Hard choices : how women decide about work, career, and motherhood / / Kathleen Gerson |
Autore | Gerson Kathleen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1985 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 312 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.4/0973 |
Collana | California series on social choice and political economy |
Soggetto topico |
Women - United States - Social conditions
Mothers - United States - Social conditions Women - Employment - United States - History Mothers - Employment - United States - History Family size - United States - History Women - United States - Psychology |
Soggetto non controllato |
business
childcare childfree childless women economics family commitments family feminism gender roles gender studies gender having it all household labor labor industrial relations labor marriage maternity leave maternity motherhood nonfiction parenting political science sex roles social issues social justice sociology women in the workforce women womens issues womens rights womens studies womens work work and family work life balance working moms working women |
ISBN |
1-282-35528-7
9786612355288 0-520-90813-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Women's Work and Family Decisions: The "Subtle Revolution" in Historical Perspective -- 2. Explaining Women's Behavior: A Theoretical Overview -- 3. Baselines -- 4. Veering Away from Domesticity -- 5. Veering Toward Domesticity -- 6. Homemaking Versus Childlessness -- 7. Combining Work and Motherhood -- 8. The Changing Contours of Women's Place -- 9. The Politics of Parenthood -- APPENDIX A. Tables -- APPENDIX B. Methodology -- APPENDIX C. Sample Characteristics -- APPENDIX D. Interview Schedule -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Hard choices : how women decide about work, career, and motherhood / / Kathleen Gerson |
Autore | Gerson Kathleen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1985 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 312 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.4/0973 |
Collana | California series on social choice and political economy |
Soggetto topico |
Women - United States - Social conditions
Mothers - United States - Social conditions Women - Employment - United States - History Mothers - Employment - United States - History Family size - United States - History Women - United States - Psychology |
Soggetto non controllato |
business
childcare childfree childless women economics family commitments family feminism gender roles gender studies gender having it all household labor labor industrial relations labor marriage maternity leave maternity motherhood nonfiction parenting political science sex roles social issues social justice sociology women in the workforce women womens issues womens rights womens studies womens work work and family work life balance working moms working women |
ISBN |
1-282-35528-7
9786612355288 0-520-90813-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Women's Work and Family Decisions: The "Subtle Revolution" in Historical Perspective -- 2. Explaining Women's Behavior: A Theoretical Overview -- 3. Baselines -- 4. Veering Away from Domesticity -- 5. Veering Toward Domesticity -- 6. Homemaking Versus Childlessness -- 7. Combining Work and Motherhood -- 8. The Changing Contours of Women's Place -- 9. The Politics of Parenthood -- APPENDIX A. Tables -- APPENDIX B. Methodology -- APPENDIX C. Sample Characteristics -- APPENDIX D. Interview Schedule -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821230303321 |
Gerson Kathleen
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Hard to get [[electronic resource] ] : twenty-something women and the paradox of sexual freedom / / Leslie C. Bell |
Autore | Bell Leslie C. <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 176.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Young women - Sexual behavior
Sexual freedom Man-woman relationships Sexual ethics Women - Identity |
Soggetto non controllato |
american women
anthropology candid interviews committed relationship dating engaging family female empowerment feminism gender studies gender intimacy liberated women men and women page turner personal psychology realistic relationships satisfying relationships sexual desire sexual freedom sexuality studies sexuality social science social sociology strong women twenty something women womens issues womens studies young women |
ISBN |
1-283-86035-X
0-520-95448-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Paradox of Sexual Freedom -- Part I. The Sexual Woman -- Part II. The Relational Woman -- Part III. The Desiring Woman -- Appendix I. Splitting -- Appendix II. Clinical Interviewing -- Appendix III. Demographic Information about Respondents -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779362503321 |
Bell Leslie C. <1970->
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Infertility around the globe [[electronic resource] ] : new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies / / edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Frank van Balen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.6/92 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
InhornMarcia Claire <1957->
BalenFrank van |
Soggetto topico |
Infertility - Developing countries
Infertility - Social aspects Infertility - Psychological aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
body politics
childbirth childlessness cultural studies domestic essay collection family issues family life fertility issues gender issues gender globalization health and wellness infertility medical field medical issues pregnancy reproduction reproductive health reproductive technology scientific sexuality social studies technology womens health womens issues |
ISBN |
1-282-35610-0
