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The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State

Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of Baltimore’s urban poor, and sheds critical light on the unintended consequences of welfare policy on our most vulnerable communities.Drawing on her own uniquely immersive brand of fieldwork, conducted over the course of a decade in the neighborhoods of West Baltimore, Patricia Fernández-Kelly tells the stories of people like D. B. Wilson, Big Floyd, Towanda, and others whom the American welfare state treats with a mixture of contempt and pity—what Fernández-Kelly calls "ambivalent benevolence." She shows how growing up poor in the richest nation in the world involves daily interactions with agents of the state, an experience that differs significantly from that of more affluent populations. While ordinary Americans are treated as citizens and consumers, deprived and racially segregated populations are seen as objects of surveillance, containment, and punishment. Fernández-Kelly provides new insights into such topics as globalization and its effects on industrial decline and employment, the changing meanings of masculinity and femininity among the poor, social and cultural capital in poor neighborhoods, and the unique roles played by religion and entrepreneurship in destitute communities.Blending compelling portraits with in-depth scholarly analysis, The Hero’s Fight explores how the welfare state contributes to the perpetuation of urban poverty in America.

Herrschaft in der modernen Gesellschaft: Zur Bedeutung des Organisationsverhältnisses in kritischen Theorien der Gesellschaft

Im Wissenschafts- wie im Alltagsdiskurs wird Organisation in der Regel als neutrale und ubiquitäre Form der Koordination arbeitsteiliger Kooperation begriffen. Entgegen dieser Bestimmung stellt die vorliegende Arbeit den Versuch dar, Organisation über eine Historisierung als theoretische Kategorie für eine politökonomisch angeleitete Herrschaftstheorie der modernen Gesellschaft fruchtbar zu machen. Mittels des Begriffs des Organisationsverhältnisses wird eine herrschaftstheoretische Rekonstruktion der modernen Gesellschaft vorgenommen und zugleich gezeigt, dass in zentralen Theorien der modernen Gesellschaft Organisation, ohne dort als theoretische Kategorie ausgearbeitet zu sein, durchweg einen zentralen Bezugspunkt bei der Analyse moderner Herrschaft bildet.

Herrschaft und soziale Ordnung: Kritische Rekonstruktion und Weiterführung der individualistischen Theorietradition

Herrschaft als Grundthema moderner Gesellschaften verweist auf das Spannungsverhältnis von individueller Freiheit zu sozialer Ordnung und damit auf die Möglichkeiten einer sozialen Handlungskoordination. Ausgehend von dieser Problemstellung werden die klassischen Beiträge von Hobbes über Weber bis hin zu Coleman rekonstruiert und als 'individualistische Traditionslinie' zusammengefaßt. Vor allem in der Auseinandersetzung mit der Herrschaftssoziologie Webers werden die Erklärungskraft aber auch die Implikationen und Restriktionen dieser Theorietradition herausgearbeitet und deren Konsequenzen für die gegenwärtige Forschung aufgezeigt. Im Anschluß daran wird Herrschaft als ein sozialer Koordinationsmechanismus behandelt, den Akteure zur Bewältigung von Handlungsproblemen schaffen, dessen Erhalt aber wiederum aus individuellen Handlungsentscheidungen abzuleiten ist. Zur Weiterführung der aufgewiesenen Traditionslinie wird dafür plädiert, sowohl die Entstehungs- wie auch die Bestandsbedingungen einer herrschaftlichen Handlungskoordination zum Gegenstand theoretischer Überlegungen und empirischer Forschungen zu machen.

