1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781258303321

Autore

Adams Tony E.

Titolo

Narrating the closet : an autoethnography of same-sex attraction / / Tony E. Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42371-5

1-315-42372-3

1-315-42373-1

1-61132-565-X

1-59874-621-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Writing lives--ethnographic narratives

Disciplina

306.76/6

Soggetti

Male homosexuality

Gay couples

Ethnology - Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. Coming Out Matters; 2. Learning the Closet: The Time of "Coming In"; 3. Living (in) the Closet: The Time of "Being Closeted"; 4. Leaving the Closet: The Time of "Coming Out"; 5. Paradoxes of the Closet; 6. Making Change, Writing Hope; Epilogue; Appendix: Notes on Method, Criticism, and Representation; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Motivated by the death of his partner, Adams seeks to redefine the closet as a relational construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage-entering it, inhabiting it, and coming out of it-and strategies are offered for reframing difficult closet experiences. Adams makes use of interviews, personal narratives, and autoethnography to analyze lived, relational experiences of sexuality. This is a must have for scholars and students of gender studies, qualitative research, and for any reader who has felt the closet's reach.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792224803321

Autore

Berrick Jill Duerr

Titolo

Faces of poverty [[electronic resource] ] : portraits of women and children on welfare / / Jill Duerr Berrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

1-280-52944-X

0-19-509754-8

1-4294-1576-2

0-19-802581-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

362.5/0973

Soggetti

Poor women - United States

Poor children - United States

Welfare recipients - United States

Public welfare - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Living Poverty -- 1. What Is Welfare? -- 2. Ana: Caught in Circumstances Beyond Her Control -- 3. Sandy: Working but Poor -- 4. Rebecca: Motivation and a Fighting Spirit -- 5. Darlene: Complex People, Complex Problems -- 6. Cora: A Portrait of Dependency -- 7. Finding a Better Way.

Sommario/riassunto

Most Americans are insulated from the poor; it's hard to imagine the challenges of poverty, the daily fears of crime and victimization, the frustration of not being able to provide for a child. Instead, we are often exposed to the rhetoric and hyperbole about the excesses of the American welfare system. These messages color our perception of the welfare problem in the United States and they close the American mind to a full understanding of the complexity of family poverty. But who are these poor families? What do we know about how they arrived in such desperate straits? Is poverty their fate