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Home Away from Home - N. Michelle Murray - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Home Away from Home - N. Michelle Murray - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture examines ideological, emotional, economic, and cultural phenomena brought about by migration through readings of works of literature and film featuring domestic workers. In the past thirty years, Spain has experienced a massive increase in immigration. Since the 1990s, immigrants have been increasingly female, as bilateral trade agreements, migration quotas, and immigration policies between Spain and its former colonies (including the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, and the Philippines) have created jobs for foreign women in the domestic service sector. These migrations reveal that colonial histories continue to be structuring elements of Spanish national culture, even in a democratic era in which its former colonies are now independent. Migration has also transformed the demographic composition of Spain and has created complex new social relations around the axes of gender, race, and nationality. Representations of migrant domestic workers provide critical responses to immigration and its feminization, alongside profound engagements with how the Spanish nation has changed since the end of the Franco era in 1975. Throughout Home Away from Home, readings of works of literature and film show that texts concerning the transnational nature of domestic work uniquely provide a nuanced account of the cultural shifts occurring in late twentieth- through twenty-first-century Spain.

DKK 634.00
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My Southern Home - - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

My Southern Home - - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The culmination of William Wells Brown''s long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown''s search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first African American novelist for his Clotel (1853), was born enslaved in Kentucky and escaped to Ohio in 1834. In this comprehensive edition, John Ernest acts as a surefooted guide to this seminal work, beginning with a substantial introduction placing Brown''s life and work in cultural and historical context. Brown addresses from a post-emancipation vantage point his early experiences and understanding of the world of slavery and describes his travels through many southern states. The text itself is presented in its original form, while Ernest''s annotations highlight its layered complexity and document the many instances in which Brown borrows from his own earlier writings and the writings of others to form an underlying dialogue. This edition sheds new light on Brown''s literary craft and provides readers with the maps they need to follow Brown on his quest for home in the chaotic social landscape of American southern culture in the final decades of the nineteenth century.

DKK 424.00
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Home on the Rails - Amy G. Richter - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Home on the Rails - Amy G. Richter - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Recognizing the railroad''s importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic and dangerous place full of potential, where various groups came together, collided, and influenced one another, for better or worse. The example of the American railroad reveals how, by the beginning of the twentieth century, this image was replaced by one of a domesticated public realm--a public space in which both women and men increasingly strove to make themselves "at home."Through efforts that ranged from the homey touches of railroad car decor to advertising images celebrating female travelers and legal cases sanctioning gender-segregated spaces, travelers and railroad companies transformed the railroad from a place of risk and almost unlimited social mixing into one in which white men and women alleviated the stress of unpleasant social contact. Making themselves "at home" aboard the trains, white men and women domesticated the railroad for themselves and paved the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public space that freed women from the home yet still preserved the railroad as a masculine domain.

DKK 424.00
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This Was Home - Hope Summerell Chamberlain - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

This Was Home - Hope Summerell Chamberlain - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

This is a chronicle of the North Carolina Piedmont. Although Salisbury is “home” and “The River” (the Yadkin) is a dominant theme, the book has a wider scope, for through her father the author presents a picture of life in eastern Carolina in antebellum days and, through her mother, the university village of Cahpel Hill in the early nineteenth century. Originally published in 1938.

DKK 496.00
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Making Home Work - Jane E. Simonsen - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Making Home Work - Jane E. Simonsen - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women''s stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate work to create and uphold. Treating white and indigenous women''s struggles as part of the same history, Jane E. Simonsen argues that as both cultural workers and domestic laborers insisted upon the value of their work to "civilization," they exposed the inequalities integral to both the nation and the household.Simonsen illuminates discussions about the value of women''s work through analysis of texts and images created by writers, women''s rights activists, reformers, anthropologists, photographers, field matrons, and Native American women. She argues that women such as Caroline Soule, Alice Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, Anna Dawson Wilde, and Angel DeCora called upon the rhetoric of sentimental domesticity, ethnographic science, public display, and indigenous knowledge as they sought to make the gendered and racial order of the nation visible through homes and the work performed in them. Focusing on the range of materials through which domesticity was produced in the West, Simonsen integrates new voices into the study of domesticity''s imperial manifestations.

DKK 397.00
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The American Family Home, 1800-1960 - Clifford Edward Clark Jr. - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The American Family Home, 1800-1960 - Clifford Edward Clark Jr. - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status.

