Home Bound

Author : Yen Le Espiritu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520929265

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Home Bound by Yen Le Espiritu Pdf

Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Her sensitive analysis reveals that Filipino Americans confront U.S. domestic racism and global power structures by living transnational lives that are shaped as much by literal and symbolic ties to the Philippines as they are by social, economic, and political realities in the United States. Espiritu deftly weaves vivid first-person narratives with larger social and historical contexts as she discovers the meaning of home, community, gender, and intergenerational relations among Filipinos. Among other topics, she explores the ways that female sexuality is defined in contradistinction to American mores and shows how this process becomes a way of opposing racial subjugation in this country. She also examines how Filipinos have integrated themselves into the American workplace and looks closely at the effects of colonialism.

Author : Vanessa A. Bee
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781662601330

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Home Bound by Vanessa A. Bee Pdf

"This moving book is both an act of defiance — a way to construct a home outside of borders — and a timely manifesto on the need for more equitable housing policy in America, weaving her scholarship in economic justice together with her firsthand experience of the many places she’s lived. “Home Bound” is not just a resonant personal history, but also a thoroughly researched investigation of home." —Rajpreet Heir, The New York Times Book Review "Readers of Home Bound will likely experience that pleasant rush of recognizing something personal in someone else’s reality, of answering, yes, home feels like this to me, too." —Chicago Review of Books "Bee’s lyrical, emotive prose takes readers through her life with an intimacy that draws and keeps them close. . . . [Home Bound will] appeal to a variety of reader, challenging singular beliefs of what it means to be a daughter, sister, lover, wife, lawyer, and mother." —Library Journal, starred review In this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define “home” and “belonging” — from her birth in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to her adoption by her aunt and her aunt’s white French husband, to experiencing housing insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the US. After her parents’ divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right around the financial crisis and the collapse of the housing market. At twenty, still a practicing evangelical Christian and newly married, Vanessa applied to and was accepted by Harvard Law School, where she was one of the youngest members of her class. There, she forged a new belief system, divorced her husband, left the church, and, inspired by her tumultuous childhood, pursued a career in economic justice upon graduation. Vanessa’s adoptive, multiracial, multilingual, multinational, and transcontinental upbringing has caused her to grapple for years with foundational questions such as: What is home? Is it the country we’re born in, the body we possess, or the name we were given and that identifies us? Is it the house we remember most fondly, the social status assigned to us, or the ideology we forge? What defines us and makes us uniquely who we are? Organized unconventionally around her own dictionary-style definitions of the word “home,” Vanessa tackles these timeless questions thematically and unpacks the many layers that contribute to and condition our understanding of ourselves and of our place in the world.

Author : Elaine Tyler May
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786723461

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Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May Pdf

In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam era's assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and "secular humanists" became the new "enemy." This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.

Author : Emily Matchar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781451665444

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Homeward Bound by Emily Matchar Pdf

An investigation into the societal impact of intelligent, high-achieving women who are honing traditional homemaking skills traces emerging trends in sophisticated crafting, cooking and farming that are reshaping the roles of women.

Author : Cass Irvin
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592132200

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Home Bound by Cass Irvin Pdf

In this memoir, Cass Irvin tells of the remarkable journey that transformed her from a young girl too timid to ask for help to a community activist and writer who speaks forcefully about the needs of people with disabilities.

Author : Peter Ames Carlin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627790352

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Homeward Bound by Peter Ames Carlin Pdf

A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. As the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, his work helped define the youth movement of the '60s. On his own in the '70s, Simon made radio-dominating hits. He kicked off the '80s by reuniting with Garfunkel to perform for half a million New Yorkers in Central Park. Five years later, Simon’s album “Graceland” sold millions and spurred an international political controversy. And it doesn’t stop there. The grandchild of Jewish emigrants from Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian empire, the 75-year-old singer-songwriter has not only sold more than 100 million records, won 15 Grammy awards and been installed into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame twice, but has also animated the meaning—and flexibility—of personal and cultural identity in a rapidly shrinking world. Simon has also lived one of the most vibrant lives of modern times; a story replete with tales of Carrie Fisher, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Shelley Duvall, Nelson Mandela, drugs, depression, marriage, divorce, and more. A life story with the scope and power of an epic novel, Carlin’s Homeward Bound is the first major biography of one of the most influential popular artists in American history.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345458476

