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Regulation Of Sexuality - Experiences Of Family Planning Workers

de Carole Joffe

43,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Takes us from the private aspects of sexuality into the arena of public policy and state regulation.
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World Without Words - The Social Construction Of Children Born Deaf And Blind

de David Goode

50,28€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 During the Rubella Syndrome epidemic of the 1960s, many children were born deaf, blind, and mentally disabled. David Goode has devoted his life and career to understanding such people's world, a world without words. This book is the result of his studies of two children with congenital deaf-blindness and mental retardation.
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Case About Amy

de Robert C. Smith

46,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 The Rowley family's struggle began when Amy entered kindergarten and culminated five years later in a pivotal decision by the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court decided that schools were required only to provide enough help for children with disabilities to pass from grade to grade.
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Wash And Be Healed - The Water-Cure Movement And Women''S Health

de Susan Cayleff

48,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Hydropathy advocates the reformation of such personal habits as diet, exercise, dress, and way of life. This book investigates the theories, practices, medical and social philosophies, institutions, and the most prominent proponents of the water-cure movement and studies them in relation to the diverse reform networks of the nineteenth century.
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Managing Sickle Cell Disease - In Low-Income Families

de Shirley Hill

46,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Presents a comprehensive account of sickle cell disease (SCD) and its affect on low-income families. This book examines how low-income African American mothers with children suffering from this hereditary, incurable, and chronically painful disease, react to the diagnosis and manage their family's health care.
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Schooling Without Labels - Parents, Educators, And Inclusive Education

de Douglas Biklen

46,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people who have been labeled disabled might become full participants in the other areas of society as well.
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Sexual Cultures And The Construction Of Adolescent Identities

de Janice Irvine

46,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Presents new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within families. This collection of essays considers a range of cultural influences that form a teenager's sexual identity.
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Women With Disabilities - Essays In Psychology, Culture, And Politics

de Michelle Fine

46,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Women with disabilities are women first, sharing the dreams and disappointments common to women in a male-dominated society. This book represents the intersection of the feminist and disability rights perspectives. It analyzes the forces that push disabled women towards the margins of social life.
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Women Resisting Aids - Feminist Strategies Of Empowerment

de Beth Schneider

52,93€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Features essays which discuss the rapid spread of AIDS among women, including the responses of women of color, lesbians, and low-income women.
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From Good Will To Civil Rights - Transforming Federal Disability Policy

de Richard Scotch

38,36€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Describes how America's disabled mobilized to effect changes in public policy, not once but twice, and it suggests that the struggle is not yet over. This book surveys the effects and disappointments associated with the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, in the context of the movement to secure full civil rights for disabled people.
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Cocaine Changes - The Experience Of Using And Quitting

de Dan Waldorf

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 The latest War on Drugs in the United States targeted cocaine and later crack as an "epidemic" sweeping the nation with tragic and irreversible effects. This title presents a study of heavy cocaine users in an effort to understand how they got started, their uses of cocaine, and the "natural" progression of use and abuse.
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The Case About Amy

de Robert C. Smith

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 The Rowley family's struggle began when Amy entered kindergarten and culminated five years later in a pivotal decision by the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court decided that schools were required only to provide enough help for children with disabilities to pass from grade to grade.
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The Feel Of Silence

de Bonnie Tucker

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 A memoir of the author's experience as a profoundly deaf infant who became an expert lipreader, and who never learned sign language or met another deaf person until her mid-thirties. It follows her story as she made it through college, to become a corporate litigator.
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The Regulation Of Sexuality - Experiences Of Family Planning Workers

de Carole Joffe

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Takes us from the private aspects of sexuality into the arena of public policy and state regulation.
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Paradox Of Natural Mothering

de Chris Bobel

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 Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer exceptional. This title profiles some thirty natural mothers, probing into their choices and asking whether they are reforming or conforming to women's traditional role.
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Accent On Privilege - English Identities And Anglophilia In The U.S.

de Katharine W. Jones

65,66€

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 Looks at the complexities of immigration, asking how native and immigrant construct race, gender, class and national identity. This book investigates how white English immigrants live in the United States and how they use their status as privileged foreigners to gain the upper hand with Americans.
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From Good Will To Civil Rights - Transforming Federal Disability Policy

de Richard Scotch

ESGOTADO OU NÃO DISPONÍVEL

 Describes how America's disabled mobilized to effect changes in public policy, not once but twice, and it suggests that the struggle is not yet over. This book surveys the effects and disappointments associated with the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, in the context of the movement to secure full civil rights for disabled people.
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Dirty Details - The Days And Nights Of A Well Spouse

de Marion Cohen

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 Written by the author whose husband Jeffrey Cohen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, this book chronicles their lives in the context of her husband's progressing disease. It discusses the raging emotions, the celebrations, the day-to-day routine, the arguments, and the disappointments.
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Women Reading Women Writing - Self-Invention In Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua And Audre Lorde

de A Keating

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 As self-identified lesbians of colour, Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, and Audre Lorde negotiate diverse sets of personal and professional worlds. This book examines the ways in which these writers, in both their creative and critical work, engage in self-analysis and the construction of alternative myths and representations of women.
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Health Care Reform And The Battle For The Body Politic

de Dan Beauchamp

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 Discusses health care reform as a strategy for dealing with the failures of politics - not just the failures of the health care market. This title includes discussions of the author's efforts to develop a national model of the New York plan for Mario Cuomo, and his perceptive critique of the failed Clinton plan for reform.
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Case About Amy

de Robert C. Smith

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 An inspirational and telling story about a family's struggle to get equal educational opportunity for their deaf daughter
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Producing Power - Ethnicity, Gender, And Class In A Caribbean Workplace

de Kevin Yelvington

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 In a small, locally owned Trinidadian factory that produces household goods, 80 per cent of the line workers are women, almost all black or East Indian. The supervisors are all men, either white or East Indian. This title studies how ethnicity and gender are integral elements of the class structure, a social and economic structure.
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Beyond The Schoolhouse Gate - Free Speech And The Inculcation Of Values

de Robert Lane

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 Pulling together evidence about the aims of public education, the changing legal status of children, and the values underlying freedom of expression, this title debates the relationship between constitutional litigation and the dual pursuits of academic excellence and classroom order.
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Final Negotiations - A Story Of Love, And Chronic Illness

de Carolyn Ellis

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 When Carolyn Ellis, a graduate student, and Gene Weinstein, her Professor, fell in love, he was experiencing the first stages of emphysema. As he became disabled and immobile, these two partners fought to maintain their love and to live a meaningful life. This memoir is about what it means to be involved, and in love, with someone chronically ill.
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