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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

By: Rayna Rapp

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Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

By: Rayna Rapp

Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of the new reproducing technologies. Based on the author's decade of research and her own personal experiences with amniocentesis, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus explores the "geneticization" of family life in all its complexity and diversity.

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Routledge

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1135963916

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9781135963910

Blood of the Imagined

By: Rayna Scott,Dwayne Scott

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Blood of the Imagined

By: Rayna Scott,Dwayne Scott

Possessed by a mysterious darkness and driven by jealousy, Jacob commandeers a city ran by Drones (humanoid robots) to annihilate his brother’s city of Sunshine Valley and the magic-wielding Freaks who live there. With age, their abilities deteriorate, forcing the children ages six through eighteen to stand as Sunshine Valley’s last line of defense. As the shadow of war looms, the children soon realize that war is far bloodier than they imagined.

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243

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664124039

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9781664124035

Psychotherapy for Pregnancy Loss

Applying Relationship Science to Clinical Practice

By: Rayna D. Markin

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Psychotherapy for Pregnancy Loss

Applying Relationship Science to Clinical Practice

By: Rayna D. Markin

The guiding initiative behind this book was to take the most current research in the field on the therapy relationship and apply it to a specific clinical context, that of psychotherapy for pregnancy loss. This notion was born from over 60 years of research on the association between the therapy relationship and treatment outcome (Norcross & Lambert, 2019) and the author's clinical experiences conducting weekly outpatient psychotherapy with both individuals and couples struggling to come to terms with the loss of a pregnancy or unborn baby. During which, a supportive and understanding relationship is often all one truly has to offer a grieving parent. Consistent with this, this book maps out an approach to psychotherapy for pregnancy loss wherein it is not the therapist's theoretical orientation or specific techniques per say that are believed to predict treatment outcome, but a focus on the relationship and the functions (e.g., affect regulation, self-esteem maintenance, empathy, support) it provides grieving parents"--

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273

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Oxford University Press

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0197693350

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9780197693353

Anime

A Critical Introduction

By: Rayna Denison

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Anime

A Critical Introduction

By: Rayna Denison

Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape. From the battling robots that define the mecha genre through to Studio Ghibli's dominant genre-brand of plucky shojo (young girl) characters, this book charts the rise of anime as a globally significant category of animation. It further thinks through the differences between anime's local and global genres: from the less-considered niches like nichijo-kei (everyday style anime) through to the global popularity of science fiction anime, this book tackles the tensions between the markets and audiences for anime texts. Anime is consequently understood in this book as a complex cultural phenomenon: not simply a “genre,” but as an always shifting and changing set of texts. Its inherent changeability makes anime an ideal contender for global dissemination, as it can be easily re-edited, translated and then newly understood as it moves through the world's animation markets. As such, Anime: A Critical Introduction explores anime through a range of debates that have emerged around its key film texts, through discussions of animation and violence, through debates about the cyborg and through the differences between local and global understandings of anime products. Anime: A Critical Introduction uses these debates to frame a different kind of understanding of anime, one rooted in contexts, rather than just texts. In this way, Anime: A Critical Introduction works to create a space in which we can rethink the meanings of anime as it travels around the world.

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201

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472576764

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9781472576767

Disability Worlds

By: Faye Ginsburg,Rayna Rapp

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Disability Worlds

By: Faye Ginsburg,Rayna Rapp

In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition and rights. Disability consciousness, they show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions. Chapters consider dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of “special education,” and the perils of transitioning from high school. They also highlight the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public culture. Disability Worlds reflects the authors’ anthropological commitments to recognizing the significance of this fundamental form of human difference. Ginsburg and Rapp’s conversations with diverse New Yorkers reveal the bureaucratic constraints and paradoxes established in response to the disability rights movement, as well as the remarkable creativity of disabled people and their allies who are opening pathways into both disability justice and disability futures.

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177

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Duke University Press

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1478059397

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9781478059394

The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America

By: Rayna Green,Melanie Fernandez

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The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America

By: Rayna Green,Melanie Fernandez

This encyclopedia explores American Indian history from a Native perspective, through alphabetical entries on events, issues, contemporary and historical art, mythology, gender roles, economics, contact between Indians and Europeans, political sovereignty and self-determination, land and environment. Book jacket.

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228

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Indiana University Press

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0253213398

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9780253213396

Catholics of San Francisco

By: Rayna Garibaldi,Bernadette C. Hooper

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Catholics of San Francisco

By: Rayna Garibaldi,Bernadette C. Hooper

Catholicism has greatly influenced the character of San Francisco, beginning with its origins in California in the mission system, which brought Franciscan friars, Spanish soldiers, and new settlers to these shores. Catholics have been witness to history-making events that have included the 1848 Gold Rush, the 1906 earthquake and fire, and the 1918 influenza pandemic. Parishes, schools, hospitals, and charities took shape after the archdiocese's establishment in 1853. The guidance of archbishops, dedication of religious orders, and support of the lay community has made the city named for St. Francis of Assisi into a uniquely Catholic place. The leadership of Catholics in the larger community continues today, enriched by new cultures and traditions.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738559482

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9780738559483

Frame, Glass, Verse

The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance

By: Rayna Kalas

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Frame, Glass, Verse

The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance

By: Rayna Kalas

In a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought—from "framing" to "perspective" to "reflection"—Rayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in character. Kalas explores the visual culture of the English Renaissance by way of the poetic image, showing that English writers avoided charges of idolatry and fancy through conceits that were visual, but not pictorial. Frames, mirrors, and windows have been pervasive and enduring metaphors for texts from classical antiquity to modernity; as a result, those metaphors seem universally to emphasize the mimetic function of language, dividing reality from the text that represents it. This book dissociates those metaphors from their earlier and later formulations in order to demonstrate that figurative language was material in translating signs and images out of a sacred and iconic context and into an aesthetic and representational one. Reading specific poetic images—in works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Gascoigne, Bacon, and Nashe—together with material innovations in frames and glass, Kalas reveals both the immanence and the agency of figurative language in the early modern period. Frame, Glass, Verse shows, finally, how this earlier understanding of poetic language has been obscured by a modern idea of framing that has structured our apprehension of works of art, concepts, and even historical periods. Kalas presents archival research in the history of frames, mirrors, windows, lenses, and reliquaries that will be of interest to art historians, cultural theorists, historians of science, and literary critics alike. Throughout Frame, Glass, Verse, she challenges readers to rethink the relationship of poetry to technology.

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355

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Cornell University Press

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1501732676

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9781501732676

Blood of the Imagined

By: Rayna Johnson,Dwayne Scott

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Blood of the Imagined

By: Rayna Johnson,Dwayne Scott

A brother possessed by darkness and driven by jealously commandeers a rival city ran by drones (humanoid robots) in order to annihilate his older brothers beautiful city of Sunshine Valley and the magic-wielding freaks who live there. The children, being more gifted in their magical abilities, must fight for their city, putting their very lives on the line against the darkness-wielding Jacob and his drone army. The children, eager to fight for their home, soon find that war is far bloodier than they imagined through death and hardships.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543423000

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9781543423006

Book's by Rayna Scott

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

Blood of the Imagined

Blood of the Imagined

Psychotherapy for Pregnancy Loss

Psychotherapy for Pregnancy Loss

Anime

Anime

Disability Worlds

Disability Worlds

The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America

The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America

Catholics of San Francisco

Catholics of San Francisco

Frame, Glass, Verse

Frame, Glass, Verse

Blood of the Imagined

Blood of the Imagined

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