults' desire to enlist in the U.S. military or Border Patrol; both are common career paths in this region with few alternative well-paying jobs. 6Unequal Access: Health and Well-Being chapter abstractSimply being part of a mixed-status family can result in poorer health and unequal access to care, creating hierarchies between individual family members. Health policies have multiple direct and indirect impacts specifically on these families, including their hesitancy to enroll citizen children in programs due to fear of deportation or to avoid jeopardizing chances of future regularization. As formal systems fail to meet the needs of a large segment of the population, alternative and informal channels of care proliferate, including illicit medications, unlicensed providers, and home treatments. Heavy border enforcement impacts mixed-status families when specialty care is required outside the region, as well as exacerbating stress and anxiety. Some families avoid enrolling eligible members in programs as notions of "deservingness" are internalized. This has a chilling effect that extends to U.S. citizens, meaning that they are discouraged from the exercise of their rights, a form of "multigenerational punishment." 7Family Separation: Deportation, Removal, and Return chapter abstractThis chapter examines family separation through deportation, illustrating how the detention and deportation of relatives shapes children's sense of security and well-being, and increases economic uncertainty in the household. The chapter follows several families whose members have experienced deportation, as well as the elaborate "emergency planning" measures they develop in case of family separation. This shifts household power dynamics, empowering citizen children in a complex micropolitical economy of deportability. Finally, the chapter explores how deported family members are brought back, reliant upon on ties in Mexico, connections to smugglers, and their ability to pay. Geographic context changes the landscape of deportability, making security much more precarious in the borderlands than in other parts of the United States. 8Fixing Papers: Status Adjustment in Mixed-Status Families chapter abstractMixed-status families have an intimate relationship with the law, most evident when individuals undergo regularization, or "fix their papers." Law impacts family bonds in distinct ways, often shifting or reversing power relations between parents and children. It also empowers children, who finally feel they have agency and control over their family's destiny. The chapter also provides rich stories of DACA recipients in their transition from undocumented to "DACAmented," a status that was experienced as precarious and that solidified prior and produced new forms of inequality. For some, there are simply "dead ends" in the regularization process. Finally, for those who are successful in obtaining legal relief or status, another peril looms: jealousy, stratification, and hierarchies created within families and communities because others are left behind. The flip side is survivor's guilt; once people regularize their status, they avoid seeming boastful or fostering bitterness or resentment. Conclusion chapter abstractThe book concludes with a reflection on the lessons learned from the 100 families in this book, arguing that political efforts toward reform or social integration must take into account mixed-status family configurations, since they are now a primary and enduring feature of the contemporary immigration experience in the United States. The book complicates the idea of living "in the shadows" as it is used in scholarly and popular discourse, instead portraying mixed-status families as resilient, socially engaged, and living as active members of their communities. Yet the daily lives of some 16.7 million people in mixed-status families are marked by uncertainty and exclusion. The chapter summarizes both the scholarly and policy implications of the themes presented in the book. Through a deeper understanding of their experiences, we can work toward policies that lift communities up rather than exacerbate inequalities.
