Out of Time: The Consequences of Non-Standard Employment Schedules for Family Cohesion
ISBN: 9789401774000 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution.
This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child ...
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195,42 zł |
The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation
ISBN: 9781446259245 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Outlining sociology's distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children's everyday lives.
Examining children's involvement in areas such as the labour market, family life, education, play and leisure, the book provides an effective balance between understanding childhood as a structural phenomenon, and... Outlining sociology's distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociolog...
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179,05 zł |
Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches
ISBN: 9780814771815 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have always been mail-order brides in America--but we haven't always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called -Tobacco Wives- of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today's modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore the advantages and disadvantages of mail-order marriage. It's a history of deception, physical abuse, and failed unions. It's also the story of how mail-order marriage can offer women surprising and empowering opportunities. Drawing on a forgotten trove of colorful mail-order marriage court...
There have always been mail-order brides in America--but we haven't always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. ...
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153,47 zł |
Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries
ISBN: 9781138953697 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA. The growth of the mixed race population reflects an increasingly racially and culturally heterogeneous society, shaped by powerful forces of globalisation and migration. Mixed family formations are becoming increasingly common through marriage, relationships and adoption, and there is also increasing social recognition of interracial families through the inclusion of mixed categories in Census data and other... This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in... |
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81,29 zł |
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba: To Not Die Alone
ISBN: 9781137580757 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba focuses on the lives of low-income Havana residents over the life cycle from birth to death. The book documents how kinship and love relations are created, reproduced, and negotiated at different life stages through gendered dialectics of care, important to both individuals' relationships and state politics. In the process, through a variety of practices and meanings ranging from rituals to understandings of sexual desire, gender becomes affirmed as the central social difference characterizing Cuban society. The book argues that...
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba focuses on the lives of low-income Havana residents over the life cycle from birth to death...
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195,42 zł |
Opportunities to Promote Children's Behavioral Health: Health Care Reform and Beyond: Workshop Summary
ISBN: 9780309377744 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, has several provisions that could greatly improve the behavioral health of children and adolescents in the United States. It requires that many insurance plans cover mental health and substance use disorder services, rehabilitative services to help support people with behavioral health challenges, and preventive services like behavioral assessments for children and depression screening for adults. These and other provisions provide an opportunity to confront the many behavioral health challenges facing... The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, has several provisions that could greatly improve the beha... |
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199,30 zł |
Financial Reset: How Your Mindset about Money Affects Your Financial Well-Being
ISBN: 9781599326313 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adjust your mindset, secure your future You have tough questions about money Nancy LaPointe has answers. Financial Reset is a steadfast reference to consult in times of financial insecurity that will transform haphazard decisions into workable, calculated strategies. Hit the reset button and start fresh with the right attitude to develop habits that support your values and intentions. A ship without a rudder can certainly make its way across the water, but it has no control of where the water will take it so grab your rudder and take initiative of your financial destiny. I just finished...
Adjust your mindset, secure your future You have tough questions about money Nancy LaPointe has answers. Financial Reset is a steadfast reference to c...
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64,69 zł |
Gendering Women: Identity and Mental Wellbeing Through the Lifecourse
ISBN: 9781847426765 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engaging and accessible, "Gendering Women" explores the constructions of femininity and how they fundamentally affect women s mental well being through the lifecourse. Drawing on accounts from women of growing up and growing older in the north of England, the book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman in family life, education, employment, motherhood, and in the presence of violence both enable and erode self-confidence and self-esteem. The volume draws a critical link between contemporary gender theory and the lived experiences of women today and will appeal to students and...
Engaging and accessible, "Gendering Women" explores the constructions of femininity and how they fundamentally affect women s mental well being throug...
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143,23 zł |
A Law of Blood-Ties - The 'Right' to Access Genetic Ancestry
ISBN: 9783319033235 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text collates and examines the jurisprudence that currently exists in respect of blood-tied genetic connection, arguing that the right to identity often rests upon the ability to identify biological ancestors, which in turn requires an absence of adult-centric veto norms. It looks firstly to the nature and purpose of the blood-tie as a unique item of birthright heritage, whose socio-cultural value perhaps lies mainly in preventing, or perhaps engendering, a feared or revered sense of otherness. It then traces the evolution of the various policies on telling and accessing truth,... This text collates and examines the jurisprudence that currently exists in respect of blood-tied genetic connection, arguing that the right to iden... |
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390,87 zł |
Mobile Communication and the Family
ISBN: 9789401774390 / Angielski / Twarda / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. While mobile communication diffuses through Asia at a blistering pace, families in the region are also experiencing significant changes in light of unprecedented economic growth, globalisation, urbanisation and demographic shifts. Asia is therefore at the...
This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and rela...
