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Explores the maternal experience from the mother's point of view. The book questions a society that has devalued and sentimentalized motherhood, and presents images of generative and creative women who are also mothers. It also discusses the portrayal of mothers in art, film and literature.

This work explores the complexities and ambiguities of masculinity, offering insights into: men's fantasies and conflicts; their developmental tasks, including their role as fathers; and the ways in which men are reacting to changing sexual standards and models.

This work studies the histories of three ailments now commonly considered to be work-related - cumulative trauma disorders, occupational back pain, and noise-induced hearing loss. It demonstrates that numerous social factors affect whether the medical community recognizes an illness as job-related.

For 30 years the US government has funded education programmes to help disadvantaged children in school. This text evaluates three existing programmes, "Head Start", "Follow Through" and "Chapter 1", describes the Head Start Transition Project and proposes a plan to consolidate the programmes

Winner of the 1992 National Jewish Book Award, this provides insights into Freud's feelings toward his own Judaism. Yerushalmi analyzes Freud's intentions in writing "Moses and Monotheism", presenting the work as Freud's psychoanalytic history of the Jews, Jewdaism and the Jewish psyche.

An analysis of the origins and development of Central High School, the first public high school in Philadelphia. Using Central as a case study, Labaree argues that the public high school is the product of the struggle between egalitarianism and meritocracy that is endemic to a democratic society.

Intended to be both practical and informative, this book shows parents and professionals alike how they can work with schools to help children receive the best possible education. The authors define a set of schooling basics for guiding children and making schools work.

Describes the daily lives, occupations and history of the Subei people, immigrants from the Jiangsu Province, who have become the most despised people in China's largest city, Shanghai. Honig uses archival research and interviews conducted in Shanghai.

In this second part of "No Man's Land", Gilbert and Gubar focus on texts from the early part of the 20th century to expand on the claim made in the first volume that, for literary men and women, sexual battles were associated with "sexchanges" - or radically conceived gender roles.