Jill Duerr Berrick
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195113754
- eISBN:
- 9780199893546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195113754.003.0006
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Social Policy
This chapter tells the story of Darlene, who is stuck. She is stuck in a dysfunctional family; she is stuck in poverty, has known it all her life, and does not know how to get out. She is stuck in ...
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This chapter tells the story of Darlene, who is stuck. She is stuck in a dysfunctional family; she is stuck in poverty, has known it all her life, and does not know how to get out. She is stuck in the role of a single parent and does not know how to share that responsibility. Darlene wanted to be more and to do more with her life. She had visions of going to college, getting a law degree, and providing for her son, James. But her dreams for a better future never materialized, and they probably never will. Darlene is caught in a web of poverty, punctured by a history of deep psychopathology; a legacy willed to her by her father.Less
This chapter tells the story of Darlene, who is stuck. She is stuck in a dysfunctional family; she is stuck in poverty, has known it all her life, and does not know how to get out. She is stuck in the role of a single parent and does not know how to share that responsibility. Darlene wanted to be more and to do more with her life. She had visions of going to college, getting a law degree, and providing for her son, James. But her dreams for a better future never materialized, and they probably never will. Darlene is caught in a web of poverty, punctured by a history of deep psychopathology; a legacy willed to her by her father.
Tracey Jensen
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447325055
- eISBN:
- 9781447325109
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447325055.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
Bad parenting is so often blamed for Britain's broken society, manifesting in sites as diverse as the government reaction to the riots of 2011, popular entertainment like Supernanny and the ...
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Bad parenting is so often blamed for Britain's broken society, manifesting in sites as diverse as the government reaction to the riots of 2011, popular entertainment like Supernanny and the discussion boards of Mumsnet. This book examines how these pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families are manufactured across media, policy and public debate and how parent-blame creates a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a parenting crisis. The book tracks how crisis talk around parenting has been used to police and discipline families who are considered to be morally deficient and socially irresponsible. Most damagingly, it has been used to justify increasingly punitive state policies towards families in the name of making bad parents more responsible. Is the real crisis in our perceptions rather than reality? This is essential reading for anyone engaged in policy and popular debate around parenting.Less
Bad parenting is so often blamed for Britain's broken society, manifesting in sites as diverse as the government reaction to the riots of 2011, popular entertainment like Supernanny and the discussion boards of Mumsnet. This book examines how these pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families are manufactured across media, policy and public debate and how parent-blame creates a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a parenting crisis. The book tracks how crisis talk around parenting has been used to police and discipline families who are considered to be morally deficient and socially irresponsible. Most damagingly, it has been used to justify increasingly punitive state policies towards families in the name of making bad parents more responsible. Is the real crisis in our perceptions rather than reality? This is essential reading for anyone engaged in policy and popular debate around parenting.
Jonathan Osorio (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824839772
- eISBN:
- 9780824870959
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839772.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This book tackles the subject of the Kanaka (Hawaiian) connection to the ʻāina (land) through articles, poetry, art, and photography. There is no mistaking the affirmation that Kanaka are inseparable ...
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This book tackles the subject of the Kanaka (Hawaiian) connection to the ʻāina (land) through articles, poetry, art, and photography. There is no mistaking the affirmation that Kanaka are inseparable from the ʻāina. This book calls the reader to acknowledge the Kanaka's intimate connection to the islands. The alienation of ʻāina from Kanaka so accelerated and intensified over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that there are few today who consciously recognize the enormous harm that has been done physically, emotionally, and spiritually by that separation. The evidence of harm is everywhere: crippled and dysfunctional families, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, disproportionately high incidences of arrest and incarceration, and alarming health and mortality statistics, some of which may be traced to diet and lifestyle, which themselves are traceable to the separation from ʻāina. This book articulates the critical needs that call the Kanaka back to the ʻāina and invites the reader to remember the thousands of years that our ancestors walked, named, and planted the land and were themselves planted in it.Less
This book tackles the subject of the Kanaka (Hawaiian) connection to the ʻāina (land) through articles, poetry, art, and photography. There is no mistaking the affirmation that Kanaka are inseparable from the ʻāina. This book calls the reader to acknowledge the Kanaka's intimate connection to the islands. The alienation of ʻāina from Kanaka so accelerated and intensified over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that there are few today who consciously recognize the enormous harm that has been done physically, emotionally, and spiritually by that separation. The evidence of harm is everywhere: crippled and dysfunctional families, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, disproportionately high incidences of arrest and incarceration, and alarming health and mortality statistics, some of which may be traced to diet and lifestyle, which themselves are traceable to the separation from ʻāina. This book articulates the critical needs that call the Kanaka back to the ʻāina and invites the reader to remember the thousands of years that our ancestors walked, named, and planted the land and were themselves planted in it.
Kathryn M. Neckerman
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226569604
- eISBN:
- 9780226569628
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226569628.003.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This book, which illuminates the roots of failure in inner-city education, challenges, at its most general level, two fallacies. The first is the view that the failure of inner-city schools was ...
