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Religion and the New Immigrants

Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations

By: Janet Saltzman Chafetz,Helen Rose Ebaugh

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Religion and the New Immigrants

Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations

By: Janet Saltzman Chafetz,Helen Rose Ebaugh

New immigrants_those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965_have forever altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn. Although the religious congregations they form are often a nexus of their negotiation between the old and new, they have received little scholarly attention. Religion and the New Immigrants fills this gap. Growing out of the carefully designed Religion, Ethnicity and the New Immigration Research project, Religion and the New Immigrants combines in-depth studies of thirteen congregations in the Houston area with seven thematic essays looking across their diversity. The congregations range from Vietnamese Buddhist to Greek Orthodox, a Zoroastrian center to a multi-ethnic Assembly of God, presenting an astonishing array of ethnicity and religious practice. Common research questions and the common location of the congregations give the volume a unique comparative focus. Religion and the New Immigrants is an essential reference for scholars of immigration, ethnicity, and American religion.

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493

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AltaMira Press

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0759117128

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9780759117129

Recoding Gender

Women's Changing Participation in Computing

By: Janet Abbate

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Recoding Gender

Women's Changing Participation in Computing

By: Janet Abbate

The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases. Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek” seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the early decades of computing in both the United States and Britain. Indeed, programming in postwar years was considered woman's work (perhaps in contrast to the more manly task of building the computers themselves). In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped the culture of computing, she offers a valuable historical perspective on today's concerns over women's underrepresentation in the field. Abbate describes the experiences of women who worked with the earliest electronic digital computers: Colossus, the wartime codebreaking computer at Bletchley Park outside London, and the American ENIAC, developed to calculate ballistics. She examines postwar methods for recruiting programmers, and the 1960s redefinition of programming as the more masculine “software engineering.” She describes the social and business innovations of two early software entrepreneurs, Elsie Shutt and Stephanie Shirley; and she examines the career paths of women in academic computer science. Abbate's account of the bold and creative strategies of women who loved computing work, excelled at it, and forged successful careers will provide inspiration for those working to change gendered computing culture.

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259

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MIT Press

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0262534533

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9780262534536

Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

By: Janet Saltzman Chafetz

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Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

By: Janet Saltzman Chafetz

During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiq uity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective social processes are gendered, as are micro, meso, and macro social structures. Gender shapes, and is shaped, in all arenas of social life, from the most mundane practices of everyday life to those of the most powerful corporate actors. Contemporary understandings of gender emanate from a large community of primarily feminist scholars that spans the gamut of learned disciplines and also includes non-academic activist thinkers. However, while in corporating some cross-disciplinary material, this volume focuses specifically on socio logical theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed across the full array of social processes, structures, and institutions. As editor, I have explicitly tried to shape the contributions to this volume along several lines that reflect my long-standing views about sociology in general, and gender sociology in particular. First, I asked authors to include cross-national and historical material as much as possible. This request reflects my belief that understanding and evaluating the here-and-now and working realistically for a better future can only be accomplished from a comparative perspective. Too often, American sociology has been both tempero- and ethnocentric. Second, I have asked authors to be sensitive to within-gender differences along class, racial/ethnic, sexual preference, and age cohort lines.

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626

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387362185

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9780387362182

Family Policy and the American Safety Net

By: Janet Zollinger Giele

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Family Policy and the American Safety Net

By: Janet Zollinger Giele

Family Policy and the American Safety Net shows how families adapt to economic and demographic change. Government programs provide a safety net against the new risks of modern life. Family policy includes any public program that helps families perform their four universal obligations of caregiving, income provision, shelter, and transmission of citizenship. In America, this means that child care, health care, Social Security, unemployment insurance, housing, the quality of neighborhood schools, and anti-discrimination and immigration measures are all key elements of a de facto family policy. Yet many students and citizens are unaware of the history and importance of these programs. This book argues that family policy is as important as economic and defense policy to the future of the nation, a message that is relevant to students in the social sciences, social policy, and social work as well as to the public at large. .

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409

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SAGE

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1412998948

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9781412998949

Cambodian Refugees in Ontario

Resettlement, Religion, and Identity

By: Janet McLellan

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Cambodian Refugees in Ontario

Resettlement, Religion, and Identity

By: Janet McLellan

Janet McLellan uses ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, including extensive interviews, to highlight the difficulties Cambodians have faced in Canada.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802099629

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9780802099624

Women and the Future

Changing Sex Roles in Modern America

By: Janet Zollinger Giele

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Women and the Future

Changing Sex Roles in Modern America

By: Janet Zollinger Giele

Monograph on changing trends in women's social roles and women's rights in the USA - covers sex roles, equal opportunity in social participation and political participation, labour force participation of woman workers and married women, discrimination patterns concerning wage differentials, employment opportunities and educational opportunities, etc., and considers future perspectives for improving the social status of women. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

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0029116902

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Book's by Janet Saltzman Chafetz

Religion and the New Immigrants

Religion and the New Immigrants

Recoding Gender

Recoding Gender

Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

Family Policy and the American Safety Net

Family Policy and the American Safety Net

Cambodian Refugees in Ontario

Cambodian Refugees in Ontario

Women and the Future

Women and the Future

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