1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465476703321

Autore

Villalobos Ana

Titolo

Motherload : Making It All Better in Insecure Times / / Ana Villalobos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95972-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

306.874 3

Soggetti

Motherhood

Mother and child

Security (Psychology) in children

Security (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Shielding and Antidote Strategies -- 3. Compensatory Connection Strategy -- 4. Light- Motherload Connection -- 5. Inoculation Strategy -- 6. Friendship Strategy -- 7. Light- Motherload Independence -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Research Participants -- Appendix B. Research Methods -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a time of economic anxiety, fear of terrorism, and marital uncertainty, insecurity has become a big part of life for many American mothers. With bases of security far from guaranteed, mothers are often seeking something they can count on. In this beautifully written and accessible book, Ana Villalobos shows how mothers frequently rely on the one thing that seems sure to them: the mother-child relationship. Based on over one hundred interviews with and observations of mothers-single or married, but all experiencing varying forms of insecurity in their lives-Villalobos finds that mothers overwhelmingly expect the mothering relationship to "make it all better" for themselves and their children. But there is a price to pay for loading this single relationship with such high expectations. Using detailed case studies, Villalobos shows how women's Herculean attempts to create various



kinds of security through mothering often backfire, thereby exhausting mothers, deflecting their focus from other possible sources of security, and creating more stress. That stress is further exacerbated by dominant ideals about "good" mothering-ideals that are fraught with societal pressures and expectations that reach well beyond what mothers can actually do for their children. Pointing to hopeful alternatives, Villalobos shows how more realistic expectations about motherhood lead remarkably to greater security in families by prompting mothers to cast broader security nets, making conditions less stressful and-just as significantly-bringing greater joy in mothering.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337942903321

Titolo

Movement Ecology of Neotropical Forest Mammals : Focus on Social Animals / / edited by Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Colin A. Chapman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-03463-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages)

Disciplina

591.1852

573.79

Soggetti

Animal ecology

Biotic communities

Conservation biology

Ecology

Biodiversity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- 1. Why Movement Ecology Matters -- 2. The Impact of Hurricane Otto on Baird’s Tapir Movement in Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve -- 3. White-lipped peccary home-range size in the Maya Forest of Guatemala and México -- 4. White-lipped peccary movement and range in agricultural lands of Central Brazil -- 5.



Movements of White-Lipped Peccary in French Guiana -- 6. Spatial ecology of a large and endangered tropical mammal: the White-lipped Peccary in Darién, Panama -- 7. Movements of Neotropical Forest Deer, what do we know? -- 8. Daily traveled distances by the white-tailed deer in relation to seasonality and reproductive phenology in a tropical lowland of southeastern Mexico -- 9. Terrestrial locomotion and other adaptive behaviors in howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra) living in forest fragments -- 10. Variation in space use and social cohesion within and between four groups of woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) in relation to fruit availability and mating opportunities at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Ecuador -- 11. Home Range and Daily Traveled Distances of Highland Colombian Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix lagothricha lugens): Comparing Spatial Data from GPS-collars and Direct Follows -- 12. Ranging responses to fruit and arthropod availability by a tufted capuchin group (Sapajus apella) in the Colombian Amazon -- 13. Insights of the movements of the jaguar in the tropical forests of southern Mexico -- 14. Movements and home range of Jaguars (Panthera onca) and Mountain lions (Puma concolor) in a tropical dry forest of Western Mexico -- 15. Next moves: The future of Neotropical mammals movement ecology.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings a unique perspective to animal movement studies because all cases came from tropical environments where the great diversity, either biological and structurally (trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes), presents the animal with several options to fulfill its live requirements. These conditions have forced the evolution of unique movement patterns and ecological strategies. Movement is an essential process in the life of all organisms. Animals move because they are hungry, thirsty, to avoid being eaten, or because they want to find mates. Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement is not an easy task for behavioural ecologists. Many animals are shy, move in secretive ways and are very sensible to human presence, therefore, studying the movements of mammals in tropical environments present logistical and methodological challenges that have recently started to be solved by ecologist around the world. In this book we are compiling a set of extraordinary cases where researchers have used some of the modern technology and the strongest methodological approaches to understand movement patterns in wild tropical mammals. We hope this book will inspire and encourage young researchers to investigate wild mammal´s movements in some of the amazing tropical environments of the world. .