Happy Mami (Una Mamá Feliz)
Happy Mami (Una Mamá Feliz)

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Publisher: Robinbook

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9788496708457

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Charming and uplifting, this pint-sized celebration of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood demonstrates that each new day with a baby is a reason to rejoice. The illustrations are both adorable and clever, depicting the broad range of feelings that accompanies maternal experiences. This tribute to the happiness and laughter that characterize the journey to motherhood serves as motivation to cherish every moment as a new mother. Encantadora y alentadora, esta celebración pequeña del embarazo, el nacimiento y la maternidad demuestra que cada nuevo día con un bebé es una razón para alegrarse. Las ilustraciones son a la vez adorables e ingeniosas y representan la gama amplia de sentimientos que acompañan las experiencias maternales. Este tributo a la alegría y las risas que caracterizan el viaje de la maternidad sirve como motivación para apreciar cada momento como una nueva madre.

The Changing Spanish Family
The Changing Spanish Family

Author: Tiffany Trotman

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0786487534

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Despite centuries of Catholic conservatism, Spain stands among the Western countries that have recently embraced non-traditional families. A decline in the dominance of extended families, the upswing in single-parent households, and an increase in the number of working mothers have all transformed what it means to be a "Spanish family." Many factors have prompted this change, including the end of Franco's dictatorship, the liberalization of society, economic reforms, Spanish feminism, and recent Socialist constitutional reforms recognizing the rights of same-sex partners. This collection of essays examines how authors, filmmakers and playwrights are engaging with changes to Spanish culture, exploring the very redefining of Spanish society.

The Changing Face of Motherhood in Spain
The Changing Face of Motherhood in Spain

Author: Catherine Bourland Ross

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2015-12-24

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1611487285

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This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucía Etxebarria’s fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society. Traditional expectations for women as mothers persist despite the fact that they no longer match Spain’s cultural and economic reality. These issues of gender equality and societal perceptions stand out in the novels and screenplays of Etxebarria. Her work at times resists and at times affirms patriarchal constructs associated with traditional Spanish motherhood, and ultimately, I argue, enacts the very complexity of contemporary Spanish motherhood ideals. By showing the tension between the past constructs of the mother and the possible future outcomes of gender equality, Etxebarria’s works navigate the complexity between past and future, illuminating the current and future uncertainties and the ambivalent nature of change. Each chapter views motherhood from a different perspective and focuses on particular works of Etxebarria. Through the depiction of a variety of mother characters, these different perspectives, as showcased in Etxebarria’s narratives, together compose an understanding of Spanish maternal identity.

Literacy, Play and Globalization
Literacy, Play and Globalization

Author: Carmen L. Medina

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1136193774

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This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, family, school, or cultural worlds. It draws upon elements of ethnographies of globalization, nexus analysis and performance theories to examine the convergences of such imaginaries across multiple sites: early childhood and elementary classrooms and communities in Puerto Rico and the Midwest United States. In this work we attempt to understand that the local moment of engagement within play, dramatic experiences, and literacies is not a given but is always emerging from and within the multiple localities children navigate and the histories, possibilities and challenges they bring to the creative moment.

Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Sociolinguistic Integration of Migration
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Sociolinguistic Integration of Migration

Author: Florentino Paredes García

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2020-12-29

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 3039361929

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Migration has become a structural part of the globalized society in which we live and, as such, it is essential to determine the causes and effects it produces in the involved social groups. Sociolinguistics has a very important role to play in this respect, insofar as its object of study focuses precisely on the analysis of the interrelationships between the linguistic and the social dimensions. This volume presents a series of proposals that involve theoretical approaches, models, and applications related to the process of sociolinguistic integration in contact situations arising from migration. The volume includes studies of general interest which present models and theoretical foundations for the analysis of this process of integration, as well as others which focus on other more specific aspects, such as how migration influences the construction of individual identity, emotional and affective factors in the preservation of the heritage language, and the processes of interlingual convergence that take place in situations of migratory contact. This volume also contains the didactic dimension applied to the immigrant population, with proposals for teaching with proven effectiveness.

Rafi and Rosi: Carnival!
Rafi and Rosi: Carnival!

Author: Lulu Delacre

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 0060735988

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Two Latin American tree frogs, mischievous Rafi and his younger sister Rosi, enjoy the events of Puerto Rico's Carnival season.

Coloring Into Existence
Coloring Into Existence

Author: Isabel Millán

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1479816981

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"Coloring into Existence traces the emergence of queer and trans of color children's picture books across North America (Canada, United States, and Mexico) from 1990 to 2020, analyzed through the hermeneutic of autofantasía, a literary intervention engaging authors, illustrators, publishers, and (mis)reading practices"--

Tortilleras
Tortilleras

Author: Lourdes Torres

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2003-02-21

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781592130078

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The first anthology to focus exclusively on queer readings of Spanish, Latin American, and US Latina lesbian literature and culture, Tortilleras interrogates issues of gender, national identity, race, ethnicity, and class to show the impossibility of projecting a singular Hispanic or Latina Lesbian. Examining carefully the works of a range of lesbian writers and performance artists, including Carmelita Tropicana and Christina Peri Rossi, among others, the contributors create a picture of the complicated and multi-textured contributions of Latina and Hispanic lesbians to literature and culture. More than simply describing this sphere of creativity, the contributors also recover from history the long, veiled existence of this world, exposing its roots, its impact on lesbian culture, and, making the power of lesbian performance and literature visible.