Heading Home

Author : Shani Orgad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545630
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by Shani Orgad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government champion women’s empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women—lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others—give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society? Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women’s experience of continued injustice. Shani Orgad draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Despite identifying the structural forces that maintain gender inequality, these women still struggle to articulate their decisions outside the narrow cultural ideals that devalue motherhood and individualize success and failure. Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how—even as their experiences fly in the face of fantasies of work-life balance and marriage as an egalitarian partnership—these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them. Rather than calling for women to transform their feelings and behavior, Heading Home argues that we must unmute and amplify women’s desire, disappointment, and rage, and demand social infrastructure that will bring about long-overdue equality both at work and at home.

Author : Paul Tsongas
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by Paul Tsongas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Glenn Wilson
Publisher : Lucid Books
ISBN 13 : 1935909312
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Headed Home written by Glenn Wilson and published by Lucid Books. This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson, a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in 1980, played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball. Injuries and disappointment shortened his career, and when investments soured causing business ventures to fail, he found himself living in pain and misery. In that pain, he came to know what it meant to truly have a relationship with God.

Author : Laura A. Jana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781581104448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home with Your Newborn written by Laura A. Jana and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive guide to caring for newborns, and contains information on health care, feeding, sleeping habits, traveling, sickness, and more.

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Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847818891
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kid's baseball is a special time and place for kids all over America. On baseball diamonds behind schools, in the middle of cities, and in suburban parks all over the country, boys and girls from all walks of life meet to play the nation's favorite sport. Coached and encouraged by their dedicated parents, these kids enjoy the game in its purest, simplest, and most innocent form. The essence of neighborhood baseball is captured in this collection of photographs by Harry Connolly. Selected from over 5,000 images shot over five years, these beautiful duotone photographs show the unguarded emotions of the young players, their coaches, and their parents - victory, defeat, love, and most of all, pride. Best-selling novelist Stephen King introduces the photographs with a compelling essay about his own Little League experience as part-time coach and full-time scorekeeper for his son's team, which went to the Maine state championships. Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken, Jr.'s foreword is a warm, personal account of the star's own Little League lessons, failures, and triumphs.

Author : Kent Stock
Publisher : Arrow Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781886296541
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading for Home written by Kent Stock and published by Arrow Publications. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People who witnessed this true story still can't believe what happened. It was so inspiring that Hollywood came calling and retold the story of a small school's baseball team in the motion picture "The Final Season." It's about family, about faith being tested and affirmed; it rings with the truth that if you never give up, incredible things can happen. Sean Astin, the star of "Rudy" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, played Coach Kent Stock in this movie filmed mostly in eastern Iowa.

Author : Renee Riva
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 9780781404389
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by Renee Riva and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight years, A.J. Degulio has been itching to get back to her beloved Indian Island. It’s home. But a lot has changed: Sailor moves slower, Danny has grown into a man ... and A.J. has a promise to keep but it doesn’t include Danny. When Danny discovers the truth, he’s shocked and hurt. But he won’t stand in the way of what she really wants. What’s a girl to do? She wants to keep her promise and Danny. But Danny has plans of his own. Can they work it out? It will take compromise and laughter before Danny and A.J. figure out that home is more than a place on the map. It’s a place in the heart.

Author : Naomi Reed
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
ISBN 13 : 1780780419
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by Naomi Reed and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Naomi Reed's award-winning trilogy, following on from My Seventh Monsoon and No Ordinary View. 'In Nepal, whenever the water ran out, or the electricity cuts were worse than normal, or the monsoon seemed interminably long, or the motorbike stopped, or the Maoists forced another strike, or my home-school patience ran out, I would think about Australia. I would think about our real home with hot water and electricity and cheese and lettuce and chocolate and olives and friends ... where I would belong and be understood and known and everything would be alright again. Then, in the middle of 2006 we returned to Australia and it wasn't like that at all. It wasn't immediately home and I didn't immediately feel like I belonged or that I was understood or known. And I spent years wondering why not, and getting confused by the answers.' This is a book for anyone who has felt the pain of being in between homes or jobs or countries or roles or relationships. It's about our deep-seated human need to belong and enjoy purpose and community. After their six years in Nepal, Naomi Reed and her husband Darren and their three sons returned from Nepal to Australia and struggled with identity and disorientation. In this, Naomi's fifth book, she shares her story honestly and openly, allowing the narrative to lead the reader into prayer and reflection. By the end of it, you will feel a deeper and more profound understanding of what it means to belong to God and hope for heaven.

Author : John Malone
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615152392
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by John Malone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel based on the true story of Tom and Roxa Malone, residents of the Ohio River Valley in the nineteenth century. In 1862, Tom tries to enlist in the Pennsylvania Volunteers but is rejected because he is too young. Two years later Tom goes to work asa

Author : Karl Gibbons
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 154340958X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by Karl Gibbons and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnathon and Bib returned home to Australia separately. Both were wounded physically and emotionally, neither one knowing if their friend had survived the war. Bib had their plane and Ruth to eventually help him cope with civilian life back on the farm. Johnathon wandered around lost for some time until he discovered how inadequate the orthopedic treatment was for the wounded veterans. He decided he had to do something and threw himself in a career in medicine. The long hours and heavy workload seemed to quieten the demons he carried inside since the war. A chance meeting many years later reignited their friendship, their family and friends learning about their university life in England before enlisting in the British air force at the start of the Second World War. Johnathon went on to become a highly decorated pilot but would notor, in his own words, could notaccept he was a war hero. As the stories started to unfold, it was only then Elizabeth became aware of how troubled Johnathon had been since he returned from the war. The decision to return the plane and the ashes of their friend Tom home to England was to give the two friends a chance to visit old haunts and deal with the memories and emotions they had harbored for many years.