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Psalms, Books 2-3 (Hardcover)
Denise Dombkowski Hopkins; Edited by Barbara E Reid; Volume editing by Linda M. Maloney; Contributions by Katherine Brown, Lora F. Hargrove, …
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R1,494
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Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly
"masculine," especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms
begin with headings linking them to King David. In this volume,
Denise Dombkowski Hopkins sets stories about women in the Hebrew
Bible alongside Psalms 42-89 as "intertexts" for interpretation.
The stories of women such as Hannah, Rahab, Tamar, Bathsheba,
Susanna, Judith, Shiphrah, Puah, and the Levite's concubine can
generate a different set of associations for psalm metaphors than
have traditionally been put forward. These different associations
can give the reader different views of the dynamics of power,
gender, politics, religion, family, and economics in ancient Israel
and in our lives today that might help to name and transform the
brokenness of our world. From the Wisdom Commentary series Feminist
biblical interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now
makes possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It
is our hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current
feminist biblical scholarship available in an accessible format to
ministers, preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid
all readers in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity,
equality, and justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to
provide feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly
engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that
explicitly mention women. A central concern is the world in front
of the text, that is, how the text is heard and appropriated by
women. At the same time, this commentary aims to be faithful to the
ancient text, to explicate the world behind the text, where
appropriate, and not impose contemporary questions onto the ancient
texts. The commentary addresses not only issues of gender (which
are primary in this project) but also those of power, authority,
ethnicity, racism, and classism, which all intersect. Each volume
incorporates diverse voices and differing interpretations from
different parts of the world, showing the importance of social
location in the process of interpretation and that there is no
single definitive feminist interpretation of a text.
This International Volume of Sociological Studies of Children and
Youth shows the breadth of current empirical research that focuses
on children and youth around the world. Coming from a range of
methodological and theoretical orientations, this volume showcases
the lives of children and the policies that shape children's lives
on five continents. Across these research articles, it becomes
clear that we cannot continue to assume a certain meaning of
childhood, because this concept is bound by both cultural and
structural factors. Cultural expectations influence how societies
view children and how children view themselves. A handful of these
studies show how immigrant children and youth provide particularly
interesting insight as they navigate more than one cultural
context. Structural factors also become salient, as children come
from unequal backgrounds, different levels of economic development,
and face varying political concerns. While these papers come from
different doorsteps of the world, cultural and structural threads
of continuity connect them as meaningful for children. This volume
illustrates how international childhood researchers can use current
concepts and theories into unlikely contexts exposing their
limitations and helping to inform more versatile and robust lines
of thinking for children and youth studies.
This volume contains a diverse set of chapters that offer a good
balance of quantitative and qualitative methodologies; focus on
children, youth, or both children and youth; and come from a
variety of theoretical perspectives. Two prominent themes of the
volume are adolescents' transition to adulthood and children's
time-use issues. Several chapters address each of these issues,
including one examining children's labor in Senegal. Two
ethnographic studies are included: one analyzes student-teacher
interaction in an urban high-school math class, while the other
examines friendship development and maintenance of early
elementary-aged African American girls. The volume also includes a
policy analysis of medical insurance provision for low income
children, and a response to an earlier chapter on children's rights
that appeared in Volume 8.
This volume of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth showcases
timely and important work of active, early-career sociologists
helping to define the direction of the sub-field. Their work shares
basic premises and concerns: Children and youth are active agents
in their own "socialization," produce meaning and action
collaboratively with peers, and struggle for agency in various
social contexts. These themes shape essentially all of the
contributions.
The volume is organized in two parts. Following the
Introduction, six chapters make up Part One, "Empirical Studies."
Two quantitative analyses lead off: first an examination of
residential mobility, peer networks and life-course transitions;
second, a look at adolescents' participation in a particular social
movement. Two ethnographic studies follow - here the foci are "Zero
Tolerance" school discipline policies, and female athletes'
construction of femininity. A comparative content analysis of teen
magazine advice columns, and a qualitative study of construction of
"adoptive family" identities, round out Part One.
