Gender, Kinship and Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History
ISBN: 9780415912983 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores a paradox of kinship - namely that in any given culture kinship is understood as natural or scientific, but comparing cultures or even different epochs within the same culture reveals how kinship is an ongoing project of human construction. The book consists of a general introduction to the topic and twenty essays examining different aspects of kinship: how family relations and descent are understood, how property is passed down from one generation to the next, how gender differences matter in kinship rules and practices, and how kinship positions held by men and women...
This text explores a paradox of kinship - namely that in any given culture kinship is understood as natural or scientific, but comparing cultures or e...
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126,38 zł |
The Part-time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Life, Family and Gender
ISBN: 9780415921244 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choosing to work part-time may seem like an attractive option for many workers, and it is a fact of the modern workplace that the availability of part-time work is increasing. However, the authors of this study find that there are cultural and social meanings attached to part-time work which suggest that it is in fact not such an easy option. Using case studies of legal professionals, this book highlights not only the negative sides, but also the coping strategies utilized to overcome the part-time paradox.
Choosing to work part-time may seem like an attractive option for many workers, and it is a fact of the modern workplace that the availability of part...
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106,10 zł |
Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context
ISBN: 9780415934466 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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708,03 zł |
Families of a New World: Gender, Politics, and State Development in a Global Context
ISBN: 9780415934473 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. This book brings together a collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using examples from both historical and modern countries around the world, essays demonstrate not only how state policies shape what the family should look and act like, but also how governments have appropriated and regulated an...
From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarel...
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217,41 zł |
Widow to Widow: How the Bereaved Help One Another
ISBN: 9780415947497 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual-help and community support programs. In the second edition of her pioneering text, Phyllis Silverman brings the success of the original widow-to-widow program into the 21st century, preparing a new generation of community leaders, clergy, counselors, hospice staff, social workers, and the widowed themselves to organize and implement mutual-help programs.
Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual-help and community support programs. In the s...
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197,19 zł |
Getting It Right This Time: How to Create a Loving and Lasting Marriage
ISBN: 9780415951692 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although divorce is common, it often holds negative associations. Husband and wife team Barry and Emily McCarthy view divorce and remarriage with optimism, showing it to be a courageous choice that should not be viewed as personal failure but rather as a positive step towards a better life. In Getting it Right This Time, they zoom in on remarriage issues and identify the factors that led to the end of a marriage, using that information to help you learn from past mistakes and start over. Marriage is based on a respectful, trusting relationship, and the McCarthys affirm that... Although divorce is common, it often holds negative associations. Husband and wife team Barry and Emily McCarthy view divorce and remarriage with o... |
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111,21 zł |
White Weddings : Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780415951944 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality, the myth of white supremacy and the insatiable appetite of consumer capitalism." It examines how the economics and marketing of weddings have replaced the religious and moral view of marriage..."
This second edition will also include: updates on all census and... This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television s...
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758,60 zł |
American Families: A Multicultural Reader
ISBN: 9780415958202 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its clear conceptual focus, well-chosen essays exploring the interactions between race-ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping family life by leading names from across the curriculum, and its comprehensive and teachable introduction, the completely updated, revised, and expanded second edition of Stephanie Coontz's American Families remains the best resource available on family diversity in America. With its clear conceptual focus, well-chosen essays exploring the interactions between race-ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping fami... |
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809,17 zł |
American Families: A Multicultural Reader
ISBN: 9780415958219 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past forty years, American families have become more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Different family forms and living arrangements have also multiplied, with single-parent families, cohabiting couples with children, divorced couples with children, stepfamilies, and newly-visible same-sex families. During the same period, socioeconomic inequality among families has risen to levels not seen since the 1920s. This second edition of American Families offers several benefits:
In the past forty years, American families have become more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Different family forms and living arr... |
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262,93 zł |
The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families
ISBN: 9780465090921 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today's family--the demonizing of "untraditional" family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it's not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and 1960s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Mothers are going to remain in the workforce, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and childrearing.Coontz gives a...
Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today's family--the demonizing o...
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124,43 zł |
Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Study of Racial Attitudes and Sexual Values in a Slave Society
ISBN: 9780472064052 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of marriage patterns in 19th-century Cuba
A study of marriage patterns in 19th-century Cuba
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100,88 zł |
The Well-Being of Children and Families: Research and Data Needs
ISBN: 9780472067589 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the well-being of families and children in America today. The volume is primarily motivated by the number of scientific and policy questions being raised about the level of well-being among America's children and families, the factors influencing today's children and families, and what interventions might improve the prospects for current and future generations of parents and children. Although much is currently known about family and child well-being, the book focuses mainly on the limitations and gaps in our understanding and, most importantly, addresses unanswered...
This book addresses the well-being of families and children in America today. The volume is primarily motivated by the number of scientific and policy...
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207,35 zł |
More Equal Than Others: Women and Men in Dual-Career Marriages
ISBN: 9780520063372 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By placing the dual-career marriage in its economic and social context, More Equal Than Others goes beyond the media image of dual-career couples as self-sufficient units and compels the reader to confront the dilemmas and possibilities of modern marriages.
By placing the dual-career marriage in its economic and social context, More Equal Than Others goes beyond the media image of dual-career coupl...
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189,20 zł |
Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late-Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780520214002 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judith Stacey has added a new preface to her classic study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.
Judith Stacey has added a new preface to her classic study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships...
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154,38 zł |
Working Families: The Transformation of the American Home
ISBN: 9780520226494 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shiftthe rise of dual-income familiesthis groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the United States. With selections written by leading scholars both inside and outside academia, Working Families offers intimate stories of how families manage and how children respond to the rigors of their parents' lives, as well as broad overviews developed from survey and census data. Taken...
The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shiftthe ris...
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195,10 zł |
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
ISBN: 9780520235052 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years--the Meiji era and postwar period--to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with families of their eras and even less to do with families today, she finds. She vividly portrays the everyday reality of a range of families: young married couples who experience fleeting togetherness until the first child is born; a family separated by job shifts; a family with a grandmother as...
Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the pas...
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Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages
ISBN: 9780520238701 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate...
By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with w...
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159,71 zł |
Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream
ISBN: 9780520247727 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are. Ruth Sidel interviewed mothers from diverse races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes who became single through divorce, separation, widowhood, or who never married; none had planned to raise children on their own. Weaving together these women's voices with an accessible, cutting-edge sociological and political analysis of single motherhood today, Unsung Heroines introduces a...
This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, ...
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133,09 zł |
How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations
ISBN: 9780521009546 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are family influences on youth declining in importance? Are parents less important in shaping the life orientations and achievements of youth than they were a generation ago? What about the consequences of divorce? How Families Still Matter casts doubt on the conventional wisdom about family decline during the last decades of the twentieth century. The authors draw from the longest-running longitudinal study of families in the world--the Longitudinal Study of Generations, conducted at the University of Southern California--to discover whether parents are really less critical in shaping the...
Are family influences on youth declining in importance? Are parents less important in shaping the life orientations and achievements of youth than the...
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166,85 zł |
Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500 to 1900
ISBN: 9780521271332 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The history of childhood is an area so full of errors, distortion and misinterpretation that I thought it vital, if progress were to be made, to supply a clear review of the information on childhood contained in such sources as diaries and autobiographies.' Dr Pollock's statement in her Preface will startle readers who have not questioned the validity of recent theories on the evolution of childhood and the treatment of children, theories which see a movement from a situation where the concept of childhood was almost absent, and children were cruelly treated, to our present western...
'The history of childhood is an area so full of errors, distortion and misinterpretation that I thought it vital, if progress were to be made, to supp...
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212,35 zł |