Author: Maria Alexandra Lepowsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231081214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
An ethnographic study of how gender is negotiated in Vanatinai, a small matrilineal island near New Guinea.
Fruit of the Motherland
Author: Maria Alexandra Lepowsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231081214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
An ethnographic study of how gender is negotiated in Vanatinai, a small matrilineal island near New Guinea.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231081214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
An ethnographic study of how gender is negotiated in Vanatinai, a small matrilineal island near New Guinea.
Child Survival
Author: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400933932
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy and childhood, definitions of personhood, and beliefs about the soul and its immortality. MOTHER LOVE AND CHILD DEATH Of all the many factors that endanger the lives of young children, by far the most difficult to examine with any degree of dispassionate objectivity is the quality of parenting. Historians and social scientists, no less than the public at large, are influenced by old cultural myths about childhood inno cence and mother love as well as their opposites. The terrible power and significance attributed to maternal behavior (in particular) is a commonsense perception based on the observation that the human infant (specialized as it is for prematurity and prolonged dependency) simply cannot survive for very long without considerable maternal love and care. The infant's life depends, to a very great extent, on the good will of others, but most especially, of course, that of the mother. Consequently, it has been the fate of mothers throughout history to appear in strange and distorted forms. They may appear as larger than life or as invisible; as all-powerful and destructive; or as helpless and angelic. Myths of the maternal instinct compete, historically, witli -myths of a universal infanticidal impulse.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400933932
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
of older children, adults, and the family unit as a whole. These moral evaluations are, in turn, influenced by such external contingencies as popula tion demography, social and economic factors, subsistence strategies, house hold composition, and by cultural ideas concerning the nature of infancy and childhood, definitions of personhood, and beliefs about the soul and its immortality. MOTHER LOVE AND CHILD DEATH Of all the many factors that endanger the lives of young children, by far the most difficult to examine with any degree of dispassionate objectivity is the quality of parenting. Historians and social scientists, no less than the public at large, are influenced by old cultural myths about childhood inno cence and mother love as well as their opposites. The terrible power and significance attributed to maternal behavior (in particular) is a commonsense perception based on the observation that the human infant (specialized as it is for prematurity and prolonged dependency) simply cannot survive for very long without considerable maternal love and care. The infant's life depends, to a very great extent, on the good will of others, but most especially, of course, that of the mother. Consequently, it has been the fate of mothers throughout history to appear in strange and distorted forms. They may appear as larger than life or as invisible; as all-powerful and destructive; or as helpless and angelic. Myths of the maternal instinct compete, historically, witli -myths of a universal infanticidal impulse.
Cloth and Human Experience
Author: Annette B. Weiner
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343847
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Cloth and Human Experience explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production and trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343847
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Cloth and Human Experience explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production and trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations.
Le Pacifique Sud
Author: Frédéric Angleviel
Publisher: Presses Univ de Bordeaux
ISBN: 9782905081179
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher: Presses Univ de Bordeaux
ISBN: 9782905081179
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Fix
Author: Michelle P. King
Publisher: Simon Element / Simon Acumen
ISBN: 1982110929
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In the vein of #Girlboss and Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, discover how to thrive at work from the head of the Global Innovation Coalition for Change at UN Women with this “passionate, practical roadmap for addressing inequality and finally making our workplaces work for women” (Arianna Huffington). For years, we’ve been telling women that in order to succeed at work, they have to change themselves first—lean in, negotiate like a man, don’t act too nice or you’ll never get the corner office. But after sixteen years working with major Fortune 500 companies as a gender equality expert, Michelle King has realized one simple truth—the tired advice of fixing women doesn’t fix anything. The truth is that workplaces are gendered; they were designed by men for men. Because of this, most organizations unconsciously carry the idea of an “ideal worker,” typically a straight, white man who doesn’t have to juggle work and family commitments. Based on King’s research and exclusive interviews with major companies and thought leaders, The Fix reveals why denying the fact that women are held back just because they are women—what she calls gender denial—is the biggest obstacle holding women back at work and outlines the hidden sexism and invisible barriers women encounter at work every day. Women who speak up are seen as pushy. Women who ask for a raise are seen as difficult. Women who spend hours networking don’t get the same career benefits as men do. Because women don’t look like the ideal worker and can’t behave like the ideal worker, they are passed over for promotions, paid less, and pushed out of the workforce, not because they aren’t good enough, but because they aren’t men. In this fascinating and empowering book, King outlines the invisible barriers that hold women back at all stages of their careers, and provides readers with a clear set of takeaways to thrive despite the sexist workplace, as they fight for change from within. Gender equality is not about women, and it is not about men—it is about making workplaces work for everyone. Together, we can fix work, not women.
