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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
ISBN: 9780345408938 / Angielski / Miękka / 756 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maternal instinct -- the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children -- has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of motherhood and its crucial role in human evolution.
Hrdy strips away stereotypes and gender-biased myths to demonstrate that traditional views of maternal behavior are essentially wishful thinking codified as objective observation. As Hrdy argues, far from being... Maternal instinct -- the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children -- has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed d...
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102,80 zł |
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Opting in: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
ISBN: 9780374226725 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For contemporary women, motherhood has become as polarizing a proposition as it is a powerful calling. For some women this tension is manifest in a debate over whether or not to have children. For others it concerns whether to stay at home with their children or stay in the workforce. Still others feel abandoned altogether by the supposedly pro-family and pro-mother social justice movement that is feminism and are at a loss when it comes to reconciling their maternal instincts with their political beliefs. With Opting In, Amy Richards addresses the anxiety over parenting that... For contemporary women, motherhood has become as polarizing a proposition as it is a powerful calling. For some women this tension is manifest in a... |
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107,47 zł |
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The 7 Stages of Motherhood: Loving Your Life Without Losing Your Mind
ISBN: 9780375706356 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This refreshingly candid parenting book puts mothers not children center stage. Ann Pleshette Murphy provides a reassuring, wise, and often wildly funny mix of anecdotes and advice as she describes the seismic shifts in women s lives and identities from pregnancy through a child s graduation.She draws on countless conversations with mothers and with child development experts she has met as the parenting contributor to Good Morning America and as the former editor-in-chief of Parents magazine. The mother of two, Murphy freely shares her own trials and errors in stories that will...
This refreshingly candid parenting book puts mothers not children center stage. Ann Pleshette Murphy provides a reassuring, wise, and often wildly fun...
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65,42 zł |
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Daughtering and Mothering : Female Subjectivity Reanalysed
ISBN: 9780415086509 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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204,78 zł |
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Good Enough Mothering? : Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood
ISBN: 9780415128896 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Currently, lone mothers and their children make up almost 20 per cent of families with dependent children in the UK, a threefold increase since 1970. Yet, while they are often cited by politicians as both a symptom and cause of social breakdown, relatively little is known of the causes, consequences and conditions of lone motherhood in Britain and throughout Europe.
Good Enough Mothering? provides accounts of historical patterns of mothering and ideologies of the family with cross-national comparisons of policies and experience of lone motherhood in developed and developing... Currently, lone mothers and their children make up almost 20 per cent of families with dependent children in the UK, a threefold increase since 1970. ...
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996,50 zł |
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Good Enough Mothering? : Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood
ISBN: 9780415128902 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Currently, lone mothers and their children make up almost 20 per cent of families with dependent children in the UK, a threefold increase since 1970. Yet, while they are often cited by politicians as both a symptom and cause of social breakdown, relatively little is known of the causes, consequences and conditions of lone motherhood in Britain and throughout Europe.
Good Enough Mothering? provides accounts of historical patterns of mothering and ideologies of the family with cross-national comparisons of policies and experience of lone motherhood in developed and developing... Currently, lone mothers and their children make up almost 20 per cent of families with dependent children in the UK, a threefold increase since 1970. ...
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237,99 zł |
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Mothering : Ideology, Experience, and Agency
ISBN: 9780415907767 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a variety of perspectives on mothering as a socially-constructed relationship focused on caring and nurturing. Crossing a range of ethnicities and classes, it addresses different ideas and practices of mothering, the need to go beyond biological determinism and family values, and the conditions and resources of mothering.
This volume presents a variety of perspectives on mothering as a socially-constructed relationship focused on caring and nurturing. Crossing a range o...
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457,34 zł |
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The New Don't Blame Mother : Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship
ISBN: 9780415926300 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revised text proposes new ways of mending and rebuilding the mother-daughter relationship. The book examines the myths about mothers that have pervaded our culture and possibly created or aggravated many of the problems that arise. Myths such as the perfect mother, the good mother and the bad mother are explored, with discussion on image, qualities, expectations and failure.
This revised text proposes new ways of mending and rebuilding the mother-daughter relationship. The book examines the myths about mothers that have pe...
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221,39 zł |
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When We're in Public, Pretend You Don't Know Me: Surviving Your Daughter's Adolescence So You Don't Look Like an Idiot and She Still Talks to You
ISBN: 9780446679510 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For every woman struggling to raise a teenage daughter comes a hilarious yet practical guide to help mother survive these trying years.
For every woman struggling to raise a teenage daughter comes a hilarious yet practical guide to help mother survive these trying years.
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84,06 zł |
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The Birth Of A Mother : How The Motherhood Experience Changes You Forever
ISBN: 9780465015672 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As you prepare to become a mother, you face an experience unlike any other in your life. Having a baby will redirect your preferences and pleasures and, most likely, will realign some of your values.As you undergo this unique psychological transformation, you will be guided by new hopes, fears, and priorities. In a most startling way, having a child will influence all of your closest relationships and redefine your role in your family's history. The charting of this remarkable, new realm is the subject of this compelling book.Renowned psychiatrist Daniel N. Stern has joined forces with...
