Download or read book The Matrifocal Family written by Raymond T. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection focus attention on the enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations in situations of both racial and gender domination.
Download or read book The Matrifocal Family written by Raymond T. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection focus attention on the enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations in situations of both racial and gender domination.
Download or read book Family in the Caribbean written by Christine Barrow and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the literature on the family, household and conjugal unions in the Caribbean. It is constructed around themes prominent in family studies: definitions of the family, plural and Creole society, social structure, gender roles and relationships, methodology, history, and social change.
Download or read book The Matrifocal Family written by James V. Leatt and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Matrifocal Family Transition Economics and Stress written by George R. Mead and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women as Heads of Households in the Caribbean written by Joycelin Massiah and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Research paper on female headed households in the Caribbean from the perspective of the women - presents a profile by country based on 1970 data showing the marital status and female-men comparisons of educational level, labour force participation and occupation; discusses the origin and high incidence of female-headed one parent families; examines strategies for coping with low income and child care problems, income generating activities, social assistance, alliance formation and serial marriages. Bibliography.
Download or read book Everyone Gets Lifted Up How Matrifocal Families Can Enhance People s Lives and Reduce Systemic Patriarchal Oppressions written by Blythe Alden Collier and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research reveals that, statistically, the most dangerous place for contemporary US women and children is in their own homes, due to violence perpetrated by male intimate partners. Consequently, it is clear the hegemonic (also known as "nuclear") family fails dramatically in providing women and children a healthy, nurturing, and secure environment.This study searches for a safer alternative type of family, by conducting a qualitative exploration of the oral histories of women leading five US matrifocal families. Next, these families are compared to the households of modern matriarchal and matristic societies outside the US, as documented by feminist anthropologists. Several similarities are found, including a far more egalitarian and consensus-based style of self-organization, and widespread diversity and flexibility in family arrangement. Also of interest are the strongly supportive communities that these households tend to encourage. In this manner, matrifocality is revealed as a safe, healthy, and sustainable family style within contemporary US society.Perhaps the most striking finding of this study is the single and dramatic difference between contemporary matrifocal US households, and the households of matriarchal and matristic societies. All the participant US families are scarred by socially sanctioned male violence (primarily occurring before the affected persons join the matrifocal family)-but none of the families in matriarchal and matristic societies have been touched whatsoever by male violence. Also of importance are the emotional, spiritual, and physical healing benefits that participation in a matrifocal family offers these injured individuals.If the family is to finally cease being an internalized, androcentric symbol of the "naturalness" of patriarchy, alternative family types must become more familiar to the US public. Spiritual, egalitarian matrifocality presents courageous women, genderfluid persons, and men with a shared opportunity to eschew the toxic nature of both patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity-by offering what appears to be a kinder, safer, healthier, more generous, and more communitarian way to live.
Download or read book Brave New Families written by Judith Stacey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles. The text explores the boundaries of the American family and the relationship between family and work.
Download or read book A Companion to Gender Studies written by Philomena Essed and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Gender Studies presents a unified and comprehensive vision of its field, and its new directions. It is designed to demonstrate in action the rich interplay between gender and other markers of social position and (dis)privilege, such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Presents a unified and comprehensive vision of gender studies, and its new directions, injecting a much-needed infusion of new ideas into the field; Organized thematically and written in a lucid and lively fashion, each chapter gives insightful consideration to the differing views on its topic, and also clarifies each contributor's own position; Features original contributions from an international panel of leading experts in the field, and is co-edited by the well-known and internationally respected David Theo Goldberg.
Download or read book The Matrifocal Family written by George R. Mead and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matrilineal Kinship written by David Murray Schneider and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Character of Kinship written by Jack Goody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-10-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his editorial introduction, Jack Goody explains that his aim has been to provide 'essays dealing with general themes rather than ethnographic conundrums or descriptive minutiae' in the hope of achieving 're-consideration of some central problem areas including those examined by an earlier generation of anthropologists and still raised by scholars outside the discipline itself'.
Download or read book Family written by David Cheal and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international collection features the most influential scholarship published during the past few decades on the concept of the family and related issues. An invaluable resource for students and researchers alike, the four volumes cover the following themes: Vol. 1: Family Groups Vol. 2: Family and Gender Issues Vol. 3: Family Ties Vol. 4: Family and Society The scope offers an international range of material, and includes key work from the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia, and Asia.
Download or read book Women Without Men written by Jennifer Utrata and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women without Men illuminates Russia’s "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood—frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts—became taken for granted in the New Russia. While most Russians, including single mothers, believe that two-parent families are preferable, many also contend that single motherhood is an inevitable by-product of two intractable problems: "weak men" (reflected, they argue, in the country’s widespread, chronic male alcoholism) and a "weak state" (considered so because of Russia’s unequal economy and poor social services). Among the daily struggles to get by and get ahead, single motherhood, Utrata finds, is seldom considered a tragedy. Utrata begins by tracing the history of the cultural category of "single mother," from the state policies that created this category after World War II, through the demographic trends that contributed to rising rates of single motherhood, to the contemporary tension between the cultural ideal of the two-parent family and the de facto predominance of the matrifocal family. Providing a vivid narrative of the experiences not only of single mothers themselves but also of the grandmothers, other family members, and nonresident fathers who play roles in their lives, Women without Men maps the Russian family against the country’s profound postwar social disruptions and dislocations.
Download or read book Quest for Harmony written by Chuan-kang Shih and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult population practice a visiting system called tisese instead of marriage as the normal sexual and reproductive institution. Until recently, tisese was noncontractual, nonobligatory, and nonexclusive. Partners lived and worked in separate households. The only prerequisite for a tisese relationship was a mutual agreement between the man and the woman to allow sexual access to each other. In a comprehensive account, Quest for Harmony explores this unique practice specifically, and offers thorough documentation, fine-grained analysis, and an engaging discussion of the people, history, and structure of Moso society. Drawing on the author's extensive fieldwork, conducted from 1987 to 2006, this is the first ethnography of the Moso written in English.
Download or read book The Second Shift written by Arlie Hochschild and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than thirty years after its original publication. Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, The Second Shift. Hochschild's examination of life in dual-career housholds finds that, factoring in paid work, child care, and housework, working mothers put in one month of labor more than their spouses do every year. Updated for a workforce that is now half female, this edition cites a range of updated studies and statistics, with an afterword from Hochschild that addresses how far working mothers have come since the book's first publication, and how much farther we all still must go.
Download or read book The Island of Sea Women written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. “This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).