Three chapters constitute Part Two, "Innovations in Theory and
Research Methods." The first offers an analysis of two films that
explore children's struggle for agency and control. The next
chapter develops a typology of children's participation in social
movements, employing fascinating first-person narrative accounts.
The final chapter demonstrates the unique ability of group
interviews to capture processes through which adolescents
accomplish group talk, develop shared perspectives, and construct
gender identities.
Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul have been considered
critically in the traditional contexts of authorial oeuvre,
biography, or "thought." These plays have been treated with
embarrassed respect, dealt with only because of the importance of
their authors. That Wilde and Gide made use of biblical material
seems to discomfit their critics; that they had done so at a time
when biblical drama was prohibited has rarely been addressed.
Traditional critical treatments seek to smooth over the plays'
aberrant qualities. This study takes them seriously as aberrations
and investigates Wilde's and Gide's claims that these plays are
works of faith, by considering them as participating in the history
of biblical drama.
Coming from a range of methodological and theoretical orientations,
this volume showcases the lives of children and the policies that
shape children's lives on five continents. Across these research
articles, it becomes clear that we cannot continue to assume a
certain meaning of childhood, because this concept is bound by both
cultural and structural factors. Cultural expectations influence
how societies view children and how children view themselves. A
handful of these studies show how immigrant children and youth
provide particularly interesting insight as they navigate more than
one cultural context. Structural factors also become salient, as
children come from unequal backgrounds, different levels of
economic development, and face varying political concerns. While
these papers come from different doorsteps of the world, cultural
and structural threads of continuity connect them as meaningful for
children. This volume illustrates how international childhood
researchers can use current concepts and theories into unlikely
contexts exposing their limitations and helping to inform more
versatile and robust lines of thinking for children and youth
studies.
This volume contains a diverse set of chapters that offer a good
balance of quantitative and qualitative methodologies; focus on
children, youth, or both children and youth; and come from a
variety of theoretical perspectives. Two prominent themes of the
volume are adolescents' transition to adulthood and children's
time-use issues. Several chapters address each of these issues,
including one examining children's labor in Senegal. Two
ethnographic studies are included: one analyzes student-teacher
interaction in an urban high-school math class, while the other
examines friendship development and maintenance of early
elementary-aged African American girls. The volume also includes a
policy analysis of medical insurance provision for low income
children, and a response to an earlier chapter on children's rights
that appeared in Volume 8.
The volume is organized in two parts. Following the Introduction,
six chapters make up Part One, 'Empirical Studies'. Two
quantitative analyses lead off: first an examination of residential
mobility, peer networks and life-course transitions; second, a look
at adolescents' participation in a particular social movement. Two
ethnographic studies follow - here the foci are 'Zero Tolerance'
school discipline policies, and female athletes' construction of
femininity. A comparative content analysis of teen magazine advice
columns, and a qualitative study of construction of 'adoptive
family' identities, round out Part One. Three chapters constitute
Part Two, 'Innovations in Theory and Research Methods'.The first
offers an analysis of two films that explore childrens' struggle
for agency and control. The next chapter develops a typology of
children's participation in social movements, employing fascinating
first-person narrative accounts. The final chapter demonstrates the
unique ability of group interviews to capture processes through
which adolescents accomplish group talk, develop shared
perspectives, and construct gender identities.
The Workbook also includes: Additional grammar, vocabulary and
functional language practice activities Additional reading, writing
and listening practice activities An answer key at the back of the
book allows learners to check their answers.
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Everychild; (Paperback)
Lena Dalkeith Burton, Marian Katherine Brown
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R367
Discovery Miles 3 670
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Humorous twist on school from the eyes of children. Join Bailey and
friends as the discover fun and scary things about their teachers
in kindergarten and as they join together to do battle for the good
of the first grade class.
Short stories and poems written in Syracuse, N.Y. in 1926 by Conrad
Richard Edward Kolbe. Also includes selected poetry by Katherine
Brown, Word War II poetry by Conrad Kolbe, Jr., and family memories
and history by Eunice Ross. Compiled and edited by Mary Albanese
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