Contextualizing Family Planning: Truth, Subject, and the Other in the U.S. Government
ISBN: 9780230607989 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy. Panu argues that in order for contemporary liberalism to govern legitimately, governmental discourses have to create and subsequently alienate certain identities as "other" that is, as the polar opposite of the good, normal citizen. These identities usually center on the poor, the racialised, and the gendered. These arguably discriminatory practices are illustrated through the investigation of the U.S. bio- and anatomo-politics of reproduction in the national family planning...
This book is a critical analysis of the technologies of identity-formation in governmental family planning policy. Panu argues that in order for conte...
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194,52 zł |
Four Generations: Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts
ISBN: 9780801491344 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies four successive generations of life in a New England town during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the nature of family life and relationships in an agrarian society.
Studies four successive generations of life in a New England town during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the nature of family li...
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171,28 zł |
The Rites of Passage for Males Manual: Just About Everything a Young Man Needs to Know About Life and Manhood
ISBN: 9780761839422 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rites of Passage for Males Manual is a four-part manual that focuses on building critical thinking skills for young men to help them make positive life choices.
The Rites of Passage for Males Manual is a four-part manual that focuses on building critical thinking skills for young men to help them make positive...
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247,32 zł |
Marry Smart: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to True Love
ISBN: 9780743290401 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Any woman who's dreamed of complementing her solo achievements with an equally rewarding partnership will find in Marry Smart the step-by-step instructions and practical tips for success. Expanding on the groundbreaking research from her first book, Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women, Dr. Christine B. Whelan offers practical tips for finding personal happiness, plus a marriage calculator that accurately predicts a woman's chances of marriage.
Any woman who's dreamed of complementing her solo achievements with an equally rewarding partnership will find in Marry Smart the step-by-step ...
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81,75 zł |
Shaman and Spouse
ISBN: 9780976737230 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essaya about the Tinker, a young person who visits married couples.
Essaya about the Tinker, a young person who visits married couples.
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66,57 zł |
My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness
ISBN: 9780252075773 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions of this special world, especially his complex and sometimes difficult relationships with his working-class Jewish immigrant parents. Gracefully slipping through memory, regret, longing, and redemption, My Sense of Silence is an eloquent remembrance of human ties and human failings.
Lennard J. Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. In this candid, affecting, and often funny memoir, he recalls the joys and confusions o...
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120,84 zł |
Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter
ISBN: 9781416595427 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE IRREVERENT, EYE-OPENING, AND HILARIOUS BOOK THAT DARES TO ASK... Why do so many high-profile black men date and marry the most ordinary white women? Why do so many other black men desire and covet the company of white women? And why does this subject deeply touch so many people of both races? Are these provocative questions matters of love, sex, revenge, power, or politics? All of the above, asserts Rajen Persaud in this illuminating, no-holds-barred book that will have you laughing with recognition while fundamentally changing the way you see just...
THE IRREVERENT, EYE-OPENING, AND HILARIOUS BOOK THAT DARES TO ASK... Why do so many high-profile black men date and marry the most ordi...
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77,45 zł |
Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society
ISBN: 9780199239788 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole medieval period but identifies the decades around 1200 as decisive. New arguments for regarding preaching as a mass medium from the thirteenth century are presented, building on the author's Medieval Marriage Sermons. In marriage preaching symbolism was central. Marriage symbolism also became a social force through law, and lay behind the combination of monogamy and indissolubility which made the medieval Church's marriage system a unique development...
This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole mediev...
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264,00 zł |
Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind's Reproductive System
ISBN: 9780805857481 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human intelligence is sexually attractive, and strongly predicts the success of sexual relationships, but the behavioral sciences have usually ignored the interface between intelligence and mating. This is the first serious scholarly effort to explore that interface, by examining both universal and individual differences in human mating intelligence. Contributors include some of the most prominent evolutionary psychologists and promising new researchers in human intelligence, social psychology, intimate relationships, and sexuality. David Buss' foreword and the opening chapter explore...
Human intelligence is sexually attractive, and strongly predicts the success of sexual relationships, but the behavioral sciences have usually ignored...