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This book, which illuminates the roots of failure in inner-city education, challenges, at its most general level, two fallacies. The first is the view that the failure of inner-city schools was inevitable given the concentration of economic and racial disadvantage in the inner city. The second is the view that the problems of inner-city schools were due to the faults of individuals—incompetent or racist teachers, dysfunctional families, or unmotivated students. In response to both of these fallacies, the book argues that the problems of inner-city schooling are the legacy of school policy choices made decades ago. It also traces these choices and their consequences over six decades, starting in the early twentieth century, when the inner-city ghettos were just beginning to form, and focuses on the schools of Chicago, which faced many of the same troubles as the Harlem schools that Kenneth Clark profiled.Less
This book, which illuminates the roots of failure in inner-city education, challenges, at its most general level, two fallacies. The first is the view that the failure of inner-city schools was inevitable given the concentration of economic and racial disadvantage in the inner city. The second is the view that the problems of inner-city schools were due to the faults of individuals—incompetent or racist teachers, dysfunctional families, or unmotivated students. In response to both of these fallacies, the book argues that the problems of inner-city schooling are the legacy of school policy choices made decades ago. It also traces these choices and their consequences over six decades, starting in the early twentieth century, when the inner-city ghettos were just beginning to form, and focuses on the schools of Chicago, which faced many of the same troubles as the Harlem schools that Kenneth Clark profiled.
Samita Sen and Nilanjana Sengupta
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199461165
- eISBN:
- 9780199087006
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199461165.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter explores the narratives in some detail to try and understand the struggles the women are engaged in and how they themselves perceive these. There are many women, usually young married ...
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This chapter explores the narratives in some detail to try and understand the struggles the women are engaged in and how they themselves perceive these. There are many women, usually young married women with young children, who are content and optimistic. Such cases of optimism are usually accompanied by cooperative partners. However, a strong note of pessimism is discerned, often in the accounts of older, feebler women who are still compelled to work for survival. Many times they belong to families who do not cooperate with their aspirations and situation. However, in every case, the well-being of these families is poised on such a thin edge that any misfortune such as ill health in the family or job loss can threaten survival.Less
This chapter explores the narratives in some detail to try and understand the struggles the women are engaged in and how they themselves perceive these. There are many women, usually young married women with young children, who are content and optimistic. Such cases of optimism are usually accompanied by cooperative partners. However, a strong note of pessimism is discerned, often in the accounts of older, feebler women who are still compelled to work for survival. Many times they belong to families who do not cooperate with their aspirations and situation. However, in every case, the well-being of these families is poised on such a thin edge that any misfortune such as ill health in the family or job loss can threaten survival.
Hoshang Merchant
Akshaya K. Rath (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199465965
- eISBN:
- 9780199086962
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199465965.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and ...
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Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies gender categorization. In Secret Writings, he recounts his extraordinary life and splendid experiences ranging across countries and cultures. His is a story of the prejudice and neglect that are part of everyday gay life, and how he channelled his despair into creating poetry. He quotes Rumi, Ghalib, and Mir, and writes with searing honesty about his long and short love affairs, his ‘improbable’ sex life as both an initiator and a yielding partner, and his inner turmoil. Sex becomes love and love becomes poetry in his writing. Secret Writings covers topics such as literature, Hoshang’s autobiography, queer writing, and matriarchy in over a dozen essays. Life and writing are one and they possess a structure. Hence, the first section of this book deals with literature. The die is cast here. The catechism on writing follows. The tone is deliberately religious to combat the irreligious age. The Divine World comes from infernal living and the section ‘Autobiography’ begins. The seeds of personality sown in a fractious home resulted in the Man of Extremes in the ‘Autobiography’. The section on sexuality follows. Sex and spirit are fused in art. It is only by way of the first three that the last station ‘Matriarchy’ can be reached. The nun and the prostitute have become the poet.Less
Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies gender categorization. In Secret Writings, he recounts his extraordinary life and splendid experiences ranging across countries and cultures. His is a story of the prejudice and neglect that are part of everyday gay life, and how he channelled his despair into creating poetry. He quotes Rumi, Ghalib, and Mir, and writes with searing honesty about his long and short love affairs, his ‘improbable’ sex life as both an initiator and a yielding partner, and his inner turmoil. Sex becomes love and love becomes poetry in his writing. Secret Writings covers topics such as literature, Hoshang’s autobiography, queer writing, and matriarchy in over a dozen essays. Life and writing are one and they possess a structure. Hence, the first section of this book deals with literature. The die is cast here. The catechism on writing follows. The tone is deliberately religious to combat the irreligious age. The Divine World comes from infernal living and the section ‘Autobiography’ begins. The seeds of personality sown in a fractious home resulted in the Man of Extremes in the ‘Autobiography’. The section on sexuality follows. Sex and spirit are fused in art. It is only by way of the first three that the last station ‘Matriarchy’ can be reached. The nun and the prostitute have become the poet.
