Mary Jane Gerber's Books

A Pioneer Alphabet

By: Mary Alice Downie

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A is for Abigail and Anna, Zebediah’s two sisters. He is making them an alphabet book. From B, which stands for bandalore, a forerunner of the yoyo, H for the hornbook that taught children to spell, and on through the pigeons that blackened the sky, to the uniform that Papa wore when he defended the king, right through to X for the eXhaustion of parents who are homesteading. This lovely romp through the seasons on a pioneer farm is full of fascinating information. Artist Mary Jane Gerber has placed numerous items in each of her paintings and detailed borders, and there is a useful list of them for readers to find. Author Mary Alice Downie has included detailed background notes, making this a sweet introduction to our history.

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Our Time Is Now

A Woman's Guide to Creating a Life and World You Will Love

By: Mary Ann Daly M.A.

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Our Time Is Now

A Woman's Guide to Creating a Life and World You Will Love

By: Mary Ann Daly M.A.

Women are stepping up and making a big difference in the world like never before. Author and psychotherapist Mary Ann Daly shares an understanding of the the key to this powerful evolution in her book, Our Time Is Now. Because women innately connect to the world, and each other, through their hearts, Mary Ann proposes the idea that channeling heart energy is a revolutionary way for women to have and own their own power. Our Time Is Now inspires women to live intentionally, utilizing the strength and wisdom of their hearts to make the changes necessary to make our livesand the worlda better place. This book will teach you to live with intention and higher consciousness, and find your path to creating the relationships, life and world you desire and deserve. Not only do I recommend highly a soulful reading of Our Time is Now, I also encourage you to give it as a gift to every woman you know. Karol Jackowski, best selling author of Ten Fun Things to do Before You Die. Mary Ann Daly is on a mission to help women everywhere live a life of joy, purpose,and direction. Enjoy!" Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Big Stone Gap Mary Ann's insights and her unique perspectives will inspire you to action. Gale Dreas, author of Toolbox Parenting. An extremely timely book! Alyce Sorokie, author of Gut Wisdom

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1504329333

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9781504329330

A Pioneer ABC

By: Mary Alice Downie

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A Pioneer ABC

By: Mary Alice Downie

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Tundra Books (NY)

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0887766889

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Teaching and Learning with Infants and Toddlers

Where Meaning Making Begins

By: Mary Jane Maguire-Fong

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Teaching and Learning with Infants and Toddlers

Where Meaning Making Begins

By: Mary Jane Maguire-Fong

Maguire-Fong has updated her groundbreaking book designed to assist pre- and inservice professionals working with infants and their families. Each chapter draws from research and real-life infant care settings to provide valuable insights into how to design an infant care program, plan curriculum, assess learning, and work with families"--

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Teachers College Press

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0807778710

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Infant and Toddler Development from Conception to Age 3

What Babies Ask of Us

By: Mary Jane Maguire-Fong,Marsha Peralta

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Infant and Toddler Development from Conception to Age 3

What Babies Ask of Us

By: Mary Jane Maguire-Fong,Marsha Peralta

This book invites those caring for infants to join as companions on an incredible journey. Each chapter taps a distinct area of research to shed light on babies’ biological expectations for care and their amazing competence as active participants in that care. Exploring each domain of development, with policy and practice recommendations, the authors offer important insights into: How prenates “read” and adapt to characteristics of their environment.How fetus and mother respond in sync to a cascade of hormones that facilitate healthy birth, breastfeeding, bonding, and immune system development.How infants search for proximity to caring, responsive others as a means of regulating physiological systems and making friends.How infants gather statistics on language through interactions with companions. How infants learn as they investigate objects and people within everyday play and interactions. “I have never experienced a book that more clearly and purposefully communicates the day-by-day development of infants and the essential role adults play in the optimization of that development.” —From the Foreword by J. Ronald Lally, WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies, author of For Our Babies “Infant development comes alive in this book.” —From the Afterword by Ed Tronick, Distinguished University Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston “A must-read for anyone interested in young children. This will be a valuable resource for academics, clinicians, and caregivers.” —Bruce D. Perry, ChildTrauma Academy “This extraordinary collection of stories invites us to explore and reflect on what it’s like to be a baby, new to the world and full of curiosity.” —Elizabeth Jones, faculty emerita, Pacific Oaks College

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0807777382

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Depression: A Very Short Introduction

By: Mary Jane Tacchi,Jan Scott

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Depression: A Very Short Introduction