Herrschaft und Technik: Entscheidungsträgerschaft im Wandel

Technik, so vermuteten wir lange, beherrsche uns, weil ihre Entwicklung einer eigendynamischen Logik folgt, die uns als außergesellschaftliches Faktum erschien, die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung bestimmt. Technik, so behaupteten wir später, sei maßgeblich Resultat akteursbezogener Wirklichkeitskonstruktionen und akteursbezogenen Handelns. Technik, so denken wir heute, ist in ihren Wirkungen nicht mittels technikdeterministischer oder sozialdeterministischer Vorannahmen zu entschlüsseln. Beim genauen Hinsehen offenbart sie sich uns vielmehr als kontingentes Resultat sozialer Innovationsprozesse, das das Potential hat, auf sozioökonomische und institutionelle Wandlungsprozesse Einfluss zu nehmen.​Das vorliegende Buch schlüsselt diese Ansätze auf und ist auch als Lehrbuch zu lesen, um sich mit den verschiedenen Strömungen, Irrtümern und Erkenntnissen der Techniksoziologie vertraut zu machen. Die Fallstudien bieten Anregungen für weitere Forschungsvorhaben.

Herrschaftstheorien und Herrschaftsphänomene

Herrschaft gilt als eine der wichtigsten Kategorien der Politischen Theorie. Lange Zeit spielten herrschaftstheoretische und -kritische Fragestellungen in Forschungsprojekten und Publikationen der Politikwissenschaft und ihrer Nachbardisziplinen (Soziologie, Rechtswissenschaften u.a.) eine zentrale Rolle. Inzwischen bestimmen andere Kategorien wie Governance oder Steuerung Konzeption und Fragestellungen vieler Forschungsvorhaben und Publikationen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Entwicklung fragen die Beiträge dieses Buches nach der Aktualität der Kategorie Herrschaft sowie der mit ihr beschriebenen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Asymmetrien. Teils aus theoretischer, teils aus empirischer Perspektive nehmen die Autoren eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme herrschaftstheoretischer Ansätze vor und untersuchen neuere Entwicklungen von Herrschaftsphänomen. Schwerpunkte bilden Beiträge zur Europäisierung und Globalisierung von Herrschaftsverhältnissen, zu den Herrschaftsfunktionen staatlicher Institutionen (Polizei, Geheimdienste usw.) sowie zur Arbeitswelt und zur Reichtumsverteilung. Mehrere Autoren bearbeiten diese Fragen aus einer interdisziplinären politik- und rechtswissenschaftlichen Perspektive.

Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude

This collection delves deeply into the power of solitude in a richly detailed exploration of the lives of women writers! The essays in this fascinating volume combine literary theory, autobiography, performance, and criticism, while opening minds and expanding concepts of women's roles both in the home and within academia along the way. Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude begins with a discussion of the importance of solitude to the works of a variety of writers, including Margaret Atwood, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, and Zora Neale Hurston, and then moves on to an examination of the actual solitary spaces of women writers. The book concludes with the stories of modern women asserting their right to a space of their own. These essays, full of pain and new growth, lessons learned and battles fought, resound with the honesty and courage the authors have found in the process of truly making their own homes. Herspace examines: the stereotyped spinster solitude as a process and a journey women's prison literature cars, empty nests, kitchen counters, and other found spaces for writing the meaning of a home of one's own creating beauty in solitary settings Contributors to Herspace have made a conscious effort to integrate the personal with the academic, and the result is a volume of surprising intimacy, a window into the world of women writers past and present actively engaging solitude. From finding and defining the muse to the identity issues of home ownership, Herspace, which includes Jan Wellington's essay "What to Make of Missing Children (A Life Slipping into Fiction)," (winner of the 2003 NCTE Donald Murray Prize for "the best creative essay about teaching and/or writing published during the preceding year") provides you with the perspectives of women who are living these issues. As the editors write: "The solitary space itself enables the writing process, protects it. And women, more than men, need this enabling protection. Women need to claim their own space, to bargain and plan and keep out of sight that solitary space in which to commune with their thoughts and feelings, to experience their creative process intimately." Herspace explores these women's experiences, revealing the unique creativity that comes from solitude.

Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude

This collection delves deeply into the power of solitude in a richly detailed exploration of the lives of women writers! The essays in this fascinating volume combine literary theory, autobiography, performance, and criticism, while opening minds and expanding concepts of women's roles both in the home and within academia along the way. Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude begins with a discussion of the importance of solitude to the works of a variety of writers, including Margaret Atwood, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, and Zora Neale Hurston, and then moves on to an examination of the actual solitary spaces of women writers. The book concludes with the stories of modern women asserting their right to a space of their own. These essays, full of pain and new growth, lessons learned and battles fought, resound with the honesty and courage the authors have found in the process of truly making their own homes. Herspace examines: the stereotyped spinster solitude as a process and a journey women's prison literature cars, empty nests, kitchen counters, and other found spaces for writing the meaning of a home of one's own creating beauty in solitary settings Contributors to Herspace have made a conscious effort to integrate the personal with the academic, and the result is a volume of surprising intimacy, a window into the world of women writers past and present actively engaging solitude. From finding and defining the muse to the identity issues of home ownership, Herspace, which includes Jan Wellington's essay "What to Make of Missing Children (A Life Slipping into Fiction)," (winner of the 2003 NCTE Donald Murray Prize for "the best creative essay about teaching and/or writing published during the preceding year") provides you with the perspectives of women who are living these issues. As the editors write: "The solitary space itself enables the writing process, protects it. And women, more than men, need this enabling protection. Women need to claim their own space, to bargain and plan and keep out of sight that solitary space in which to commune with their thoughts and feelings, to experience their creative process intimately." Herspace explores these women's experiences, revealing the unique creativity that comes from solitude.

Herstellung und Reproduktion sozialer Grenzen: Roma in einer westdeutschen Großstadt (Forschung Gesellschaft)

Trotz einer Vielzahl an Veröffentlichungen zu Sinti und Roma sind bislang kaum empirische Forschungen auf der Basis von teilnehmender Beobachtung und Interviews durchgeführt worden. Eine Analyse der Beschaffenheit der angetroffenen Barrieren fand bisher nicht statt. In einer ethnographischen Fallstudie untersucht Ute Koch die Zuwanderung einer Gruppe von Roma aus dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien in eine westdeutsche Großstadt im Verlauf der 1980er Jahre und ihre anschließende Lebensführung. Anstatt von der Differenz von Kulturen auszugehen, fragt die Autorin, wie soziale Grenzen zwischen Roma und Nicht-Roma hergestellt und reproduziert werden, wie die Interagierenden diese Grenzziehungen deutlich machen und was sie im jeweiligen Kontext bedeuten.

Heteroactivism: Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities

Around the world, LGBTQ+ activists have won an unprecedented series of political victories, from marriage equality to increased representation in government. But this success has sparked a backlash. While there has been much scrutiny of the role of the Christian right in opposing LGBTQ+ equality in the US, the backlash goes far beyond these traditional elements, and also extends beyond the US to countries including the UK, Ireland and Canada.In this book, Nash and Brown consider the rise of the new 'heteroactivism', showing how social media and new sources of funding have reinvigorated the opponents of LGBTQ+ rights. They also show how the rhetoric and tactics of this new generation of heteroactivists differs from that of their predecessors, exploiting notions of 'parental rights' and freedom of speech to assert heteronormative values in spaces ranging from schools to workplaces. They also reveal the increasingly transnational nature of anti- LGBTQ+ activism, with growing links between heteroactivists in the US, UK and beyond.

Heteroactivism: Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities

Around the world, LGBTQ+ activists have won an unprecedented series of political victories, from marriage equality to increased representation in government. But this success has sparked a backlash. While there has been much scrutiny of the role of the Christian right in opposing LGBTQ+ equality in the US, the backlash goes far beyond these traditional elements, and also extends beyond the US to countries including the UK, Ireland and Canada.In this book, Nash and Brown consider the rise of the new 'heteroactivism', showing how social media and new sources of funding have reinvigorated the opponents of LGBTQ+ rights. They also show how the rhetoric and tactics of this new generation of heteroactivists differs from that of their predecessors, exploiting notions of 'parental rights' and freedom of speech to assert heteronormative values in spaces ranging from schools to workplaces. They also reveal the increasingly transnational nature of anti- LGBTQ+ activism, with growing links between heteroactivists in the US, UK and beyond.

