The Material Family

Author : Julie Torrant
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460916304

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The Material Family by Julie Torrant Pdf

The Material Family is a bold new reading of the family, focusing on “new” or “post-nuclear,” “flexible” family forms such as gay family, divorce-extended family, and transnational family. Reading across a range of texts from high theory to literature and popular films, the book crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a highly innovative and dynamic approach to changes in gender and other family relations. Unlike most books in the fields of cultural and family studies, The Material Family provides an historical and materialist argument connecting the changes within family to underlying shifts in material, labor relations in global capitalism. The “post-nuclear” family is not only an affective space, Torrant argues, but one whose affects are themselves fundamentally shaped by class. The Material Family is a must-read for anyone who wants to venture beyond the surfaces of family life to the deeper-lying relations that have made the family and its new forms among the most important spaces of social life. Its readers will include not only students and researchers in the fields of education, cultural theory and cultural studies, women’s studies, sociology, and anthropology, but also general readers interested in understanding contemporary families and their struggles.

Author : Peter Menzel,Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0871564300

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Material World by Peter Menzel,Charles C. Mann Pdf

A photo-journey through the homes and lives of 30 families, revealing culture and economic levels around the world.

Author : Julie P. Torrant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460916304

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The Material Family by Julie P. Torrant Pdf

The Material Family is a bold new reading of the family, focusing on “new” or “post-nuclear,” “flexible” family forms such as gay family, divorce-extended family, and transnational family. Reading across a range of texts from high theory to literature and popular films, the book crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a highly innovative and dynamic approach to changes in gender and other family relations.

Author : Ned Bustard
Publisher : Veritas Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1932168230

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Legends & Leagues by Ned Bustard Pdf

Author : Barbara A. Mitchell
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773382494

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Family Matters, Fourth Edition by Barbara A. Mitchell Pdf

Now in its fourth edition, Family Matters offers an enriched discussion on a variety of substantive issues experienced by diverse Canadian families across the life course. Adopting a feminist sociological approach throughout, this popular textbook explores family dynamics through a critical life course theoretical lens. This over-arching perspective is used to examine how social, economic, and historical processes related to gender roles, age and generational location, ethnicity and race, geographical location, and social change shape contemporary family life. As a leading name in sociology, Barbara Mitchell has thoroughly updated the previous edition to reflect timely current events, recent census data, and cutting-edge research. Providing more detailed and nuanced discussions of many areas including life course and other styles of critical theorizing on families, this new edition examines the history of slavery and Black family life in Canada, Indigenous families, foreign/temporary workers, intersectional and racialized processes influencing families, youth activism, transgender children, technology and social media, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aging families. Approachable, concise, and filled with discussion questions, activities, and resources for further reading, Family Matters is the perfect resource for students enrolled in introductory or advanced level courses in family sociology and gender studies. FEATURES - Up-to-date material featuring current events, recent research studies and statistics, including census and other national data sets - New and expanded content on a wide range of timely topics, such as Indigenous and racialized family life, transgender children, technology and social media ,and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061846908

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A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver Pdf

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war. Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not.

Author : Raffaella Sarti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300102593

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Europe at Home by Raffaella Sarti Pdf

Vivid personal stories bring each topic to life and offer insights into human relations not only between rich and poor, powerful and weak, masters and servants, but also between parents and children, husbands and wives, and men and women."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839761539

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels Pdf

The most influential theory of the origins of women's oppression in the modern era, in a beautiful new edition In this provocative and now-classic work, Frederick Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal communal societies had been overthrown by class society and its emphasis on private, not communal, property and monogamous, rather than polygamous, sexual organization. This historical development, Engels argued, constituted "the world-historic defeat of the female sex." A masterclass in the application of materialist thought to history and anthropology, and touching on love, monogamy, property, and the development of the human, this landmark work is still foundational in Marxist and socialist feminist theory.

Author : N. P. Maling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781304379023

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A Brief Genealogy of the Maling Family by N. P. Maling Pdf

Genealogical history of the Maling family of Maine from the 1700s to the 1900s.