By: Mary Jane Tacchi,Jan Scott

What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants - and should they be? Covering depression, manic depression, and bipolar disorder, this Very Short Introduction gives a brief account of the history of these concepts, before focussing on the descriptions and understanding of these disorders today. Jan Scott and Mary Jane Tacchi look at the introduction of modern treatments for people suffering from depression, recounting the stories behind the development and introduction of antidepressants and mood stabilizers. They examine the symptoms and signs of the different disorders, as well as the association between physical disorders and depression. Exploring the importance of depression and bipolar disorder in society, they also look at the link between creativity and mood disorders. Scott and Tacchi conclude by discussing treatments and the future for those with depression. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Oxford University Press

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0191026972

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DESIRE and DESIGN

By: MARY JANE STAUDENMANN

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DESIRE and DESIGN

By: MARY JANE STAUDENMANN

Here's a new and stimulating look at the actions of Venus and Mars in the birth chart and in our lives. Through over eighty color art reproductions and over a hundred celebrity chart references, Venus and Mars show their true colors and their full potential throughout the twelve zodiacal signs. A rare chance to experience their power close-up!

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1491892315

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The Voice of the Child in American Literature

By: Mary Jane Hurst

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The Voice of the Child in American Literature

By: Mary Jane Hurst

We as adults are reflected in our children, those in our literature as well as those in our familes, and so it is natural to want to examine their presence among us. Children and child speech are important literary elements which merit careful critical analysis. Surprisingly, comprehensive studies of the child in American fiction have not been previously attempted and fictional child speech, even that of individual characters has been almost totally ignored. Nevertheless, the language of fictional children warrants attention for several reasons. First, language and language acquisition are primary issues for children much as sexual development is primary issues for adolescents. Second, because vast linguistic efforts have been directed toward language acquisition research, a broad base of concrete information exists with which to explore the topic. And, third, language is a key which opens many doors. An understanding of fictional children's language leads to discoveries about various critical questions, sociological and psychological as well as textual and stylistic. This study examines the presentation of children and child language in American fiction by applying general linguistic principles as well as specific findings from child language acquisition research to children's speech in literary texts. It clarifies, sorts, and assesses the representations of child speech in American fiction. It tests on fictional discourse linguistic concepts heretofore applied exclusively to naturally occurring child language. The aim is not to evaluate the degree of realism in writers' presentations of child language, for that would be a simplistic and reductive enterprise. Rather, the overall object is to analyze fictional child language using linguistic methods.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813163498

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The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management

By: Mary Jane Angelo

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The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management

By: Mary Jane Angelo

Although concerns over the ecological impacts of pesticides gave rise to the environmental movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, since that time, pesticide use and its effects have been largely ignored by the law and by legal scholars. This book addresses this omission by providing a unique and serious treatment of the significance of pesticide issues in environmental law and takes an ecological perspective on the legal issues. Dealing with a wide range of questions relating to pests and pesticides, the book focuses primarily on agricultural pesticide use as the largest contaminator in the US. It also examines the legacy of past pesticide use and analyzes how recent developments in ecological science can inform the law and increase our understanding of ecology. Interdisciplinary in its approach, the book will be of interest to academics, lawyers, scientists and environmental and agricultural professionals.

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Routledge

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1317026160

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Eradicating this Evil

Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940

By: Mary Jane Brown

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Eradicating this Evil

Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940

By: Mary Jane Brown

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1136712534

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The Feng Shui Connection to a Healthy Life

A Guide to Healthy Living & High Vitality

By: Mary Jane Kasliner

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The Feng Shui Connection to a Healthy Life

A Guide to Healthy Living & High Vitality

By: Mary Jane Kasliner

Feng Shui is an ancient Taoist philosophy based on the laws of nature and the art of Geomancy. In this highly illustrated and instructive book, professional Feng Shui consultant, Mary Jane Kasliner, covers all the essential elements to living our healthiest possible lives, including: Architectural designs that foster illness, and how to resolve them for greater vitality. Ideal elements to integrate into your diet and interior design for a well-balanced life. Key Feng Shui principles to enhance health and vitality. Simple mediations and sacred geometric designs that create total body alignment.

