Margaret K. Nelson is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology Emerita, Middlebury College. Her books include Sociology Meets Memoir and Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s.
13 Ebooks par Margaret K. Nelson
Margaret K. Nelson: Parenting Out of Control
They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacle …
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Margaret K. Nelson & Anita Ilta Garey: Who’s Watching?
Although family members sometime engage in monitoring as an extension of governmental surveillance, they also monitor each other, other families, and their own borders to preserve norms about what a …
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Emily K. Abel & Margaret K. Nelson: Limited Choices
When interviewed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, Ridge Street Oral History Project, which documented the lives of Black residents in the 1990s, Mable Jones described herself as a children’s nurse, …
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Rosanna Hertz & Margaret K. Nelson: Random Families
The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each ot …
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Anita Ilta Garey & Rosanna Hertz: Open to Disruption
At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may …
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Rosanna Hertz & Margaret K. Nelson: Random Families
The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each ot …
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€18.13
Anita Garey & Rosanna Hertz: Open to Disruption
At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may …
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€20.99
Margaret K. Nelson: Keeping Family Secrets
From teen pregnancy and gay sexuality to Communism and disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change wi …
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Margaret K. Nelson: Sociology Meets Memoir
How sociologists can approach memoir in their writing, research, and in the classroom Memoirs attract millions of readers with their compelling life stories, vivid details, and often startling revela …
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€28.99
Amy Armenia & Mignon Duffy: Caring on the Clock
A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story to soothe a child to sleep. Every day, workers like these provide critical …
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Margaret K. Nelson: Like Family
For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, N …
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€38.57
Margaret K. Nelson: Like Family
For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, N …
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€38.37
Emily K. Abel & Margaret K. Nelson: Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps
Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness (F&W) camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled mos …
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