Measuring Immorality
Measuring Immorality

Author: Gail Reekie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-10-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780521629744

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Why do conservative politicians and scholars in Britain, Australia and the United States continue to view rising rates of out-of-wedlock births and teenage pregnancies as a threat to civilised society? This book examines the process by which social science transforms a biological event - a birth - into a social and moral problem. Drawing on Foucault's 'archaeology of knowledge', Reekie stresses the role of statistics and other social-scientific discourses in the emergence of the illegitimacy 'problem' in the early nineteenth century and its continuing cultural significance. The book illustrates the continuity in concerns about illegitimacy, including pressure on the welfare system, fears of racial and intellectual denigration, the detrimental nature of fatherless families, and the association of rising illegitimacy with the supposed selfishness of excessively independent women.

Deviant Maternity
Deviant Maternity

Author: Angela Joy Muir

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1000035034

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This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources, it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy, and the link between illegitimacy, courtship and economic precarity. It also goes beyond courtship to consider the different identities and relationships of the mothers and fathers of illegitimate children in Wales, and the lived experience of conception, pregnancy and childbirth for unmarried mothers. This book reframes the study of illegitimacy by combining demographic, social and cultural history approaches to emphasise the diversity of experiences, contexts and consequences.

Measured Excess
Measured Excess

Author: Laura C. Nelson

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0231529139

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-- Elise Mellinger, University of Hawaii--Manoa, Korean Studies

Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction
Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction

Author: Garry Young

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1793639205

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It is commonplace for fictional content to depict immoral activities: the kidnapping of a politician, for example, or the elaborate theft of a national treasure, or perhaps the gruesome proclivities of a sadistic murderer. These and similar depictions can be found across a range of media, and in varying degrees of detail and realism. Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction examines potential conditions for transforming fictional immorality into immoral fiction, in order to establish what makes a depiction of fictional immorality and/or one’s engagement with it immoral. To achieve this aim, Garry Young analyzes fictional content, its meaning, one’s motivation for engaging with it, and the medium in which the fiction is presented (such as film, literature, theatre, video games) using philosophical inquiry. The end result is a systematic examination of fictional immorality, which contributes toward debates on the morality of depicting and engaging with fictional immorality, as well as the reach of censorship and other forms of prohibition, especially when the act depicted is of the kind that would be most egregious if carried out in reality.

Corruption and Entrepreneurship
Corruption and Entrepreneurship

Author: Mohammad Heydari

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-04-01

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1040008496

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This book examines corruption as a collective behavior problem for entrepreneurs. In particular, it considers Azjen’s theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain perceived corruption and its effects on entrepreneurship. Heydari argues that behavioral intentions are shaped by variables such as attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control. He proposes the novel Heydari Behavioral Synthesis Theory (HBST) model and applies it to two case studies to highlight the institutional, individual and societal factors that may inhibit entrepreneurial behavior. He concludes that corruption may persist not just because of difficulties in monitoring and prosecuting, but because it is systemically pervasive and discourages individual countermeasures. He closes by looking at anti-corruption policies and outlining future research directions. Arguing that widespread corruption may be theoretically mischaracterized in the literature, this book is of interest to policy-makers, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of management science, industrial and organizational psychology, entrepreneurship and corruption studies.

Religion and the Demographic Revolution
Religion and the Demographic Revolution

Author: Callum G. Brown

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1843837927

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In the 1960s Christian religious practice and identity declined rapidly and women's lives were transformed, spawning a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered by an historic confluence of factors.

Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England
Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England

Author: Helen Vella Bonavita

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-02-03

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1317118936

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This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more than being simply a narrative or character-driven issue, is a vital component in the evolving construction and representation of British national identity in prose and drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Through close reading of a range of plays and prose texts, the book offers readers new insight into the semiotics of bastardy and concepts of national identity in early modern England, and reflects on contemporary issues of citizenship and identity. The author examines play texts of the period including Bale's King Johan, Peele's The Troublesome Reign of John, and Shakespeare's King John, Richard II, and King Lear in the context of a selection of legal, religious, and polemical texts. In so doing, she illuminates the extent to which the figure of the bastard and, more generally the trope of illegitimacy, existed as a distinct discourse within the wider discursive framework of family and nation.

New Light on Alcoholism
New Light on Alcoholism

Author: Dick B.

Publisher: Good Book Publishing Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13: 9781885803276

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Dick B. is a writer, historian, Bible student, retired attorney, and active recovered member of A.A. He and his son Ken devoted many years to researching the role, life, writings, and contributions of Rev.Samuel M. Shoemaker to Alcoholics Anonymous. The quest took Dick B. to Shoemaker's churches in Pittsburgh and New York, to the Episcopal Church Archives in Austin, Texas, to Hartford Seminary, to Princeton University, and to the family and friends of this great Episcopal rector and preacher. In all, Dick B. has published 33 books on the history of early A.A.

By the Power of God
By the Power of God

Author: Dick B.

Publisher: Good Book Publishing Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9781885803306

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Ever since Dick B. began publishing titles on the biblical roots and successes of early AAs, hundreds and hundreds have contacted him asking how they might form groups today with principles and practices like those of the early Akron A.A. Christian Fellowship. This book provides the details of the early program and how and why AAs and 12 Steppers can use the same program today in groups and meetings of their own choosing

Handbook of Genocide Studies
Handbook of Genocide Studies

Author: David J. Simon

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 180037934X

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Providing an intellectual biography of the challenging concept of genocide, this topical Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to shed new light on the events, processes, and legacies in the field.