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Follow the Fossils

Developing Metrics for Instagram as a Natural Science Communication Tool

By: Samantha B. Ocon,Lisa Lundgren,Richard T. Bex II,Jennifer E. Bauer,Mary Jane Hughes,Sadie M. Mills

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Follow the Fossils

Developing Metrics for Instagram as a Natural Science Communication Tool

By: Samantha B. Ocon,Lisa Lundgren,Richard T. Bex II,Jennifer E. Bauer,Mary Jane Hughes,Sadie M. Mills

The ability for people to connect, learn, and communicate about science has been enhanced through the Internet, specifically through social media platforms. Facebook and Twitter are well-studied, while Instagram is understudied. This Element provides insight into using Instagram as a science education platform by pioneering a set of calculated metrics, using a paleontology-focused account as a case study. Framed by the theory of affinity spaces, the authors conducted year-long analyses of 455 posts and 139 stories that were created as part of an informal science learning project. They found that team activity updates and posts outside of their other categories perform better than their defined categories. For Instagram stories, the data show that fewer slides per story hold viewers' attention longer, and stories using the poll tool garnered the most interaction. This Element provides a baseline to assess the success of Instagram content for science communicators and natural science institutions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009177958

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Turn Up the Contrast

CBC Television Drama since 1952

By: Mary Jane Miller

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Turn Up the Contrast

CBC Television Drama since 1952

By: Mary Jane Miller

From Shakespeare to cop shows, sitcoms to docudramas, for over three decades the CBC has presented viewers with every variety of television drama and has become Canada's closest equivalent to a national theatre. Turn Up the Contrast is the first book to explore the content of Canadian television drama and is both a critical analysis and a survey history of how Canadians have used the medium to tell themselves their own stories. As a part of her research, Mary Jane Miller watched thousands of hours of television, sampling series and viewing in their entirety shorter programs such as movies and mini-series. Asking a variety of questions, she selected a number of programs for detailed analysis, and devotees of The Beachcombers, King of Kensington, Seeing Things, Cariboo Country, Wojeck or A Gift to Last will be pleased to find their favourites among those discussed at length. A University of British Columbia Press / CBC Enterprises Co-Publication.

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0774843217

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The Curse

A Cultural History of Menstruation

By: Janice Delaney,Mary Jane Lupton,Emily Toth

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The Curse

A Cultural History of Menstruation

By: Janice Delaney,Mary Jane Lupton,Emily Toth

In its hard headed, richly documented concreteness, it is worth a thousand polemics." -- New York Times, from a review of the first edition "The Curse deserves a place in every women's studies library collection." -- Sharon Golub, editor of Lifting the curse of Menstruation "A stimulating and useful book, both for the scholarly and the general reader." -- Paula A. Treichler, co-author of A Feminist Dictionary

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University of Illinois Press

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0252014529

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Teaching Reading in Social Studies

A Supplement to Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Teacher's Manual (2nd Ed.)

By: Jane K. Doty,Mary Lee Barton,Gregory N. Cameron

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Teaching Reading in Social Studies

A Supplement to Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Teacher's Manual (2nd Ed.)

By: Jane K. Doty,Mary Lee Barton,Gregory N. Cameron

Explores the challenges of reading in the context of mathematics.

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ASCD

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1893476049

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The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance

Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell

By: Mary Hricko

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The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance

Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell

By: Mary Hricko

This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods. By noting the affinities of these writers, patterns such as the rise of the city novel, the development of urban realism, and the shift to modernism are identified as significant connections between the two periods. Although Dreiser, Wright, and Farrell are more commonly thought of as Chicago writers, this study argues that Langston Hughes is a transitional, pivotal figure between the two periods. Through close readings and contextualization, the influence of Chicago writing on American literature--in such areas as realism and naturalism, as well as proletarian and ethnic fiction--becomes apparent.

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1136085386

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Unveiling the Harem

Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo

By: Mary Ann Fay

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Unveiling the Harem

Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo

By: Mary Ann Fay

A history of elite women who were concubines and wives of powerful slave-soldiers, known as Mamluks, who dominated Egypt both politically and militarily in the eighteenth century.

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0815651708

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Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe (Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris) Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian

By: Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris

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Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe (Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris) Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian

By: Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris

This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

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1317451961

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The Whole Wide World, Without Limits"

International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893-1930

By: Mary McCune

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The Whole Wide World, Without Limits"