Heterogene Akteure als Innovationspartner: Zur Strukturierung von Handeln in industriellen Innovationsprojekten (Dortmunder Beiträge zur Sozialforschung)

Innovationsprojekte werden als unsichere und offene Prozesse beschrieben, da sich der Weg von einer ersten Idee bis zur dahin nicht eindeutig definierbaren, marktfähigen Neuheit nicht im Detail vorausplanen lässt. Die Komplexität des Innovationsvorhabens erhöht sich, wenn heterogene, eigenständige Akteure daran beteiligt sind. In diesem Fall müssen neben räumlichen Distanzen auch disziplinäre Spezifika und unterschiedliche Zeitvorstellungen überwunden werden, um ein notwendiges Maß an Abstimmung und Verbindlichkeit zu erzielen. Katrin Hahn diskutiert sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch die Herausforderungen von Innovationskooperationen zwischen heterogenen Akteuren und zeigt die Grenzen bestehender Erklärungsansätze auf. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Innovationskooperationen zwischen forschungsintensiven und nicht-forschungsintensiven Partnern. Anhand der drei Dimensionen Raum, Zeit und Diskurs beschreibt sie die Komplexität solcher Projekte sowie die Heterogenität der Akteure und identifiziert Mechanismen, mit denen die Akteure diese überwinden und Abstimmung und Verbindlichkeit bei voraussetzungsvollen Innovationsvorhaben herstellen.

The Heterogeneity Link of the Welfare State and Redistribution: Ethnic Heterogeneity, Welfare State Policies, Poverty, and Inequality in High Income Countries

This book situates ethnic heterogeneity in the larger discussion of the welfare state and its redistributive outcomes, poverty and inequality. By using comprehensive, longitudinal data covering 1980 to 2010 from 17 high income countries, this analysis helps achieve a major milestone in comparative welfare state research both conceptually and methodologically. Conceptually, it elevates the relevance of growing ethnic heterogeneity in thinking about how politics and economics of the welfare state operate, collectively impacting the magnitudes of poverty and inequality. Methodologically, the analysis conducted in this book provides broader empirical tests for the many propositions and discourses found in the literature based largely on anecdotal evidence, case studies, and unjustifiably limited quantitative data. The innovative oeprationalization of the multidimensional character of both welfare state policies and ethnic heterogeneity help broaden the analytical frameworks of comparative welfare state research.The outcome is a major advance in the way we understand the causes and redistributive consequences of the welfare state, in which ethno-racial, religious, and especially immigration heterogeneity can play a crucial role. A thorough and insightful analysis presented in this book helps students, researchers, and policymakers better understand the ethnic heterogeneity connections of the welfare state and redistribution, together with a comparative perspective of the changing faces of ethnic heterogeneity, welfare state policies, and poverty and inequality in high income countries.

Heterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare: VLDB 2019 Workshops, Poly and DMAH, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 30, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11721)

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings for the VLBD conference workshops entitled: Towards Polystores That Manage Multiple Databases, Privacy, Security and/or Policy Issues for Heterogenous Data (Poly 2019) and the Fifth International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2019), held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2019, in conjunction with the 45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2019. The 20 regular papers presented together with 2 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named:Poly 2019: Privacy, Security and/or Policy Issues for Heterogenous Data; Building Polystore Systems.DMAH 2019: Database Enabled Biomedical Research; AI for Healthcare; Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Biomedical Data; Blockchain and Privacy Preserving Data Management.