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Stanford University Press Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of
Book SynopsisA poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "Other" In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice. In Forbidden Intimacies, Melanie Heath comparatively investigates the regulation of polygamy in the United States, Canada, France, and Mayotte. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and archival sources, Heath uncovers the ways in which intimacies framed as "other" and "offensive" serve to define the very limits of Western tolerance. These regulation efforts, counterintuitively, allow the flourishing of polygamies on the ground. The case studies illustrate a continuum of justice, in which some groups, like white fundamentalist Mormons in the U.S., organize to fight against the prohibition of their families' existence, whereas African migrants in France face racialized discrimination in addition to rigid migration policies. The matrix of legal and social contexts, informed by gender, race, sexuality, and class, shapes the everyday experiences of these relationships. Heath uses the term "labyrinthine love" to conceptualize the complex ways individuals negotiate different kinds of relationships, ranging from romantic to coercive. What unites these families is the secrecy in which they must operate. As government intervention erodes their abilities to secure housing, welfare, work, and even protection from abuse, Heath exposes the huge variety of intimacies, and the power they hold to challenge heteronormative, Western ideals of love. Trade Review"An important intervention into racialized gendered states and their making of marriage and intimacy norms. It beautifully exposes the social consequences of government regulation, reminding us that the family and home are not private spheres, especially among those stigmatized as different."—Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara"This is a valuable contribution to the literature. It provides a fresh look at globalized pressures to rid western culture of controversial or unsavory practices, such as polygyny. Highly recommended."—Janet Bennion, Northern Vermont University"Forbidden Intimacies provides an outstanding and much-needed map of the many forms that polygamy takes across borders of nation, race, language, culture, law, policy, and time period. Melanie Heath's innovative methodologies, extensive data set, and analysis make the book an essential tool for historical, sociological, and legal investigations of family, and also for work on gaps between law-on-the-books and law-in-action."—Martha Ertman, University of Maryland Law School"This beautifully honed study definitively overturns misconceptions of polygamy. Indeed, it transforms our understandings of these non-monogamous racialized marital forms through multi-sited ethnography and comparative, intersectional, and transnational analysis. Its gift is to show that plural marriages endure in complex ways due to and despite impositions of state governance and white Christian nationalisms in the west."—Jyoti Puri, Simmons University"With empathy and intelligence, Forbidden Intimacies examines the troubled debates around polygyny, marriages involving one husband with two or more wives. Tradition? Oppression? Choice? Crime? With illuminating case studies from three countries, Melanie Heath throws new light on women's agency, patriarchal power, criminalization, and the racial projects of modern states."—Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney"[Heath] explores how the state shapes (and is shaped by) intimate expression and concludes that governments oftenprohibitthese forms of intimacy in an effort to 'uphold the white, monogamous, heterosexual family ideal' and demarcate boundaries of sexual acceptance, boundaries that ultimately contribute to notions of national identity. An important contribution to the field of sexuality, marriage, and family studies. Recommended."—J. R. Mitrano, CHOICE"[Forbidden Intimacies] is methodologically innovative, and the data and analysis provided by Heath make important contributions to our understanding of national identities, colonialism, culture, gender, race, and family.... Heath's methods provide an excellent example of how to do Sociology and should be required reading for anyone who does or is learning to do sociological research."—Mimi Schippers, Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Forbidden Intimacies in Global Perspective 1. Racial Projects and Unexpected Divergences in Regulating Polygyny 2. Labyrinthine Love and Homegrown Polygamies 3. Migratory Polygamies: Racialization and Colonial Reckonings 4. Patriarchal Musings: Gender, Power, and Agency in Living Forbidden Intimacies 5. Race, Religion, and Stigmatized Intimacies: Pushing Polygynous Families Underground 6. Recognizing Polygamies: Fighting Over Intimacy Conclusion: Forbidden Intimacies, Racial Projects, and Legal Jeopardy
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Stanford University Press Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples
