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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells ring at thousands of schools across the country. These bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important enriching activity: federally funded after-school programs offering tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision. After-school care reflects major shifts in social policy toward social services that support youth development and help low-income parents maintain employment....
62) Identities in Practice: A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh Immigrants in Finland and in California
Author
Publisher
SKS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration studies is the contrast it provides between experiences at two Sikh migration destinations. By using an ethnographic approach, Hirvi reveals how practices carried out in relation to work, dress,...
63) Indian Mythology
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Publisher
Referencepoint Pr Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The age-old theme of good triumphing over evil is common in Hindu mythology. Large numbers of Hindu myths describe fights between the devas and asuras. Such battles are in a sense built into Hinduism and its mythology,"--
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few years, Shah decided it was time to be direct. “I'm an abortion provider,” she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new. One by one, people would confide—at BBQs, at jury duty, in the middle of the greeting card aisle at Target— that in fact they'd had...
Publisher
Finnish Literature Society / SKS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in early literary sources, such as the Old Norse sagas. The first section “Explorations in Place-Lore” discusses cursed and sacred places, churches, graveyards, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds,...
Publisher
University of Minnesota Libraries
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization is designed for students to experience and study as much of the world as possible within a limited amount of time. It gives students the fundamental concepts and the latest data regarding world places in a concise, easy-to-read format (Source: Open Textbook Library)
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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. It is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and Jewish studies. It will allow readers to understand how reproductive...
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Publisher
G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From the PREFACE: "The main plan of the book is to give a sketch or outline of the position of working women, with special reference to the effects of the industrial revolution on her employment, taking “industrial revolution” in its broader sense, not as an event of the late eighteenth century, but as a continuous process still actively at work. I have aimed at description rather than theory. Some of the current theories about women’s position...
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Publisher
Policy Press/Bristol University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same-sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between this and domestic violence and abuse experienced by heterosexual women and men. It examines how experiences of domestic violence and abuse may be shaped by gender, sexuality, and age, including whether and how victims/survivors seek help, and asks, what’s love got to do with it?
A pioneering methodology,...
Author
Publisher
Lever Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends. Confronting Child Sexual Abuse describes how these forces shape our views of victims and offenders, while also providing an in-depth look at prevention efforts and current research. Sociologist Anne Nurse has synthesized studies spanning the fields of psychology, sociology, communications, criminology, and political...
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Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Diabetes, obesity, vitamin D deficiencies and iron deficiency anemia are among some of the many conditions prevalent across school children in Kuwait. The Ministry of Education (MoE) recognizes the importance of developing the skills of educators and improving teachers' nutrition knowledge and curricula in schools, as well as the role this may play in reversing or contributing to better manage these conditions. As such, and in collaboration with the...
Publisher
Virginia Tech Department of Sociology in association with Virginia Tech Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Standpoints: Black Feminist Knowledges contains essays that explore Black feminist thought through a diverse set of lenses. The essays are divided among sections on localized framing and stereotypes, global perspectives, and the future. The first section of the book analyzes the representations of Black women and the stereotypes that still confine African American women generations after enslavement. Then, the global oppression of Black women is discussed,...
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In Prescription for the People, Fran Quigley diagnoses our inability to get medicines to the people who need them and then prescribes the cure. He delivers a clear and convincing argument for a complete shift in the global and U.S. approach to developing and providing essential medicines—and a primer on how to make that change happen. Globally, 10 million people die each year because they are unable to pay for medicines that would save them. The...
Author
Publisher
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits.The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception and how they engage with outsiders. Starting with a historical...
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Publisher
The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality' attends to the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present. Drawing on the knowledge generated by asexual community, activism, and scholarship, Ela Przybylo gives us the first queer and feminist monograph on asexuality.--From publisher's description.
77) Arctic Madness
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Publisher
Hau Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838–1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circle in Canada, publishing numerous works on First Nations languages and practices. Over time, however, he descended into delirium and began to summon imaginary persecutions, pen improbable interpretations of his Indigenous hosts, and burst into schizoid fury. Delving into thousands of pages in letters and memoirs that Petitot left behind, Pierre Déléage...
Publisher
Policy Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this topical book older people's volunteering is studied in eight European countries at the structural, macro, meso and micro levels. Overall it highlights how different interactions between the levels facilitate or hinder older people's inclusion in voluntary work and makes policy suggestions for an integrated strategy. This book provides important new insights for academics and students interested in ageing societies, active ageing and voluntary...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to provide innovative insights about contentious disagreements over their...
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Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Sustainable Development Goals put equity high in the agenda, strongly emphasizing gender equity. The survey-based women's empowerment (SWPER) index is a comprehensive cross-cultural standard tool. It advances on other empowerment indicators in the sense that it is calculated at the individual level so that we can compare subgroups of women. We aimed to evaluate inequalities in women's empowerment both between and within countries to help guide...
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