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

On any given evening in dwelling rooms throughout the United States, ladies assemble for a enjoyable women’ evening out to devour, drink, and buy the newest products—from Amway to Mary Kay cosmetics. underneath the celebration surroundings lies a billion-dollar undefined, Direct domestic revenues (DHS), that's at the moment altering how ladies navigate paintings and family members.

Liberty Walther Barnes's Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and PDF

In Conceiving Masculinity, Liberty Walther Barnes places the realm of male infertility lower than the microscope to ascertain how culturally pervasive notions of gender form our figuring out of sickness, and the way sickness affects our own rules approximately gender.  Taking readers within male infertility clinics, and interviewing medical professionals and facing male infertility, Barnes offers a wealthy account of the social elements of the complicated and complex prognosis of infertility.

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Utilizing an array of cultural files 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 via the Italian mafia via a large cross-disciplinary lens.

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This publication fills a niche in either literary and feminist scholarship by means of supplying the 1st significant research of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber exhibits that the legal literary figures within the style open up robust areas for imagining woman supplier in direct competition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.