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195,42 zł |
Men's Pathways to Parenthood: Silence and Heterosexual Gendered Norms
ISBN: 9780796925039 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does the decision to become a parent unfold for heterosexual men? Is becoming a father a 'decision' at all or a series of events? These questions are the starting point for this critical book, in which the authors unravel the social and interpersonal processes shaped by deeply entrenched socio-cultural norms that come to bear on parenthood decision-making in the South African context. Drawing on the narratives of white, Afrikaans women and men, "Men s Pathways to Parenthood" uses an innovative discursive method to illuminate the roles masculinity, whiteness, class, and heteronormativity...
How does the decision to become a parent unfold for heterosexual men? Is becoming a father a 'decision' at all or a series of events? These questions ...
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118,23 zł |
Family, Culture, and Self in the Development of Eating Disorders
ISBN: 9781138193291 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes a unique approach to the examination of the eating disorder, anorexia nervosa (and bulimia). White, middle-class, heterosexual women share their insights into the emergence of their illnesses through detailed interviews that consider perceptions of the role of family, the influence of cultural messages regarding thinness and beauty, the agency these women exert in the use of weight control to cope with life s stressors, the meaning they attach to their eating disorders and how these issues together perpetuate their disease. The book uses a Symbolic Interactionist... This book takes a unique approach to the examination of the eating disorder, anorexia nervosa (and bulimia). White, middle-class, heterosexual wome... |
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716,40 zł |
House Life : Space, Place and Family in Europe
ISBN: 9781859732304 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, which fills a gap on the materiality of lived relations, examines households within the context of their immediate physical surroundings of home and shows how human interactions are reflected in built forms. Houses are dynamic participants in family life in many ways. They often pre-date the origins and outlast the life spans of their inhabitants, but they can exert a powerful influence on the organization of behaviors and the values of family members, as well as on the forms and flows of family life across the generations. Constituting wealth, investment, security and... This book, which fills a gap on the materiality of lived relations, examines households within the context of their immediate physical surroundings... |
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665,24 zł |
Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America
ISBN: 9780807163108 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing over 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict in Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin from 1840--1860, Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations of cruelty. At a time when the standard for an ideal marriage held that both partners adequately perform their respective duties, hostility... In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and vio... |
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261,00 zł |
The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation
ISBN: 9781446259238 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Outlining sociology's distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children's everyday lives.
Examining children's involvement in areas such as the labour market, family life, education, play and leisure, the book provides an effective balance between understanding childhood as a structural phenomenon, and... Outlining sociology's distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociolog...
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562,89 zł |
Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men by Women
ISBN: 9780739134573 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Framed by a comprehensive review of international research, literature, and film, this book is an intimate journey into the experiences and insights of 79 Australian women in relationships with bisexual men. It takes us into the daily lives, sexual intimacies, and families of MOREs (mixed-orientation relationships) that span the gamut from extremely oppressive experiences with bi-misogynist men to extremely liberating with bi-profeminist men. Aged 19 to 65, the women are in monogamous, open, and polyamorous relationships with bisexual-identifying and/or bisexual-behaving men. The women...
Framed by a comprehensive review of international research, literature, and film, this book is an intimate journey into the experiences and insights o...
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694,86 zł |
Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
ISBN: 9781608466368 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,66 zł |
Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies
ISBN: 9780813569512 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying children that are not genetically their own. While some women volunteer to act as gestational surrogates for friends or family members, others get paid for performing this service. The first ethnographic study of gestational surrogacy in the United States, Labor of Love examines the conflicted attitudes that emerge when the ostensibly priceless act of bringing a child into the world becomes a paid occupation. Heather Jacobson interviews not...
While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying ch...
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685,70 zł |
Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach
ISBN: 9781483384573 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs.
Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, the authors of this thorough A practical how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs.
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Die Protokollierte Gute Mutter in Kindstötungsakten: Eine Diskursanalytische Untersuchung
ISBN: 9783658112875 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eva Tolasch widmet sich in ihrer diskursanalytisch-qualitativen Untersuchung zur normativen Verhandlung von Mutterschaft der Frage: Was und wer ist eine gute Mutter in Kindstotungsakten. Sie analysiert - ausgehend von einer Krisenerzahlung uber kindstotende Mutter - funf zeitgenossische Aktenfalle zu Muttern und Vatern, die der versuchten oder tatsachlichen Totung des eigenen Kindes beschuldigt sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, durch welche normativen Muster sich Frauen in den untersuchten Akten als gute Mutter qualifizieren. Die Studie leistet einen Beitrag fur die soziologische Geschlechter-,...
Eva Tolasch widmet sich in ihrer diskursanalytisch-qualitativen Untersuchung zur normativen Verhandlung von Mutterschaft der Frage: Was und wer ist ei...
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138,78 zł |