Heading For 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 : Zahava Hanan
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1896219748
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading for Home written by Zahava Hanan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahava Hanan's struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale. For twenty years she fought for her rights in Western Canada. Heading for Home gives a very warm account of her companions throughout those years from cowhands to lovable animals; from concerned neighbours to the formality of the company man, some of whom too, eventually became firm friends. Aided at times in her struggle by her friend the author and tracker Andy Russell, Heading for Home tells the tale of how one woman's strength and willpower contributed to our heightened sense of mutual awareness. In the course of her long struggle to save everything she held most dear, Zahava Hanan stood squarely up to a "David and Goliath" confrontation with the corporations. During that time, however, she came to understand that by daring to care for our environment we inherit a common ground, goal and home. This book is also the story of that spiritual quest and challenge. And it is in this sense that Zahava Hanan has been "heading for home," and helping others get there, ever since. This is a masterpiece of its kind, and truly original, since nobody of her sensibility has written on the subject at all. There are countless travel books about wild places and countless cozy books about life in the town. This happens to be unique both in the handling of her environment and in her ability to feel and write about it.

Author : Jay Myers
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163195279X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rounding Third and Heading for Home written by Jay Myers and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rounding Third and Heading Home, business owners get a firsthand look at the many components that go into the sale of their business from someone who has actually gone through it—including what to do, and what not to do. Selling a business is likely to be the biggest deal of one’s career. Since it is so important to get it right, there is very little tolerance for error. In Rounding Third and Heading for Home, business owners find real-life stories, practical strategies, and hard-won insights from a veteran entrepreneur to help them “touch all the bases” and achieve the success that they’ve always dreamed of. Rounding Third and Heading for Home shares the many components that go into the sale of a business from someone who has actually gone through it. Throughout its pages, business owners learn: Why it is so important to sell a business when it’s ready, and not when they’re ready What really builds value in their business The steps of the acquisition process How to prepare their company for the sale How to run a business when they’re actively trying to sell it Many more lessons learned from starting and growing a tech company over the course of twenty years

Author : Kent Stock
Publisher : Arrow Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781886296541
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading for Home written by Kent Stock and published by Arrow Publications. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People who witnessed this true story still can't believe what happened. It was so inspiring that Hollywood came calling and retold the story of a small school's baseball team in the motion picture "The Final Season." It's about family, about faith being tested and affirmed; it rings with the truth that if you never give up, incredible things can happen. Sean Astin, the star of "Rudy" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, played Coach Kent Stock in this movie filmed mostly in eastern Iowa.

Author : Greg Hoard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933197463
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joe written by Greg Hoard and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Cincinnati Reds legendary pitcer, Joe Nuxhall who later became the beloved Reds announcer for over thirty years.

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 : Paul Tsongas
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by Paul Tsongas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Renee Riva
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 9780781404389
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by Renee Riva and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight years, A.J. Degulio has been itching to get back to her beloved Indian Island. It’s home. But a lot has changed: Sailor moves slower, Danny has grown into a man ... and A.J. has a promise to keep but it doesn’t include Danny. When Danny discovers the truth, he’s shocked and hurt. But he won’t stand in the way of what she really wants. What’s a girl to do? She wants to keep her promise and Danny. But Danny has plans of his own. Can they work it out? It will take compromise and laughter before Danny and A.J. figure out that home is more than a place on the map. It’s a place in the heart.

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Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847818891
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Home written by and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kid's baseball is a special time and place for kids all over America. On baseball diamonds behind schools, in the middle of cities, and in suburban parks all over the country, boys and girls from all walks of life meet to play the nation's favorite sport. Coached and encouraged by their dedicated parents, these kids enjoy the game in its purest, simplest, and most innocent form. The essence of neighborhood baseball is captured in this collection of photographs by Harry Connolly. Selected from over 5,000 images shot over five years, these beautiful duotone photographs show the unguarded emotions of the young players, their coaches, and their parents - victory, defeat, love, and most of all, pride. Best-selling novelist Stephen King introduces the photographs with a compelling essay about his own Little League experience as part-time coach and full-time scorekeeper for his son's team, which went to the Maine state championships. Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken, Jr.'s foreword is a warm, personal account of the star's own Little League lessons, failures, and triumphs.

Author : David W. Zang
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803299139
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleet Walker's Divided Heart written by David W. Zang and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. He achieved college baseball stardom at Oberlin College in the 1880s. Teammates as well as opponents harassed him; Cap Anson, the Chicago White Stockings star, is blamed for driving Walker and the few other blacks in the major leagues out of the game, but he could not have done so alone. A gifted athlete, inventor, civil rights activist, author, and entrepreneur, Walker lived precariously along America’s racial fault lines. He died in 1924, thwarted in ambition and talent and frustrated by both the American dream and the national pastime.