Insecure Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insecure Times write by Michael Hill. This book was released on 2005-08-03. Insecure Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Insecure Times brings together a diverse group of contributors to provide a systematic analysis of insecurity and its effect on an important range of institutions.
Cut Adrift
Cut Adrift - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cut Adrift write by Marianne Cooper. This book was released on 2014-07-31. Cut Adrift available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the backdrop of rising economic insecurity and rolled-up safety nets, Marianne Cooper’s probing analysis explores what keeps Americans up at night. Through poignant case studies, she reveals what families are concerned about, how they manage their anxiety, whose job it is to worry, and how social class shapes all of these dynamics, including what is even worth worrying about in the first place. This powerful study is packed with intriguing discoveries ranging from the surprising anxieties of the rich to the critical role of women in keeping struggling families afloat. Through tales of stalwart stoicism, heart-wrenching worry, marital angst, and religious conviction, Cut Adrift deepens our understanding of how families are coping in a go-it-alone age—and how the different strategies on which affluent, middle-class, and poor families rely upon not only reflect inequality, but fuel it.
Insecure Times
Insecure Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insecure Times write by Michael Hill. This book was released on 2005-08-03. Insecure Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time when families break up and employment is often short-term, society is increasingly forced to operate against a background of insecurity. Insecure Times looks at how this sense of risk and instability has affected the major institutions of social life. With examples and research taken from a range of European and North American societies today, this innovative text on contemporary society discusses such major issues as: * the causes of social and economic insecurity * insecurity and modern capitalism * the role of the state * insecurity and housing * contemporary family life.
Insecure Times
Insecure Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insecure Times write by John Vail. This book was released on 1999. Insecure Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Motherload
Motherload - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Motherload write by Ana Villalobos. This book was released on 2014-09-05. Motherload available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a time of economic anxiety, fear of terrorism, and marital uncertainty, insecurity has become a big part of life for many American mothers. With bases of security far from guaranteed, mothers are often seeking something they can count on. In this beautifully written and accessible book, Ana Villalobos shows how mothers frequently rely on the one thing that seems sure to them: the mother-child relationship. Based on over one hundred interviews with and observations of mothers—single or married, but all experiencing varying forms of insecurity in their lives—Villalobos finds that mothers overwhelmingly expect the mothering relationship to "make it all better" for themselves and their children. But there is a price to pay for loading this single relationship with such high expectations. Using detailed case studies, Villalobos shows how women's Herculean attempts to create various kinds of security through mothering often backfire, thereby exhausting mothers, deflecting their focus from other possible sources of security, and creating more stress. That stress is further exacerbated by dominant ideals about "good" mothering—ideals that are fraught with societal pressures and expectations that reach well beyond what mothers can actually do for their children. Pointing to hopeful alternatives, Villalobos shows how more realistic expectations about motherhood lead remarkably to greater security in families by prompting mothers to cast broader security nets, making conditions less stressful and—just as significantly—bringing greater joy in mothering.
