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The Making of a Family Saga

Author : Jin Feng
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438429142
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Family Saga written by Jin Feng and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The institutional history of Ginling College is arguably a family history. Ginling, a Christian, women's college in Nanjing founded by Western missionaries, saw itself as a family. The school's leaders built on the Confucian ideal to envision a feminized, Christian family—one that would spread Christianity and uplift the family that was the Chinese nation. Exploring the various incarnations of the trope of the "Ginling family," Jin Feng takes a microscopic view by emphasizing personal, subjective perspectives from the written and oral records of the Chinese and American women who created and sustained the school. Even when using more seemingly ordinary official documents, Feng seeks to shed light on the motives and dynamic interactions that created them and the impact they had on individual lives. Using this perspective, Feng questions the standard characterization of missionary higher education as simply Western cultural imperialism to show a process of influence and cultural exchange.

Like a Family

Author : Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807882941
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Like a Family written by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice

Creating Family Traditions

Author : Gloria Gaither
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307563871
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Creating Family Traditions written by Gloria Gaither and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s something tender, sacred and very special about family traditions. Some are inherited from past generations, and some are born within your own family. Either way, traditions create closeness and seal the ties that bind families together. In Creating Family Traditions, Gloria Gaither and Shirley Dobson share their own ideas that will help make meaningful, long-lasting memories throughout the years to come. It’s packed with easy-to-do, fun-filled activities for holidays and special occasions through all the seasons of the year, and can be enjoyed by all, from toddlers to grandparents. This is the second book in the Let’s Make a Memory series. There’s something tender, sacred and very special about family traditions. Some are inherited from past generations, and some are born within your own family. Either way, traditions create closeness and seal the ties that bind families together. In Creating Family Traditions, Gloria Gaither and Shirley Dobson share their own ideas that will help make meaningful, long-lasting memories throughout the years to come. It’s packed with easy-to-do, fun-filled activities for holidays and special occasions through all the seasons of the year, and can be enjoyed by all, from toddlers to grandparents. This is the second book in the Let’s Make a Memory series. Story Behind the Book We believed that the best memories aren’t necessarily made of grand plans, vacation budgets or whole weekend outings. Indeed, the best memories are often made of delight in silly, simple things, and the most precious moments are just that – only moments: a hug, a tickling match, a pillow fight, a surprise stop for ice cream, or a detour from the ordinary to see the stars. This collection of ideas is meant to be just that – ideas. They may make you think of even better ways to create traditions, but these are places to start. May we all hold each other a little more closely and remember “home” a little more fondly because of ordinary days made holy by the sacrament of loving. From the Hardcover edition.

In Chancery

Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book In Chancery written by John Galsworthy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chancery is the second novel of the Forsyte Saga trilogy by John Galsworthy and was originally published in 1920, some fourteen years after The Man of Property. Like its predecessor it focuses on the personal affairs of a wealthy upper middle class English family.

The Family Firm

Author : Emily Oster
Publisher : Souvenir Press
ISBN 13 : 1782837361
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Family Firm written by Emily Oster and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Chart a child's path with less stress and more optimization for healthy habits and future success' Time From age 5 to 12, parenting decisions get more complicated and have lasting consequences. What's the right kind of school? Should they play a sport? When's the right time for a phone? Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Along with these bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics. The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think more clearly - and with less ambient stress - about the key decisions of these early years.

Between the Lines

Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451635818
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Between the Lines written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.

Family Values

Author : Melinda Cooper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 194213004X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Family Values written by Melinda Cooper and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was the discourse of family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market revolution of the 1980s and why has it continued to exert such a profound influence on American political life? Why have free-market neoliberals so often made common cause with social conservatives on the question of family, despite their differences on all other issues? In this book, Melinda Cooper challenges the idea that neoliberalism privileges atomized individualism over familial solidarities, and contractual freedom over inherited status. Delving into the history of the American poor laws, she shows how the liberal ethos of personal responsibility was always undergirded by a wider imperative of family responsibility and how this investment in kinship obligations recurrently facilitated the working relationship between free-market liberals and social conservatives. Neoliberalism, she argues, must be understood as an effort to revive and extend the poor law tradition in the contemporary idiom of household debt. As neoliberal policymakers imposed cuts to health, education, and welfare budgets, they simultaneously identified the family as a wholesale alternative to the twentieth-century welfare state. And as the responsibility for deficit spending shifted from the state to the household, the private debt obligations of family were defined as foundational to socio-economic order. Despite their differences, neoliberals and social conservatives were in agreement that the bonds of family needed to be encouraged — and at the limit enforced — as a necessary counterpart to market freedom. In a series of case studies ranging from Clinton’s welfare reform to the AIDS epidemic, and from same-sex marriage to the student loan crisis, Cooper explores the key policy contributions made by neoliberal economists and legal theorists. Only by restoring the question of family to its central place in the neoliberal project, she argues, can we make sense of the defining political alliance of our times, that between free-market economics and social conservatism.

A Jamaican Family's Saga 2

Author : Leonard Archie Wilson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1644265214
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book A Jamaican Family's Saga 2 written by Leonard Archie Wilson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jamaican Family’s Saga 2 By: Leonard Archie Wilson A Jamaican Family’s Saga 2 is a continuation and climax of A Jamaican Family’s Saga, the original work by Leonard Archie Wilson, a fictionalized biography of the life of Althea Ulrica Richardson, his actual mother. The matriarch is portrayed by Ulrica Richards, from her birth to her death. The story resurrects a true incident in the life of Althea. In the 1940s in Jamaica, her youngest brother, Real, was either murdered or accidentally devoured by sharks off the coast of the island. In the fictionalized account, one of her sons and his wife pull off a Macmillan and Wife style investigation to almost solve this seventy-two-year-old mystery.

