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This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities. Looking at the everyday lives of struggling women, it explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and poverty.

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This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities. Looking at the everyday lives of struggling women, it explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and poverty.

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Controversial, unflinching and intelligent, Anne Manne discusses the big issues surrounding motherhood and childcare and proposes radical new directions for social policy.

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This book investigates the scope of maternity legislation and family-friendly policies in the European Union. -- .

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This book explores the attachment style of homeless mothers and its effect on the resulting attachment style of their children. Smolen and Harrison utilize psychoanalytically informed interventions with the goal of aiding these women in developing a deeper capacity to understand and be attuned to their childrens emotional needs.

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This book presents historical perspectives on single mothers and antipoverty strategies in the US and several other industrial societies. The authors, specialists in family policy, discuss family and personal life of single mothers, their work and income (usually low), and issues such as child care, housing, and stress.

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Presents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.

Drawing on extensive interviews, Babette Smith peels away the myths to reveal the truth about mother-son relationships.

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Drawing on articles appearing in popular women's magazines from 1950 to 1989, this study documents changes in justifications of gender-based divisions of labor in the home and workplace.

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Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. This book reveals the problems mothers of adult children face and celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of those who mother through hardship.

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Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local education battles, and she introduces a generation of wome

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A great deal has been written about the bond between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. In her examination of the mother/son relationsip, the author ultimately questions whether or not mothers foster sexist masculinity and whether they can be blamed for male dominance..

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A great deal has been written about the bond between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. In her examination of the mother/son relationsip, the author ultimately questions whether or not mothers foster sexist masculinity and whether they can be blamed for male dominance..

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Despite the fact more women are involved in combat positions during todays wars women are still a key part of home front support. This book draws on the personal experiences of actual military mothers, examining the emotional and physical support they give to their military members and the impact of that support on political participation.

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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power This book analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - from the moderate to the radical right parties. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy.

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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power This book analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - from the moderate to the radical right parties. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy.

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Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work explores the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs while analyzing how mothers feel about themselves, each other, and the culture that situates them against one another.

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Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work explores the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs while analyzing how mothers feel about themselves, each other, and the culture that situates them against one another.

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Deborah Merrill, a woman's advocate and Sociology professor at one of our nation's top universities, has been studying the relationship for nearly a decade and, in this book, explains where the difficulty is rooted, how friendly pairs have made it past problems that surface between a man's mother and his wife, and how they became friends.

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MotherScholars Perceptions shares how MotherScholars have achieved success, even amidst a global pandemicboth in redefining their identity and in achieving some semblance of the mythical work-family balance. Readers will gain a renewed sense of passion and vigor while practicing and cultivating gratitude as MotherScholars.

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Just as DNA determines the genetic makeup of every individual, a motif determines individual bio-psycho-social, emotional, and spiritual behaviors and attitudes.

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It is vital that students think independently and critically to tackle the challenges of todays ever-changing world. The book shows how educators can facilitate the learning process by creating, monitoring, and assessing affective deep learning in the contemporary classroom.

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It is vital that students think independently and critically to tackle the challenges of todays ever-changing world. The book shows how educators can facilitate the learning process by creating, monitoring, and assessing affective deep learning in the contemporary classroom.

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Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way contains over 1,000 diverse, original, fun, creative, absurd, challenging questions on reading that will inspire adolescent reading lives from the inside out. The four books of questions contained i...