Reinventing the Family

Reinventing the Family
Author: Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002-04-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780745622149

The traditional image of the family as a life-long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private life are changing rapidly, and people are embarking on new lifestyles based on cohabitation, separation and same-sex partnerships. In this lively and accessible new book, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim looks at the future of our lives after the family. Examining the breakdown of the conventional family unit, she explores the new choices that are open to individuals, and analyses our anxiety over the ensuing loss of stability. In Reinventing the Family, Beck-Gernsheim describes how men and women are being confronted with competing and often incompatible demands. Our areas of personal choice have been redrawn, but in a space that involves new social regulations and controls. The talk of 'family values' sits uneasily with the reality of long working-hours, business trips, weekend seminars and career moves. At work, we are encouraged to pursue competition, speed and change; at home we are expected to find community and conciliation. Beck-Gernsheim examines the impact of these conflicting expectations on the relationships between men, women and children, and searches for possible solutions. Reinventing the Family is an important and timely contribution to the growing debate about the family and its future. It will be ideal reading for students of sociology and gender studies, but will also appeal to a wide general readership.

Opting Out and In

Opting Out and In
Author: Ingrid Biese
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317266722

Opting Out and In: On women’s careers and new lifestyles introduces a new perspective and definition of opting out that better reflects contemporary issues and lifestyles. The book offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of women leaving high-powered careers, adding to current debates on opting out. It investigates the themes of globalization, individualization and the age of high modernity and addresses issues of how gender, in the context of what it means to be a mother and career woman in a masculinist society, affects decisions to opt out. In contrast to previous debates, the definition of opting out is broadened to include leaving prevalent masculinist notions of career to adopt alternative ways of working. To better understand the identity issues and inner workings of the women who opt out, opting out is critically examined through three lenses: agency and autonomy; gender, femininity and the maternal; and, finally, concepts of reinvention. These three areas of inquiry all raise and problematize relevant issues that are present in women’s lives, and that have a deep and defining effect on concepts of the self. The book includes the narratives of six women, interwoven with in-depth social theory and relevant debates. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Opting Out and In will strongly appeal to researchers and practitioners alike, working in areas such as social theory, globalization, feminist studies and identity studies.

Lifestyles

Lifestyles
Author: David Chaney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134817355

In the modern world our lifestyle helps to define our attitudes and values as well as show our wealth and social position. This clearly written introduction to the concept of lifestyle offers a concise guide to how the term is used in sociological accounts to refer to this modern social form. Lifestyles explores * how we should classify lifestyles * why they have become more important * what precisely constitutes a lifestyle. By reviewing a wide range of published material, introducing central themes in the sociology of modern life, examining distinctive styles in social theory and offering its own original contribution to current debates, Lifestyles provides students with a much needed overview of this often misused term.

Open Marriage

Open Marriage
Author: Nena O'Neill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 301
Release: 1984
Genre: Companionate marriage
ISBN: 087131438X

The classic that revolutionized the way Americans see marriage. Sold more than 35 million copies and translated into 14 languages.

My New Life - Bible Study Book

My New Life - Bible Study Book
Author: Lifeway Adults
Publisher: Lifeway Church Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-01-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781087703084

Get clarity on what it means to follow Jesus as you learn the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

Life Reimagined

Life Reimagined
Author: Richard J. Leider
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1609949544

A practical guide to successfully navigating big life changes faced during middle age and later. Are you at a point in your life where you're asking, “What’s next?” You’ve finished one chapter and you have yet to write the next one. Many of us face these transitions at midlife, but they can happen at any point. It’s a time full of enormous potential, and it defines a whole new phase of life. It’s called Life Reimagined. Here is your map to guide you in this new life phase. You can use the powerful practices and insights to help you uncover your own special gifts, connect with people who can support you, and explore new directions. You’ll be inspired by meeting ordinary people who have reimagined their lives in extraordinary ways. You’ll also read the stories of pioneers of the Life Reimagined movement such as Jane Pauley, James Brown, and Emilio Estefan. They show us that this journey of discovery can help us find fulfillment in surprising new places. One of the profound truths that underlies this book is the liberating notion that each of us is “an experiment of one,” free to find our own path in this new phase of our lives. No old rules, no outdated societal norms, no boundaries of convention or expectation. Let Life Reimagined help you discover your new life possibilities! Winner of the 2014 Silver Nautilus Award

The Lifestyles of New Yorkers

The Lifestyles of New Yorkers
Author: Sampson Obeng
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1640279911

