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John Wiley & Sons Opportunity Denied Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work
Trade Review"In an exemplary application of intersectional analysis to Black women’s labor history, Branch convincingly demonstrates that the 100- year legacy of racial and gender exclusion explains Black women’s poverty today." -- Bonnie Thornton Dill * author of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class and Gender in Theory Policy and Practice *“This is an important story to tell and Branch’s Opportunity Denied makes a significant contribution to the study of black women’s work.” -- Margaret L. Andersen * professor of sociology, University of Delaware *"This is a wonderful, well-written and carefully argued book. Branch does an excellent job of demonstrating how historical inequalities can take hundreds of years to remedy." * Labour/Le Travail *"Branch has done an excellent job analyzing a very complex and loaded topic. This book will surely required reading for scholars interestedin intersectionality and labor-market inequalities." * American Journal of Sociology *"Branch’s thesis is a powerful one. What does opportunity and economic progress really mean for black women as mothers, sisters, partners, and caretakers? For Branch, and the majority of black women, it indicates an occupational structure that maintains and protects the status quo and offers little promise of change." * American Studies Journal *"In an exemplary application of intersectional analysis to Black women’s labor history, Branch convincingly demonstrates that the 100- year legacy of racial and gender exclusion explains Black women’s poverty today." -- Bonnie Thornton Dill * author of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class and Gender in Theory Policy and Practice *“This is an important story to tell and Branch’s Opportunity Denied makes a significant contribution to the study of black women’s work.” -- Margaret L. Andersen * professor of sociology, University of Delaware *"This is a wonderful, well-written and carefully argued book. Branch does an excellent job of demonstrating how historical inequalities can take hundreds of years to remedy." * Labour/Le Travail *"Branch has done an excellent job analyzing a very complex and loaded topic. This book will surely required reading for scholars interestedin intersectionality and labor-market inequalities." * American Journal of Sociology *"Branch’s thesis is a powerful one. What does opportunity and economic progress really mean for black women as mothers, sisters, partners, and caretakers? For Branch, and the majority of black women, it indicates an occupational structure that maintains and protects the status quo and offers little promise of change." * American Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Hierarchies of Preference at Work: The Need for an Intersectional Approach2. As Good as Any Man: Black Women in Farm Labor3. Excellent Servants: Domestic Service as Black Women's Work4. Existing on the Industrial Fringe: Black Women in the Factory5. Your Blues Ain't Nothing Like Mine: Race and Gender as Keys to Occupational Opportunity6. The Illusion of Progress: Black Women's Work in the Post-Civil Rights Era
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MW - Rutgers University Press Women on Ice Methamphetamine Use Among Suburban Women Critical Issues in Crime and Society Critical Issues in Crime and Society Paperback
Book SynopsisStudies the lives of women who use methamphetamine (ice, speed, crystal, shards) and examines the effects of its use on their families. In-depth interviews of women in the suburban counties of Atlanta, the largest metropolitan area in the southeastern U.S, illustrate the divergent pathways taken and the details of their initiation into meth and the turning points into problematic use of the drug.Trade Review"The insights in Miriam Boeri’s compelling page-turner make an eloquent case for implementing social policy that cares for its most vulnerable mothers and children." -- Annette Bairan * Professor Emeritus of Nursing, Kennesaw State University *"In Women on Ice, Boeri sets out to study an almost invisible group of women and provides a well-written but gut-wrenching portrait of the America produced by suburbanization, patriarchy, and class division." -- David Broad * North Georgia College and State University *"In this unique book, Boeri studies hidden women living in and near suburbs, a group that to date has never been studied as a subgroup of drug users. The many gripping in-depth interviews are captivating and unforgettable, making the book difficult to put down. A very highly recommended must read for anyone looking to hear the clear voices of women who are ensnared by methamphetamine addiction. Essential." * Choice *"This is an extremely difficult book to read—not because it is poorly written, but precisely because it is written so well. The stories of these women are gut-wrenching. What emerges from this candid, engaged, and detailed study is a picture of how a marginalized population is produced by the convergence of [suburbanization, patriarchy, and social class division]." * International Social Science Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Methamphetamine: The Perfect Drug for Suburban Women2. Ethnographic Research: Exploring Methamphetamine Use in the Suburbs3. The Gendered Drug Career: Initiation and Progression in Methamphetamine Use4. Gendered Lives: Combining Work and Family with Drug-Using Roles5. Gendered Risks: Health and Infectious Diseases6. Gendered Risks: Violence and Crime7. The Revolving Door: Treatment, Recovery, and Relapse8. Policy ImplicationsAppendix AAppendix BReferencesIndex
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Ohio State University Press Dont Kill Your Baby
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Sexuality and Slavery Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
Book SynopsisPlaces sexuality at the centre of slavery studies in the Americas. While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of slavery, Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris argue here that sexual intimacy constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the enslaved.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Culture of Fear Revisited RiskTaking and the Morality of Low Expectation
Book SynopsisArgues that the greater danger in our culture is the tendency to fear achievements representing a more constructive side of humanity. This work relates the author's thinking on the sociology of fear to the thought of earlier thinkers such as Darwin and Fred and to the sociological tradition of Durkheim, C Wright Mills, Anthony Giddens and others.Trade ReviewMentioned in Psychologies (main) in article by Hannah Borno, 1 March 2009Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The explosion of risks; 2. Why do we panic?; 3. the culture of abuse; 4. A world of risky strangers; 5. Who can you trust?; 6. The new etiquette; 7. The Politics of Fear; 8. Towards a sociology of fear; Bibliography; Index.
