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Mothers of Adult Children

by Jasmina Tešanovic, Susan Duenke, Nancy Gerber, Trish Green, Tabitha Holmes, Elizabeth Hormann, Sandra Jarvie, Elzbieta Korolczuk, Alison Nash, Chrissie Rogers, Linda White, Mary Woodville, Mirna E. Carranza, Deborah M. Merrill, Ethel Morgan Smith, Anna Karin Kingston Kingston ...

Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that this is the point in which their relationships with their children must drastically change. Mothers often come to terms with the changes by accepting differences and providing moral and emotional support ... Read more

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Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. Mothers from around the world learn that this is the point in which their relationships with their children must drastically change. Mothers often come to terms with the changes by accepting differences and providing moral and emotional support
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Natural Burial

Landscape, Practice and Experience

by Andy Clayden, Trish Green, Jenny Hockey, Mark Powell ...

This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened there is an opportunity to reflect on how a concept for a very different approach to caring for our dead has become a reality: new providers, new landscapes and a hybrid of new and traditional rituals. In this short time the natural burial movement ... Read more

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This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened there is an opportunity to reflect on how a concept for a very different approach to caring for our dead has become a reality: new providers, new landscapes and a hybrid of new and traditional rituals. In this short time the natural burial movement
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Motherhood, Absence and Transition

When Adult Children Leave Home

by Trish Green ...

The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focused on women’s experiences of the early years of mothering, while texts covering the topic of home-leaving have tended to privilege the young person's experience. Combining lively empirical material with an illuminating social-theoretical framework, Trish Green's book addresses the much neglected area of the mother's experience of ... Read more

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The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focused on women’s experiences of the early years of mothering, while texts covering the topic of home-leaving have tended to privilege the young person's experience. Combining lively empirical material with an illuminating social-theoretical framework, Trish Green's book addresses the much neglected area of the mother's experience of
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An Introduction to Social Work Theory

by David Howe ...

Social workers need to recognize the critical role that theory plays both in the way they make sense of what is going on and in the way they order their work. Such recognition clarifies practice for both the worker and the client. David Howe's classic text provides a framework to help social workers develop an understanding of the theories which inescapably underpin their thoughts and actions. ... Read more

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Social workers need to recognize the critical role that theory plays both in the way they make sense of what is going on and in the way they order their work. Such recognition clarifies practice for both the worker and the client. David Howe's classic text provides a framework to help social workers develop an understanding of the theories which inescapably underpin their thoughts and actions.
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Formations of Class & Gender

Becoming Respectable

by Bev Skeggs ...

Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power.Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an ... Read more

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Explanations of how identities are constructed are fundamental to contemporary debates in feminism and in cultural and social theory. Formations of Class & Gender demonstrates why class should be featured more prominently in theoretical accounts of gender, identity and power.Beverley Skeggs identifies the neglect of class, and shows how class and gender must be fused together to produce an
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Sibling Identity and Relationships

Sisters and Brothers

by Rosalind Edwards, Lucy Hadfield, Helen Lucey, Melanie Mauthner ...

Series series Relationships and Resources
Sibling Identity and Relationships explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing new insights into sibling identity and relationships. Drawing on social constructionist and psychodynamic perspectives, it discusses who constitutes a sibling, emotional connections and separations, conflict and aggression and how siblings construct and conduct ... Read more

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Sibling Identity and Relationships explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing new insights into sibling identity and relationships. Drawing on social constructionist and psychodynamic perspectives, it discusses who constitutes a sibling, emotional connections and separations, conflict and aggression and how siblings construct and conduct
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Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices

by Fiona Joy Green ...

Explore the evolving landscape of gender-fluid parenting. This collection delves into the complexities and rewards of raising children beyond traditional gender norms, offering insights for parents, educators, and anyone interested in fostering a more inclusive world.Chasing Rainbows examines the challenges and triumphs of feminist parenting, gender expression, and social justice within families. ... Read more

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Explore the evolving landscape of gender-fluid parenting. This collection delves into the complexities and rewards of raising children beyond traditional gender norms, offering insights for parents, educators, and anyone interested in fostering a more inclusive world.Chasing Rainbows examines the challenges and triumphs of feminist parenting, gender expression, and social justice within families.
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Critical Language Awareness

by Norman Fairclough ...

Series series Real Language Series
The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in developing a more rigorous and critical theoretical underpinning for what language awareness is and should do. In particular, it argues that there needs to be a greater awareness of the social and political ... Read more

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The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in developing a more rigorous and critical theoretical underpinning for what language awareness is and should do. In particular, it argues that there needs to be a greater awareness of the social and political
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Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies

Applying Post-Structural Ideas

by Glenda Mac Naughton ...

Series series Contesting Early Childhood
The theories and analyses of post-structural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. In recent years, however, many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important and this fascinating book brings together a range of research and case-studies showing how teachers and researchers have brought post-structuralism to ... Read more

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The theories and analyses of post-structural thinkers such as Michel Foucault can seem a long way from practice in early childhood services. In recent years, however, many early childhood researchers and practitioners have found this work important and this fascinating book brings together a range of research and case-studies showing how teachers and researchers have brought post-structuralism to
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Autoethnography as Feminist Method

Sensitising the feminist 'I'

by Elizabeth Ettorre ...

Autoethnography is an ideal method to study the ‘feminist I’. Through personal stories, the author reflects on how feminists negotiate agency and the effect this has on one's political sensibilities. Speaking about oneself transforms into stories of political responsibility - a key issue for feminists who function as cultural mediators. ... Read more

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Autoethnography is an ideal method to study the ‘feminist I’. Through personal stories, the author reflects on how feminists negotiate agency and the effect this has on one's political sensibilities. Speaking about oneself transforms into stories of political responsibility - a key issue for feminists who function as cultural mediators.
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Marginalised Mothers

Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting

by Val Gillies ...

Series series Relationships and Resources
Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes for children.Marginalised Mothers provides a detailed and much-needed insight into the lived ... Read more

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Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes for children.Marginalised Mothers provides a detailed and much-needed insight into the lived
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Ethnography in Social Science Practice

Edited by Julie Scott-Jones, Sal Watt ...

Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography’s increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social anthropology, and contextualizes it within both field and disciplinary settings.The book is of two parts: Part one places ethnography as a methodology in ... Read more

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Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography’s increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social anthropology, and contextualizes it within both field and disciplinary settings.The book is of two parts: Part one places ethnography as a methodology in
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