To the best of my knowledge understandably when I first saw the New Yorkers, I was in a state of euphoria concerning the awesome lifestyles of the great people on earth. I choked out a few words the first time I interacted with them. I immediately realized there is so much more to explore about their characteristics and to create a highly readable novel about them to the world’s profundity of their lifestyles. Reading this novel will be more than ecstatic to add more time to your readings, and have you on the edge of your seat or bed, make you want to stay at one place to turn the last pages or finish the novel. So sweet without honey. Ecstatically, a great way to spend your ample time due to any action they take is complex and interesting scenario characters that deliver a good reading attention, an impressive array of characteristics. Writing about New Yorkers’ lifestyle is entertaining that blends them all beautifully together, never letting the novel drop, keeping the reading flawlessly intact, and riveting. Reading about New Yorkers has no stopping especially about their insatiable educational background that refutes the imbued from their respective parents. They are talented, expressive, sophisticated, sexy, beautiful, courageous, and controversial, tending to conform to societal norms when it comes to dress codes and celebrate their beauty with clothes that accentuate their style and look dreary and bereft and elegant. New Yorkers’ food IQ refrain from binging nonstop on an appalling diet of fried potato chips, jumbo sausages, fried eggs, and heavily salted bacon. They fix holiday period especially a scheduled period during which their activities in schools or other regular business are suspended. New Yorkers’ lifestyles in sports are phenomenal especially when it comes to the Super Bowl, with a giant appetite that stands a record breaker every year. Music was first originated in Africa, but the transformation of its quality digital sound has long been transferred to New York and America as a whole in decades. One of the best Christmas spectacular is the celebration of playing Santa Claus in a New York role. They wish the world all the best, and hope the coming year repeats all the best and eliminates all the worst of the past. New Yorkers celebrate July 4—Independence Day annually, and at sometimes remember that fireworks are illegal in New York City. Memorial Day is a special public holiday to commemorate American soldiers who died in wars, and New Yorkers’ patriotic tributes to honor and celebrate is awesome. New Yorkers have a uniquely diverse approach to Thanksgiving Day, a legal holiday marking the feast given in thanks for the harvest by the pilgrim colonists in 1621, celebrated on Thursdays in the month of November. New York parents have been treated exactly like kings and queens whether traditional or more unique in their Father’s and Mother’s days incessantly. New Yorkers’ Halloween celebrations are one of the biggest carnivals in the world. Valentine’s Day is the Christian feast day of Saint Valentine and the traditional day for sending a romantic card or gift, especially anonymously to somebody you love, on the date of February 14. As enunciated, few percentages of New Yorkers are gay and lesbian, and they’re pretty happy about the status. New York City’s New Year’s Eve ball drop countdown celebration is fun and entertaining to witness. The festivities in the middle of Times Square is held annually with millions of spectators around the world.

American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History
Author: Gina Misiroglu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 980
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317477294

Counterculture, while commonly used to describe youth-oriented movements during the 1960s, refers to any attempt to challenge or change conventional values and practices or the dominant lifestyles of the day. This fascinating three-volume set explores these movements in America from colonial times to the present in colorful detail. "American Countercultures" is the first reference work to examine the impact of countercultural movements on American social history. It highlights the writings, recordings, and visual works produced by these movements to educate, inspire, and incite action in all eras of the nation's history. A-Z entries provide a wealth of information on personalities, places, events, concepts, beliefs, groups, and practices. The set includes numerous illustrations, a topic finder, primary source documents, a bibliography and a filmography, and an index.

Tricia Foley Life/Style

Tricia Foley Life/Style
Author: Tricia Foley
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0847846415

Designer and lifestyle authority Tricia Foley illustrates her approach to creating elegantly pared-down environments for the home and work space. Designer Tricia Foley is best known for her timeless classical style, characterized by clean lines, natural materials, and vintage furnishings—from flea-market finds to antiques—and a palette of calming hues of cream, ivory, and white. In this book, Foley addresses such aspects of home design as selecting the perfect shade of white, setting up the pantry, bringing collected objects together, creating artful tabletops, organizing the home office, and much more. A collector—of china, of linens, of books—she explains that the only way to keep harmony is through editing. The designer provides a treasure trove of useful ideas, from her favorite storage products and essential items for the guest room to seasonal entertaining ideas and holiday decor. Foley’s romantic Long Island, New York, property—consisting of an eighteenth-century farmhouse and several outbuildings—serves as her personal laboratory and reflects a simple and well-designed style inherited from the basic tenets of Shaker design. Beautifully photographed, this inspiring book is a must-have for design-savvy individuals who desire a simple, but stylish, lifestyle.