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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Crossing Boundaries A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality
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Taylor & Francis Do We Still Need Doctors
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lessons from the Damned Queers Whores and Junkies Respond to AIDS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Fiction of Bioethics Reflective Bioethics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Physician Assisted Suicide Expanding the Debate Reflective Bioethics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The PartTime Paradox Time Norms Professional Life Family and Gender
Book SynopsisToday's professionals, especially women, are caught in a time paradox: can they build a career and a family at the same time? The Part-time Paradox explores the conflict and tension between the time demands of career and family life, and the choice of part-time work as a solution.The changing demographics of the family and the work place make it increasingly difficult for both men and women to meet the escalating time pressures facing a doctor, lawyer or manager. This book examines the social problems associated with demanding work schedules and choices, and also illustrates successful alternatives to full-time employment. It draws on interviews with attorneys in large law firms, in-house corporate counsels, and government service in order to explore the multiple dimensions of the part-time work solution. Although attitudes are beginning to change, one of the greatest impediments to part-time work is the stigma attached to it in many organizations, and the consequences for the careers of individuals who take it. Professionals define themselves, in part, by their commitment to overtime. The authors reveal how cultural perspectives of the true professional, part-time work, and stereotypes about gender roles can influence both an individual's decision making process and office policy. They show that in an environment where professionals perceive part-time work as deviant, it may require not just perserverance, but also a trade-off between time flexibility and professional status.The authors consider issues ranging from job security and the consequences of new technology, to the economics of part-time work and the division of labor in the family. The Part-time Paradox provides a timely overview of a growing crisis, as part-time and flex-time work arrangements increase.Trade Review"The Part-time Paradox provides a brilliant portrayal of the discontents of the post-industrial workplace. With insight and passion, it demonstrates that achieving gender equity and family welfare requires nothing less than a fundamental restructuring of the 'time norms' that now equate work success with all consuming commitment." -- Kathleen Gerson, author of Hard Choices: How WomenDecide about Work, Career, and Motherhood"This superb study works on many levels--as first-class scholarship, as probing policy analysis, and as an extraordinary source of insight into the professional lives of men and women. A must read for all who study, love or live with the struggles of work and family." -- John Hagan, co-author of Gender and Practice"Lawyers now rival medical interns and residents in workaholism (though at least they kill only themselves). This book--the first systematic study of part-time legal careers--shows that lawyers can control their hours and effectively serve employers and clients--as well as themselves and their families." -- Richard Abel, author of American LawyersTable of ContentsPart I: The Social Meaning of Professional Time 1. Introduction 2. The Social Context of Time Deviance 3. Time and the Practices and Rituals of the Legal Profession Part II: Cultural Perspectives on Part-time Work and Its Consequences 4. Part-Time Work as Deviance: Stigmatization and its Consequences 5. Perspectives on Accommodating Part-Time Work 6. Calculating the Economics of Part-Time Work Part III: Career Issues and Problems in Part-Time Legal Work 7. Mobility 8. Job Security and Insecurity: The Vulnerability of Part-Time Positions 9. Part-Time Status and Rank Discrepancies: Statue Incongruity 10. Commitment and Professional Status 11. Collegiality 12. Justice and Fairness Part IV: The Family and Part-Time Work 13. Parents, Children, Child Care, and the Division of Labor in the Family Part V: Technology 14. Technology and Part-Time Lawyering Part VI 15. Conclusion Part VII: Appendices A. Research Methodology B. Part-Time Work Policies and Issues They Cover C. Tables
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Taylor & Francis Resource Guide for Food Writers
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Taylor & Francis Children on the Streets of the Americas
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Taylor & Francis Birth By Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unhealthy Places The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape
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Taylor & Francis An American Health Dilemma A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race Beginnings to 1900
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Taylor & Francis Ltd White Racism The Basics