Book SynopsisA rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy. For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing every couple's ability to wed. But the Supreme Court has denied that this right to marriage includes married couples' right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on US soil, creating a challenge for mixed-citizenship couples whose individual-level rights do not translate to family-level protections. While US citizens can extend legal inclusion to their spouses through family reunification, they must prove their worthiness and the worthiness of their love before their relationship will be officially recognized by the state. In Unauthorized Love, Jane López offers a comprehensive, critical look at US family reunification law and its consequences as experienced by 56 mixed-citizenship American couples. These couples' stories––of integration and alienation, of opportunity and inequality, of hope and despair––make tangible the consequences of current US immigration laws that tend to favor Whiteness, wealth, and heteronormativity, as well as the individual rather than the family unit, in awarding membership and official belonging. In examining the experiences of couples struggling to negotiate intimacy under the constraints of immigration policy, López argues for a rethinking of citizenship as a family affair.Trade Review"In the public imaginary, marriage is an easy way to immigrate to the United States and one of the surest and quickest pathways to a green card. This is pure fiction. Through a deeply moving portrayal of (un)authorized love stories, López explains why. From poker game-like strategies for family reunification to the visceral experiences of absence and (dis)integration, López combines analytical clarity with ethnographic insight to illustrate the repercussions of the imagined category of individualized citizenship codified into U.S. immigration law. I have yet to read a book that so deftly—and with such grace—captures the intimate costs of the U.S. immigration system on marital relationships. If this does not convince you of the inequality perpetuated by current immigration policies, I am not sure if anything can."—Joanna Dreby, author of Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families"While Americans may believe that love conquers all, this important, beautifully written book shows how our citizenship and immigration laws function to sever married couples, affecting children, extended families, and communities. Grounded in the lives of everyday people, it contributes to our understanding of immigration, gender and the family, and the sociology of law, and points us toward sensible and fair policy changes that could protect these vulnerable families."—Mary C. Waters, Harvard University"This remarkable study of mixed-citizen unions exposes the difficult terrain couples encounter in their attempts to earn the right to love and live together. Theoretically compelling, empirically rich, and cogently reasoned, Unauthorized Love sheds important light on the family-level consequences of reunification success, failure, and uncertainty. Powerful and enlightening."—Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo"[López's] study presents compelling life stories of love and family that enrich and complicate understandings of immigration from across the US southern border in an accessible narrative. Recommended."—E. Hu-DeHart, CHOICE"Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State, a rich, well-argued, and luminous book by Jane Lilly López, shows how U.S. family reunification policy shapes the intimate and social lives of [mixed-citizenship] married couples. One in 13 U.S. couples must navigate a system in which policy-based definitions of legitimate relationships and deserving individuals menace the process of trying to sponsor a spouse."—Stephen P. Ruszczyk, American Journal of Sociology"The book's primary contributions to the sociological study of mixed-status families is two-fold. First, López illustrates the class dimensions of family reunification.... Second, López shows that although the immigration system ostensibly punishes individuals for individual immigration status violations, the repercussions of these punishments reverberate through an immigrant's family and broader social networks—regardless of citizenship status.... The notion that a whole family becomes unauthorized with the rejection of a noncitizen spouse is a powerful way to elucidate the shortcomings of citizenship as an individual status."—Jennifer Cook, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Same, but Different 2. The Right Kind of Love(r) 3. Navigating the High Stakes of US Family Reunification Law 4. (Dis)Integrated Families, (Dis)Integrated Lives 5. Institutional (In)Visibility 6. Parenthetical Belonging Conclusion
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Stanford University Press Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples
Book SynopsisA rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy. For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing every couple's ability to wed. But the Supreme Court has denied that this right to marriage includes married couples' right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on US soil, creating a challenge for mixed-citizenship couples whose individual-level rights do not translate to family-level protections. While US citizens can extend legal inclusion to their spouses through family reunification, they must prove their worthiness and the worthiness of their love before their relationship will be officially recognized by the state. In Unauthorized Love, Jane López offers a comprehensive, critical look at US family reunification law and its consequences as experienced by 56 mixed-citizenship American couples. These couples' stories––of integration and alienation, of opportunity and inequality, of hope and despair––make tangible the consequences of current US immigration laws that tend to favor Whiteness, wealth, and heteronormativity, as well as the individual rather than the family unit, in awarding membership and official belonging. In examining the experiences of couples struggling to negotiate intimacy under the constraints of immigration policy, López argues for a rethinking of citizenship as a family affair.Trade Review"In the public imaginary, marriage is an easy way to immigrate to the United States and one of the surest and quickest pathways to a green card. This is pure fiction. Through a deeply moving portrayal of (un)authorized love stories, López explains why. From poker game-like strategies for family reunification to the visceral experiences of absence and (dis)integration, López combines analytical clarity with ethnographic insight to illustrate the repercussions of the imagined category of individualized citizenship codified into U.S. immigration law. I have yet to read a book that so deftly—and with such grace—captures the intimate costs of the U.S. immigration system on marital relationships. If this does not convince you of the inequality perpetuated by current immigration policies, I am not sure if anything can."—Joanna Dreby, author of Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families"While Americans may believe that love conquers all, this important, beautifully written book shows how our citizenship and immigration laws function to sever married couples, affecting children, extended families, and communities. Grounded in the lives of everyday people, it contributes to our understanding of immigration, gender and the family, and the sociology of law, and points us toward sensible and fair policy changes that could protect these vulnerable families."—Mary C. Waters, Harvard University"This remarkable study of mixed-citizen unions exposes the difficult terrain couples encounter in their attempts to earn the right to love and live together. Theoretically compelling, empirically rich, and cogently reasoned, Unauthorized Love sheds important light on the family-level consequences of reunification success, failure, and uncertainty. Powerful and enlightening."—Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo"[López's] study presents compelling life stories of love and family that enrich and complicate understandings of immigration from across the US southern border in an accessible narrative. Recommended."—E. Hu-DeHart, CHOICE"Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State, a rich, well-argued, and luminous book by Jane Lilly López, shows how U.S. family reunification policy shapes the intimate and social lives of [mixed-citizenship] married couples. One in 13 U.S. couples must navigate a system in which policy-based definitions of legitimate relationships and deserving individuals menace the process of trying to sponsor a spouse."—Stephen P. Ruszczyk, American Journal of Sociology"The book's primary contributions to the sociological study of mixed-status families is two-fold. First, López illustrates the class dimensions of family reunification.... Second, López shows that although the immigration system ostensibly punishes individuals for individual immigration status violations, the repercussions of these punishments reverberate through an immigrant's family and broader social networks—regardless of citizenship status.... The notion that a whole family becomes unauthorized with the rejection of a noncitizen spouse is a powerful way to elucidate the shortcomings of citizenship as an individual status."—Jennifer Cook, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Same, but Different 2. The Right Kind of Love(r) 3. Navigating the High Stakes of US Family Reunification Law 4. (Dis)Integrated Families, (Dis)Integrated Lives 5. Institutional (In)Visibility 6. Parenthetical Belonging Conclusion
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Stanford University Press Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under
Book SynopsisCommercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes—younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Western Men. Her study of China's email-order bride industry offers stories of Chinese women who are primarily middle-aged, divorced, and proactively seeking spouses to fulfill their material and sexual needs. What they seek in their Western partners is tied to what they believe they've lost in the shifting global economy around them. Ranging from multimillionaire entrepreneurs or ex-wives and mistresses of wealthy Chinese businessmen, to contingent sector workers and struggling single mothers, these women, along with their translators and potential husbands from the US, Canada, and Australia, make up the actors in this multifaceted story. Set against the backdrop of China's global economic ascendance and a relative decline of the West, this book asks: How does this reshape Chinese women's perception of Western masculinity? Through the unique window of global internet dating, this book reveals the shifting relationships of race, class, gender, sex, and intimacy across borders.Trade Review"Seeking Western Men shows how vicissitudes of global economy can be registered in the relative value of men and women seeking relationships. Liu's masterful analysis shows readers how to rethink gender, race, and class within a rapidly changing world order."