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730,42 zł |
Lifting Our Voices: The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers
ISBN: 9780231140607 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lifting Our Voices is the only book to explore the dual roles of professional social workers who are also family caregivers and the only collection on caregiving in which the majority of contributors are African American. After discussing the relevant literature, Lifting Our Voices vividly and sensitively presents the caregiving experiences of ten professional social workers. Using professional and theoretical knowledge and skills, each contributor draws implications for various levels of social work and human service interventions. These poignant descriptions and analyses...
Lifting Our Voices is the only book to explore the dual roles of professional social workers who are also family caregivers and the only collec...
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530,25 zł |
Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity
ISBN: 9781403972576 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.
This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about se...
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350,18 zł |
Policy Analysis for the Real World
ISBN: 9780198761846 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hogwood, Brian W.DESCRIP_ALLOWED
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268,73 zł |
Child Welfare: Historical Dimensions, Contemporary Debate
ISBN: 9781861344779 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children and child welfare sit at the heart of New Labour's plans for social inclusion - but how does the government view 'children' - is it reflecting public opinion, or leading it? How does New Labour perceive 'child welfare'? What are the motivations behind, and objectives of, current social policy for children? Are the 'Rights of the Child' being subsumed under 'duties and responsibilities'? This revisionist account provides critical answers to these questions within a historical framework and from a child-centred perspective.The book not only offers a provocative account of contemporary...
Children and child welfare sit at the heart of New Labour's plans for social inclusion - but how does the government view 'children' - is it reflectin...
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146,03 zł |
Italian Family Matters: Women, Politics and Legal Reform
ISBN: 9780333426777 / Angielski / Twarda / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Italian Family Matters examines the debates and political priorities that led to significant changes in the law and its relation to women and the family in postwar Italy. Informed by the feminist debates on these issues, it shows that both the need for and the limits to the demand for equality before the law can be used to show what a different ordering of the relations between the sexes could mean.
Italian Family Matters examines the debates and political priorities that led to significant changes in the law and its relation to women and the fami...
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389,09 zł |
Family + Economy in Modern Society
ISBN: 9780333374375 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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389,09 zł |
Home+family
ISBN: 9780333489741 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the role of home and family in the latter part of the 20th century, this book covers such subjects as the single parent, institutions and homes, the role of the mother in the family, and domestic architecture and domestic life.
Examining the role of home and family in the latter part of the 20th century, this book covers such subjects as the single parent, institutions and ho...
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389,09 zł |
The Practitioner's Guide to Working with Families
ISBN: 9780333922644 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related professions. It brings together recent thinking on the historical and contemporary constructions of the family in such a way as to provide a helpful framework for practitioners working in a variety of settings in the field. It offers up-to-date information on political, legislative and theoretical frameworks, and it reviews and illustrates a wide range of approaches and practice skills for working with families with different problems in different...
This book offers a clear and coherent guide to working with families for practitioners and students in social work, health, counselling and related pr...
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216,55 zł |
Children in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780333945889 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reader provides a critical and comprehensive account of the theoretical and practical issues raised in working with children and families. It draws on debates from a range of disciplines to shed light on different perspectives, forms of practice and dimensions of policy. Its strong applied focus allows it to address a rich variety of issues of concern to professionals working with children in a range of settings. The contributing authors consist of leading academics in the field as well as those with first-hand knowledge and experience; all write in a clear and engaging style.
This reader provides a critical and comprehensive account of the theoretical and practical issues raised in working with children and families. It dra...
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705,23 zł |
Family Life and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective
ISBN: 9780333604649 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. State intervention in family life is an important and problematic political and social issue, and one which is surrounded by debates of a highly ideological nature. The central theme of this valuable book is that of 'family life' as an object of both social policy interest and welfare intervention. The author applies a sociological perspective on social control to a range of issues exciting public and political debate; amongst them, marriage conciliation, community care, lone parenthood and underclass status, and child abuse.
State intervention in family life is an important and problematic political and social issue, and one which is surrounded by debates of a highly ideol...
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211,52 zł |
Behind Closed Doors in White South Africa: Incest Survivors Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9780333642337 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The intent in this book is to tear away the veil of secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa by presenting five in-depth personal accounts of this heinous form of sexual exploitation as told by the survivors. Each of these accounts includes an analysis of important incest-related issues raised by the survivor's story. Another objective is to explore the connections between the often cruel sexual exploitation of girls by their white male relatives and the brutal exploitation of black people by white men in South Africa.
The intent in this book is to tear away the veil of secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa by presenting five in-depth personal...
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194,52 zł |