0-520-92781-8 1-59734-677-2 9786612356100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction. Interpreting Infertility: A View from the Social Sciences -- 2. The Uses of a "Disease": Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle -- 3. Fertile Ground: Feminists Theorize Infertility -- 4. The Psychologization of Infertility -- 5. Infertile Bodies: Medicalization, Metaphor, and Agency -- 6. Deciding Whether to Tell Children about Donor Insemination: An Unresolved Question in the United States -- 7. Conceiving the Happy Family: Infertility and Marital Politics in Northern Vietnam -- 8. Positioning Gender Identity in Narratives of Infertility: South Indian Women's Lives in Context -- 9. Childlessness, Adoption, and Milagros de Dios in Costa Rica -- 10. Problematizing Fertility: "Scientific" Accounts and Chadian Women's Narratives -- 11. Is Infertility an Unrecognized Public Health and Population Problem? The View from the Cameroon Grassfields -- 12. Infertility and Matrilineality: The Exceptional Case of the Macua of Mozambique -- 13. Infertility and Health Care in Countries with Less Resources: Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa -- 14. The "Local" Confronts the "Global": Infertile Bodies and New Reproductive Technologies in Egypt -- 15. Rabbis and Reproduction: The Uses of New Reproductive Technologies among Ultraorthodox Jews in Israel -- 16. The Politics of Making Modern Babies in China: Reproductive Technologies and the "New" Eugenics -- 17. Conception Politics: Medical Egos, Media Spotlights, and the Contest over Test-Tube Firsts in India -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783068603321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Islands in the city [[electronic resource] ] : West Indian migration to New York / / edited by Nancy Foner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/97290747 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FonerNancy <1945-> |
Soggetto topico |
West Indian Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions
West Indian Americans - Race identity - New York (State) - New York Black people - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions Black people - Race identity - New York (State) - New York Immigrants - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
academic afro caribbean blackness career caribbean ethnicity gender studies gender global immigrants immigration indian immigrants islands labor migration national identity new york city new york political politics race issues race racism regional scholarly second generation social networks transnational west indian womens issues womens studies work |
ISBN |
9786612762475
1-59734-688-8 0-520-93580-2 1-282-76247-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York An Overview -- 1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City -- 2. Where New York's West Indians Work -- 3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York -- 4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study -- 5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network -- 6. "Black Like Who?" Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity -- 7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation -- 8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians -- 9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with "Blackness" -- Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782950103321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 | ||
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Japan's total empire [[electronic resource] ] : Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism / / Louise Young |
Autore | Young Louise <1960-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (509 p.) |
Disciplina | 325/.352/09518 |
Collana | Twentieth-century Japan |
Soggetto topico |
Mukden Incident, China, 1931
World politics - 1933-1945 |
Soggetto non controllato |
academia
academic agriculture china colonial colonization controversial cultural history diversity domestic economy empire expansion government imperialism international relations international japan japanese culture japanese expansion japanese history japanese imperialism manchuria mass media military overseas expansion political politics scholarly settlers social history womens issues world history youth groups |
ISBN |
0-585-32982-6
9786613382177 0-520-92315-4 1-283-38217-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Map and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources -- 1. Manchukuo and Japan -- 2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo -- 3. War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media -- 4. Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization -- 5. Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy -- 6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia -- 7. Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire -- 8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth -- 9. Victims of Empire -- 10. The Paradox of Total Empire -- Bibliography -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779971203321 |
Young Louise <1960->
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Japan's total empire : Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism / / Louise Young |
Autore | Young Louise <1960-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (509 p.) |
Disciplina | 325/.352/09518 |
Collana | Twentieth-century Japan |
Soggetto topico |
Mukden Incident, China, 1931
World politics - 1933-1945 |
Soggetto non controllato |
academia
academic agriculture china colonial colonization controversial cultural history diversity domestic economy empire expansion government imperialism international relations international japan japanese culture japanese expansion japanese history japanese imperialism manchuria mass media military overseas expansion political politics scholarly settlers social history womens issues world history youth groups |
