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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Summary & Analysis Preview: As society has experienced the recent deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner through media coverage, it has begun a dialogue regarding the treatment of young men of color and the attitude of law enforcement and lawmakers in regards to the safety and security of the urban black population. Between the World and Me is a letter Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his teenage son, one that describes the tragedy and truth of the black experience and focuses on what it means to be a child and parent in the black.

• Machine generated contents note: 1.Understanding childhood
• An introduction to some key themes and issues / Mary Jane Kehily
• pt. I Studying childhood
• 2.Childhood studies: past, present and future / Martin Woodhead
• 3.The historical construction of childhood / Diana Gittins
• pt. I Activity
• pt. II Sociocultural approaches to childhood
• 4.Constructing childhood sociologically / Chris Jenks
• 5.Developmental psychology and the study of childhood / Valerie Walkerdine
• 6.Anthropological approaches to childhood / Heather Montgomery
• pt. II Activity
• pt. III Policy perspectives on childhood
• 7.Promoting better childhoods: constructions of child concern / Wendy Stainton Rogers
• 8.Children's rights in early childhood / Kylie Smith
• 9.Working with children: an integrated approach / Jane Read
• pt. III Activity
• pt. IV Emergent Issues --

• Note continued: 10.New media, new markets, new childhoods? Children's changing cultural environment In the age of digital technology / David Buckingham
• 11.Lost innocence? The sexualization of childhood / Naomi Holford
• 12.Children In armed conflict / David M. Rosen
• pt. IV Activity
• 13.The future of childhood: crisis, cyclical concern or accommodation? / Mary Jane Kehily.

• Structuralizing nostalgia in Akanland : the House of Israel of Ghana
• Online spiritual volition : the Internet Jews of Cameroon
• Political revivalism as religious practice : the Children of Ephraim of India.

In the last century, the tragic events of the Holocaust and the subsequent founding of the state of Israel brought about tremendous changes for Jewish communities all over the world. This book explores what may be the next watershed moment for the Jews: the inclusion of millions of people from developing nations who self-define as Jewish but who have no historical ties with established centres of Jewish life. These emerging groups bring expanding notions of what it means to be Jewish. This comparative ethnographic study, the first of its kind, presents in-depth analyses of the backgrounds, motivations, and sociohistorical contexts of emerging Jewish communities in Cameroon, Ghana, India, and other postcolonial locales. It investigates the ramifications of these new movements for the larger Judeo-Christian world, particularly with regard to issues of multiculturalism, immigration, race relations, and messianic expectations concerning the prophecy of Isaiah 11:12, according to which God will "assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather together the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.".
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• Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cosmopolitan Obstetrics and Women's Lived Realities;
• 1. Integrating Western Medicine and Local Practice: Contributions of a Mission-Based Maternity Clinic to Maternal and Child Health in the Lower Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea;
• 2. Second Chance: Caring for Infected Mothers and Their Children in Mendi, Papua New Guinea;
• 3. Faith, Hope, and Charity: Barriers to Condom Use among Women in Southern Malawi

• 4. Shortages, Priorities, and Maternal Health: Muddled Kastom and the Changing Status of Women in Malaita, Solomon Islands5. Maternal Health (In)Equity in Mursi (Mun), Southern Ethiopia: Behind the Hype of "Harmful Cultural Practices";
• 6. Maternal Health Services Miss the Mark: An Ethnographic Case Study in Rural Ghana;
• 7. Giving Birth in Douala, Cameroon: A Real Challenge;
• 8. Throwing the Mother Out with the Bathwater: Vanuatu's Breastfeeding Initiative in Theory and Practice;
• 9. Reproductive Anomalies in the Marshall Islands

In the year 2000, United Nations world leaders set out eight targets, the UN Millennium Development Goals, for achieving improved standards of living at the micro level in poorer nations around the globe, by the year 2015. The papers in this collection present fine-detailed ethnographic studies of cultures in Africa and Oceania, with a focus primarily on MDG 3, targeted to ""promote gender equality and empower women"" and MDG 5, targeted to ""improve maternal health"" to ascertain whether or not these goals have made or missed their mark. Ethnographic case studies located in Solomon Islands, M.

