Family Fragments

Author : Carol Smart
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745618937
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Fragments? written by Carol Smart and published by Polity. This book was released on 1999-01-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the family, offering empirical material and theoretical analysis which give rise to a fresh understanding of the nature of family practices in modern societies. The past decade has seen the emergence of an orthodoxy which depicts the family as being in moral decline and 'blames' parents for the harms of divorce. Family Fragments? takes issue with this political vision and with the idea that divorce is inevitably a harmful process. Although some households are fragmenting, the authors argue that moral commitments are not simply sundered. Instead they put forward a different perspective on divorce as well as formulating principles of policy based on an ethic of care. Family Fragments? draws on a qualitative study of separating parents and examines the diverse and fluid patterns of parenthood that are negotiated and re-negotiated in the aftermath of separation. The authors show that the quality of parental relationships, both before and after separation, are vital for achieving joint parenting after divorce. They examine the moral reasoning of parents and explain how this may vary considerably with the sort of solutions imposed in a legal forum. This book has a direct bearing on current debates concerning the family and will be essential reading for those studying gender and family relations in sociology, social policy, law and social work.

Author : Hanna Mina
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781623717032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Memory written by Hanna Mina and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical novel, set in the early 20th century, about the life of a boy born to a poor family in northern Syria. Fragments of Memory offers a picture of reality that is simple, direct, and quite emotional... an image of Syrian society in the thirties and forties through the struggle of an impoverished family- of an origin that is neither rural nor urban- which moves from the city to the countryside, only to be forced back unwillingly, groping for survival. Khaldoun Shamaa's Fragments of Memory is an autobiographical novel about the life of a boy born to a poor family in northern Syria. Mina sets these personal events against a richly detailed description of events in the history of early 20th century Syria, as the silkworm industry gave way to modern foreign technology. The mode of life described is one of a bygone era.

Author : Binjamin Wilkomirski
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments written by Binjamin Wilkomirski and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soldiers in 1945.

Author : Mythily Sivaraman
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9788189013110
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of a Life written by Mythily Sivaraman and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the life story of Subbalakshmi married at 11 years of age and a mother at 14 in the early 20th century. Hers is yet another instance in the long annals of women whose aspirations, abilities, selfhood, the right to dream and to rebel have been snuffed out by patriarchy. Mythily Sivaraman, a political and social activist of thirty years standing is currently the National Vice-President of the All India Democratic Women s Association. She is the granddaughter of Subbalakshmi.

Author : Daniel Diez Couch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298403
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Fragments written by Daniel Diez Couch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments."American Fragments argues that this archive of deliberately unfinished writing reimagined the place of marginalized individuals in a country that was itself still unfinished.

Author : Partha Pratim Kalita ,Rajlakshmi Dutta
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1639575464
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Million Fragments Of a Starry Sky written by Partha Pratim Kalita ,Rajlakshmi Dutta and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thinking mind is limitless and unfathomable like the cosmos, studded with stars and galaxies of intricate thoughts. It tries to explore the convolutions in the cortex of existence, unmasking life for the benefit of all. Million Fragments of a Starry Sky, a brainchild of the authors, is a philosophical take on life. As they address topics like politics, spirituality, education, psychology, metaphysics, environmental issues, etc., while reminiscing events from their professional lives, they make a humble attempt to deeply introspect their own cognizance and vulnerabilities and put forth realizations for discernment of the reader.

Author : Margaret W. Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998514048
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments from a Mobile Life written by Margaret W. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Starting in China, ending in Virginia, and girdling the equator, Sullivan's mobile life, has been lived in evolving fragments of time and place. Rooted in family, her life spans changes in the post-colonial world and women's lives, told in short, lively stories, some first published as columns in the Huffington Post. "The reader of FRAGMENTS FROM A MOBILE LIFE is carried along on a remarkable journey. You will want to read passages out loud and share with friends and family. Here is a life of adventure, love, and sadness, but always lived to the fullest with keen insight and deep observation. It is an American life, but one that draws on the wonder and variety of the world. Margaret Sullivan evokes the universal while regaling us with the particular. Whether raising children, making friends in a strange place, or planning for a new school amidst the destruction of earthquake and tsunami, each will see a part of him or herself here in the essence of life's experiences. One can read straight through, as I did, although even best perhaps is to browse from subject to subject. Whichever way one begins, I can guarantee you will return often and keep this book well thumbed and handy on the shelf."--Ambassador Robert G. Rich, Jr. US Foreign Service, Ret. "Born in China, a Foreign Service wife in posts around the equator for most of her career, writer and artist Margaret Sullivan possesses a generous and observant eye. This terrific read illustrates how to thrive during fractured times without losing your values or your spirit. I read the chapter 'To Market' and Nigeria appeared before my eyes with all its rich colors and smells. Terrific!"--Norma Watkins "With a fresh voice and a frank look back at 10 countries, 29 homes, and more than 60 years of marriage to a career diplomat, Margaret Sullivan chronicles the contributions of Foreign Service Wives to twentieth-century American public diplomacy. Reminding us that such 'representative families' are unpaid and perhaps unnoticed by the American people, they are at the same time almost always on display. In a tale as pungent and spicy as the food she so lovingly describes, FRAGMENTS FROM A MOBILE LIFE is the story of a life-long love affair with Asia and the wider world."--Dr. Janet Steele

Author : Jeffry W. Johnston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416924868
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments written by Jeffry W. Johnston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chase wishes he could remember the events of his accident, but when the memories begin to come back in his dreams, Chase must face the reality of his past and finally deal with the part he played in the tragic event.

Author : Larry L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9780800627577
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Fragments and Moral Community written by Larry L. Rasmussen and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western society today lives from community fragments and moral fragments alone, and these fragments are being destroyed more quickly than they are being replenished. Larry Rasmussen assesses the long-term reasons for this situation and then proposes the forms and tasks that churches can undertake to help mend and improve civil society. This book, which had its origin in the Hein/Fry Lectures in 1991-92, functions both as an assessment of the moral climate in America today and also as a proposal for the church in contemporary society.

Author : Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761958568
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Family ? written by Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-02-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern and debate over changes to family life have increased in the last decade, as a result of evolving employment patterns, shifting gender relations and more openness about sexual orientation. Most politicians and researchers have viewed these changes as harmful, suggesting that the family as an institution should not alter. The `New' Family? challenges these dominant views. Leading academics in the field consider current diverse practices in families, and reveal the lack of balance between policies based on how families should be and how they actually are, illustrating the need for a broader definition of family. This book shows the need to take fluidity and change in family arrangements seriously, rather