ISBN |
0-585-32982-6
9786613382177 0-520-92315-4 1-283-38217-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Map and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources -- 1. Manchukuo and Japan -- 2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo -- 3. War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media -- 4. Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization -- 5. Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy -- 6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia -- 7. Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire -- 8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth -- 9. Victims of Empire -- 10. The Paradox of Total Empire -- Bibliography -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996247917203316 |
Young Louise <1960->
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The maiden of Ludmir [[electronic resource] ] : a Jewish holy woman and her world / / Nathaniel Deutsch ; foreword by Janusz Bardach |
Autore | Deutsch Nathaniel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina | 296.8332092 |
Collana | The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies |
Soggetto topico |
Women rabbis
Zaddikot |
Soggetto non controllato |
biography
charismatic leader community conversion diaspora europe feminism gender roles gender studies gender hasidic hasidism historical women holy women immigration jewish feminism jewish history jewish mysticism jewish women jewish judaica judaism kabbalah ludmir maiden of ludmir maiden marriage martyr migration modernity mysticism nonfiction ottoman empire palestine prophecy rebbe religion religious leaders religious women russia sexuality visions women and religion womens issues yiddishkeit |
ISBN |
0-520-92797-4
1-282-35623-2 9786612356230 1-59734-726-4 |
Classificazione | 11.26 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ansky Visits Ludmir -- 1. A Dybbuk Trilogy, or How the Maiden of Ludmir Became a Literary Figure -- 2. Writing the Maiden -- 3. Afterlives: Remembering the Maiden -- 4. The Curse, the Cossacks, and the Messiah: Ludmir Before the Maiden -- 5. Birth and Childhood -- 6. Love and Death -- 7. The Maiden Possessed -- 8. False Male and Woman Rebbe? -- 9. The Witch-hunt in Ludmir -- 10. The Wedding and Its Aftermath -- 11. In the Holy Land -- Conclusion: Tracing the Maiden -- Afterword: Journey to Ludmir -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780449803321 |
Deutsch Nathaniel
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Making modern mothers [[electronic resource] ] : ethics and family planning in urban greece / / Heather Paxson |
Autore | Paxson Heather <1968-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.42/09495/12 |
Soggetto topico |
Feminist anthropology - Greece - Athens
Women - Greece - Athens - Social conditions Motherhood - Greece - Athens Birth control - Greece - Athens - Public opinion Public opinion - Greece - Athens |
Soggetto non controllato |
abortion
anthropological study anthropologists athens birth control contemporary greece cultural traditions economic struggles ethical issues ethics europe european union falling birth rate family planning femininity fertility control fertility rates gender studies greece greek citizens greek demographics modern motherhood motherhood nonfiction reproductive politics social analysts social cultural urban setting womens issues womens roles |
ISBN |
9786612762918
1-59734-727-2 1-282-76291-5 0-520-93713-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Prologue -- 1. Realizing Nature -- 2. Remaking Mothers -- 3. Rationalizing Sex -- 4. Maternal Citizens -- 5. Technologies of Greek Motherhood -- Appendix 1. Total Fertility Rates, European Union Countries, 1960-2000 -- Appendix 2. Legislation of the Greek State Pertaining to Gender Equality, Marriage, Family, and Reproduction -- Appendix 3. Birthrates, Greece, 1934-1999 -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783037803321 |
Paxson Heather <1968->
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The monster within [[electronic resource] ] : the hidden side of motherhood / / Barbara Almond |
Autore | Almond Barbara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.874/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Motherhood - Psychological aspects
Mother and child - Psychological aspects Love, Maternal - Psychological aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
ambivalence
childbearing childbirth clinicians dark thoughts expecting mothers family therapy gender studies maternal behavior maternity mixed feelings motherhood mothering new mothers nonfiction study nonfiction parenthood parenting positive change pregnancy psyche psychoanalysis psychology self help social taboo therapists therapy uncertainty western society women and children womens issues womens studies |
ISBN |
1-282-66081-0
9786612660818 0-520-94720-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter 1. The Ubiquity of Maternal Ambivalence -- Chapter 2. Motherlove: The Power of Maternal Desire -- Chapter 3. The Subtle Ambivalence of the Too-Good Mother -- Chapter 4. "Before the Beginning": Women's Fears of Monstrous Births -- Chapter 5. Women's Reproductive Fears: More Clinical Examples -- Chapter 6. Rachel's Story: Internalized Ambivalence and the Dangers of Hidden Guilt -- Chapter 7. Whose Fault Is It? The Externalization of Ambivalence -- Chapter 8. When Fears Are Realized -- Chapter 9. From the Child's Point of View -- Chapter 10. Vampyric Mothering: From Stage Moms to Invasive Moms -- Chapter 11. The Darkest Side of Motherhood: Child Murder -- Chapter 12. What Happens Later: The Fate of Maternal Ambivalence -- Chapter 13. What's a Mother to Do? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785191803321 |
Almond Barbara
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