• Contents
• Preface
• Nancy Tuana Acknowledgments
• 1 Locations and Legacies: Reading Mary Astell and Re-Reading the Canon Penny A. Weiss
• 2 Mary Astell and the Virtues Jacqueline Broad
• 3 Mary Astell's Account of Feminine Self-Esteem Kathleen A. Ahearn
• 4 Mary Astell and the Development of Vice: Pride, Courtship, and the Woman's Human Nature Question Alice Sowaal
• 5 Custom, Freedom, and Equality: Mary Astell on Marriage and Women's Education Karen Detlefsen
• 6 Further Reflections upon Marriage: Mary Astell and Sarah Chapone Susan Paterson Glover
• 7 Mary Astell: Some Reflections upon Trauma Elisabeth Hedrick Moser
• 8 "From the Throne to Every Private Family": Mary Astell as Analyst of Power Penny A. Weiss
• 9 Mary Astell's Feminism: A Rhetorical Perspective Christine Mason Sutherland
• 10 Mary Astell on the Existence and Nature of God Marcy P. Lascano
• 11 The Emerging Picture of Mary Astell's Views Alice Sowaal
• References Index.
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Often referred to as a proto-feminist, early modern English philosopher and rhetorician Mary Astell was a pious supporter of monarchy who wrote about gender equality at a time when society tightly constrained female agency. This diverse collection of essays situates her ideas in feminist, historical, and philosophical contexts. Focusing on Astell's work and thought, this book explores the degree to which she can be considered a "feminist" in light of her adherence to Cartesianism, Christian theology, and Tory politics. The contributors explore the philosophical underpinnings of Astell's outspoken advocacy for the autonomy and education of women; examine the intricacies underlying her theories of power, community, and female resistance to unlawful authority; and reveal the similarities between her own philosophy of gender and sexual politics and feminist theorizing today. A broad-ranging look at one of the most important female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this volume will be especially valuable to students and scholars of feminist history and philosophy and the early modern era. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Kathleen A. Ahearn, Jacqueline Broad, Karen Detlefsen, Susan Paterson Glover, Marcy P. Lascano, Elisabeth Hedrick Moser, Christine Mason Sutherland, and Nancy Tuana.
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• 1. Focusing on Galicia
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• 2. New views
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• 3. Reviews.

• Preface-- Women & Girls of Color: Addressing Challenges & Expanding Opportunity-- Fulfilling Americas Future: Latinas in the U.S., 2015-- Index.
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In recent years, on indicators ranging from educational attainment to economic security to health and well-being, women and girls of color have made tremendous progress. The number of businesses owned by women of color has skyrocketed, and women of color have ascended to the upper ranks of workplaces across industries. Teen pregnancy rates for girls of color have plummeted, and high school and college graduation rates have risen. Yet, these achievements may obscure the very real challenges and disparities that persist for women and girls of color. Girls of color still lag behind in their performance on standardized tests, and they are more likely to be suspended from school. Women and girls of color still face higher rates of poverty and receive lower wages for their work than their white peers, and they are more likely to become involved in the criminal justice system. Women of color still have some of the highest rates of heart disease, obesity, diabetes and other serious conditions, and they experience high rates of domestic violence. And when women are the primary or sole breadwinners for nearly half of all households of color, these disparities do not just affect them, but their families and communities as well. This book addresses challenges and discusses expanding opportunity for women and girls of colour.
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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: Imagining Woman
• 1 Body, Mind and Spirit
• 2 Learning to be a Woman
• Part II: Private Lives, Public Worlds
• 3 Marriage
• 4 Mothers and Children
• 5 Home, Kinship and Community
• 6 Sex and Sexuality
• 7 Working for a Living
• Part III: Power and Contest
• 8 Politics, Nation and Identity
• 9 Women's Mission to Empire
• 10 First-Wave Feminism
• 11 The Great War
• Notes
• Further Reading.

Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act. From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the contests for woman's identity in the epoch-shaping nineteenth century.
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• Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Education and Development for Rural Women and Girls in China Book Series; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Access, Quality and Empowerment of Girls through Education: Innovations and Experiences in China; Gender, Media and Communication Activism in China; Sexual and Reproductive Health Education and Service for Young People in China; Gender Equality and Empowerment in China: Discourses and Experiences in a Comparative Perspective.

