Headed Home

Author : Shani Orgad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545630
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by Shani Orgad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government champion women’s empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women—lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others—give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society? Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women’s experience of continued injustice. Shani Orgad draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Despite identifying the structural forces that maintain gender inequality, these women still struggle to articulate their decisions outside the narrow cultural ideals that devalue motherhood and individualize success and failure. Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how—even as their experiences fly in the face of fantasies of work-life balance and marriage as an egalitarian partnership—these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them. Rather than calling for women to transform their feelings and behavior, Heading Home argues that we must unmute and amplify women’s desire, disappointment, and rage, and demand social infrastructure that will bring about long-overdue equality both at work and at home.

Author : Glenn Wilson
Publisher : Lucid Books
ISBN 13 : 1935909312
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Headed Home written by Glenn Wilson and published by Lucid Books. This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson, a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in 1980, played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball. Injuries and disappointment shortened his career, and when investments soured causing business ventures to fail, he found himself living in pain and misery. In that pain, he came to know what it meant to truly have a relationship with God.

Author : Katie Pittsenbarger
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105392783
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Headed Home written by Katie Pittsenbarger and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city girl goes to the country to find and escape from the reality of her friend's suicide. What she finds is a man looking for the family he thought he'd never have.

Author : Thomas Ashley Young
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664211535
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musings of a Traveler Headed Home written by Thomas Ashley Young and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a follow-up to his best-selling book, “Going Home - A Backpacker’s Journey,” Thomas Ashley Young continues his travels this time from everyday experiences that border on the insane. Ripe with peripheral invisibleness, Tom’s journeys could be your own; that is, if you jump ouside the box that others have crystallized for you. His expanded use of outside-the-writing-rules techniques have earned him raised eyebrows from even his closest friends. Said one, “Tom is a certified nut, but at least he’s screwed onto the right Bolt.”

Author : Joe W. Kincade Jr
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557018471
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edmonisia Headed Home in the Wrong Direction written by Joe W. Kincade Jr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about a women who was a slave and wanted to be free more than anything her chance came when she moved south ----.

Author : Laura A. Jana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781581104448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home with Your Newborn written by Laura A. Jana and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive guide to caring for newborns, and contains information on health care, feeding, sleeping habits, traveling, sickness, and more.

Author : Kōbō Abe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544669
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beasts Head for Home written by Kōbō Abe and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyūzō, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Kyūzō finally makes his way to the waters off Japan but finds himself unable to disembark. His nation remains inaccessible to him, and now he questions its very existence. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human behavior from an exceptional modern Japanese author.

Author : Pamela Stone
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520941793
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opting Out? written by Pamela Stone and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting a phenomenon that might seem to recall a previous era, The New York Times Magazine recently portrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothers as "opting out." But, are high-achieving professional women really choosing to abandon their careers in order to return home? This provocative study is the first to tackle this issue from the perspective of the women themselves. Based on a series of candid, in-depth interviews with women who returned home after working as doctors, lawyers, bankers, scientists, and other professions, Pamela Stone explores the role that their husbands, children, and coworkers play in their decision; how women’s efforts to construct new lives and new identities unfold once they are home; and where their aspirations and plans for the future lie. What we learn—contrary to many media perceptions—is that these high-flying women are not opting out but are instead being pushed out of the workplace. Drawing on their experiences, Stone outlines concrete ideas for redesigning workplaces to make it easier for women—and men—to attain their goal of living rewarding lives that combine both families and careers.

Author : Grey Gundaker
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918242
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keep Your Head to the Sky written by Grey Gundaker and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of African American home ground knits together diverse aspects of the American landscape, from elite suburbs and tower apartments to the old homeplaces of the countryside, to the tabletop array of family photos beside the bed of a housebound elder. This fascinating volume focuses on ways African Americans have invested actual and symbolic landscapes with signifigance, gained the means to acquire property, and brought new insight to the interpretation of contemporary, historical, and archaelogical sites. Keep Your Head to the Sky demonstrates how visions of home, past and present, have helped to shape African Americans' sense of place, often under extremely hostile conditions.

Author : Richard Blais
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0307985288
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Try This at Home written by Richard Blais and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bravo’s Top Chef All-Stars winner Richard Blais comes his very cool debut cookbook for home cooks looking to up their game with more excitement in the kitchen. This is accessible and fun, and includes the signature recipes, flavor combinations, and cooking techniques that have made him such a popular chef. A new way to make a dish is always on Richard Blais’s mind. He has a wildly creative approach—whether it’s adding coffee to his butter, which he serves with pancakes; incorporating the flavors of pastrami into mustard; making cannelloni out of squid; microwaving apple sauce for his pork chops; or cooking lamb shanks in root beer. In his debut cookbook, with equal degrees of enthusiasm and humor, he shares 125 delicious recipes that are full of surprise and flavor. Plus there are 25 variations to add more adventure to your cooking—such as making cheese foam for your burger or mashed sous vide peas to serve alongside your entrée. Dive into an exploration of your kitchen for both creativity and enjoyment. Now try this at home!