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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nishimura junko”
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  • Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan

    by Nishimura Junko ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
    This book explores the employment of Japanese women born in the 1960s and 1970s who experienced childbirth and raised children in the 1990s and the early 2000s. During this period, the Japanese economy experienced a severe recession. It has affected the firm-specific internal labour market and on employment practices, which in turn are thought to have greatly influenced Japanese women’s employment ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Family Violence: A Canadian Introduction

    Second Edition

    by Julianne Momirov, Ann Duffy ...
    Family violence is hard for most people to understand. The fact that we are more likely to be killed or assaulted by family members than anyone else seems incredible. Yet for many Canadians the family is a dangerous place, far from the haven of love and security that we would like to believe.In this book, sociologists Julianne Momirov and Ann Duffy explore the many forms that violence can take, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Unhitched

    Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China

    by Judith Stacey ...
    Series Book 7 - NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
    Judith Stacey, 2012 winner of the Simon and Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Sociological Association.A leading expert on the family explores varieties of love and counters the one-size-fits-all vision of family valuesA leading expert on the family, Judith Stacey is known for her provocative research on mainstream issues. Finding herself impatient with increasingly ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Brothers and Sisters

    The Order of Birth in the Family

    by Karl König ...
    Series Book 11 - Karl Konig Archive
    Are you an oldest, middle, youngest or only child? What effect has your birth order had on your life? In this classic work, Karl König attempts to explain the various characteristi of first-, second- and third-born people, without losing sight of the tremendous individuality of the human being. Just as our environment shapes our language, social behaviour and mannerisms, so our place in the family ... Read more

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  • Chinese Kinship

    Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Susanne Brandtstädter, Gonçalo D Santos ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender relations – and vice ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tournaments of Value

    Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town

    by Anne Meneley ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world.Meneley’s data challenges assumptions about the cross-cultural validity of a division between household and community, ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Visions of the 21st Century Family

    Transforming Structures and Identities

    Edited by Patricia Neff Claster, Sampson Lee Blair ...
    Series Book 7 - Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research
    One undeniable fact about families is that they keep changing, both in terms of structure and behavior. Many factors have served to bring about such changes, including social, cultural, political, and institutional change, resulting in family forms which perhaps may represent the new 'traditional' in the not-so-distant future. Through research studies from around the world, this volume examines ... Read more

    $182.89 USD

  • Youth as Architects of Social Change

    Global Efforts to Advance Youth-Driven Innovation

    Edited by Sheri Bastien, Halla B. Holmarsdottir ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection outlines the issues central to youth engagement in research and social innovation. Youth-driven innovation for social change is increasingly recognized as holding potential for the development of sustainable strategies to tackle some of the most pressing global challenges of our time. The contributors provide additional knowledge concerning what actually constitutes an ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Atheist Persona

    Causes and Consequences

    by John J. Pasquini ...
    In the past, as in the present, science has explored the reasons for belief. In recent years, with the rise of categorical, practical, and militant atheism, the scientific and philosophical community has begun studying the worldview of atheism. The Atheist Persona: Causes and Consequences is a summary of the most recent research, by the best of scholars, on the subject of atheism. In an effort to ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Transformations in EU Gender Equality

    From emergence to dismantling

    by Sophie Jacquot ...
    Series series Gender and Politics
    In a context of economic and budgetary crisis, this book presents a long-term analysis of the transformations of EU gender equality. It analyses the mechanisms of construction, consolidation and deconstruction of this policy and questions the effects of its current dismantling. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Parenthood and Open Adoption

    An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

    by Mandi MacDonald ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores what it is like to be involved in contemporary open adoption, characterised by varying forms of contact with birth relatives, from an adoptive parent point of view.The author’s fine-grained interpretative phenomenological analysis of adopters’ accounts reveals the complexity of kinship for those whose most significant relationships are made, unmade and permanently altered ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Written Communication in Family Medicine

    By the Task Force on Professional Communication Skills of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

    Edited by Robert Taylor, K.A. Munning ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This work presents the knowledge and skills necessary for successful written communication in family medicine. It is intended for use by teachers of family medicine who, as part of their academic responsibilities, are called upon to produce written documents in a wide variety of areas. The book has also been written to serve as a resource for leaders presenting faculty development activities in ... Read more

    $49.49 USD