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One Size Does Not Fit All
This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture’s focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences’ perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals’ relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for future research on this topic. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and health communication will find this book particularly useful.
MotherScholars' Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance
MotherScholars (mothers who work as faculty and staff members within higher education) juggle a multitude of roles—leader, researcher, wife, partner, mother, caregiver, advisor, teacher, mentor, volunteer. MotherScholars’ Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance shares how MotherScholars can achieve a work-family balance, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explores if there truly is a right way to go about achieving this balance. It can be a life-long and, at times, delicate journey as MotherScholars try to choose between the (often too) many opportunities they have before them. Despite the challenges, the opportunity to mother and work in so many capacities as a MotherScholar can lead to satisfaction and fulfilling purpose in a meaningful way as MotherScholars cultivate gratitude while seeking work-family balance, even during a pandemic.
Academic Mothering
Inspired by those who mothered before and through the COVID-19 pandemic, this is a book about, for, and with those who live different embodiments of academic mothering—mothers, othermothers, academic mothers, and mothering academics. In this book, mothering is defined broadly, encompassing those who are biologically or legally mothers with children; those who are “not-mother” but who nonetheless understand and practice mothering; those who do identify as mothers but not as women; and all those who take on mothering roles in academia and beyond. Through poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, image and text, the authors in this edited book creatively explore academic mothering through...
From Whence They Came
James N. Erwin or Irvine (1709-1770), a son of Alexander Erwin/Irvine (the 16th Laird of Drum), was born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. James immigrated to Ulster Province in northern Ireland, where he married Agnes Patterson about 1738. They then immigrated (with a visit to Scotland) to Chester County, Pennsylvania by 1740, and moved about 1751 to Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons, livingin Louisiana, Utah, Oregon and elsewhere. The tale of contents lists the "slave inventory of the James Goodbee family" in South Carolina in the early 1700s. Includes ancestry and genealogical data in Scotland to about 940 A.D
Persevering during the Pandemic
This edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, and leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic. The chapters describe how people enjoyed their passions for the arts in new and unexpected ways, given the restrictions of COVID-19 safety protocols, and how scripted and reality television programming helped them escape, however briefly, from the traumas of the pandemic, the racial injustice, the political machismo and divisiveness of this time. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of communication, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Mothers as Keepers and Tellers of Origin Stories
This collection presents diverse critical perspectives and discussion about the keeping or telling of children’s originstories as a part of contemporary mothering labor. The first two sections outline perspectives from mother authors about how they strategically craft complex origin stories for their child(ren), as well as how the telling and retelling of origin stories may be passed on as generational knowledge. The third section discusses mothering and origin stories from multiple perspectives: that of a father by adoption, of single mothers positioning stories of absent fathers, and a multi-perspective chapter that includes a mother by adoption, her adult child, and her child’s birthmother.
Maddie's Big Test
It's time for the big math test at school, and Maddie's worried. When her friends show her how she can cheat, she decides she will. She knows it's wrong, and gets caught.