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Homeward Bound by Harry Turtledove Pdf

The twentieth century was awash in war. World powers were pouring men and machines onto the killing fields of Europe. Then, in one dramatic stroke, a divided planet was changed forever. An alien race attacked Earth, and for every nation, every human being, new battle lines were drawn. . HOMEWARD BOUND With his epic novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove shares a stunning vision of what might have been–and what might still be–if one moment in history were changed. In the WorldWar and Colonization series, an ancient, highly advanced alien species found itself locked in a bitter struggle with a distant, rebellious planet–Earth. For those defending the Earth, this all-out war for survival supercharged human technology, made friends of foes, and turned allies into bitter enemies. For the aliens known as the Race, the conflict has yielded dire consequences. Mankind has developed nuclear technology years ahead of schedule, forcing the invaders to accept an uneasy truce with nations that possess the technology to defend themselves. But it is the Americans, with their primitive inventiveness, who discover a way to launch themselves through distant space–and reach the Race’s home planet itself. Now–in the twenty-first century–a few daring men and women embark upon a journey no human has made before. Warriors, diplomats, traitors, and exiles–the humans who arrive in the place called Home find themselves genuine strangers on a strange world, and at the center of a flash point with terrifying potential. For their arrival on the alien home world may drive the enemy to make the ultimate decision–to annihilate an entire planet, rather than allow the human contagion to spread. It may be that nothing can deter them from this course. With its extraordinary cast of characters–human, nonhuman, and some in between–Homeward Bound is a fascinating contemplation of cultures, armies, and individuals in collision. From the novelist USA Today calls “the leading author of alternate history,” this is a novel of vision, adventure, and constant, astounding surprise.

Author : Winifred Peck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Home economics
ISBN : 1903155622

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House-bound by Winifred Peck Pdf

'House-bound' was written during the war and the war is both in the background and foreground: one of the questions that the reader is asked throughout the book is - what is courage? Winifred Peck is also funny and perceptive about Rose Fairlaw's decision to manage her house on her own.

Author : Meika Hashimoto
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338573374

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Bound For Home by Meika Hashimoto Pdf

From the author of The Trail, a heartwarming tale of survival and adventure, following three unlikely friends and their quest to make it home together. Max: a shelter dog who just wants his freedom. Emi: a lonely girl who secretly wants a place to call home. And Red: a cat who's never needed anyone or anything beyond her own sharp wits. Can the three survive a journey deep into the woods? From the moment Emi walks into the animal shelter, she knows the dopey-looking dog with the sandy-colored hair is the dog for her. Despite Max's many escape attempts and inability to be trained, she chooses him. When Emi's home life starts to crumble, she takes off into the Maine woods with Max at her side, determined to prove that she can make it on her own. But they immediately lose each other, and one catastrophe after another shows that they're totally unprepared to handle the wilderness. Wild animals, hunger, and an impossible trail to track mean that each must do whatever it takes to stay alive—but what happens when they have to choose between getting back to safety... and looking out for a friend? Can loyalty be as strong as the will to survive?

Author : John Gwenogvryn Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590499514

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The Homeward bound, an occasional paper publ. at sea during the voyage of the ship 'Sobraon' from Melbourne to London, 1882, ed. by J.G. Evans by John Gwenogvryn Evans Pdf

Author : United States. President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Correspondence schools and courses
ISBN : IND:30000066299235

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Careers for the Homebound by United States. President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Food service
ISBN : UIUC:30112102049985

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The Homebound Elderly by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Pdf

Author : Liturgy Training Publications
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781568549538

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The Catholic Handbook for Visiting the Sick and Homebound 2012 by Liturgy Training Publications Pdf

Author : Robin Pascoe
Publisher : Expatriate Press Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0968676049

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Homeward Bound by Robin Pascoe Pdf

Author : Philip Phillips (Mus. Doc.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022609203

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The American Sacred Songster, a selection of music from the best American composers, designed for Sunday School&home use. Tonic Sol-Fa edition by Philip Phillips (Mus. Doc.) Pdf