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Inequities Faced By Noncustodial Mothers
Get PDFThis article presents data on noncustodial mothers who perceive they have faced a number of social inequities. Moreover, this paper identifies the reasons mothers are no longer living with their children, children’s current living arrangements, the dollar amount of child support awards, the actual dollar amount of child support payments being made, and the rate of compliance with those payments
The Changing Role of Women in Spain
Get PDFSpain has experienced the powerful force and changing effects of globalization, especially after the death of Francisco Franco\u27s and the demise of his regime. Spanish women especially have embraced the changing social environment in Spain by enrolling in institutions of higher education in greater numbers and entering the work force by developing careers in business and other fields
What does privacy mean in an age of virtual transparency?
No full textThis dissertation exams the foundations of privacy in America today and the effects of rapidly advancing changes in information technologies that appear to threaten commonly held ideas about personal privacy. Among the problems that challenge any examination of privacy are the lack of a commonly agreed upon definition for the term, and the lack of a conceptual framework to organize the vast literature on the greater conception of privacy itself. This paper offers a new definition for privacy and proposes a conceptual framework for consideration as a way to organize more methodically the disparate conversations that have been contributed to the debate about privacy\u27s value, content, and the ways and means privacy is claimed and achieved in the social, political and economic areas of life in America
Place-making: Planning, modernity and humanistic geography
No full textThis research explores how the literature of place developed by humanistic geography can influence the practice of land use planning. The planning profession has accepted sense of place as a worthy social goal and casts itself in the role of place-making, yet planning practitioners have little grounding in the epistemology of place. Despite adopting the terminology of place, planning remains a largely rational exercise that fails to appreciate the complexity and richness of place as experience. Humanistic geography offers a humanities based understanding of place and of the particular challenge of place in modern society. This illumination of place is used to assess the limitations and potential of planning for place in the technological society
Extralegal Practices of Afghan Refugees in Iran: Exploring Feminist Transnationalism and Immigration Theories
Get PDFA growing trend in population movement is transnationalism in which immigrants move between communities in host and home countries. Most research on transnationalists has focused on affluent immigrants engaging in global economy from the above and in the North. Transnational feminist narrative of agency allows that both licit and illegal activities practiced by marginalized communities of the South make a significant contribution to the global economy from below. A case study of Afghan refugee families in Iran revealed that their movement into Iran, another less developed country, resembles the immigration and integration of ethnic workers into advanced industrial countries. Their narratives uncovered a pattern of transnationalism crossing townships in Iran, refugee camps in Pakistan, and communities in Afghanistan. Transnational feminist’s interrogation of global capitalism delivers analytical flexibility to investigate multi-dimensional aspects of border crossing. It alerts us to many ways that globalism exploits; and verity of ways that people of the South maneuver and subvert its forces to claim identity and agency
Editor\u27s Note
Get PDFThis issue of Newport History features an extensive study of Solomon Southwick, a Newport native who became the printer and editor of the Newport Mercury, and an important voice for American independence. The author of his complex and fascinating story is C. Deirdre Phelps, who shares ancestry with Southwick—who was in turn a descendant of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, the Quaker martyrs of Salem, Massachusetts. The photograph spread in this issue celebrates the recent issuance of the third edition of C.P.B. Jefferys’ brief monograph on Newport. First published by the Newport Historical Society in 1976, and then revised by its Publications Committee and republished by the Society in 1992, this “vest pocket” history of Newport has been continually popular over the decades