Mothers United
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Mothers United
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Author : Andrea Dyrness
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2013-11-30
Mothers United written by Andrea Dyrness and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-30 with Education categories.
In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, and underqualified teachers. The challenges posed by these problems demand creative solutions that must often begin with parental intervention. But how can parents without college educations, American citizenship, English literacy skills, or economic stability organize to initiate change on behalf of their children and their community? In Mothers United, Andrea Dyrness chronicles the experiences of five Latina immigrant mothers in Oakland, California—one of the most troubled urban school districts in the country—as they become informed and engaged advocates for their children’s education. These women, who called themselves “Madres Unidas” (“Mothers United”), joined a neighborhood group of teachers and parents to plan a new, small, and autonomous neighborhood-based school to replace the overcrowded Whitman School. Collaborating with the author, among others, to conduct interviews and focus groups with teachers, parents, and students, these mothers moved from isolation and marginality to take on unfamiliar roles as researchers and community activists while facing resistance from within the local school district. Mothers United illuminates the mothers’ journey to create their own space—centered around the kitchen table—that enhanced their capacity to improve their children’s lives. At the same time, Dyrness critiques how community organizers, teachers, and educational policy makers, despite their democratic rhetoric, repeatedly asserted their right as “experts,” reproducing the injustice they hoped to overcome. A powerful, inspiring story about self-learning, consciousness-raising, and empowerment, Mothers United offers important lessons for school reform movements everywhere.
Bad Mothers United
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Author : Kate Long
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-28
Bad Mothers United written by Kate Long and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Fiction categories.
The long-awaited sequel to the number one bestselling THE BAD MOTHER'S HANDBOOK. Before Yummy Mummies and Slummy Mummies, before the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, before we wondered How She Does It, there was THE BAD MOTHER'S HANDBOOK. Hundreds of thousands of readers lived a year in the life of Charlotte, Karen and Nan as they struggled with becoming mothers for the first time. And now they are back. Certainly older, probably not wiser, and definitely as hilariously catastrophic as before. For all those who have asked how to be a woman, here is HOW TO BE...A BAD MOTHER. A storyteller in the Joanna Trollope league, Long writes astutely and comically about the complexities of motherhood' Independent 'Warm, witty and wise' Red 'One of the authors that I rush out to buy straight away. I find her work challenging, witty, fresh and real' Adele Parks
Protecting Soldiers And Mothers
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Author : Theda Skocpol
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Protecting Soldiers And Mothers written by Theda Skocpol and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens. During the late nineteenth century, competitive party politics in American democracy led to the rapid expansion of benefits for Union Civil War veterans and their families. Some Americans hoped to expand veterans' benefits into pensions for all of the needy elderly and social insurance for workingmen and their families. But such hopes went against the logic of political reform in the Progressive Era. Generous social spending faded along with the Civil War generation. Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country. Blending original historical research with political analysis, Skocpol shows how governmental institutions, electoral rules, political parties, and earlier public policies combined to determine both the opportunities and the limits within which social policies were devised and changed by reformers and politically active social groups over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining afresh the institutional, cultural, and organizational forces that have shaped U.S. social policies in the past, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers challenges us to think in new ways about what might be possible in the American future.
The Time Use Of Mothers In The United States At The Beginning Of The 21st Century
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Author : Rachel Connelly
language : en
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Release Date : 2010
The Time Use Of Mothers In The United States At The Beginning Of The 21st Century written by Rachel Connelly and has been published by W.E. Upjohn Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book focuses on the time use of mothers of pre-teenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006.
The Founding Mothers Of The United States
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Author : Selene Castrovilla
language : en
Publisher: Children's Press
Release Date : 2020-09
The Founding Mothers Of The United States written by Selene Castrovilla and has been published by Children's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Introduces the reader to the founding mothers of the United States"--
Working Mothers And The Welfare State
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Author : Kimberly J. Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006
Working Mothers And The Welfare State written by Kimberly J. Morgan and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
This book explains why countries have adopted different policies for working parents through a comparative historical study of four nations: France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.
Sustainable Development In The United States
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Author : U.S. Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Sustainable Development In The United States written by U.S. Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Economic indicators categories.
Twelfth Census Of The United States Taken In The Year 1900
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
Twelfth Census Of The United States Taken In The Year 1900 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with United States categories.
Report On Vital And Social Statistics In The United States At The Eleventh Census 1890
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Author : United States. Census Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Report On Vital And Social Statistics In The United States At The Eleventh Census 1890 written by United States. Census Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Cities and towns categories.
Twelfth Census Of The United States Taken In The Year 1900
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Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
Twelfth Census Of The United States Taken In The Year 1900 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with United States categories.