Paid to Party: Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales by Jamie L. Mullaney,Janet Hinson Shope PDF

On any given evening in dwelling rooms throughout the United States, girls assemble for a enjoyable women’ evening out to consume, drink, and buy the most recent products—from Amway to Mary Kay cosmetics. underneath the celebration surroundings lies a billion-dollar undefined, Direct domestic revenues (DHS), that is at present altering how girls navigate paintings and relatives.

New PDF release: Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and

In Conceiving Masculinity, Liberty Walther Barnes places the area of male infertility less than the microscope to check how culturally pervasive notions of gender form our knowing of affliction, and the way illness affects our own principles approximately gender.  Taking readers inside of male infertility clinics, and interviewing medical professionals and facing male infertility, Barnes presents a wealthy account of the social facets of the complicated and not easy analysis of infertility.

Download e-book for kindle: The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences by Robin Pickering-Iazzi

Utilizing an array of cultural records from 1990 to the current, together with diaries, tales, fiction, on-line video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by means of the Italian mafia via a large cross-disciplinary lens.

Download e-book for kindle: Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction by Maysaa Husam Jaber

This publication fills a spot in either literary and feminist scholarship through providing the 1st significant learn of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber indicates that the felony literary figures within the style open up robust areas for imagining woman enterprise in direct competition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.