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Book SynopsisThe Greek Marxist political sociologist, Nicos Poulantzas (1936-1979) is one of the most influential of post-war European left thinkers. His works were: Political Power and Social Classes; Fascism and Dictatorship; Classes in Contemporary Capitalism; The Crisis of the Dictatorships, and State, Power, Socialism
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Food Waste Home Consumption Material Culture and Everyday Life Materializing Culture
Book SynopsisDavid Evans is Lecturer in Sociology and Research Fellow of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester, UK.Trade ReviewA short, lively and very stimulating book ... [and] an excellent example of recent research practices in the field of consumption and everyday lives. * Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *Evans draws on studies of consumption and materials culture alongside social science perspectives on everyday life and the home to get to the bottom of why we waste food ... Simply put, food is wasted when people do not want to eat it anymore. However, Evans suggests that ‘food' becomes 'waste' through a complex and anxiety-laden process’, and therefore should not be taken as evidence of households not caring about the food that they waste ... Food Waste is aimed at social scientists and students, but could be of benefit to those in the waste industry wanting to take a different look at why we waste food. * Resource *Food Waste is both relevant and timely, offering new insights into ‘the role of material culture in shaping’ everyday practices of food consumption, and thereby, food waste production … Evans challenges normative views of wastefulness … demonstrating that households are undeniably aware of their production of (and discomfort with) food waste. Furthermore, he argues that food waste is more usefully conceptualised in relation to norms of caring that constitute feeding a family and loved ones than as an ‘end of pipe’ problem to be fixed by households, consumers and public waste management systems … Food Waste is a well-written and well-researched book, grappling with big questions about the transformation of food into waste. In it Evans provides an accessible account of the complexity of household food acquisition and disposal practices and offers a perceptive categorical framework upon which further academic work on food waste might build. * Sociological Review *Evans’ book provides a refreshingly non-judgmental exploration of the practices that lead consumers to waste food. ... A highly accessible, thought provoking and concise work, that offers a conceptual framework that will no doubt organize and position future studies of household food waste. * Cultural Sociology *David Evans has set a strong foundation for continuing research into waste scholarship ... Overall this book is at the forefront of looking into […] how home food takes steps into becoming waste in the environment. Evans’ has managed to provoke curiosity about other realms that lie undiscovered in the breadth of waste scholarship. * Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics *The real-life stories in the book make the messages compelling, as the reader can easily relate to the examples that we have all lived in our own families. ... The author also presents many practical solutions to this problem [of food waste] that currently is under appreciated in the agricultural and food systems community. * Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems *At last a book about waste that does not browbeat and blame consumers! Instead Evans asks fundamental questions that are usually buried under the moral weight of garbage and trash. His careful ethnography brings a blast of fresh air to a timeless and complex problem. -- Richard Wilk, Provost Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, USAFood and waste are words that are seldom brought together in ways that do not involve morals and moralising. In this book, Evans shows why an understanding of food waste requires going beyond morality. This is material culture studies at its best, an important contribution to a growing body of work on divestment with profound implications for policy makers. -- Nicky Gregson, Professor of Human Geography, Durham University, UKEvans persuasively shows that problems with food 'waste' have little to do with poor planning and uninformed consumers and everything to do with the structures of daily life and ideas about 'proper' eating. This excellent book challenges conventional wisdom and opens up possibilities for rethinking consumer choice and responsible consumption. -- Melissa L. Caldwell, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: The Social Life (and Death) of Food 1. Bringing Waste to the Table 2. Ordinary Domestic Practice: Conceptualizing, Researching, Representing 3. Contextualising Household Food Consumption 4. Anxiety, Routine and Over-provisioning 5. The Gap in Disposal: From Surplus to Excess? 6. Bins and Things 7. Gifting, Re-use and Salvage Conclusion: Living with Food, Reducing Waste Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Food and Femininity Contemporary Food Studies Economy Culture and Politics
