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A frank, feminist examination of the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers—and how we can fix it Mothers aren’t supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by the grueling, thankless work of full-time parenting and...
Editeur :
Seal Press
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2023-09-19
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The entrepreneurial family has hardly been a topic of family sociology so far. Precisely because more than two-thirds of all companies are family-run, it is surprising that sociology has not yet discovered the entrepreneurial family as a field of research. With this...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This edited collection brings together leading and emerging international scholars who explore citizenship through the two overarching themes of Indigeneity and ethnicity. They approach the subject from a range of disciplinary perspectives: historical, legal, political,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This book seeks to contribute to the analysis of the serious violations of human rights in Mexico during the processes of democratic transition and the "War on Drugs" by taking bodies and territories as archives of the crimes committed by the Mexican State in the last...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-18
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of forces shaping urban renewal and the sustainable and inclusive transformation of contemporary cities. It discusses temporariness and uncertainty of citizenship, participation, and inclusion, as well as the energy and...
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Springer
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2023-09-16
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This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern. In examining the prevalence of dark tropes in contemporary horror films such as Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, A Quiet...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Motherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. At once valorized and configured as the ultimate end-goal for socially condoned femininity, maternity is also highly mediated and scrutinized. This has resulted in a representational tradition that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-15
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This book provides a unique ethnographic approach to the understanding of ethnogenesis in the Chinese context, with a particular focus on how it is being reshaped in the post-2000s era. It reinterprets the Chinese concept of ethnicity, or minzu, by investigating its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Bei einem stationären Aufenthalt in einer Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie sind jugendliche Patient:innen und deren Familien mit verschiedenen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Neben der als ‚psychische Krankheit‘ gedeuteten Krisenkonstellation und damit verbundenen Leiden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Compiling the best episodes of SAGE's 'Social Science Bites' podcast since its beginning in 2012, this pocket-sized volume is sure to inspire and provoke. With a foreword by David Edmonds, host of the podcast, this book will show you how social science can help to...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-09-14
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This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life. Each chapter draws on different methods and approaches but all consider lived experiences and experiential narrations....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-14
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This book investigates the deep economic causes of environmental unsustainability and offers a new vision to rebuild sustainability economics. While sustainability scholars are hard at work with documenting the tangible systemic crisis of our Biosphere, the economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-14
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While many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-09-14
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Cunning, monstrous, virtuous. Rediscover the overlooked women of Greek myth.Goddesses and mortals, warriors and muses, women are at the heart of ancient Greek folklore, but their stories have long been eclipsed by those of men. Heroines of Olympus tells the tales of...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2023-09-14
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Seek the truth at the heart of the world's most bizarre cases in this chilling collection of unsolved mysteries Did you hear about the woman who died inside a tree? What about the legend of the Beast of Bodmin Moor? Do you know that UFOs flew over Belgium? Intriguing,...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-09-14
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Volume III of Archerian Studies, which we now deliver to our readers, focuses on the question of culture. Despite the numerous motifs which were introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret S. Archer’s concept, we see that some repeat here constantly. We hope that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-09-14
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The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health focuses on smartphone apps, wearables devices, and ingestible sensors, which are at the centre of research, development, and investment in mental health and digitalisation.The book aims to examine digital mental health through...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-13
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This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi’a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-13
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Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other "isms." Despite its visibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, ageism is not a new...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-13
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From internationally renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? For many of us, it signifies accomplishment, self-reliance, and wealth. Decades of neoliberalism have driven our definition...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2023-09-12
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