Social Science : Gender Studies

1. Foucaultian Method: A New Tale to Tell. 2. The Family in the Tower: The Triumph of Levittown and the Production of a New Whiteness. 3. Boys Will Be Boys: Disciplinary Power and the Production of Gender. 4. Of Monkeys and Men: Biopower and the Production of Race. 5. Thinking Gender, Thinking Race more...

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About the Contributors. Transciption Conventions. 1. Introduction: Family Talk, Shari Kendall. Part 1: Interactional Dynamics: Power and Solidarity. 2. Power Maneuvers and Connection Maneuvers in Family Interaction, Deborah Tannen. 3. Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse, Deborah Tannen. 4. "I Feel Just Horribly Embarrassed When She Does That": Constituting a Mother's Identity, Cyntha Gordon. 5. Finding the Right Balance between Connection and Control: A Father's Identity Construction in Conversations with His College-Age Daughter, Diana Marinova. Part II: Gendered Identities in Dual-Income Families. 6. Father as Breadwinner, Mother as Worker: Gendered Positions in Feminist and Traditional Discourses of Work and Family, Shari Kendall. 7. Gatekeeping in the Family: How Family Members Position One Another as Decision Makers, Alexandra Johnson. 8. A Working Father: One Man's Talk About Parenting at Work, Cynthia Gordon, Deborah Tannen, Aliza Sacknovitz. Part III: Family Values and Beliefs. 9. "Al Gore's Our Guy": Linguistically Constructing a Family Political Identity, Cynthia Gordon. 10. Sharing Common Ground: The Role of Place Reference in Parent-Child Conversation, Philip LeVine. 11. Family Members Interacting While Watching TV, Alla V. Tovares. Index more...

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This book provides the first major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources it charts and explains crucial shifts in perceptions of marital infidelity and the development of a more rational understanding of adultery. more...

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In Fathering through Sport and Leisure , an underrepresented and highly topical area of social study is examined. This is a book about fathers, and how we can understand fathers and their fathering practices better if we examine the role of sport and leisure in their relationships with their children and their partners. The author’s clear and interdisciplinary approach makes this volume an invaluable resource for undergraduates and scholars in the fields of leisure studies, family studies, sociology of the family, and the sociology of sport. more...

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A comprehensive examination of the evidence for functional differences between the male and female brain in an accessible and straightforward manner, whilst at the same time, providing substantial scientific material for the academic reader. more...

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