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The Experience and Meaning of Work in Women's Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Experience and Meaning of Work in Women's Lives

In the past, social scientists have relied predominantly on traditional models of work to understand women's experiences. These models, however, have been based on men's occupational experiences, which have been assumed to be the same for women. More recently, researchers and theorists from a variety of disciplines have begun to challenge earlier assumptions as inaccurate reflections of the realities for female workers. Newer studies have concentrated on the historical and social reasons for women's employment and career choices, including changes in economy, family, and social conditions. To provide a deeper understanding of women worker's realities by including the meaning they make of the...

Women, Work, and Place
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Women, Work, and Place

Comprises nine essays on the impact of age, ethnic origin, social class, cultural and other experiential factors on the role of women as social agents in the late 19th and 20th century.

LSAmagazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

LSAmagazine

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Seeking the Center
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

Seeking the Center

During the past decade, Democrats and Republicans each have received about fifty percent of the votes and controlled about half of the government, but this has not resulted in policy deadlock. Despite highly partisan political posturing, the policy regime has been largely moderate. Incremental, yet substantial, policy innovations such as welfare reform; deficit reduction; the North American Free Trade Agreement; and the deregulation of telecommunications, banking, and agriculture have been accompanied by such continuities as Social Security and Medicare, the maintenance of earlier immigration reforms, and the persistence of many rights-based policies, including federal affirmative action. In...

Out from the Shadows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 560

Out from the Shadows

This collection draws together 18 papers on topics in standard areas of traditional analytical philosophy, written from a feminist perspective. It brings out traditional philosophy by challenging it in a constructive, socially critical way that is essential for philosophy's fundamental goal of pursuing truth that matters.

Embracing the Spirit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Embracing the Spirit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-03-31
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  • Publisher: Orbis Books

"This book continues the conversations begun in Emilie Townes's path-breaking A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering. Once again, Townes brings together essays by leading womanist theologians, interweaving a concern for matters of race, gender, and class, as these bear on the survival and well-being of the African-American community. In Embracing the Spirit the emphasis is not on evil and suffering, but on "hope, salvation, and transformation" for individuals and their communities."--Jacket

Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences

This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”

Understanding the Divorce Cycle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Understanding the Divorce Cycle

Wolfinger argues that no-fault divorce laws should be left in place.

Families in Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Families in Context

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The most thoroughly updated edition yet, this book offers students perspectives of changes in marriage and family over time, including the impact of the Great Recession and of new media technologies. A hallmark of Families in Context remains the well-researched, data-driven quality of the text. Beyond presenting thoroughly updated statistics and literature, each chapter examines new trends and assesses their implications for students' lives. The underlying presentation remains balanced, theoretically grounded, and accessible to a wide variety of classes, allowing students of all ages and family backgrounds to draw their own conclusions about controversial topics. Features of the new edition include coverage of the Affordable Care Act; new social media and families; the latest trends in poverty, education, social mobility, gender, identities and healthcare; updated 'In the News' features and author-created PowerPoint slides.

Navigating New Terrain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Navigating New Terrain

A call to action for religious groups to understand the complex and changing roles of women today within the context of their spiritual lives.