Otherhood

Author : Melanie Notkin
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143191845
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Otherhood written by Melanie Notkin and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie Notkin wants to change our perceptions about childless women. The rise of childless women is one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated social issues of our time. Never previously have more women lived longer before having their first child or remained childless toward the end of their fertility. In the U.S., the level of childlessness of women age forty to forty-four has doubled, from 10 percent in 1976 to 20 percent in 2006. Society assumes that women either are mothers or choose not to be mothers, but waiting for love and marriage—or at least a committed union—before embarking on motherhood seems to be the least acceptable life choice for the modern woman. Nearly half of North American women of childbearing age are childless,a steep rise from 35 percent in 1976. Nevertheless, childless women are perceived as the exception, not the norm. In Otherhood, Melanie Notkin explores this modern phenomenon to understand the reasons for this shift, the social and emotional impact of childlessness, and how this “new normal” will impact social structures in the decades to come. Part anecdotal storytelling, part inspirational, part reportage, and part manifesto, Otherhood sets out to get to the heart of the issues, enliven the societal consciousness, and trigger conversation. Notkin offers a very personal take on a trend that affects so many modern women.

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Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pragya Agarwal
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838853197
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (M)otherhood written by Pragya Agarwal and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society’s obsession with women’s bodies and fertility.

Author : Rada Iveković
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Otherhood and Nation written by Rada Iveković and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1154 pages
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Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald Shepherd
Publisher : Pitt Poetry
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Otherhood written by Reginald Shepherd and published by Pitt Poetry. This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth collection from this much-praised poet combines lyricism with experimentation, creating a unique synthesis of passion and linguistic exploration.

Author : Shelly Volsche
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793602484
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voluntarily Childfree written by Shelly Volsche and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voluntarily Childfree: Identity and Kinship in the United States discusses what it means to make a life worth living without traditional parenthood. Themes include authenticity and autonomy, partnership and support, fulfillment of the need to nurture, freedom of choice, and a desire to leave the world a better place than we found it. Despite the stigmas of selfishness and solitude, the voices in Voluntarily Childfree speak poignantly of their commitment to a different type of family that includes romantic partners, friends, pets, and future generations through mentorship and leadership opportunities. At its core, the human desire to connect and be heard remains, regardless of the decision to reproduce or not. This book is recommended for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and psychology.

Author : Isiah Lavender
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005132
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race in American Science Fiction written by Isiah Lavender and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of Blackness and race in the predominantly White genre. Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre’s narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science fiction contextualize race within the genre’s better-known master narratives and agendas. Authors discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among many others. “Critically ambitious. . . . Isiah Lavender spurs a direct conversation about race and racism in science fiction.” —De Witt Douglas Kilgore, author of Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space

Author : Brian Atterby
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081957368X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parabolas of Science Fiction written by Brian Atterby and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays about the inherently collaborative nature of science fiction As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore how the field of science fiction has developed as a complex of repetitions, influences, arguments, and broad conversations. This particular feature of the genre has been the source of much critical commentary, most notably through growing interest in the "sf megatext," a continually expanding archive of shared images, situations, plots, characters, settings, and themes found in science fiction across media. Contributors include Jane Donawerth, Terry Dowling, L. Timmel Duchamp, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Pawel Frelik, David M. Higgins, Amy J. Ransom, John Rieder, Nicholas Ruddick, Graham Sleight, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.

Author : C.A. Gregory
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135299412
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Money written by C.A. Gregory and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is not simply another general theory of world system. It is a theoretically and ethnographically informed collection of essays which opens up new questions through an examination of concrete cases, covering global and local questions of political economy.