As you prepare to become a mother, you face an experience unlike any other in your life. Having a baby will redirect your preferences and pleasures an...
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111,79 zł |
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The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter
ISBN: 9780465019069 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Mommy Brain, Katherine Ellison reveals the ways that women get smarter after having kids. Motherhood makes women more perceptive, efficient, resilient, motivated, and emotionally intelligent -- all of which adds up to tremendous mental enrichment and effectiveness.
In The Mommy Brain, Katherine Ellison reveals the ways that women get smarter after having kids. Motherhood makes women more perceptive, eff...
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137,07 zł |
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The Family of Woman : Lesbian Mothers, Their Children, and the Undoing of Gender
ISBN: 9780520239647 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up--or breakdown--of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, The Family of Woman chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination.With its intimate perspective on the interior dynamics of these families and its penetrating view of...
Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up--or breakdown--of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book ...
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141,61 zł |
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Mother Daughter Revolution
ISBN: 9780553374186 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the daughters of baby boomer moms approach womanhood the questions begin. Will I teach my daughter the right things? How do I correct the mistakes my mother made with me? Mother Daughter Revolution: From Betrayal to Power addresses all the issues that a mother guiding a budding woman could possibly need to know about. Authors Elizabeth Debold, Marie Wilson, and Idelisse Malave approach these dilemmas as would any other mother who is concerned with the survival of her daughter in a male-dominant society would. This book centers on women's attempts to build trusting relationships with...
As the daughters of baby boomer moms approach womanhood the questions begin. Will I teach my daughter the right things? How do I correct the mistakes ...
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107,47 zł |
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Motherhood Magnified : Inspiring Stories of Insight and Lessons Learned from Raising a Child with Special Needs
ISBN: 9780595161256 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,49 zł |
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I'm Still Your Mother : How to Get Along with Your Grown-Up Children for the Rest of Your Life
ISBN: 9780595183586 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,20 zł |
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Striving for the Purple Heart : Mothers in the Universal Pursuit of Honor
ISBN: 9780595284085 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Striving for the Purple Heart" is a book that every mother should read, whether you are a young mother, a mother of teenagers, or a mother with an empty nest trying to let go after a long and wonderful journey through motherhood. In her book, Kimberly Quinn Smith explores how mothers are "wired" and why they often feel overwhelmed, guilty, and question whether they are good enough moms. She uses heart-felt humor to convey her message that these feelings are universal to all mothers, whether they work inside the home or out, whether they are single or married, and whether their children are...
"Striving for the Purple Heart" is a book that every mother should read, whether you are a young mother, a mother of teenagers, or a mother with an em...
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74,53 zł |
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To Be A Mom
ISBN: 9780595327683 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many women, having children is extremely important. For a small, but growing percentage of these women, conceiving biological children of their own is very difficult and sometimes impossible. Then there is a small percentage of others who are able to conceive a child, but have high-risk pregnancies, and their children are born premature, with health issues, challenged, or in some cases have a combination of all three.
After twelve years of waiting and hoping, Susan Labouliere-Perry was finally blessed with a child. She had a high-risk pregnancy and her daughter was born eight weeks... For many women, having children is extremely important. For a small, but growing percentage of these women, conceiving biological children of their ow...
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46,49 zł |
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From the Beginning of Always : One Woman's Spiritual Odyssey Through Motherhood
ISBN: 9780595335312 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A little girl who cannot swim falls unseen and unheard off a large boat into the murky water of a deep lake. On the opposite end of the boat, her mother is suddenly infused with the knowledge of her daughter's accident, and rushes to the precise location. There, all she can see is the child's tiny hand sticking out of the dirty water. In another heartbeat the child would have simply vanished completely. But because of the mother's sudden flash of insight, she is able to arrive in the nick of time to rescue her precious child--but what was the source of the insight?
Ten-year-old Teddy Boy... A little girl who cannot swim falls unseen and unheard off a large boat into the murky water of a deep lake. On the opposite end of the boat, her moth...
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65,18 zł |
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How to Mother a Successful Daughter : A Practical Guide to Empowering Girls from Birth to Eighteen
ISBN: 9780595378180 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Girls today grow up in a culture saturated with violence, sexual images, and female-toxic messages. Many girls struggle to maintain self-esteem. Faced with unprecedented challenges and choices, they experience a dramatic loss of confidence, often preceding a drop in achievement and aspirations. "How to Mother a Successful Daughter" comes to the rescue of modern mothers wishing to prevent or reverse the negative effects that contemporary culture has on girls. Packed with practical insights and what-to-say-when advice, this book will not only give you a fresh and smart approach to raising...
Girls today grow up in a culture saturated with violence, sexual images, and female-toxic messages. Many girls struggle to maintain self-esteem. Faced...
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97,89 zł |
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Tales from the Mom Front : The Misadventures of a First-Time Mom
ISBN: 9780595387205 / Angielski / Miękka / 107 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,51 zł |