—Eileen Otis, author of Markets and Bodies"This engaging ethnography dismantles common assumptions about the motives of female marriage migrants and the transnational appeal of both Western masculinity and Western feminism. Rather, we learn about evolving Chinese feminisms that deviate from Western models, as Chinese women pursue transnational marriages exercising their own sexual agency."—James Farrar, author of Opening Up"[Seeking Western Men] is an interdisciplinary study that spans sociology, anthropology, and gender studies. I highly recommend it to students, researchers, and general readers interested in the areas of transnational migration, marriage and family, masculinity, and Chinese and Western cultures. Through a geopolitical and feminist lens, this book provides valuable insights into the power dynamics between Asian women and Western men. It enriches the existing body of research on marriage migration in Asia by offering a wealth of rich ethnographic data."—Hsunhui Tseng, H-Asia"Liu's investigation is more than a case study of Chinese international dating. It is an earnest effort to understand the sociological processes and psychological realities that have provoked a reawakening in Chinese women as sexual and romantic beings who want and expect a more fulfilling life, which includes having a satisfying marriage with either a Chinese man of sufficient social standing or, if not, with a Western provider. Monica Liu's study offers an insightful peek into the sociological processes responsible for this psychological awakening. It is ethnography as it should be."—William Jakowiak, Nan Nü"This book provides the most detailed empirical examination of the international dating industry in China and how ideas of race, class, and gender are shifting within the globalizing economy, providing an important contribution to sociological literature about the international dating industry and ideas of intimacy within post-reform China."—Julia Meszaros, Social Forces"Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China's Global Rise offers important insights into the complex world of email-order brides. Using feminist lenses from both the West and China, Liu's engaging and accessible writing provides a glimpse of international marriages and the challenges facing women in contemporary China. The book makes significant contributions to the field of gender and migration studies. I highly recommend the book to anyone who is interested in learning more about this phenomenon."—Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? 2. Provider Love 3. Transnational Business Masculinity 4. Embracing Domesticity 5. Body of a Woman, Fate of a Man 6. Surrogate Dating: Translators behind the Screens Epilogue
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Stanford University Press Love Across Difference
Book SynopsisLebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a mixed couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a political system built on sectarianism. Still, Lebanon has the most interreligious marriages per capita in the Middle East. What constitutes a mixed marriage is in flux as social norms shift, and reactions to mixed marriage reveal underlying social categories of discrimination. Through stories of Lebanese couples, Love Across Difference challenges readers to rethink categories of difference and imagine possibilities for social change.Drawing on two decades of interviews and research, Lara Deeb shows how mixed couples in Lebanon confront patriarchy, social difference, and sectarianism. In the drama that ensues as women and young men make their own marital choices, they push gender boundaries and reveal the ultimately empty nature of sect as a category of social difference. Love won''t end sectarianism, but it can contribute to re
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion
Book SynopsisAmorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. Yet for centuries moralists have poured scorn and contempt on a feeling that, in their view, we should fight in every possible way. It is allegedly a disease to be treated, a moral vice to be eradicated, an ugly, pre-modern, illiberal, proprietary emotion to be overcome. Above all, no one should ever admit to being jealous. So should we silence this embarrassing sentiment? Or should we, like the heroines of Greek tragedy, see it as a fundamental human demand for reciprocity in love? By examining its cultural history from the ancient Greeks to La Rochefoucauld, Hobbes, Kant, Stendhal, Freud, Beauvoir, Sartre and Lacan, this book demonstrates how jealousy, far from being a 'green-eyed' fiend, reveals the intense and apprehensive nature of all erotic love, which is the desire to be desired. We should never be ashamed to love.Trade Review"Forget self-help books. Sissa rescues jealousy from the moralists, the philosophers, and an industry devoted to amplifying shame in the guise of therapy with her passionate and altogether compelling defense of erotic anger as the lifeblood of amorous relationships. Giving us much more than a history of jealousy, Sissa enlarges the lover's discourse with her capacious intelligence."Brooke Holmes, Princeton University"an eloquent cri de coeur by a woman who…has shaken off the long Western tradition that repressed women’s jealousy and shamed the jealous."Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents Introduction. I am beside myself with anger É Chapter 1. Being Medea Chapter 2. A forbidden passion Chapter 3. Sexual objects and open couples Chapter 4. The despair of not being loved Chapter 5. Art of love, art of jealousy Conclusion. Confessing the unconfessable Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion
Book SynopsisAmorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. Yet for centuries moralists have poured scorn and contempt on a feeling that, in their view, we should fight in every possible way. It is allegedly a disease to be treated, a moral vice to be eradicated, an ugly, pre-modern, illiberal, proprietary emotion to be overcome. Above all, no one should ever admit to being jealous. So should we silence this embarrassing sentiment? Or should we, like the heroines of Greek tragedy, see it as a fundamental human demand for reciprocity in love? By examining its cultural history from the ancient Greeks to La Rochefoucauld, Hobbes, Kant, Stendhal, Freud, Beauvoir, Sartre and Lacan, this book demonstrates how jealousy, far from being a 'green-eyed' fiend, reveals the intense and apprehensive nature of all erotic love, which is the desire to be desired. We should never be ashamed to love.Trade Review"Forget self-help books. Sissa rescues jealousy from the moralists, the philosophers, and an industry devoted to amplifying shame in the guise of therapy with her passionate and altogether compelling defense of erotic anger as the lifeblood of amorous relationships. Giving us much more than a history of jealousy, Sissa enlarges the lover’s discourse with her capacious intelligence."Brooke Holmes, Princeton University"an eloquent cri de coeur by a woman who…has shaken off the long Western tradition that repressed women’s jealousy and shamed the jealous."Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents Introduction. I am beside myself with anger É Chapter 1. Being Medea Chapter 2. A forbidden passion Chapter 3. Sexual objects and open couples Chapter 4. The despair of not being loved Chapter 5. Art of love, art of jealousy Conclusion. Confessing the unconfessable Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd In Praise of Forgiveness
Book SynopsisRelationships fall apart, marriages fail, couples break up – it happens to us all. Time corrodes passion and the routines of daily life kill the excitement that surrounds the emotion of the first encounter. The difficulty of uniting sexual pleasure with love, which Freud considered to be the most common neurosis in any love life, has become emblematic of a truth that seems undeniable: desire is destined to die if its object is not constantly renewed, if we do not change partner, if it is closed for too long in the restrictive chamber of the same bond. And yet what happens to these bonds when one of the two partners betrays the other, when the promise fails, when there is another emotional experience cloaked in secrecy and deceit? What happens if the traitor then begs forgiveness? Are they asking to be loved again and, having declared that it is not like it used to be, now want everything to go back to how it was? Should we make fun of lovers in their attempts to make love last? Or should we try to face up to the experience of betrayal, with the offence caused by the person we love most? Should we not perhaps attempt to praise forgiveness in love?Trade Review�Fascinating and provocative, this book sizzles with critical passion. It is fed by a deep knowledge of the vagaries of love in our nihilistic, �hyper-hedonist� times and by psychoanalytic insight. The addition of riveting cases makes this a pithy and important work.� Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday MadnessTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Ideology of the New The Contemporary Degradation of Love Lives; Resignation or Dopamine?; Narcissistic Love; Two Lies in Our Time; The New Libertine Ideology; Love as Resistance to the Libertine Worship of the New 2. Encounter and Destiny Love as Oedipal Repetition; Falling in Love with Ourselves; The Scream of Life; The Debate over Barolo; The Sexual Relationship Does Not Exist; We Are Loved Not Because of Something, But ‘Because of Everything’; The Loving Encounter is the Birth of a World; Disappointed Love; The Eros of the Encounter; Fidelity; The Face and the Eternal 3. Trauma and Abandonment A Captive Freedom?; Albertine; Is the Promise of Love Always False?; Is the Promise of Love Always False?; “It’s Not Like It Used To Be”; What Is A Trauma?; The First Blow; Trauma is the Flipside of Repression; Trauma in Love; Falling into Non-Sense; The Fall This Side of the Mirror; A Wound With No Cure; Abandonment 4. The Work of Forgiveness Courageous Love; The Adulterous Woman; To Forgive the Unforgiveable?; Reflection by the Subject; The Impossibility of Forgiving Out Of Love; The Work of Forgiveness and The Work of Mourning; Forgiveness and Gratitude; Why Men Find It More Difficult to Forgive; Violence Without Law; Violence and Love; The Tender Assassin; Absolute Exposure to Love; Virgil’s Gloves; Narcissism and Depression; Woman’s Foreign Language; “They Are All Whores!”; Killing Them In Order To ‘Love’ Them; The Joy of Forgiveness?; Forgiving Oneself
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