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UNINA9910785593503321 |
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Autore |
Dewey Susan |
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Titolo |
Neon Wasteland : On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town / / Susan Dewey |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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1-283-27756-5 |
9786613277565 |
0-520-94831-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Sex industry - Social aspects - Northeastern States |
Women dancers - Social conditions - Northeastern states |
Women - Family relationships - Northeastern States |
Women - Northeastern States |
Self-perception in women - Northeastern States |
Femininity |
Northeastern States Social conditions |
Northeastern States Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Feminized Labor and the Classed Body -- 3. Everyday Survival Strategies -- 4. Being a Good Mother in a "Bad" Profession -- 5. Pseudointimacy and Romantic Love -- 6. Calculating Risks, Surviving Danger -- 7. Body Work and the Feminization of Poverty -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey |
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investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, Neon Wasteland shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies. |
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UNINA9910984696103321 |
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Autore |
Zerubavel Eviatar |
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Titolo |
Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity, and community / / Eviatar Zerubavel |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012 |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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9786613348869 |
9781283348867 |
1283348861 |
9780199773985 |
019977398X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
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Genealogy - Social aspects |
Genealogy - Psychological aspects |
Genealogy - Political aspects |
Families |
Kinship |
Heredity |
Genealogia |
Família |
Parentiu |
Herència (Biologia) |
Llibres electrònics |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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The genealogical imagination -- Ancestry and descent -- Lineage -- Pedigree -- Origins -- Co-descent -- Kinship -- Community and identity -- Nature and culture -- Blood -- Nature or culture? -- The rules of genealogical lineation -- The rules of genealogical delineation -- The politics of descent -- Stretching -- Cutting and pasting -- Clipping -- Braiding -- Lumping -- Marginalizing -- Splitting -- Pruning -- The genealogy of the future -- Genealogical engineering -- Integration -- Segregation -- Extinction -- The future of genealogy. |
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Genealogy has long been one of humanity's greatest obsessions. But with the rise of genetics, and increasing media attention to it through programs like Who Do You Think You Are? and Faces of America, we are now told that genetic markers can definitively tell us who we are and where we came from. The problem, writes Eviatar Zerubavel, is that biology does not provide us with the full picture. After all, he asks, why do we consider Barack Obama black even though his mother was white? Why did the Nazis believe that unions of Germans and Jews would produce Jews rather than Germans? |
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