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Two-Face
(Hardcover)
Ar Cumberbatch; As told to Natasha Cumberbatch
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R934
Discovery Miles 9 340
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The stories of fathers caring for non-verbal children and how
these experiences alter their understandings of care, masculinity,
and living a full life. Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few
and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the
practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded
in the intimate everyday lives of men caring for children with
major physical and intellectual disabilities, Worlds of Care
undertakes an exploration of how men shape their identities in the
context of caregiving. Anthropologist Aaron J. Jackson fuses
ethnographic research and creative nonfiction to offer an evocative
account of what is required for men to create habitable worlds and
find some kind of “normal†when their circumstances are
anything but. Combining stories from his fieldwork in North America
with reflections on his own experience caring for his severely
disabled son, Jackson argues that care has the potential to
transform our understanding of who we are and how we relate to
others.
The relationship between class and intimate violence against women
is much misunderstood. While many studies of intimate violence
focus on poor and working-class women, few examine the issue
comparatively in terms of class privilege and class disadvantage.
James Ptacek draws on in-depth interviews with sixty women from
wealthy, professional, working-class, and poor communities to
investigate how social class shapes both women's experiences of
violence and the responses of their communities to this violence.
Ptacek's framing of women's victimization as "social entrapment"
links private violence to public responses and connects social
inequalities to the dilemmas that women face.
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