Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.
Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.
Weaving together numerous richly detailed interviews and surveys with recent feminist literature on the role of caregiving in women’s lives and investigations of women’s involvement in home-based work, this book explores the daily lives of family day care providers. Margaret K. Nelson uncovers the dilemmas providers face in their relationships with parents who bring children to them, with the children themselves, with the providers’ family members, and with representatives of the state’s regulatory system. She links these dilemmas to the contradiction between an increasing demand for personalized, cheap, informal child care services and a public policy that subjects child care providers to public scrutiny while giving them limited material and ideological support. Nelson’s discussions with day care providers reveal considerable tensions that emerge over issues of control and intimacy. The dual motivation of business and family gives rise to problems, such as how to maintain enough distance from the parents to set limits on hours while providing personal service in a family setting. Family day care providers often enter this occupation as a way to engage in paid work and meet their own child care responsibilities. This book looks at how they manage to negotiate a setting that simultaneously involves money, trust, and caring. Family day care represents one of the most prevalent sources of child care for working parents. It is an especially common form of care for very young children, yet it remains little studied. In the popular press, stereotypes—many of them negative—prevail. This book substitutes a thorough, detailed examination of this child care setting from a perspective that has generally been ignored-that of the caregiver. While providing useful insights into the role of caregiving in women’s lives and the phenomenon of home-based work, it contributes to the ongoing policy debates about child care. In the series Women in the Political Economy, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg.
Bonita Valdez Rand has escaped from her brothers custody in Mexico and now rides into New Mexico to kill Chad Donovan, the man responsible for her late husbands death and for ruining her life. On the stagecoach, she meets Andrew Hilgendorf, a man searching for his notorious older brother Nick Doran at Donovans Bar CD ranch, a gathering place for outlaws. There is a lot of tension leading to a major gunfight involving most of the characters in the book, including Bonitas brother, who has followed her from Mexico City. With the help of Nick and Andrew, Bonita kills her brother and Donovan and Donovans son Kerwin. The Bar CD outlaws are killed or captured by lawmen, including Nick, who is alive but seriously wounded and in the custody of Bob Fleming, a Texas Ranger friend of Andrews.
Make God your ALL AND ALL! Dr. Margaret shares scriptural insights on how you can grow and become the woman or man God designed you to be. A Companion Study Guide You will experience His, love, Peace, Joy and encouragement even in bad times.
They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening interviews with parents across the country, Margaret K. Nelson cuts through the stereotypes and hyperbole to examine the realities of what she terms parenting out of control. Situating this phenomenon within a broad sociological context, she finds several striking explanations for why today's prosperous and well-educated parents are unable to set realistic boundaries when it comes to raising their children. Analyzing the goals and aspirations parents have for their children as well as the strategies and technologies they use to reach them, Nelson discovers fundamental differences among American parenting styles that expose class fault lines, both within the elite and between the elite and the middle and working classes. Today's parents are faced with unprecedented opportunities and dangers for their children, and are evolving novel strategies to adapt to these changes -- this lucid and insightful work provides an authoritative examination of what happens when these new strategies go too far
Mary Randolph faces the challenges of growing up in rural southeast Missouri in the 40's and 50's. As she learns the hard lessons that develop her character and her future, she is stalked by creatures and beings who would end the pursuit of that future. Her secret advantage is exploited and honed as her fearlessness grows and her road is revealed. Three books in one tell the stories of her development. "Quilt Pieces" - The responsible and logical 9 year old deals with evil and parental disbelief. "Ruby and the YellowRose" - Adolescence and Jim Crow crash through the doors of her daily joyous routine and naivety. "Mary's Road" - Mary, on the verge of adulthood, goes on a journey with her ex-spy uncle, fraught with peril and wonderment, into the heart of international turmoil, revolution and misunderstanding.
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, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be “like family” among the white middle-class. Drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, Nelson describes the quandaries and contradictions, delight and anxiety, benefits and costs, choice and obligation in these relationships. She shows the ways these fictive kinships are similar to one another as well as the ways they vary—whether around age or generation, co-residence, or the possibility of becoming “real” families. Moreover she shows that different parties to the same relationship understand them in some similar – and some very different – ways. Theoretically rich and beautifully written, the book is accessible to the general public while breaking new ground for scholars in the field of family studies.
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 most other private camps of the same period in many ways, but F&W also had some distinctive features. Campers and staff took pride in the special ruggedness of the surrounding environment, and delighted in the exceptional rigor of the camping trips and the work projects. Importantly, the Farm & Wilderness camps were some of the first private camps to become racially integrated.The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century traces these camps, both unique and emblematic of American youth culture of the twentieth century, from their establishment in the late 1930s to the end of the twentieth century. Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson explore how ideals considered progressive in the 1940s and 1950s had to be reconfigured by the camps to respond to shifts in culture and society as well as to new understandings of race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual identity. To illustrate this change, the authors draw on over forty interviews with former campers, archival materials, and their own memories. This book tells a story of progressive ideals, crises of leadership, childhood challenges, and social adaptation in the quintessential American summer camp.