International Relief, Gender Politics, and American Jewish Women, 1893-1930

By: Mary McCune

An analysis of gender politics in the American Jewish community during the interwar period that reveals the role of gender and class in organizational politics and the importance of Jewish women in American political and activist history. Often perceived as being removed from the rough-and-tumble world of male politics, women involved in relief during World War I and the 1920s found themselves grappling daily with questions of ideology, nationalism, and political statehood. Participation in large-scale relief work provided Jewish women with a firm sense of their own capabilities and contributed to their heightened sense of gender consciousness. Their experience provides powerful evidence that women activists in the post-suffrage period sustained a notable degree of separation from men even as they propounded gender equality, thereby facilitating American Jewish women’s entrance into the public realm without their having to sacrifice commitment to either Jewish or women’s issues. Gendered and separatist strategies enabled women to bring their concerns into the public sphere, affect the course of American Jewish history, and shape modern American Jewish identity. "The Whole Wide World, Without Limits" explores the international relief activities of three American Jewish organizations during this period: the National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah (the Women’s Zionist Organization of America), and the Workmen’s Circle. Women in all three organizations vigorously raised money for Jews in the war zones and continued to help them after the armistice. Author Mary McCune demonstrates the significance of the work of each group while analyzing the interactions between class, ethnicity, religion, and gender consciousness, both inside the Jewish community and in the broader American context. McCune looks at a wide variety of Jewish women—Zionists and anti-Zionists, religious and secular, capitalists and socialists, wealthy and working-class—and sheds light on the myriad ways that personal identity shapes public activism. More importantly, this book reveals how women’s charity work and their use of gendered strategies exerted influence over seemingly unrelated political events.

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Wayne State University Press

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081433752X

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Opposite Poles

Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990

By: Mary Patrice Erdmans

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Opposite Poles

Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990

By: Mary Patrice Erdmans

A study of Chicago's Polish community based on data collected between 1987 and 1989. The author used archival resources, participant observation, surveys, and 59 interviews in his study of Polonian organizations in Chicago, their involvement with activities and events in the home country, and the Polish-American experience in general. The study looks at the different experiences of immigrants, refugees, and Wakacjusze, the culture and discourse of communism, Solidarity in Poland and in America, and the partially free elections in Poland in 1989. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Penn State Press

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Wardship and the Welfare State

Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

By: Mary Klann

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Wardship and the Welfare State

Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

By: Mary Klann

Wardship and the Welfare State examines the ideological dimensions and practical intersections of public policy and Native American citizenship, Indian wardship, and social welfare rights after World War II. By examining Native wardship’s intersections with three pieces of mid-twentieth-century welfare legislation—the 1935 Social Security Act, the 1942 Servicemen’s Dependents Allowance Act, and the 1944 GI Bill—Mary Klann traces the development of a new conception of first-class citizenship. Wardship and the Welfare State explores how policymakers and legislators have defined first-class citizenship against its apparent opposite, the much older and fraught idea of Indian wardship. Wards were considered dependent, while first-class citizens were considered independent. Wards were thought to receive gratuitous aid from the government, while first-class citizens were considered responsible. Critics of the federal welfare state’s expansion in the 1930s through 1960s feared that as more Americans received government aid, they too could become dependent wards, victims of the poverty they saw on reservations. Because critics believed wardship prevented Native men and women from fulfilling expectations of work, family, and political membership, they advocated terminating Natives’ trust relationships with the federal government. As these critics mistakenly equated wardship with welfare, state officials also prevented Native people from accessing needed welfare benefits. But to Native peoples wardship was not welfare and welfare was not wardship. Native nations and pan-Native organizations insisted on Natives’ government-to-government relationships with the United States and maintained their rights to welfare benefits. In so doing, they rejected stereotyped portrayals of Natives’ perpetual poverty and dependency and asserted and defined tribal sovereignty. By illuminating how assumptions about “gratuitous” government benefits limit citizenship, Wardship and the Welfare State connects Native people to larger histories of race, inequality, gender, and welfare in the twentieth-century United States.

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Shameful Bodies

Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement

By: Michelle Mary Lelwica

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Shameful Bodies

Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement

By: Michelle Mary Lelwica

What happens when your body doesn't look how it's supposed to look, or feel how it's supposed to feel, or do what it's supposed to do? Who or what defines the ideals behind these expectations? How can we challenge them and live more peacefully in our bodies? Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement explores these questions by examining how traditional religious narratives and modern philosophical assumptions come together in the construction and pursuit of a better body in contemporary western societies. Drawing on examples from popular culture such as self-help books, magazines, and advertisements, Michelle Mary Lelwica shows how these narratives and assumptions encourage us to go to war against our bodies-to fight fat, triumph over disability, conquer chronic pain and illness, and defy aging. Through an ethic of conquest and conformity, the culture of physical improvement trains us not only to believe that all bodily processes are under our control, but to feel ashamed about those parts of our flesh that refuse to comply with the cultural ideal. Lelwica argues that such shame is not a natural response to being fat, physically impaired, chronically sick, or old. Rather, body shame is a religiously and culturally conditioned reaction to a commercially-fabricated fantasy of physical perfection. While Shameful Bodies critiques the religious and cultural norms and narratives that perpetuate external and internalized judgment and aggression toward “shameful” bodies, it also engages the resources of religions, especially feminist theologies and Buddhist thought/practice, to construct a more affirming approach to health and healing-an approach that affirms the diversity, fragility, interdependence, and impermanence of embodied life.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472594967

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Veteran Poetics

British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015

By: Catherine Mary McLoughlin

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Veteran Poetics

British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015

By: Catherine Mary McLoughlin

Illustrates how war veterans have been used in British literature since the 1790s to explore being, knowing and storytelling.

