Taking a lived religion approach that draws on extensive ethnographic research on abortion debates in public spaces, Anti-Abortion Activism in the UK explores the sacred and profane commitments of anti-abortion activists and counter-demonstrations o...Loe edasi...
What is ninkatsu? Who promotes and governs this active pursuit of pregnancy? Trying to answer these questions, this unprecedented publication exhibits how mass media, policymakers, and biomedical science-corporate capitalism govern the individuals r...Loe edasi...
Women have been fighting for control over their bodies for thousands of years. From Neolithic hunter-gatherers to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, this is their story....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593736296)
A roadmap to breaking free from the harm that digital technology does to kids and reclaiming the beauty, wonder, and true purpose of childhood—by a leading tech policy expertIts no secret that addictive digital technologies like smart...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198926207)
Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins, 1974–2023 is a saga covering more than four decades of interactions with an untouchable caste--the Dhobis (washermen and washerwomen), who are among Delhis oldest inhabitant...Loe edasi...
First published in 1994, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy. Skilfully interweaving feminist theory, French literary criticism, social and cultural h...Loe edasi...
Lee L. Bean, Geraldine P. Mineau, Douglas L. Anderton
Sari: Studies in Demography
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520414433)
With findings that challenge conventional wisdom, Fertility Change on the American Frontier will interest demographers, sociologists, and historians. Examining the marriage and childbearing behavior of one predominantly L.D.S. (Mormon) po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197659144)
The New Suburbia explores how the suburbs transitioned from bastions of segregation into spaces of multiracial living. They are the second generation of suburbs after 1945, moving from starkly segregated whiteness into a more varied, uneven social l...Loe edasi...
Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney explains why parenting is harder and children are less happy than a generation ago-- The best-selling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same ques...Loe edasi...
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers.Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwif...Loe edasi...
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Esmée Sinéad Hanna and Brendan Gough examine mens experiences of fertility and lifestyle practices, exploring personal experiences of the role of lifestyle in the quest for conception as well as the broader promotion of lifestyle within both clinica...Loe edasi...
What is expected of 21st Century egg and sperm donors, and how does being a donor impact on men and women’s own personal lives and relationships? How do donors navigate connections and relationships created by donation? What do these co...Loe edasi...
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Work compiled here stems from a workshop held at Lake Geneva in November 2019, hosted by the Fondation Brocher. Contributors in reproductive sociology, public health, medical anthropology, biomedicine, and medical sociology investigate ethical, l...Loe edasi...
All human beings are born and all human beings die. In these two ways we are finite: our lives begin and our lives come to an end. Historically philosophers have concentrated attention on our mortality—and comparatively little has been said about bei...Loe edasi...
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Authors Pam Lowe and Sarah-Jane Page (sociology, Aston University) report on a five-year ethnographic study on abortion debates in public spaces in the UK. They seek to understand the methods and motives of anti-abortion activists in the UK, draw...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of London Press, ISBN-13: 9781914477058)
A history of childbirth in the eighteenth century as told by women. This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the center of the story. Examining chi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of London Press, ISBN-13: 9781914477065)
A history of childbirth in the eighteenth century as told by women. This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the center of the story. Examining chi...Loe edasi...
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In a collection of ethnographic studies from multiple countries, anthropologists explore the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197600436)
A detailed story of how social science contributed to gay rights gains in the courts.For most of American history, public opinion was strongly opposed to gay rights. Marriage equality had negligible public support throughout...Loe edasi...
A detailed story of how social science contributed to gay rights gains in the courts.For most of American history, public opinion was strongly opposed to gay rights. Marriage equality had negligible public support throughout...Loe edasi...
