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Overworked and Undervalued: Black Women and Successin America is a
collection of essays written by Black female scholars, educators,
and students as well as public policy, behavioral, and mental
health professionals. The contributors' share their experiences and
frustrations with White America which continues to demand excessive
labor and one-sided relationships of Black women while it
simultaneously diminishes them. The book describes the ongoing
struggle for women of color in general, but Black women in
particular, which derives from the experience that only certain
parts of our identities are deemed acceptable. The essays reflect
on the events of the last few years and the toll the related stress
has taken on each author. As a whole, the book offers its readers
an opportunity to gain insight into these women's experiences and
to find their place in supporting the Black women in their lives.
For First-, Second-, or Third-Time Moms, Single Parents, Same-Sex
Parents, and More--This Isn't Your Typical "Birth Story" Book! With
an exciting collection of personal narratives, How to Prepare for
Home Birth sheds light on the varied and fascinating experiences of
women choosing home birth. Anyone even remotely interested in home
birth will want to pull up a chair and witness one of the most
intimate moments in each family's life. From the redwoods of
California to a converted cowshed in Ireland, readers will be not
only entertained, but also exposed to what home birth really feels,
looks, and sounds like. Topics include: First-time home birth Home
birth after hospital birth Home birth after Cesarean section
Postpartum advice And so much more Expectant parents will come away
with a deep understanding and sense of security, knowing that if
others have done this, they can, too.
Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance
features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary,
ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary
explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses.
Expanding on the concept of a 'kinaesthetic mode of attention'
leads to discussion of some of the key values and practices which
nurture and develop this mode in contemporary dance. Zooming in on
entanglements with video self-images in dance practice provides
further insights regarding kinaesthesia's historicised polarisation
with the visual. It thus provides opportunities to dwell on and
reconsider reflections, opening up to a set of playful yet
disruptive diffractions inherent in the process of becoming a
contemporary dancer, particularly amongst an increasingly complex
landscape of visual and theoretical technologies.
Latina/o/x Communication Studies: Theories, Methods, and Practice
spotlights contemporary Latina/o/x Communication Studies research
in various theoretical, methodological, and academic contexts.
Leandra H. Hernandez, Diana I. Bowen, Sara De Los Santos Upton, and
Amanda R. Martinez have assembled a collection of case studies that
focus on health, media, rhetoric, identity, organizations, the
environment, and academia. Contributors expand upon previous
Latina/o/x Communication Studies scholarship by examining identity
and academic experiences in our current political climate; the role
of language, identity, and Latinidades in health and media
contexts; and the role of social activism in rhetorical,
environmental, organizational, and border studies contexts.
Scholars of communication, Latin American Studies, rhetoric, and
sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Harried mother of three Shantelle Bisson guides you through raising
a family, all while keeping your cool! Let's face it - raising
children can take a wrecking ball to your ambitions, your finances,
your relationships, even your health. But, as mother of three
Shantelle Bisson will tell you, it doesn't have to be that way. In
Raising Your Kids Without Losing Your Cool, Shantelle sets out how
to get ready for baby's arrival, helps you through the big push,
lays it all out on breastfeeding, and makes sure you don't forget
to KEEP HAVING SEX. Plus, she'll help you navigate the perils of
helicopter parenting, children on social media, and even
gender-reveal parties, and answer the burning question: Is that
really cool?
Contributions by Kathleen AlcalĂĄ, Sarah Amira de la Garza, Sarah
De Los Santos Upton, Moises Gonzales, Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza,
Leandra H. HernĂĄndez, Spencer R. Herrera, Brenda Selena Lara,
Susana Loza, Juan Pacheco Marcial, Amanda R. Martinez, Diana Isabel
MartĂnez, Diego Medina, Cathryn J. Merla-Watson, Arturo "Velaz"
MuĂąoz, Eric Murillo, Saul Ramirez, Roxanna Ivonne Sanchez-Avila,
ireâne lara silva, Lizzeth Tecuatl Cuaxiloa, and Bianca Tonantzin
Zamora Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral
Storytelling is a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays
divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous
cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South
America. To give voice to this complicated identity, this volume
investigates how cultures of ghost storytelling foreground a sense
of belonging and home in people from LatIndigenous landscapes.
Monsters and Saints reflects intersectional and intergenerational
understandings of lived experiences, bodies, and traumas as
narrated through embodied hauntings. Contributions to this
anthology represent a commitment to thoughtful inquiry into the
ways storytelling assigns meaning through labels like monster,
saint, and ghost, particularly as these unfold in the context of
global migration. For many marginalized and displaced peoples, a
sense of belonging is always haunted through historical exclusion
from an original homespace. This exclusion further manifests as
limited bodily autonomy. By locating the concept of "home" as
beyond physical constructs, the volume argues that spectral stories
and storytelling practices of LatIndigeneity (re)configure
affective states and spaces of being, becoming, migrating,
displacing, and belonging.
Martin's work is characterised by a unique freedom, expressed
through the possibilities of her chosen canvas - a piece of paper
or textile, a sculptural surface, wall or screen. She interrogates
'who we are at the core, as people', and since her beginnings with
live performance drawing in the mega clubs of Tokyo she has
navigated creative worlds to interrogate and play with the role of
artist and viewer. This monograph charts her career and includes
early pieces, larg-scale murals and commissions, and collaborations
with museums, technical institutes, museums and fashion brands.
Kinaesthesia and Visual Self-reflection in Contemporary Dance
features interviews with UK-based professional-level contemporary,
ballet, hip hop, and breaking dancers and cross-disciplinary
explication of kinaesthesia and visual self-reflection discourses.
Expanding on the concept of a 'kinaesthetic mode of attention'
leads to discussion of some of the key values and practices which
nurture and develop this mode in contemporary dance. Zooming in on
entanglements with video self-images in dance practice provides
further insights regarding kinaesthesia's historicised polarisation
with the visual. It thus provides opportunities to dwell on and
reconsider reflections, opening up to a set of playful yet
disruptive diffractions inherent in the process of becoming a
contemporary dancer, particularly amongst an increasingly complex
landscape of visual and theoretical technologies.
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