Heterogenität - Diversity - Intersektionalität: Zur Logik sozialer Unterscheidungen in pädagogischen Semantiken der Differenz

Die Verbreitung von Konzepten der Heterogenität, Diversity und Intersektionalität innerhalb wissenschaftlicher wie praxisnaher pädagogischer Diskurse verweisen auf die zunehmende Bedeutung der Beobachtung sozialer Differenz im und durch das Erziehungssystem und seiner Organisationen. Gemeinsam ist allen drei Ansätzen ein Kanon von Differenzkategorien, deren Relevanz sowohl analytisch als auch normativ-programmatisch beansprucht wird. Gleichzeitig stehen Heterogenität, Diversity und Intersektionalität jedoch für Konzepte, deren Entstehungskontext und Genese auf funktionssystemspezifisch zu unterscheidenden Bezugsproblemen und Diskursfeldern (Erziehung, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft) basiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund geht diese Darstellung der Frage nach, welche Folgen die je spezifischen Beobachtungslogiken von Differenz in Hinblick auf die ‚Konstruktion sozialer Wirklichkeit’ innerhalb der adressierten pädagogischen Kontexte haben.

Heterogenität und Diversität in Städten mittlerer Größe: Das Beispiel Landau in der Pfalz

Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt wird in der Regel mit Metropolen assoziiert und in der Wissenschaft primär als Phänomen großstädtischen Lebens reflektiert. Anhand ausgewählter Fallbeispiele aus Landau in der Pfalz zeigt der Sammelband jedoch auf, dass Heterogenität und Diversität auch in Mittelstädten gesellschaftliche Normalität war und ist. Auf der Basis empirischer Befunde formuliert der Band zudem theoretische Überlegungen zu Heterogenität und Diversität in Städten mittlerer Größe, wodurch er einen Beitrag zur Überwindung eines wichtigen Forschungsdesiderats – der wissenschaftlichen Reflexion gesellschaftlicher Vielfalt jenseits großstädtischer Metropolen – leistet.

Heterogenous Agents, Interactions and Economic Performance (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems #521)

In traditional economics models of perfect competition agent's interactions are all mediated through the market. Interactions are anonymous, global and indirect. This is a powerful model, but we see many instances in which one, and sometimes all, of the previous characteristics fail to hold true. The type of agent you are, or your identity, can affect the type of interaction we have, and most surely the relationship between micro-behaviour and macro-phenomena in non-trivial ways. This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 6th Workshop on Economics with Heterogenous Interacting Agents (WEHIA). The contributions show that work done in other fields like evolutionary biology, statistical mechanics, social network theory and others help us to understand the way in which economic systems operate. Virtually all of the papers presented in this volume draw on some aspect or other of these varied approaches to related problems.

Heteronomien des Sozialen: Sozialontologie zwischen Sozialphilosophie und Soziologie

Heteronormativität: Empirische Studien zu Geschlecht, Sexualität und Macht (Studien Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung)

Heteronormativitätskritische Forschung versucht hinter dem, was als natürlich gegeben angesehen wird, das Wirken normativer Mechanismen freizulegen und diese ins Zentrum der Kritik zu stellen. Der Band versammelt empirische Studien über Gehalt, Durchsetzung, Wirkungsweisen und Effekte solcher Normen, sowie über deren Zusammenhang mit weiteren gesellschaftlichen Machtmechanismen. Im interdisziplinären Vergleich zeigt sich, wie eine Kritik der heteronormativen Forschungsparadigmen gravierende Verschiebungen in allen Wissenschaftsfeldern mit sich bringt.

Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia (The Sussex Library of Asian & Asian American Studies)

This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the largest Muslim population of the world, as well as sizeable ethnic and religious minorities comprising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities. Hot sex is a major media selling point, particularly in Indonesia. Heteronormativity entails a system of symbolic violence in the sense that it punishes those that it excludes and polices those that it includes; the ways its powers are subverted are likewise symbolic. Passionate aesthetics refers to the dynamics, motivations, codes of behavior and presentation, subjectivities and identities that together make up the complex workings of erotic attraction, sexual relations and partnerships patterns. By charting the lives of women who live beyond the boundaries of the heteronormative, commonalities are revealed; boundaries and regulatory mechanisms in the context of symbolic violence are delineated; and the issue of the struggle for sexual rights for marginalised groups, and their open rebellion, brought to the fore. At the heart of the book lies elaboration of the ways Asian families are constructed -- their social, economic, sexual and religious agency, and how these engage with state-led values.

Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia (The Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies)

This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the largest Muslim population of the world, as well as sizeable ethnic and religious minorities comprising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities. Hot sex is a major media selling point, particularly in Indonesia. Heteronormativity entails a system of symbolic violence in the sense that it punishes those that it excludes and polices those that it includes; the ways its powers are subverted are likewise symbolic. Passionate aesthetics refers to the dynamics, motivations, codes of behavior and presentation, subjectivities and identities that together make up the complex workings of erotic attraction, sexual relations and partnerships patterns. By charting the lives of women who live beyond the boundaries of the heteronormative, commonalities are revealed; boundaries and regulatory mechanisms in the context of symbolic violence are delineated; and the issue of the struggle for sexual rights for marginalised groups, and their open rebellion, brought to the fore. At the heart of the book lies elaboration of the ways Asian families are constructed -- their social, economic, sexual and religious agency, and how these engage with state-led values.

HeteroSexual Politics

Sexuality and sexual politics have been much debated over the last 20 years and feminists, in particular, have been responsible for politicising the debate, pointing out how something which is usually regarded as private and personal is, in fact, a public and political issue. This text illustrates the diversity and excitement of debates about sexuality in women's studies and feminism today, and points to new paths for feminist analysis, thinking and action. In particular, heterosexuality can no longer be taken for granted and must, along with other forms of sexuality, be explicitly addressed. The volume is divided into three sections: "Analysing (Hetero)sexuality" is concerned with exploring some of the complexities of the material aspects of sexual relations between men and women; "Media Discourses of Sexuality" contains analyses derived from women's magazines, television and newspapers; and "Practising Sexual Politics" focuses on the reflexive awareness of sexual politics in the framing of methodological issues in research.

HeteroSexual Politics

Sexuality and sexual politics have been much debated over the last 20 years and feminists, in particular, have been responsible for politicising the debate, pointing out how something which is usually regarded as private and personal is, in fact, a public and political issue. This text illustrates the diversity and excitement of debates about sexuality in women's studies and feminism today, and points to new paths for feminist analysis, thinking and action. In particular, heterosexuality can no longer be taken for granted and must, along with other forms of sexuality, be explicitly addressed. The volume is divided into three sections: "Analysing (Hetero)sexuality" is concerned with exploring some of the complexities of the material aspects of sexual relations between men and women; "Media Discourses of Sexuality" contains analyses derived from women's magazines, television and newspapers; and "Practising Sexual Politics" focuses on the reflexive awareness of sexual politics in the framing of methodological issues in research.

Heterosexual Women Changing The Family: Refusing To Be A "Wife"!

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Heterosexual Women Changing The Family: Refusing To Be A "Wife"!

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Hidden Academic Curriculum and Inequality in Early Education: How Class, Race, Teacher Interactions, and Friendship Influence Student Success (Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity)

Drawing on a rich ethnographic study conducted in first grade classrooms in the US, this book reveals the potentially invisible, yet significant ways that race and social class impact student success in the earliest years of their schooling. The Hidden Academic Curriculum and Inequality in Early Education: How Class, Race, Teacher Interactions, and Friendship Influence Student Success explores key differences observed between the classroom interactions and academic behaviors of racially, socially, and ethnically diverse first grade students. Chapters offer in-depth analysis of the ways in which classed and racialized coaching by families, differentiated teacher-student interactions, and racially segregated friendships play out in the school environment, and ultimately influence a child’s ability to decode the academic hidden curriculum. This in turn, dictates a child’s understanding and ability to perform the specific skills associated with academic success. Ultimately, the text highlights the critical need for improved understanding of how in- and out-of-school factors impact child behaviors, and offers key recommendations to prevent the perpetuation of racial and socioeconomic inequalities in schools and classrooms. This insightful volume will be of particular interest to postgraduate students, researchers, and academics in the fields of Early Childhood Education and the Sociology of Education. Those with a focus on racial, ethnic, and social inequalities more broadly, will also find the book of interest.