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24 produkter
Random Families
Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin
Av Rosanna Hertz, Margaret K. Nelson
Inbunden, 2018
828 kr
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The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families form meaningful connections that blossom …
Random Families
Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin
Av Margaret K. Nelson, Rosanna Hertz
E-bok, 2018
214 kr
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The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families form meaningful connections that blossom …
Random Families
Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin
Av Margaret K. Nelson, Rosanna Hertz
E-bok, 2018
214 kr
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The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families form meaningful connections that blossom …
Random Families
Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin
Av Rosanna Hertz, Margaret K. Nelson
Häftad, 2020
260 kr
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Random Families is about the unprecedented families that have grown up at the intersection of new reproductive technologies, social media, and the human desire for belonging. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. …
Working Hard and Making Do
Surviving in Small Town America
Av Margaret K. Nelson, Joan Smith
Häftad, 1999
419 kr
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The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged …
Circles of Care
Work and Identity in Women's Lives
Av Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson
Häftad, 1990
487 kr
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Explores the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly.This work examines the experience of women providing care to children, disabled persons, the chronically ill, and the frail elderly. It differs from most writing about …
Like Family
Narratives of Fictive Kinship
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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For decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be “like family” among …
Like Family
Narratives of Fictive Kinship
Inbunden, 2020
1742 kr
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For decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be “like family” among …
Limited Choices
Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household
Av Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson
Inbunden, 2021
295 kr
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When interviewed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, Ridge Street Oral History Project, which documented the lives of Black residents in the 1990s, Mable Jones described herself as a children’s nurse, recounting her employment in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Emily Abel and Margaret Nelson, …
Limited Choices
Mable Jones, a Black Children''s Nurse in a Northern White Household
Av Margaret K. Nelson, Emily K. Abel
E-bok, 2021
282 kr
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When interviewed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, Ridge Street Oral History Project, which documented the lives of Black residents in the 1990s, Mable Jones described herself as a children’s nurse, recounting her employment in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Emily Abel and Margaret Nelson, …
Parenting Out of Control
Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times
Inbunden, 2010
1222 kr
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They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child's path to greatness . . . or at least to an ivy league school. From cradle to …
Parenting Out of Control
Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times
Häftad, 2012
385 kr
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They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child's path to greatness . . . or at least to an ivy league school. From cradle to …
Who's Watching?
Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families
Av Margaret K. Nelson, Anita Ilta Garey
Inbunden, 2009
1481 kr
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Although sometimes family members engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance …
Who's Watching?
Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families
Av Margaret K. Nelson, Anita Ilta Garey
Häftad, 2009
601 kr
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Although sometimes family members engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a family should be and what family members should do. Whether it is the seemingly benign surveillance …
Open to Disruption
Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology
Av Anita Ilta Garey, Rosanna Hertz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1481 kr
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At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with …
Open to Disruption
Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology
Av Anita Ilta Garey, Rosanna Hertz m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
589 kr
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At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with …
Keeping Family Secrets
Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s
Inbunden, 2022
401 kr
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From teen pregnancy and gay sexuality to Communism and disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War eraAll families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays A lesbian partnership, a "bastard" son, an aunt who is a prostitute, or a criminal …
Keeping Family Secrets
Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s
Häftad, 2025
340 kr
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From teen pregnancy and gay sexuality to Communism and disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War eraAll families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays A lesbian partnership, a "bastard" son, an aunt who is a prostitute, or a criminal …
Sociology Meets Memoir
An Exploration of Narrative and Method
Inbunden, 2024
1013 kr
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How sociologists can approach memoir in their writing, research, and in the classroomMemoirs attract millions of readers with their compelling life stories, vivid details, and often startling revelations. Beyond entertainment value, however, Margaret K. Nelson argues that memoirs hold potential as …
Sociology Meets Memoir
An Exploration of Narrative and Method
Häftad, 2024
298 kr
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How sociologists can approach memoir in their writing, research, and in the classroomMemoirs attract millions of readers with their compelling life stories, vivid details, and often startling revelations. Beyond entertainment value, however, Margaret K. Nelson argues that memoirs hold potential as …
Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers
Jewish Life in Small-Town Vermont
Inbunden, 2026
1149 kr
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Provides a rare study of Jews in small town AmericaFor many years, histories of Jews in the United States focused on Jewish migrants who settled in large cities. Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers offers a rare study of Jews in small town America, illuminating the experiences of Jewish families …
Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers
Jewish Life in Small-Town Vermont
Häftad, 2026
340 kr
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Provides a rare study of Jews in small town AmericaFor many years, histories of Jews in the United States focused on Jewish migrants who settled in large cities. Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers offers a rare study of Jews in small town America, illuminating the experiences of Jewish families …
Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps
Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
Av Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson
Häftad, 2023
310 kr
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Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most other private camps of the same period in many ways, but F&W also had some distinctive features. …
Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps
Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century
Av Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson
Inbunden, 2023
1794 kr
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Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most other private camps of the same period in many ways, but F&W also had some distinctive features. …
