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366 books match the query 'Family & Relationships' and 2 start with q
Que valga la pena
Un manual para jovenes en busca de sentidoAnna B. Moreland
Catholic University of America Press, 2026
Que valga la pena llega donde los demás libros de este tipo no se atreven a llegar: plantea preguntas de fondo sobre lo que hace que una vida sea verdaderamente feliz. Anna Moreland y Thomas Smith han dedicado décadas a escuchar a sus estudiantes y han identificado los deseos más profundos de los jóvenes. Tras la búsqueda de una carrera lucrativa hay un anhelo por un trabajo significativo; tras el tiempo que le dedican a las redes sociales y a los videojuegos hay un anhelo más profundo de intimidad; y bajo el afán de productividad hay un deseo de recuperar el tiempo libre que les ha sido arrebatado.
Este libro está diseñado para ayudar a que los jóvenes entren en contacto con sus deseos más hondos. Ofrece estrategias prácticas para cultivar mejores hábitos y ayuda al lector a redescubrir las actividades y pasiones de su infancia. El libro incorpora las voces de jóvenes que han logrado superar con éxito las dificultades de esta época. Estas voces son modelos de esperanza en tiempos inciertos y sirven como una guía clara para atravesar retos sin precedentes. Los ejercicios de reflexión a lo largo de los capítulos ayudarán al lector a adaptar las estrategias a su propia vida.
Son muchos los libros que diagnostican los males de esta era digital, pero pocos los que ofrecen una salida ante estos desafíos. Moreland y Smith, profesores atentos y comprometidos, han dedicado décadas a rescatar a sus estudiantes de este paisaje empobrecido. Con este libro quieren llegar también a los estudiantes a los que no han tenido el privilegio de enseñar.
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Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
Brainer, Amy
Rutgers University Press, 2019
Winner of the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph
Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about how larger social, cultural, and political shifts have materialized in people’s everyday lives. Her findings bring light to new parenting and family discourses and enduring inequalities that shape the experiences of queer and heterosexual kin alike.
Brainer’s research takes her from political marches and support group meetings to family dinner tables in cities and small towns across Taiwan. She speaks with parents and siblings who vary in whether and to what extent they have made peace with having a queer or transgender family member, and queer and trans people who vary in what they hope for and expect from their families of origin. Across these diverse life stories, Brainer uses a feminist materialist framework to illuminate struggles for personal and sexual autonomy in the intimate context of family and home.
Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about how larger social, cultural, and political shifts have materialized in people’s everyday lives. Her findings bring light to new parenting and family discourses and enduring inequalities that shape the experiences of queer and heterosexual kin alike.
Brainer’s research takes her from political marches and support group meetings to family dinner tables in cities and small towns across Taiwan. She speaks with parents and siblings who vary in whether and to what extent they have made peace with having a queer or transgender family member, and queer and trans people who vary in what they hope for and expect from their families of origin. Across these diverse life stories, Brainer uses a feminist materialist framework to illuminate struggles for personal and sexual autonomy in the intimate context of family and home.
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