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Taylor & Francis Do We Still Need Doctors
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Taylor & Francis If Only We Knew
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Taylor & Francis Georg Simmel Rembrandt An Essay in the Philosophy of Art
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Taylor & Francis Rape Work Victims Gender and Emotions in Organization and Community Context Perspectives on Gender
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Mestizo Mind The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization
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Taylor & Francis Complex Inequality Gender Class and Race in the New Economy Perspectives on Gender
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Taylor & Francis Queering India SameSex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society
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Taylor & Francis Edgework The Sociology of RiskTaking
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Taylor & Francis Edgework The Sociology of RiskTaking
Book SynopsisWhat do skydiving, rock climbing, and downhill skiing have in common with stock-trading, unprotected sex, and sadomasochism? All are high risk pursuits. Edgework explores the world of voluntary risk-taking, investigating the seductive nature of pursuing peril and teasing out the boundaries between legal and criminal behavior; conscious and unconscious acts; sanity and insanity; acceptable risk and stupidity. The distinguished contributors to this collection profile high risk-takers and explore their experiences with risk through such topics as juvenile delinquency, street anarchism, sadomasochism, avant-garde art, business risks, and extreme sport.Trade Review"At last, a book that has taken the concept of edgework and developed it both theoretically and with reference to many and new areas of voluntary risk-taking. Every essay is fascinating and the collection as a whole is a sustained and focused sociological exploration of life on the edge. Not only a delight to read, but a genuine contribution to the discipline. This book will have a significant impact in many areas, from cultural studies and criminology to the sociology of emotions and the study of the 'risk society'." -- Pat O'Malley, Carleton University, author of Risk, Uncertainty and Government"At a time when governments seek more than ever before to regulate and restrict everyday social behavior, a book such as this one that concerns itself with the transgressing of boundaries and life on the edge will prove invaluable to both academics and students alike. This exciting collection is therefore timely and will serve to put the concept of edgework in front of a new generation of students in sociology, criminology, and cultural studies." -- Mike Presdee, University of Kent, author of Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime and editor of Cultural Criminology Unleashed"Stephen Lyng's concept of edgework illuminates a wide range of social situations: it is sociology at the edge, the place where norms are negotiated and boundaries contested. It is a key concept in the sociology of risk and in the emerging cultural criminology. Lyng and his colleagues extend this analysis to the sociology of adventure, from drug use to the study of terrorism. This book is packed full of inspiration, and is an exhilarating read." -- Jock Young, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of The Exclusive SocietyTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. Edgework and the Risk Taking Experience Stephen Lyng Part 2: Theoretical Advances in the Study of Edgework 2. Sociology at the Edge: Social theory and voluntary risk taking Stephen Lyng 3. Edgework: A subjective and structural model of negotiating boundaries Dragan Milovanic Part 3: The Edgework Experience: Anarchy and aesthetics 4. The Only Possible Adventure: Edgework and anarchy Jeff Ferrell 5. Edgework and the Aesthetic Paradigm: Resonances and High Hopes David Courtney Part 4: Group Variations in Edgework Practices: Gender, age and class 6. Gender and Emotion Management in the Stages of Edgework Jennifer Lois 7. Adolescents on the Edge: The Sensual Side of Delinquency William J. Miller Part 5: Mainstreaming Edgework 8. Adventure Without Risk is Like Disneyland Lori Holyfield, Lillian Jonas and Anna Zajicek 9. Financial Edgework: Trading in Market Currents Charles W. Smith Part 6: Historicizing Edgework 10. Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some notes on Victorian lawyers and mountaineers Jonathan Simon 11. On the Edge: Drugs and the consumption of risk in late modernity Gerda Reith Part 7: Edgework in the Academy 12. Intellectual Risk Taking, Organizations, and Academic Freedom and Tenure Gideon Sjoberg 13. Doing Terrorism Research in the Dark Ages: Confessions of a bottom dog Mark S. Hamm
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Raceing Masculinity Identity in Contemporary US Writings Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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Taylor & Francis White Out The Continuing Significance of Racism
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