Hard Labor
ISBN: 9780765603326 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic picture of the women and the issues as well as suggested strategies and innovations. The book covers a wide range of topics, including getting and keeping a job, struggling to balance the demands of work and family, health care, child care, and unemployment. It is set in the context of both welfare reform and the low-wage labor market and incorporates both self-employment and micro-business enterprise.
An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic pictu...
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559,60 zł |
Hard Labor
ISBN: 9780765603333 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic picture of the women and the issues as well as suggested strategies and innovations. The book covers a wide range of topics, including getting and keeping a job, struggling to balance the demands of work and family, health care, child care, and unemployment. It is set in the context of both welfare reform and the low-wage labor market and incorporates both self-employment and micro-business enterprise.
An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic pictu...
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137,31 zł |
Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780765603425 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.
Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes ...
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712,22 zł |
Legacy of Hate: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial Prejudice in America: A Short History of Ethnic, Religious and Racial
ISBN: 9780765604064 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For all its foundation on the principles of religious freedom and human equality, American history contains numerous examples of bigotry and persecution of minorities. Now, author Philip Perlmutter lays out the history of prejudice in America in a brief, compact, and readable volume. Perlmutter begins with the arrival of white Europeans, moves through the eighteenth and industrially expanding nineteenth centuries; the explosion of immigration and its attendant problems in the twentieth century; and a fifth chapter explores how prejudice (racial, religious, and ethnic) has been...
For all its foundation on the principles of religious freedom and human equality, American history contains numerous examples of bigotry and persecuti...
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378,50 zł |
Breaking Out of the Pink-Collar Ghetto: Policy Solutions for Non-College Women
ISBN: 9780765613561 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widely interdisciplinary in appeal, this book reports on the successes of innovative training opportunities for non-college women who end up in low-paying, low-mobility, pink-collar jobs. The author examines the relative effectiveness of various programs in helping these women gain access to high-wage, high-mobility employment opportunities. The analysis includes case studies of grant-funded projects, as well as in-depth statistical analysis using ten years of data on women throughout the United States. These types of education and training options are in tremendous demand, and the author...
Widely interdisciplinary in appeal, this book reports on the successes of innovative training opportunities for non-college women who end up in low-pa...
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111,87 zł |
Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care
ISBN: 9780774812023 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's environmental activism is often described in maternalist terms ? as if motherhood and caring for the environment go hand in hand. While feminists celebrate this connection, women and all those who care for people and environments are facing increasing burdens and decreasing time for civic engagement as neoliberal governments download life-sustaining work to the voluntary sector. In Beyond Mothering Earth, Sherilyn MacGregor argues that celebrations of ?earth care? as women's unique contribution to the search for sustainability often neglect to consider the importance... Women's environmental activism is often described in maternalist terms ? as if motherhood and caring for the environment go hand in hand. While fem... |
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157,71 zł |
Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery
ISBN: 9780774812191 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obstructed Labour analyzes how the movement to legalize midwifery in Ontario reproduced racial inequality by excluding from practice hundreds of professional midwives from the global south. Sheryl Nestel traces how racist exclusion operated to produce the Ontario midwifery movement and the bureaucratic structures that superceded it, as all-white spaces. Examining global macroprocesses of power, institutional forms of racist exclusion, and interpersonal expressions of racism, Nestel shows unequal relations between women to underlie the successful challenge to patriarchal... Obstructed Labour analyzes how the movement to legalize midwifery in Ontario reproduced racial inequality by excluding from practice hundred... |
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478,20 zł |
Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery
ISBN: 9780774812207 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obstructed Labour analyzes how the movement to legalize midwifery in Ontario reproduced racial inequality by excluding from practice hundreds of professional midwives from the global south. Sheryl Nestel traces how racist exclusion operated to produce the Ontario midwifery movement and the bureaucratic structures that superceded it, as all-white spaces. Examining global macroprocesses of power, institutional forms of racist exclusion, and interpersonal expressions of racism, Nestel shows unequal relations between women to underlie the successful challenge to patriarchal... Obstructed Labour analyzes how the movement to legalize midwifery in Ontario reproduced racial inequality by excluding from practice hundred... |
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172,97 zł |
Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
ISBN: 9780774812719 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlike most missionary scholarship that focuses on male missionaries, Good Intentions Gone Awry chronicles the experiences of a missionary wife. It presents the letters of Emma Crosby, wife of the well-known Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby, who came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people. Emma Crosby's letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well as her assumptions about... Unlike most missionary scholarship that focuses on male missionaries, Good Intentions Gone Awry chronicles the experiences of a missionary w... |
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172,97 zł |
The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914
ISBN: 9780786427420 / Angielski / Miękka / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under a likeness of President Theodore Roosevelt in the Library of Congress, a plaque lists the Pure Food and Drink Law of 1906 as one of the three landmark achievements of his administration. Few authorities would disagree. Designed to ensure the safety of foods, drinks and drugs, the law was one of the first pieces of social legislation enacted in the United States. Among the most enthusiastic and persistent crusaders for the bill's passage were a wide array of women's groups, many politically active for the first time. Based in large part on primary sources, this work examines the many...
Under a likeness of President Theodore Roosevelt in the Library of Congress, a plaque lists the Pure Food and Drink Law of 1906 as one of the three la...
