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19 produkter
Disabled State
Häftad, 1986
355 kr
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The defining assumptions and assumed definition of the welfare state
Regulation of Sexuality
Experiences of Family Planning Workers
Av Carole Joffe
Häftad, 1987
355 kr
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Takes us from the most private aspects of sexuality into the arena of public policy and state regulation
Schooling Without Labels
Parents, Educators, and Inclusive Education
Häftad, 1992
372 kr
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Douglas Biklen closely examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people who have been labeled disabled might become full participants in the other areas of society as well. He focuses on the …
Cocaine Changes
The Experience of Using and Quitting
Av Dan Waldorf
Häftad, 1992
369 kr
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Over 200 in-depth interviews with heavy users document the dangers of cocaine, but the authors contend that the national hysteria over it is largely unfounded
World Without Words
The Social Construction of Children Born Deaf and Blind
Av David Goode
Häftad, 1994
411 kr
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During the Rubella Syndrome epidemic of the 1960s, many children were born deaf, blind, and mentally disabled. David Goode has devoted his life and career to understanding such people's world, a world without words, but not, the author confirms, one without communication. This book is the result of …
Women with Disabilities
Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics
Häftad, 1989
372 kr
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Women with disabilities are women first, sharing the dreams and disappointments common to women in a male-dominated society. But because society persists in viewing disability as an emblem of passivity and incompetence, disabled women occupy a devalued status in the social hierarchy. This book …
Understanding Breast Cancer
Inbunden, 1991
682 kr
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The threat of breast cancer concerns all women. Those who rely on media reports of various risk factors find they often contain information that is confusing, contradictory, incomplete, and not relevant to individual risk. Patricia T. Kelly, a medical geneticist who specializes in breast cancer …
Wash and Be Healed
The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health
Häftad, 1991
409 kr
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An exploration of the relationship between hydrotherapy and the women who took the cure
Schooling Without Labels
Parents, Educators, and Inclusive Education
Inbunden, 1992
982 kr
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Douglas Biklen closely examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people who have been labeled disabled might become full participants in the other areas of society as well. He focuses on the …
Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities
Inbunden, 1994
996 kr
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This rich collection of essays presents a new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within families. The contributors consider the full range of …
Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities
Häftad, 1994
359 kr
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This rich collection of essays presents a new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within families. The contributors consider the full range of …
Women Resisting AIDS
Feminist Strategies of Empowerment
Inbunden, 1995
1055 kr
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Beth E. Schneider is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the co-editor of "The Social Context of AIDS". Nancy E. Stoller is Professor of Sociology and Community Studies and Director of the Women's Health Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Women Resisting AIDS
Feminist Strategies of Empowerment
Häftad, 1995
452 kr
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Beth E. Schneider is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and the co-editor of "The Social Context of AIDS". Nancy E. Stoller is Professor of Sociology and Community Studies and Director of the Women's Health Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Feel of Silence
Häftad, 1995
377 kr
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A memoir of the author's experience as a profoundly deaf infant who became an expert lipreader, and who never learned sign language or met another deaf person until her mid-thirties. It follows her story as she made it through college, to become a corporate litigator.
Case About Amy
Inbunden, 1996
941 kr
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The Rowley family's struggle began when Amy entered kindergarten and culminated five years later in a pivotal decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In effect, the Court majority concluded that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act did not mandate equal opportunity for children with …
Case About Amy
Häftad, 1996
372 kr
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An inspirational and telling story about a family's struggle to get equal educational opportunity for their deaf daughter
From Good Will to Civil Rights
Transforming Federal Disability Policy
Inbunden, 2001
857 kr
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Now that curb cuts, braille elevator buttons, and closed caption television are commonplace, many people assume that disabled people are now full participants in American society. This book tells a rather different story. It tells how America's disabled mobilized to effect sweeping changes in …
From Good Will to Civil Rights
Transforming Federal Disability Policy
Häftad, 2001
316 kr
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Now that curb cuts, braille elevator buttons, and closed caption television are commonplace, many people assume that disabled people are now full participants in American society. This book tells a rather different story. It tells how America's disabled mobilized to effect sweeping changes in …
Managing Sickle Cell Disease
In Low-Income Families
Av Shirley Hill
Häftad, 2003
395 kr
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As many as 30,000 African Americans have sickle cell disease (SCD). Though the political activism of the 1960s and a major 1970s health campaign spurred demands for testing, treatment, and education programs, little attention has been given to how families cope with SCD. This first study to give …
