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Parler de familles immigrantes en intervention sociale, c’est souvent parler des problèmes intergénérationnels et des difficultés d’intégration. À partir d’une recherche menée auprès de trios de femmes réfugiées au Québec (des grands-mères, des mères et des filles), ce texte s’intéresse aux processus originaux de circulation des savoirs et de construction de nouvelles pratiques entre ces générations de femmes. Leurs rapports à l’autonomie, mais aussi à la famille, au travail, à la santé ou à la collectivité se transforment et se modulent différemment selon les générations et les événements de leur trajectoire. Ces échanges intergénérationnels sont importants pour l’insertion des divers membres des familles immigrantes et il est nécessaire que les intervenants en aient une compréhension renouvelée.
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A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are new. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present, selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, songs, poetry, and fiction show women's creativity in supporting themselves, their families, and organizations or associations. Slave women recall their field work, family work, and sabotage. We see Indian women farming, and we also see the white culture coercing Indian women to give up farming. We see women in industry playing a central part in the union movement while facing the particular hazards of women's jobs and working conditions. New selections show the historical origins of today's important issues: sexual harassment, equal pay, "sex work," work in the underground economy, work in the home, and shift work. With an expanded focus on women from all racial and ethnic backgrounds and regions, America's Working Women grounds us in the battles women have fought and the ones they are in the process of winning.
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In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles of high society, along with the humblest slaves and sharecroppers, both white and black. Stretching from the height of the antebellum South's pride and power through the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction to the end of the century, these essays uncover hidden worlds of the Southern family, worlds of love and duty--and of incest, miscegenation, and insanity. Featuring an introduction by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War, and a foreword by Anne Firor Scott, author of The Southern Lady, this work presents an outstanding array of historians: Eugene Genovese, Catherine Clinton, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Carol Bleser, Drew Faust, James Roark, Michael Johnson, Brenda Stevenson, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Jacqueline Jones, Peter Bardaglio, and more. They probe the many facets of Southern domestic life, from the impact of the Civil War on a prominent Southern marriage to the struggles of postwar sharecropper families. One author turns the pages of nineteenth century cookbooks, exploring what they tell us about home life, housekeeping, and entertaining without slaves after the Civil War. Other essays portray the relationship between a Victorian father and his devoted son, as well as the private writings of a long-suffering Southern wife. In Joy and in Sorrow offers a fascinating look into the tangled reality of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War. With this collection of essays, editor Carol Bleser provides a powerful new way of understanding this most self-consciously distinct region. In Joy and in Sorrow will appeal to everyone interested in marriage and the family, the problems of gender and slavery, as well as in the history of the South, old and new.
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Recent trends in feminist research indicate a growing interest in the impact of Native women on westward expansion and imperialism. The author suggests that while early European contacts affected the status of women negatively, the views of Native women were seldom recorded during these early contact periods. Recent studies have examined the status and changing roles of Native women from the viewpoints of contemporary Native women. The diversity of their opinions continues to be a part of the contemporary debate on the resilience and resourcefulness of Native women in the past.
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Responding to the need for a comprehensive source of information regarding the separation of American Indian children from their families, this book presents essays which: examine the Indian child-welfare crisis in contemporary, legal, and historical perspectives; document the human cost of the crisis to Indian parents, children, and communities; and report on innovative programs designed and implemented by the Indian tribes themselves. Specifically, this book includes the following sections and essay titles: (1) Contemporary Overviews ("The Destruction of American Indian Families" and "The Role of the Federal Government: A Congressional View"); (2) Historical Perspectives ("The Effects of Boarding Schools on Indian Family Life: 1928" and "'Kid Catching' on the Navajo Reservation: 1920"); (3) The Human Cost ("'The Drunken Indian': Myths and Realities"; "The Wasted Strengths of Indian Families", "The Human Cost of Removing Indian Children from Their Families", "Child-Welfare Services to Indian People in the Albuquerque Area", "Indian Child Welfare in Oregon", "The Ravage of Indian Families in Crisis", "The Question of Best Interest", and "The Placement of American Indian Children--The Need for Change"); (4) A Legal Perspective ("Parent and Child Relationships in Law and in Navajo Custom"); (5) Tribal Actions ("Indian Children and Tribal Group Homes: New Interpretations of the Whipper Man" and "Tribal Resolutions"). (JC)