The Family Saga in the South: Generations and Destinies

Author : Robert O. Stephens
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807141335
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Family Saga in the South: Generations and Destinies written by Robert O. Stephens and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Configuring Memory in Czech Family Sagas

Author : Marcin Filipowicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793648506
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Configuring Memory in Czech Family Sagas written by Marcin Filipowicz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Configuring Memory in Czech Family Sagas: The Art of Forgetting in Generic Tradition explores how literature may configure family memory. Family sagas can be viewed as a structure helping us to share our memories. Special attention will be paid to crucial generic motifs within family sagas, as well as to elements of the narrative structure, which hold powerful memory-forming potential. The book proves that this potential can be fulfilled in two ways. The genre under analysis tends to strengthen the “bad family memory” and consider it as a burden, and to encourage one to forget their family past. Despite the prevalence of the saga as a cultural form right across mass media, the literary genre of the family saga has not attracted intensive critical acclaim. Readers of this book will not only learn more about the genre of family saga but also be encouraged to reflect on their own family memories.

Let's Make a Memory

Author : Gloria Gaither
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9780849935176
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Let's Make a Memory written by Gloria Gaither and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloria Gaither and Shirley Dobson team to help families create a bank of happy memories, a shared heritage that will bind families together over the years. The book contains a wealth of ideas for holidays, special occasions, vacations, and impromptu activities.

Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga

Author : Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786736314
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga written by Heather O'Donoghue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative of a unique literary genre and composed in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Icelandic Family Sagas rank among some of the world's greatest literature. Here, Heather O'Donoghue skilfully examines the notions of time and the singular textual voice of the Sagas, offering a fresh perspective on the foundational texts of Old Norse and medieval Icelandic heritage. With a conspicuous absence of giants, dragons, and fairy tale magic, these sagas reflect a real-world society in transition, grappling with major new challenges of identity and development. As this book reveals, the stance of the narrator and the role of time – from the representation of external time passing to the audience's experience of moving through a narrative – are crucial to these stories. As such, Narrative in the Icelandic Family Saga draws on modern narratological theory to explore the ways in which saga authors maintain the urgency and complexity of their material, handle the narrative and chronological line, and offer perceptive insights into saga society. In doing so, O'Donoghue presents a new poetics of family sagas and redefines the literary rhetoric of saga narratives.

The Rutherfurd Trilogy (Scottish Family Saga)

Author : Anna Buchan
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Rutherfurd Trilogy (Scottish Family Saga) written by Anna Buchan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Buchan's 'The Rutherfurd Trilogy' is a compelling Scottish family saga that delves into the lives of the Rutherfurd family across generations. The trilogy is known for its vivid descriptions of the Scottish landscapes and the rich tapestry of family dynamics, love, and secrets woven throughout the narrative. Buchan's literary style combines elements of historical fiction with a keen eye for detail, creating a story that is both engaging and poignant. Set against the backdrop of Scotland's changing social and political landscape, 'The Rutherfurd Trilogy' offers readers a glimpse into the complexities of family relationships and the enduring power of love and loyalty. This trilogy is a must-read for those fascinated by familial sagas and Scottish history. Anna Buchan's expert storytelling and intimate knowledge of Scotland shine through in this captivating series, making it a truly immersive reading experience.

Sporting Gender

Author : Yunxiang Gao
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774824832
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Sporting Gender written by Yunxiang Gao and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. Gao shows how these women coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame, arguing that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China. This book brings vividly to life the histories of these women and demonstrates how intertwined they were with the aims of the state and the needs of society.

A Family Saga

Author : Robert McTavish Coquillette
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440191948
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Family Saga written by Robert McTavish Coquillette and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a record of one man's life across almost a century from the end of World War I until the end of the 20th Century. But it is also the story of a good marriage resulting in a fine family. The story runs from an Iowa of the agricultural age and culture on which America's Middle West was established to the global economy of today's major conglomerate businesses with its jet planes and satellite communications with a brief time out for the shock of World War II. Many of my generation will identify with the experiences and changes of which this history is made.

Keeping the Nation's House

Author : Helen M. Schneider
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774819944
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Keeping the Nation's House written by Helen M. Schneider and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, the term home economics conjures images of sterile classrooms where young girls and women learn to cook dinner and swaddle dolls, far removed from the seats of power. Keeping the Nation’s House unsettles this assumption by revealing how elite Chinese women helped to build modern China one family at a time. Trained between the 1920s and the early 1950s, home economists believed that their discipline would transform the most fundamental of political spaces – the home – by teaching women to nurture ideal families and manage projects of social reform. Although their discipline came undone after 1949, it created a legacy of gendered professionalism and reinforced the idea that leaders should shape domestic rituals of the people. By focusing on an overlooked group of Chinese women, this book genders the past by showing how these women helped make the present, and it reveals how a group of intellectuals made the transition to the Communist era.

Madness, Disability and Social Exclusion

Author : Jane Hubert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797698
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Madness, Disability and Social Exclusion written by Jane Hubert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique work that brings together a number of specialist disciplines, such as archaeology, anthropology, disability studies and psychiatry to create a new perspective on social and physical exclusion from society. A range of evidence throws light on such things as the causes and consequences of social exclusion stigma, marginality and dangerousness. It is an important text that breaks down traditional academic disciplinary boundaries and brings a much needed comparative approach to the subject.