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246,49 zł |
What American Women Did, 1789-1920: A Year-By-Year Reference
ISBN: 9780786432455 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reference book chronicles what American women did from the emergence of the republic through the end of World War I and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. A broad spectrum of activities are depicted, showing their many accomplishments and how their activities affected the world around them. It was an era of great transition for all women. A whos who of American women and some men (those who showed great support or, ironically, great opposition to womens reform) are described one year at a time, beginning with 1789 and ending with 1920. Each years activities are organized into seven...
This reference book chronicles what American women did from the emergence of the republic through the end of World War I and the passage of the Ninete...
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306,61 zł |
Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists
ISBN: 9780786716678 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it as well as the craft as it applied. Many of the pieces in Journalistas feel almost unsettlingly relevant today--the conclusions Emma "Red" Goldman drew in her 1916, "the Social Aspects of Birth Control," Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at forty, and Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance after America's race riots in 1943. Many have pushed other limits: Naomi Wolf's Beauty Myth...
Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining t...
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107,32 zł |
Immigrant Women's Health: Problems and Solutions
ISBN: 9780787942946 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a significant and timely book. The chapters are rich in describing clinical considerations and approaches to the immigrant patient in a broad range of disease areas. I recommAnd this book to all administrators and clinicians who serve or plan to serve the growing immigrant populations in the United States.
--Henry Chung, medical director, Chinatown Health Clinic, New York, New York Immigrant Women's Health offers doctors, nurses, and administrators the knowledge and tools they need to meet the challenge to provide quality care for one of the United States' most... This is a significant and timely book. The chapters are rich in describing clinical considerations and approaches to the immigrant patient in a broad ...
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577,16 zł |
Reflections on Feminist Family Therapy Training
ISBN: 9780789000026 / Angielski / Twarda / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First-person accounts, theory, and commentary explore the challenges feminist teachers and practitioners face and discuss aspects of their practice that are seldom considered, such as continuing education, similarities and differences between American and European feminist family therapists, feminist therapists in conventional training institutes,
First-person accounts, theory, and commentary explore the challenges feminist teachers and practitioners face and discuss aspects of their practice th...
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635,91 zł |
Violence and Sexual Abuse at Home: Current Issues in Spousal Battering and Child Maltreatment
ISBN: 9780789003294 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violence and abuse that occur behind closed doors are not just personal concerns or issues. Family violence is a major mental health, social service, health care, and criminal justice problem that society cannot continue to ignore. Violence and Sexual Abuse at Home gives you the facts of spouse/partner and child maltreatment, an analysis of the intervention and prevention techniques commonly used, and alternative approaches and theories for understanding and reducing instances of family abuse.The factors behind maltreatment are multiple and diverse. Because there are so many approaches to...
Violence and abuse that occur behind closed doors are not just personal concerns or issues. Family violence is a major mental health, social service, ...
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203,44 zł |
Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy
ISBN: 9780789003652 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy challenges therapists, public policymakers, voters, and those in the criminal justice system to find treatment options, empowerment strategies, viable resources, community support, and policies that can help women with problems such as drug abuse, domestic violence, poverty, and prostitution rather than perpetually punishing them. Breaking the Rules shows you how our society makes 'other'of those among us who are most vulnerable, injured, and without resources. It digs under your skin and forces you to look at: the histories of abuse...
Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy challenges therapists, public policymakers, voters, and those in the criminal justice system ...
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534,17 zł |
For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy: The Fee in Feminist Therapy
ISBN: 9780789009562 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Realize how you can charge what your services are worth and still care about your clients For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy examines the rarely talked about topic of payment in therapy, taking a symbolic and psychological look at the meaning of fees to both the psychologist and client. This intelligent book offers firsthand advice and information concerning how gender can make a difference in your feelings about fees and how the managed care environment affects women clients. For Love or Money will help you handle your concerns about fees as it discusses payment for...
Realize how you can charge what your services are worth and still care about your clients For Love or Money: The Fee in Feminist Therapy exa...
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218,70 zł |
Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women
ISBN: 9780789010674 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women gives you the advantage of finding out everything you want to know about cosmetic surgery--from the comfort and privacy of your own home. This comprehensive resource guides you through the mountains of information on the Internet, providing a thorough listing of Web sites detailing every aspect of plastic and cosmetic surgery for every body part, as well as presenting strategies for finding specific information you are looking for, such as procedures, advantages and risks of the surgery, specializing surgeons, and international cosmetic surgery...
The Internet Guide to Cosmetic Surgery for Women gives you the advantage of finding out everything you want to know about cosmetic surgery--from the c...
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239,05 zł |
Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage
ISBN: 9780789011008 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Women in Psychology Jewish Caucus Award for 2000 Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage contains touching and personal essays written by contemporary Jewish mothers from different parts of the globe. Their stories reveal the choices that Jewish mothers make in our post-Holocaust, non-Jewish world--the many ways of being Jewish, the acts of loving, of preserving and celebrating Jewish traditions and spirituality, and of transmitting them to their children and families.The firsthand stories in this compelling book raises questions and provides you with...
Winner of the Women in Psychology Jewish Caucus Award for 2000 Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories: Acts of Love and Courage contains touching and pers...
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162,74 zł |
Unbroken Homes: Single-Parent Mothers Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9780789011398 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Countering conservative worries about the rise of single-parent households, this book describes the strength of single mothers and the warmth of their families as depicted in the women's own stories. Single mothers describe the obstacles they face, and tell of their own transformation as they become more independent, resourceful, and satisfied. Pat
Countering conservative worries about the rise of single-parent households, this book describes the strength of single mothers and the warmth of their...
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661,34 zł |