Author : Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw,Sylvia Kind,Laurie L. M. Kocher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317588580

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Encounters With Materials in Early Childhood Education by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw,Sylvia Kind,Laurie L. M. Kocher Pdf

Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education rearticulates understandings of materials—blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints—to formulate what happens when we think with materials and apply them to early childhood development and classrooms. The book develops ways of thinking about materials that are more sustainable and insightful than what most children in the Western world experience today through capitalist narratives. Through a series of ethnographic events and engagement with existing ideas of relationality in the visual arts, feminist ethics, science studies, philosophy, and anthropology, Encounters with Materials in Early Childhood Education highlights how materials can be conceptualized as active participants in early childhood education and generators of human insight. A variety of examples show how educators, young children, and researchers have engaged in thinking with materials in early years classrooms and explore what materials are capable of in their encounters with other materials and with children. Please visit the companion website at www.encounterswithmaterials.com for additional features, including interviews with the authors and the teachers featured in the book, videos and photographs of the classroom narratives described in these pages, and an ongoing blog of the authors’ ethnographic notes.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Berry,Marcia Yonemoto
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520316089

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What Is a Family? by Mary Elizabeth Berry,Marcia Yonemoto Pdf

What Is a Family? explores the histories of diverse households during the Tokugawa period in Japan (1603–1868). The households studied here differ in locale and in status—from samurai to outcaste, peasant to merchant—but what unites them is life within the social order of the Tokugawa shogunate. The circumstances and choices that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. These factors led the majority to form stem families, which are a focus of this volume. The essays in this book draw on rich sources—population registers, legal documents, personal archives, and popular literature—to combine accounts of collective practices (such as the adoption of heirs) with intimate portraits of individual actors (such as a murderous wife). They highlight the variety and adaptability of households that, while shaped by a shared social order, do not conform to any stereotypical version of a Japanese family. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Author : Kimberly Powell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440523410

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The Everything Family Tree Book by Kimberly Powell Pdf

Completely updated for today's search tactics and blockades, The Everything Family Tree Book has even more insight for the stumped! Whether you're searching in a grandparent's attic or through the most cryptic archiving systems, this book has brand-new chapters on what readers have been asking for: Genetics, DNA, and medical information Surname origins and naming Appendix on major genealogical repositories, libraries, and archives Systems for filing and organizing The latest computer software Land, probate, and estate records Chock-full of tips the competitors don't have, this is the one-stop resource for successful sleuthing!

Author : Claudia Goldin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691228662

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Career and Family by Claudia Goldin Pdf

In this book, the author builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between couples in the home. The author argues that although public and private discourse has brought these concerns to light, the actions taken - such as a single company slapped on the wrist or a few progressive leaders going on paternity leave - are the economic equivalent of tossing a band-aid to someone with cancer. These solutions, the author writes, treat the symptoms and not the disease of gender inequality in the workplace and economy. Here, the author points to data that reveals how the pay gap widens further down the line in women's careers, about 10 to 15 years out, as opposed to those beginning careers after college. She examines five distinct groups of women over the course of the twentieth century: cohorts of women who differ in terms of career, job, marriage, and children, in approximated years of graduation - 1900s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s - based on various demographic, labor force, and occupational outcomes. The book argues that our entire economy is trapped in an old way of doing business; work structures have not adapted as more women enter the workforce. Gender equality in pay and equity in home and childcare labor are flip sides of the same issue, and the author frames both in the context of a serious empirical exploration that has not yet been put in a long-run historical context. This book offers a deep look into census data, rich information about individual college graduates over their lifetimes, and various records and sources of material to offer a new model to restructure the home and school systems that contribute to the gender pay gap and the quest for both family and career. --

Author : Sigmund Stephen Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 0333271041

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Symptoms by Sigmund Stephen Miller Pdf

Author : Lauren Stokes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Foreign workers
ISBN : 9780197558416

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Fear of the Family by Lauren Stokes Pdf

Fear of the Family offers a comprensive postwar history of guest worker migration to the Federal Republic of Germany, particularly from Greece, Turkey, and Italy. It analyzes the West German government's policies formulated to get migrants to work in the country during the prime of their productive years but to try to block them from bringing their families or becoming an expense for the state.