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Case Management: Nurses and Physicians Confronting Gendered Organization
Russell J. Kivatisky PhD
Book chapter from Untying the Tongue: Gender, Power, and the Word, edited by Linda Longmire and Lisa Merrill.
About the book:
The words and grammatical structure of a given language are the most basic building blocks of thought and communication; they reflect the ways speakers conceptualize themselves and their world and communicate with others. Since language reflects a culture's biases and inequities, a socially constructed, gendered power differential between men and women may lead each to have very different relationships to language. The essays in this collection explore some of the ways in which power and its expression (or repression) is gendered.
The contributors seek to discover contexts and patterns within which power is articulated, reproduced, and ultimately transformed. While some contributors provide primarily descriptive examinations of presumed gender differences, others seek to critique or deconstruct these supposed meanings associated with gender and power relationships. An important collection for scholars and researchers involved with communication and with gender issues.
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Medieval Conduct
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Robert L A Clark
Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy—conduct and courtesy books, advise poems, devotional literature, trial records—the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret such behavioral guides, appropriating them to their own ends. Contributors: Mark Addison Amos, Anna Dronzek, Roberta L. Krueger, Ruth Nissé, Ann Marie Rasmussen, Jennifer Fisk Rondeau, Claire Sponsler.
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Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD and Wim Hüsken
Procession, arguably the most ubiquitous and versatile public performance mode until the seventeenth century, has received little scholarly or theoretical attention. Yet, this form of social behaviour has been so thoroughly naturalised in our accounts of western European history that it merited little comment as a cultural performance choice over many centuries until recently, when a generation of cultural historians using explanatory models from anthropology called attention to the processional mode as a privileged vehicle for articulation in its society. Their analyses, however, tended to focus on the issue of whether processions produced social harmony or reinforced social distinctions, potentially leading to conflict. While such questions are not ignored in this collection of essays, its primary purpose is to reflect upon salient theatrical aspects of processions that may help us understand how in the performance of “moving subjects” they accomplished their often transformative cultural work.
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The Spirit of Teaching
Michael Brady and Desi Larson
1999-2001 Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education at the University of Southern Maine
Edited by E. Michael Brady and Desi Larson
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Cambodian Refugees' Pathways to Success: Developing a Bi-Cultural Identity
Jullie G. Canniff
Canniff's work makes explicit the Buddist values that inspire Cambodian adults and adolescents to be successful individuals within their families, their culture, and the larger American society. Her evidence is based on her relationship with a Cambodian community in a New England city and consists of narrative accounts and participant observation over a nine-year period. The findings support the research on immigrants which maintains that individuals who sustain strong cultural identity, while adding pragmatic strategies for getting ahead in American society, are consistently the most successful.
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Our Elder's Teach Us: Maya - Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives
David Carey
The Maya-Kaqchikel record their history through oral tradition; thus, few written accounts exist. Comparing the Kaqchikel point of view to that of the western scholars and Ladinos who have written most of the history texts, Carey reveals the people and events important to the Maya, which have been virtually written out of the national history.
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Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to Mid Twentieth Century
Joseph A. Conforti
Imagining New England investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past.
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Adoption, Identity, and Voice Jackie Kay’s Inventions of Self
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture.
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"Interview with Jackie Kay" & "Jackie Kay's Inventions of Self"
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapters in Imagining Adoption: Essays in Literature and Culture.
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Resistance training: Reduced training and long-term adherence
James Graves PhD
Chapter in Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation.
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Introduction to resistance training for health and rehabilitation
James Graves PhD and B Franklin
Chapter in Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation.
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Resistance training for low back pain and dysfunction
James Graves PhD, J M. Mayer, T Driesinger, and V Mooney
Chapter in Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation.
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Interpersonal Mindfulness in the Classroom
Bette Katsekas EdD
Chapter in The Spirit of Teaching, ed. M. Brady.
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Psychological violence against gay men and lesbian women: An interpersonal perspective
Bette Katsekas EdD
Chapter 12 in Faces of violence: Psychological Correlates, concepts, and interventions, edited by D.S. Sandhu.
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End Over End
Kate Kennedy
Ivory is fourteen years old and is madly in love with fifteen-year-old Blake. She hangs out with a tough older crowd, drinks, smokes, and even has a pregnancy scare. One night Ivory doesn't come home. Her body is found a few months later, brutally stabbed to death. Blake stands accused of her murder, but the evidence is inconclusive. Who murdered Ivory Towle? Will the truth ever be known?