This book reviews the policies and actions taken by Chinese Government, international organizations and NGOs in the past two decades, and aims to reflect and share the experiences and lessons regarding the promotion of girls' education, gender equality in media, and sexuality health education and services for youth with the international community. China's experience in the field of women and girls' education and development has not been adequately summarized and shared. To fill the gap and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 4th World Conference on Women, this book seeks to systematically summarize and disseminate the strategies and good practices regarding women and girls' education and development in China, so as to present national experiences which can be shared by the international community in the promotion of rural women's empowerment and gender equality. The features related to this book are as follows: adoption of gender and development perspective; integration of macro development context and typical case studies; reflection from multidisciplinary approaches; contribution to international concerns and dialogue; and co-authored by a powerful team of local and international experts. It is the first occasion on which a powerful team of Chinese and international authoritative experts and scholars in gender study have gathered to systematically summarize and disseminate China's experience in rural women's and girls' education and development. This book is published in association with UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education.
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• Introduction.
• 1. What is participation?
• 2. What value-ables do I need?
• 3. Connections.
• 4. Space and stuff.
• 5. Further Reading.
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"Participation? Of course we do - every Wednesday without fail..." * What is participation? * What's the difference between 'adult-led' and 'child-led' participation? * And do we really need to do it at all? This second edition of The Busker's Guide to Participation sets out to help us understand our values and reasons for undertaking participation with children and young people. It shows us what authentic participation really looks like, helping us to get to grips with the ways we can positively support, interact, engage, include, involve and communicate with children and young people on all levels. Learn how to move away from simply 'doing' participation for participation's sake, and start to see participation as a 'way of being' for the benefit of everyone involved.
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• 1. The Farm Labor Problem
• 2. Agricultural Labor Demand
• 3. Agricultural Labor Supply: Who Does Farm Work and Who Doesn't?
• 4. Equilibrium and Immigration in the Farm Labor Market
• 5. Labor in an Agricultural Household Model
• 6. Farm Labor and Immigration Policy
• 7. Farm Labor Organizing from Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers to Fair Foods
• 8. The End of Farm Labor Abundance
• 9. Robots in the Fields.
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The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective explores the unique character of agricultural labor markets and the implications for food production, farm worker welfare and advocacy, and immigration policy. Agricultural labor markets differ from other labor markets in fundamental ways related to seasonality and uncertainty, and they evolve differently than other labor markets as economies develop. We weave economic analysis with the history of agricultural labor markets using data and real-world events. The farm labor history of California and the United States is particularly rich, so it plays a central role in the book, but the book has a global perspective ensuring its relevance to Europe and high-income Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide readers with the basics for understanding how farm labor markets work (labor in agricultural household models, farm labor supply and demand, spatial market equilibria); farm labor and immigration policy; farm labor organizing; farm employment and rural poverty; unionization and the United Farm Workers movement; the Fair Food Program as a new approach to collective bargaining; the declining immigrant farm labor supply; and what economic development in relatively low-income countries portends for the future of agriculture in the United States and other high-income countries. The book concludes with a chapter called "Robots in the Fields, " which extrapolates current trends to a perhaps not-so-distant future. The Farm Labor Problem serves as both a guide to policy makers, farmworker advocates and international development organizations and as a textbook for students of agricultural economics and economics.
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This book provides research on the influences, disparities and current issues of socioeconomic status (SES). Chapter One discusses socio-economic status, inequality and academic achievement. Chapter Two reviews literature on socioeconomic variables that predict a child's executive functioning and possible contextual and cognitive variables mediating this association. Chapter Three examines socioeconomic and racial disparities in child health and health outcomes. Chapter Four analyses attitudes toward poverty and the government safety net programs in relationship to income and party affiliation, and investigates theories to better understand the polarised attitudes toward socioeconomic status, inequality and poverty in America. Chapter Five provides a review of three different studies which underpin the proposal of the benefits and pitfalls of high SES. Chapter Six reports the findings of two questionnaire surveys focusing on the effects of socioeconomic status and trait self-control on seeking relationships.
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• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Affiliation of the Authors

Ethnic diversity and solidarity are often thought to be at odds with each other. In an increasingly diverse society, individuals find it more difficult to identify with other citizens and, therefore, are less willing to show solidarity. Empirical tests of the relationship between diversity and solidarity are, however, inconclusive.This book tests the hypothesis that diversity undermines solidarity in various ways. It discusses the meaning of social solidarity and the different motives that people can have to act solidary, and it examines the relationship between ethnic diversity and solidarity.