Book SynopsisKate Cairns is an Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, USA. Josée Johnston is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada.Trade ReviewFood and Femininity helps us to further understand why women invest so much energy in foodwork … [and] reminds us that the pressures surrounding food are immense for women – not just in terms of foodwork but in terms of the implications for their own weight management and the nearly universal goal of thinness. -- Charlotte N. Markey * Psychology Today *Women do not all react to foodwork in the same uniform manner. Food and Femininity therefore offers a useful exploration of food and the construction of femininities, and demonstrates how food itself can be used as a means by which social inequalities can be uncovered. * LSE Review of Books *[Cairns and Johnston] provide thought-provoking contributions to the fields of feminist scholarship and food studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty. * CHOICE *Cairns and Johnston’s book is sure to be of interest to a wide range of academics–critical geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists alike–not merely those who have a distinguished taste for food research. * Antipode *With their call for the development of feminist food studies and feminist food politics, Cairns and Johnston contribute to an important perspective in the multivocal dialectic on gender and food. * Gender & Society *Cairns and Johnston take forward understanding food politics by focusing on how femininity is performed through foodwork practices. Through an immersion in the processes of decision making for household food choices, Food and Femininity offers a rich account of the thorny tensions faced by shoppers attempting to work out food ethics in their everyday eating lives …this book offers a rich and rigorous contribution to examinations of contemporary western food politics … [and] not only examines food and femininity, it also sets out feminist methodologies for researching food issues. * The Sociological Review *Overall, this book was excellent and I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in the sociological study of food and/or gender. It is scholastically rigorous, but remains firmly grounded in the everyday, real life experiences of women who care about food. In addition to its thoughtful and careful theoretical analysis of the varied performances of food femininities, the authors helpfully provide readily relatable examples and anecdotes to illustrate their ideas. This had the effect of connecting both theory and practice in a seamless and engaging way. * Canadian Food Studies Book Review *Finally, a book that gives a thorough, scholarly treatment to a phenomenon that affects so many women on a daily basis, sometimes quite painfully: negotiating the ever fraught cultural messages about shopping, cooking, serving, and eating food right, including the exhortations that we should simply relax about these things. -- Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz, USAMom is in the kitchen making dinner. She is also “doing gender,” reinforcing stereotypes that a woman’s place is in the home. Why are women still responsible for feeding the family in our postfeminist age? Food and Femininity reveals the pleasures—as well as the inequities—of home cooking. -- Christine Williams, University of Texas at Austin, USAA brilliant book that will set the agenda for future debates about gender and food. Combining rich empirical material and persuasive theorizing, Cairns and Johnston demonstrate why contemporary food practices raise crucial issues for feminism. -- Joanne Hollows, Independent Scholar, UKIn this path-breaking work, the authors show how femininity is both empowering and constraining for women, and how this tension plays out in the food arena. -- Melanie DuPuis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USACairns and Johnston take forward understanding food politics by focusing on how femininity is performed through foodwork practices. Through an immersion in the processes of decision making for household food choices, Food and Femininity offers a rich account of the thorny tensions faced by shoppers attempting to work out food ethics in their everyday eating lives …this book offers a rich and rigorous contribution to examinations of contemporary western food politics … [and] not only examines food and femininity, it also sets out feminist methodologies for researching food issues. * The Sociological Review *…Food and Femininity is a highly readable and informative text that offers an up-to-date, contemporary analysis of the longstanding discussion of the relationship between femininity and food … The book is a valuable addition to the burgeoning field of feminist food studies, particularly because Cairns and Johnston incorporate intersectional analysis throughout the text, being careful to examine the ways in which gender intersects with race/ethnicity and class to shape women’s experiences with food. More than this, Food and Femininity adds to the development of a collective feminist food politics. * Food, Culture and Society *Table of ContentsA Personal Food Prologue 1. Caring About Food 2. Thinking through Food and Femininity: A Conceptual Toolkit 3. Trolling the Aisles and Feeling Food Shopping 4. Maternal Foodwork: The Emotional Ties that Bind 5. The "Do-Diet": Embodying Healthy Femininities 6. Food Politics: The Gendered Work of Caring Through Food 7. Food Pleasures in the Postfeminist Kitchen 8. Conclusion: Cooking as a Feminist Act? Appendix A: Participant Demographics Appendix B: Methods Appendix C: Discourse Analysis of Food Media References Index
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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together Daniel Bell''s best work in essay form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture, religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies, and the uses and abuses of doctrines of social class. The Winding Passage demonstrates the author''s continuing concern with the salient issues of our times, while its inspiration draws upon an older, humanistic sociological tradition.In a central essay on intellectuals, Bell examines the term new class and calls it a muddle. Though the idea of class has been relevant to Western industrial society for the past two hundred years, the concept is less useful for examining Communist states, the Third World, and even the emerging postindustrial sectors of the West. Bell seeks to establish the idea of situs, the competitive conflict of functional groups for shares in the state budgetary process.A more personal note is struck in the final section of the bTable of ContentsForeword, Preface, Part I - Techne and Themis, Part II - Prophets of Utopia, Part III - The Intellectuals and The New Class, Part IV - Directions of Social Change, Part V - Culture and Beliefs, Acknowledgements, Index
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