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Teachers Caught in the Action: Professional Development That Matters
Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller
Because what we do in staff development can best be understood in terms of Contexts, Strategies, and Structures, the remainder of the book features distinguished educators who write from their own unique experiential and theoretical stances
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Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Anti-Lesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State, edited by Mary Bernstein and Renate Reimann
More about this title:
This is the first book about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families that connects issues of gender, sexuality, and the family with the broader issues of social movements, politics, and law.
Chapters address the themes of visibility, transgression, and resistance, as well as the intersection between the personal and political in the contexts of relationships, parenthood, and political activism. Giving special attention to families of color, immigrant, and poor families, the authors examine the risks entailed in coming out and the significance of class, race, and sexual and gender identity in this process. Parenting also creates dilemmas of visibility as queer families negotiate malls and schools as well as the medical, legal, and political institutions that regulate their families.
This book explores how heteronormative and class assumptions influence state polices on parenthood, adoption, and relationships between adults, to question whether the law can meet the needs of queer families. Also discussed is how queer family politics are complicated by bisexuality, nonmonagamy, and gender nonconformity.
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Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction
Thomas W. Neumann and Robert Sanford
Cultural resources (CRM) archaeology is where graduating archaeology students get their jobs and where most field work and funding is now found. Yet, to date, there has not been a basic textbook introducing students to the proper practices of cultural resources archaeology…until now. Neumann and Sanford use their decades of teaching and field experience to walk students through the process of conducting a CRM project. After an introduction to the legal and ethical aspects of cultural resources management, the authors describe the process of designing a project, of conducting assessment, testing, and mitigation (Phase I, II, and III) work, and preparing a report for the project sponsor.
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Practicing Archaeology: A Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology
Thomas W. Neumann and Robert Sanford
This is an introduction to the basic elements of cultural resources (CRM) archaeology. This is a training manual that discusses the processes involved in conducting a CRM project. It deals with everything from law to logistics, archival research to zoological analysis, and project proposals to report production.
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Strengthening the Foundations of Emotional Health in Early Childhood: A Handbook for Practitioners
Susan E. Partridge Ph.D.; Deborah Devine Psy.D.; John Hornstein Ed.D.; and Jayne D. B. Marsh MSN, MPA
Second Edition
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Bright Journeys
Robert Russell
Music CD: University of Southern Maine Chamber Singers
Robert Russell, professor and director of choral music at the University of Southern Maine, has developed a reputation for choral excellence throughout New England for his work with the University choral program, his leadership as a music director of The Choral Art Society, and his guest conducting of festival choruses.
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Conceptualizing Diversity in Sexuality Research
Michael R. Stevenson PhD
Chapter in Handbook for Conducting Research on Human Sexuality, edited by Michael W. Wiederman and Bernard E. Whitley, Jr.
More about this book:
Human sexuality researchers often find themselves faced with questions that entail conceptual, methodological, or ethical issues for which their professional training or prior experience may not have prepared them. The goal of this handbook is to provide that guidance to students and professionals interested in the empirical study of human sexuality from behavioral and social scientific perspectives. It provides practical and concrete advice about conducting human sexuality research and addresses issues inherent to both general social scientific and specific human sexuality research.
This comprehensive resource offers a unique multidisciplinary examination of the specific methodological issues inherent in conducting human sexuality research. The methodological techniques and advances that are familiar to researchers trained in one discipline are often unfamiliar to researchers from other disciplines. This book is intended to help enrich the communication between the various disciplines involved in human sexuality research. Each of the 21 self-standing chapters provides an expert overview of a particular area of research methodology from a variety of academic disciplines. It addresses those issues unique to human sexuality research, such as:
* how to measure sexuality variables;
* how to design studies, recruit participants, and collect data;
* how to consider cultural and ethical issues; and
* how to perform and interpret statistical analyses.
This book is intended as a reference tool for researchers and students interested in human sexuality from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, family science, health communication, nursing, medicine, and anthropology. -
Developing Your School Counseling Program: A Handbook for Systemic Planning
Zark VanZandt
This practical handbook, designed to complement a theoretical text, is perfect for students who will be entering the workforce as school counselors as well as for seasoned school counselors who are ready to implement change in their programs. The book emphasizes developing, organizing, and administering school counseling programs. It not only explains to readers how to develop a school counseling program, but it also goes the extra step in teaching the skills needed and the process of developing a program. After completing this handbook, readers will be prepared to organize or reorganize their school guidance program on a developmental, comprehensive basis.