Publisher: Simon Element / Simon Acumen
ISBN: 1982110929
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In the vein of #Girlboss and Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, discover how to thrive at work from the head of the Global Innovation Coalition for Change at UN Women with this “passionate, practical roadmap for addressing inequality and finally making our workplaces work for women” (Arianna Huffington). For years, we’ve been telling women that in order to succeed at work, they have to change themselves first—lean in, negotiate like a man, don’t act too nice or you’ll never get the corner office. But after sixteen years working with major Fortune 500 companies as a gender equality expert, Michelle King has realized one simple truth—the tired advice of fixing women doesn’t fix anything. The truth is that workplaces are gendered; they were designed by men for men. Because of this, most organizations unconsciously carry the idea of an “ideal worker,” typically a straight, white man who doesn’t have to juggle work and family commitments. Based on King’s research and exclusive interviews with major companies and thought leaders, The Fix reveals why denying the fact that women are held back just because they are women—what she calls gender denial—is the biggest obstacle holding women back at work and outlines the hidden sexism and invisible barriers women encounter at work every day. Women who speak up are seen as pushy. Women who ask for a raise are seen as difficult. Women who spend hours networking don’t get the same career benefits as men do. Because women don’t look like the ideal worker and can’t behave like the ideal worker, they are passed over for promotions, paid less, and pushed out of the workforce, not because they aren’t good enough, but because they aren’t men. In this fascinating and empowering book, King outlines the invisible barriers that hold women back at all stages of their careers, and provides readers with a clear set of takeaways to thrive despite the sexist workplace, as they fight for change from within. Gender equality is not about women, and it is not about men—it is about making workplaces work for everyone. Together, we can fix work, not women.
Beyond the Second Sex
Author: Peggy Reeves Sanday
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812213034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Addresses the conflict, contradictions and ambiguities that are often encountered in field research.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812213034
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Addresses the conflict, contradictions and ambiguities that are often encountered in field research.
Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific
Author: Leslie B. Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134284578
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
First Published in 1985. This is Volume 3 of a series on Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology. In the aftermath of the controversial marketing of infant formula in the Third World, this volume describes infant care and feeding practices within their social, cultural and physical context among fourteen different Melanesian and Polynesian societies. The contributors address such issues as health and nutritional status, women's roles and social support, early socialization, symbolism and meaning of foods and feeding and intracultural variability. The material is valuable to health professionals, nutritionists and social scientists in understanding infant care and feeding practices in underdeveloped regions.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134284578
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
First Published in 1985. This is Volume 3 of a series on Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology. In the aftermath of the controversial marketing of infant formula in the Third World, this volume describes infant care and feeding practices within their social, cultural and physical context among fourteen different Melanesian and Polynesian societies. The contributors address such issues as health and nutritional status, women's roles and social support, early socialization, symbolism and meaning of foods and feeding and intracultural variability. The material is valuable to health professionals, nutritionists and social scientists in understanding infant care and feeding practices in underdeveloped regions.
Ethnology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
Author: Annette B. Weiner
Publisher: Case Studies in Cultural Anthr
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Book about the social life and customs of the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Case Studies in Cultural Anthr
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Book about the social life and customs of the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea
Gender Analysis in Papua New Guinea
Author: Elizabeth C. Brouwer
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821343944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In October 1996, The East Asia and Pacific Region developed a Regional Gender Action Plan that stressed the importance of country-specific strategies regarding gender issues. This report on gender in Papua New Guinea intends to lay the foundation for such a strategy. The report provides an outline of the key historical, economic, demographic, political, geographic, socio-cultural, legal and institutional issues that are relevant to understanding the status of women in Papua New Guinea today.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821343944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In October 1996, The East Asia and Pacific Region developed a Regional Gender Action Plan that stressed the importance of country-specific strategies regarding gender issues. This report on gender in Papua New Guinea intends to lay the foundation for such a strategy. The report provides an outline of the key historical, economic, demographic, political, geographic, socio-cultural, legal and institutional issues that are relevant to understanding the status of women in Papua New Guinea today.