DKK 544.00
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Home Grown - Isaac Campos - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Home Grown - Isaac Campos - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behaviour in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial fibre and symbol of European empire. But, Campos demonstrates, as it gradually spread to indigenous pharmacopoeias, then prisons and soldiers' barracks, it took on both a Mexican name--marijuana--and identity as a quintessentially ""Mexican"" drug. A century ago, Mexicans believed that marijuana could instantly trigger madness and violence in its users, and the drug was outlawed nationwide in 1920. Home Grown thus traces the deep roots of the antidrug ideology and prohibitionist policies that anchor the drug-war violence that engulfs Mexico today. Campos also counters the standard narrative of modern drug wars, which casts global drug prohibition as a sort of informal American cultural colonisation. Instead, he argues, Mexican ideas were the foundation for notions of ""reefer madness"" in the United States. This book is an indispensable guide for anyone who hopes to understand the deep and complex origins of marijuana's controversial place in North American history.

DKK 347.00
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Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception - Conrad Seipp - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception - Conrad Seipp - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Analyses the tortuous course that Puerto Rico has followed in evolving a population policy, highlighting the island's rapic economic growth, its role as a laboratory for testing different methods of birth control, and the inevitable conflicts between church and state. The strands of colonialism, catholicism, and contraception are woven into a background of profound social change.

DKK 518.00
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The Church Children's Home in a Changing World - Alan Keith Lucas - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The Church Children's Home in a Changing World - Alan Keith Lucas - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The only available book on the church-sponsored children's home, this work brings together in one volume, for board members, church groups, and staff, a collection of fourteen papers given by Dr. Keith-Lucas to denominational and regional groups from Florida to Texas during the past six years. Dr. Keith-Lucas is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Social Work and director of the Group Child Care Project in The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

DKK 374.00
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Army at Home - Judith Giesberg - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Army at Home - Judith Giesberg - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male head of household, worked in munitions factories, made uniforms, and located and cared for injured or dead soldiers. As they became more active in their new roles, they became visible as political actors, writing letters, signing petitions, moving (or refusing to move) from their homes, and confronting civilian and military officials. At the heart of the book are stories of women who fought the draft in New York and Pennsylvania, protested segregated streetcars in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and demanded a living wage in the needle trades and safer conditions at the Federal arsenals where they labored. Giesberg challenges readers to think about women and children who were caught up in the military conflict but nonetheless refused to become its collateral damage. She offers a dramatic reinterpretation of how America''s Civil War reshaped the lived experience of race and gender and brought swift and lasting changes to working-class family life.

DKK 374.00
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Creating Consumers - Carolyn M. Goldstein - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Creating Consumers - Carolyn M. Goldstein - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in this transition, professional home economists had two major goals: to teach women to assume their new roles as modern consumers and to communicate homemakers' needs to manufacturers and political leaders. Carolyn M. Goldstein charts the development of the profession from its origins as an educational movement to its identity as a source of consumer expertise in the interwar period to its virtual disappearance by the 1970s. Working for both business and government, home economists walked a fine line between educating and representing consumers while they shaped cultural expectations about consumer goods as well as the goods themselves. Goldstein looks beyond 1970s feminist scholarship that dismissed home economics for its emphasis on domesticity to reveal the movement's complexities, including the extent of its public impact and debates about home economists' relationship to the commercial marketplace.

DKK 446.00
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The Summer People - John Foster West - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

The Summer People - John Foster West - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

In the summer of 1974, twenty-four year old Anna DeVoss finds herself widowed and alone in the unfamiliar country of the North Carolina mountains. The body of her husband, a navy pilot missing in action for six years, has just been returned home from Vietnam. Following his funeral her mother in law persuades her to spend some time alone at the family''s summer home in Watauga County, North Carolina, in what becomes a summer of discovery for Anna.

DKK 218.00
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Legislating Privacy - Priscilla M. Regan - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

Legislating Privacy - Priscilla M. Regan - Bog - The University of North Carolina Press - Plusbog.dk

While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized databases, wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues, legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting those with a vested interest in new technology over those advocating privacy protection. Legislating Privacy explores the dynamics of congressional policy formulation and traces the limited response of legislators to the concept of privacy as a fundamental individual right. According to Regan, we will need an expanded understanding of the social value of privacy if we are to achieve greater protection from emerging technologies such as Caller ID and genetic testing. Specifically, she argues that a recognition of the social importance of privacy will shift both the terms of the policy debate and the patterns of interest-group action in future congressional activity on privacy issues.Originally published in 1995.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

DKK 518.00
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