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The Many Lives of Otto Kahn

By: Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

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The Many Lives of Otto Kahn

By: Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Here was a man who was both equipped and disposed to be the most considerable Maecenas in the history of our theater, wrote Alexander Woollcott. It is the man behind that legend whom Mary Jane Matz brings. to life in this spirited biography. Otto Kahn, The King of New York in the twenties, had virtually created the city's new Metropolitan Opera with his enormous energy and financial backing. He was responsible for introducing Stanislavski, Nijinski, the Abbey Players, the Moscow Art Theater, and practically every other important personage and event in the most vigorous era of American theatrical history. He subsidized, sponsored, and had close relationships with Toscanini, Caruso, Chaliapin, Pavlova, Pirandello, Eugene O'Neill, Paul Robeson, Grace Moore, and hundreds of other artists whose names are now part of that history. This was the Otto Kahn whose fame lives on today-the man who was an activating force in American opera and theater for more than two decades. But there was another Otto Kahn, now less well known, who was more than a theatrical patron. The other Otto Kahn had amassed a banking fortune through his perspicuity and integrity in the era of unbridled Big Business, and had gone on to win the respect of the nation with his political, economic, and humanitarian activities in the First World War and its boom-and-bust aftermath. That Otto Kahn, a partner in the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb, was often accused of being a socialist.

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Freedoms, Faiths and Futures

Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity

By: Andrew Singleton,Mary Lou Rasmussen,Anna Halafoff,Gary Bouma

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Freedoms, Faiths and Futures

Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity

By: Andrew Singleton,Mary Lou Rasmussen,Anna Halafoff,Gary Bouma

How do contemporary teenagers experience and understand religious, spiritual, gender and sexual diversity? How are their experiences mediated by where they go to school, their faith and their geographic location? Are their outlooks materialist, religious, spiritual, or do they have hybrid identities? Freedoms, Faiths and Futures: Teenage Australians on Religion, Sexuality and Diversity offers powerful insight into how teenagers make sense of the world around them. Drawing on rich data from a major national study, this book creates new ways of understanding the complexity of young people's lives and how school education covering diversity best addresses their world. This book argues that school education focused on worldviews is founded on ways of thinking about young people that do not reflect the complexities of Generation Z's everyday experiences of diversity and their interactions with each other. It argues that certain kinds of education in schools can play a significant role in developing religious literacy, tolerance and positive attitudes to diversity.

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1350179582

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Peace and Persistence

Tracing the Brethren in Christ Peace Witness Through Three Generations

By: Mary Jane Heisey

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Peace and Persistence

Tracing the Brethren in Christ Peace Witness Through Three Generations

By: Mary Jane Heisey

This work presents material about the Brethren in Christ, a small, little-known religious group. In addition to drawing from official church doctrine, statements and records, it also features a variety of authors in church-related publications, records of congregational life, and archival sources.

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0873387562

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Mount Holly

By: Heidi J. Winzinger,Mary L. Smith

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Mount Holly

By: Heidi J. Winzinger,Mary L. Smith

Mount Holly's history predates the American Revolution by nearly one hundred years. Walter Reeves, who lived on the Rancocas Creek before 1677, purchased land in what would become Mount Holly from Native Americans or assumed ownership through squatter's rights. The community is home to the oldest operating fire company in the United States, the Prison Museum designed by Robert Mills, and the oldest schoolhouse in New Jersey, still on its original site. Occasionally throughout its history, Mount Holly has fallen victim to the Rancocas Creek, which has swelled over its banks and spilled into the streets. Many bridges were built, allowing residents to pass over the creek and offering Mount Holly its first name, Bridgetown. As early as 1723, entrepreneurs took advantage of the water by digging the millrace, which powered the great mills that became the impetus for development and commerce in Mount Holly. The mills are gone now, but the town that developed around them still has all the character of an early working town. Mount Holly takes a glance at the early commerce, architecture, unfortunate disasters, and celebrations that molded this town into the diverse community that it is today.

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