• Introduction; Part I. Genealogy or Tolerance; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part II. 1700; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part III. Deeds and Words; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Part IV. Against Intolerance, Beyond Tolerance; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names

In the globalized, postmodern world, the production of encounters and crashes between dissimilar cultures, ways of life, and systems of values has drastically increased in number. More and more frequently, they originate harsh conflicts, exhibiting the existence of alternative and apparently incompatible ways of living and thinking - culturally, religiously, economically and politically speaking. In this context, words as tolerance and intolerance have been put at the heart of the political debate. However, what is the real meaning of these political concepts? Why did they originate and how did the developed over time? Do they still represent a valid resource for comprehending our current societies and dealing with them? Through the different voices of several scholars in the humanities, this book traces the history of tolerance since the wars of religion to the contemporary age, combining the historical reconstruction with a theoretical and critical analysis of the idea and practice of tolerance in different epochs and places. The obstacle course depicted here reveals the constitutive fragility of this concept that, however, cannot be totally dismissed from our political vocabulary.
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• The people and language that the Versammlinge celebrate
• Making tradition : the origins and development of the Versammlinge
• "Let us Deitsche be what we are" : the structure of versammling events
• Theatricality : performing tradition
• The message of the Versammlinge : the Reverend Clarence Rahn and the main speech
• Region and nation : contexts for the versammling movement
• The future of Pennsylvania Germans and their Versammlinge.

"Explores Pennsylvania German versammlinge (meetings), where participants celebrate and preserve their heritage and culture. Argues that these gatherings, conducted in the Pennsylvania German Deitsch language, are rooted in American communicative styles that date back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before mass and electronic media"--Provided by publisher.

• Foreword / by Dr. A Breeze Harper
• Black lives, black life / by Syl Ko
• Bringing our digital mops home : a call to black folks to stop cleaning up white folks' intellectual messes online / by Aph Ko
• #allvegansrock : the all lives matter hashtag of veganism / by Aph Ko
• By "human, " everybody just means "white" / by Syl Ko
• Why confusion is necessary for our activism to evolve / by Aph Ko
• Women, beauty, and nature / by Syl Ko
• Emphasizing similarities does nothing for the oppressed / by Syl Ko
• Addressing racism requires addressing the situation of animals / by Syl Ko
• Why black veganism is more than just being black and vegan / by Syl Ko and Aph Ko
• Seven reasons why labels aren't necessarily the root of oppression / by Aph Ko and Syl Ko
• We've reclaimed blackness : now it's time to reclaim "the animal" / by Syl Ko
• Notes from the border of the human/animal divide : thinking and talking about animal oppression when you're not quite human yourself / by Syl Ko
• Vegans of color and respectability politics : when eurocentric veganism is used to rehabilitate minorities / by Aph Ko
• We can avoid the debate about comparing human and animal oppressions if we simply make the right connections / by Syl Ko
• Why animal liberation requires an epistemological revolution / by Aph Ko
• How social media serves as a digital defibrillator for the "American dream" / by Aph Ko
• Re-valuing the human as a way to re-value the animal / by Syl Ko
• Black veganism revisited / by Syl Ko
• Creating new conceptual architecture : on afrofuturism, animality, and unlearning/rewriting ourselves / by Aph Ko
• Afterword by Carol J. Adams.

• Social mobility : processes and consequences
• Post-war Hong Kong : structured opportunities and constraints
• Family strategies for education : from class origin to first job
• Family strategies for career : from first job to current class
• Career strategies of respondents and their siblings : entry and advancement
• Career strategies of respondents : a comparison of teachers and managers
• Inequality within the family
• Summary of part one : towards an explanatory model for social mobility.

Many feminists have believed that government is the natural ally of the women's movement. However, this book demonstrates that the opposite is true: government has long been a major oppressor of women and their rights. Feminism is not a new political forc.
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