Author: Andy Stanley Publisher: Multnomah ISBN: 1590523296 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 145
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Let's face it. You just can't fit everything in. Decide what commitments you can cheat on - and how to truly please God with your twenty-four hours.
Author: Kath Weston Publisher: ISBN: 9780231072892 Category : Gay couples Languages : en Pages : 261
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Kath Weston draws upon fieldwork and interviews conducted in the San Francisco Bay area to explore the ways in which gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship and biology. Conventional views of family have depicted gays and lesbians as exiles from the realm of kinship. In recent decades, however, gay men and lesbians have increasingly portrayed themselves as people who seek not only to maintain ties with blood or adoptive relatives but also to establish families of their own.
Author: Elise Hahl Publisher: CFI ISBN: 9781462111831 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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Motherhood or a career? Which one truly matters? Both are important in their own way, but in Choosing Motherhood learn how these bright, young LDS women from the Yale community, while their peers were putting off motherhood or forgetting it entirely, decided to become mothers and make an eternal difference in the lives of their children and their communities.
Author: Francesca T. Royster Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1647003768 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
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A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides As a multiracial household in Chicago’s North Side community of Rogers Park, race is at the core of Francesca T. Royster and her family's world, influencing everyday acts of parenting and the conception of what family truly means. Like Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, this lyrical and affecting memoir focuses on a unit of three: the author; her wife Annie, who's white; and Cecilia, the Black daughter they adopt as a couple in their forties and fifties. Choosing Family chronicles this journey to motherhood while examining the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a Black, queer, and feminist perspective. Royster also explores her memories of the matriarchs of her childhood and the homes these women created in Chicago’s South Side—itself a dynamic character in the memoir—where “family” was fluid, inclusive, and not necessarily defined by marriage or other socially recognized contracts. Calling upon the work of some of her favorite queer thinkers, including José Esteban Muñoz and Audre Lorde, Royster interweaves her experiences and memories with queer and gender theory to argue that many Black families, certainly her own, have historically had a “queer” attitude toward family: configurations that sit outside the white normative experience and are the richer for their flexibility and generosity of spirit. A powerful, genre-bending memoir of family, identity, and acceptance, Choosing Family, ultimately, is about joy—about claiming the joy that society did not intend to assign to you, or to those like you.
Author: Robert K. McIntosh Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media ISBN: 1462109152 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 119
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Counting daisy petals can be misleading, and wishing on stars is a little unreliable. There's a better way to figure out if the one you're with is someone you should be with forever. In this no-nonsense guide to dating, Robert McIntosh teaches you to evaluate your relationships based on the teachings in the Family Proclamation. Find out if you match up on the important things, like: - Your priorities for life and love - The goals you've set for yourself and your marriage - Your beliefs and your commitment to them. - How you plan to raise a future family - Uour roles within marriage and as parents Take the drama out of your dating life by learning to look for and attract someone with whom you'll be truly compatible. Whether you're sixteen or sixty-seven, this insightful book will guide you to the right kind of relationship—one that will last eternally.
Author: Jack O. Balswick Publisher: Baker Academic ISBN: 0801032490 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 400
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This proven resource covers every issue that affects family life. The third edition includes updates to all chapters and the inclusion of current research.
Author: Shelley Budgeon Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 232
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In today's social context, characterized by fluidity, uncertainty, and individualism, the choices we make have become the main factor in the formation of our individual identities. This volume focuses on the production of self-identity by young women, who face a greater range of choices in their lives than ever before, and combines empirical interview data with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives. The author has interviewed a sample of women aged 16 to 21 in order to find out what being able to make choices means to them and how they view themselves and their lives within the cultural context of girl power. Their statements and experiences are analyzed and used to interrogate the ontological assumptions of post-structuralism, feminist theory, and reflexive modernization.
Author: Marie Cartier Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1785332295 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 224
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The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the “Little-Middles” – a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds. This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants, arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.
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