Other, Please Specify
Other, Please Specify

Author: D'Lane Compton

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0520289277

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This provocative collection showcases the work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods. Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific research, Other, Please Specify presents to a new generation of researchers an array of experiences, insights, and approaches, revealing the power of investigations of the social world. With contributions from sociologists who have helped define queer studies and who use a range of interpretative and statistical methods, this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies in research design and execution, all with the intent of getting queer research off the ground and building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield.

Trans Kids
Trans Kids

Author: Tey Meadow

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-08-17

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0520964160

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Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and approach the state to alter the gender designation on their passports and birth certificates. Drawing from sociology, philosophy, psychology, and sexuality studies, sociologist Tey Meadow depicts the intricate social processes that shape gender acquisition. Where once atypical gender expression was considered a failure of gender, now it is a form of gender. Engaging and rigorously argued, Trans Kids underscores the centrality of ever more particular configurations of gender in both our physical and psychological lives, and the increasing embeddedness of personal identities in social institutions.

The Thinking Parent's Guide to College Admissions
The Thinking Parent's Guide to College Admissions

Author: Eva Ostrum

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780143037415

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Furnishes a guide on how to negotiate the college admissions process, offering advice, tools, and procedures that cover everything from the college application timetable to writing an effective application essay.

Current Issues in Libraries, Information Science and Related Fields
Current Issues in Libraries, Information Science and Related Fields

Author: Anne Woodsworth

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1784416371

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This volume is unusual in that the theme is quite broad in scope yet focused on a specific topic; innovations and boundary-pushing studies in areas not usually found in library literature. It examines the periphery of the field surveyed in previous volumes. The chapters are grouped in two categories: professional issues and transforming services.

Macrofinancial Stress Testing - Principles and Practices—Background Material
Macrofinancial Stress Testing - Principles and Practices—Background Material

Author: International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2012-08-29

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 149833993X

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Staff conducted a survey of stress testing practices among selected national central banks and supervisory authorities. The online survey was undertaken in November 2011 as part of the preparatory work for the paper on ?Macrofinancial Stress Testing: Principles and Practices. The survey focused on stress testing for banks, which is more widespread and better established—and practices are therefore easier to compare across countries—but also included questions on stress testing for nonbank financial institutions.