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 with time. Nowadays A lesbian partnership, a “bastard” son, an aunt who is a prostitute, or a criminal grandfather might be of little or no consequence but could have unraveled a family at an earlier moment in history. Margaret K. Nelson is interested in how families keep secrets from each other and from outsiders when to do otherwise would risk eliciting not only embarrassment or discomfort, but profound shame and, in some cases, danger. Drawing on over 150 memoirs describing childhoods in the period between the aftermath of World War II and the 1960s, Nelson highlights the importance of history in creating family secrets and demonstrates the use of personal stories to understand how people make sense of themselves and their social worlds. Keeping Family Secrets uncovers hidden stories of same-sex attraction among boys, unwed pregnancies among teenage girls, the institutionalization of children with mental and physical disabilities, participation in left-wing political activities, adoption, and Jewish ancestry. The members of ordinary families kept these issues secret to hide the disconnect between the reality of their own family and the prevailing ideals of what a family should be. Personal accounts reveal the costs associated with keeping family secrets, as family members lie, hurl epithets, inflict abuse, and even deny family membership to protect themselves from the shame and danger of public knowledge. Keeping Family Secrets sheds light not only on decades-old secrets but pushes us to confront what secrets our families keep today.
The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged employment. In this book, Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith take a look inside the households of working-class Americans to consider how they are coping with large-scale structural changes in the economy, specifically how the downgrading of jobs has affected survival strategies, gender dynamics, and political attitudes. Drawing on both randomly distributed telephone surveys and in-depth interviews, Nelson and Smith explore the differences in the survival strategies of two groups of working-class households in a rural county: those in which at least one family member has been able to hold on to good work (a year-round, full-time job that carries benefits) and those in which nobody has been able to secure or retain steady employment. They find that households with good jobs are able to effectively use all of their labor power—they rely on two workers; they engage in on-the-side businesses; and they barter with friends and neighbors. In contrast, those living in families without at least one good job find themselves considerably less capable of deploying a complex, multi-faceted survival strategy. The authors further demonstrate that this difference between the two sets of households is accompanied by differences in the gender division of labor within the household and the manner in which individuals make sense of, and respond to, their employment.
Make God your ALL AND ALL! Dr. Margaret shares scriptural insights on how you can grow and become the woman or man God designed you to be. A Companion Study Guide You will experience His, love, Peace, Joy and encouragement even in bad times.
This diverse collection of essays examines important issues related to mental health among Pacific Islanders through the topics of identity, spirituality, the unconscious, mental trauma, and healing. Contributors: Emeline Afeaki-Mafile‘o, Margaret Nelson Agee, Siautu Alefaio, A. Aukahi Austin, Tina Berking, Philip Culbertson, Caroline Salumalo Fatialofa, Yvette Guttenbeil-Po‘uhila, Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, David Lui, Karen Lupe, Maika Lutui, Cabrini ‘Ofa Makasiale, Tavita T. Maliko, Peta Pila Palalagi, Suiamai Simi, Seilosa Skipps-Patterson, Karanina Siaosi Sumeo, To‘oa Jemaima Tiatia, Sione Tu‘itahi, Fia T. Turner-Tupou.
A family devotional on the events of Jesus's life on earth from the time he was a tiny baby until his death and ascension into heaven. For instance, you will read about angel Gabriel's message to Mary, where Jesus was born, his teenage years when he was lost, and the family's happy reunion. Later, you will see an illustration of Jesus's baptism in the river and read about his first miracle. Then you will discover the sorrowful experiences Jesus endured when Roman soldiers acted upon the orders they were given. Finally, you will see a picture of Jesus rising into heaven and read about what happened on earth after he was gone. Be sure to look for the dove of the Holy Spirit, watching over the Holy Family on each page. Sometimes he is hard to find, but don't give up because he is always there. The spiritual virtues relate to each event of Jesus's life and can be practiced in our own daily lives. Biblical references are included for further family reading activities.
Three Books tell MaryRandolph's story. In Book OneMary begins her journey. Evilcreatures and beings confronther as she discovers her secretpower and courage
It is God's desire for the body of Christ to live a life of pursuing His presence and living a lifestyle of celibacy, holiness and purity that they may present their body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable and pleasing to the Lord. God wants His children to experience His presence . . . Once you relinquish your will and seek the will of the Father, He will lead you into obedience. In this deeply reverent work, Margaret Jordan-Nelson urges believers to actively seek God's will in accordance with Isaiah 55:6. Fellowship with Him produces the yearning for His loving rule in your life. Sexual purity is an important part of that life, one lived with the fundamental desire of bringing glory to God. It is not a mere divine whim that encourages believers to strive for holiness. Rather, the Word promises blessing for the diligent embracing of Christ's guidance; if you delight in the Lord, the Bible promises the desires of your heart. Still, as the walk with Jesus grows more intimate, obedience becomes the basis of a rewarding lifestyle that is pleasing to God. The more you seek him, the more you die to self . . . It's left up to each individual if he or she wants it bad enough. Once you begin the process of seeking the Lord's face, there is no turning back. Margaret Jordan-Nelson came to know Jesus at an early age and has been a Christian for forty-six years. Margaret lives in Madison, Alabama, and has traveled throughout surrounding towns teaching Sunday schools, doing workshops and speaking on various occasions. She is committed to the will of God in her life and enjoys the presence, power, and grace of God. It is her obedience to the Lord that produced In His Presence, her first book.
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