{"title":"Social Fictions Series","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"blue-book-patricia-leavy-9789463003537","title":"Blue","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAmerican Fiction Awards 2018\u003c\/b\u003e - award-winning finalist in the categories chick-lit\/women's lit and inspirational fiction!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e follows three roommates as they navigate life and love in their post-college years. Tash Daniels, the former party girl, falls for deejay Aidan. Always attracted to the wrong guy, what happens when the right one comes along? Jason Woo, a lighthearted model on the rise, uses the club scene as his personal playground. While he's adept at helping Tash with her personal life, how does he deal with his own when he meets a man that defies his expectations? Penelope, a reserved and earnest graduate student slips under the radar, but she has a secret no one suspects. As the characters'stories unfold, each is forced to confront their life choices or complacency and choose which version of themselves they want to be.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about identity, friendship, figuring out who we are during the \"in-between\" phases of life, and the search for people who \"get us.\" The characters in Blue show how our interactions with people often bump up against backstage struggles we know nothing of. Visual art, television and film, appear as signposts throughout the narrative, providing a context for how we each come to build our sense of self in the world. With a tribute to 1980s pop culture, set against the backdrop of contemporary New York, \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e both celebrates and questions the ever-changing cultural landscape against which we live our stories, frame by frame.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Although fictional, \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e is grounded in interview research, teaching and personal observations. It can be read entirely for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in a variety of courses in women's\/gender studies, sociology, psychology, communication, popular culture, media studies, qualitative inquiry, narrative inquiry or arts-based research. 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Faulkner knits connections between a DIY (do-it-yourself) value, economics, and family culture through the use of poems and images, which present four generations of women in her family and trouble \"women's work\" of mothering, cooking and crafting. Family stories anchor family culture and provide insight into relational and family life. This work may be used as a teaching tool to get us to think about the stories that we tell and don't tell in families and the importance of how family is created, maintained, and altered in our stories. The poetry voices the themes of economic and collective family self-reliance and speaks to cultural discourses of feminist resistance and resilience, relational and personal identities. This book can be read for pleasure as a collection of poetry or used as a springboard for reflection and discussion in courses such as family communication, sociology of gender and the family, psychology of women, relational communication, and women's studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNominated:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNational Communication Association Ethnography Division--Best Book 2015\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNominated:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eOSCLG Creative Expression Award 2015\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNominated:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e2016 International Association of Relationship Research Book Award\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNominated:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e2016 ICQI (International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry) Qualitative Book Award\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49614597095697,"sku":"GOR013663222","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50227270418705,"sku":"CIN9462098468G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9462098468.jpg?v=1768557678"},{"product_id":"unfolding-the-unexpectedness-of-uncertainty-book-anita-sinner-9789462093546","title":"Unfolding the Unexpectedness of Uncertainty","description":"\u003ci\u003eUnfolding the Unexpectedness of Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to share in the stories of Ruth, Ann and Nathalie as they transition from students to teachers. Rendering their experiences as short stories from the field of teacher education brings a dimension of social biography to scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As creative nonfiction, these stories act as catalysts to understand teacher culture from first-person accounts. Their stories may be described as openings: Ruth's unfolding; Ann's unexpectedness; and Nathalie's uncertainty. Such narratives are exemplars of arts research, extending the purpose, intent, outcomes and dissemination of research by making scholarly study a more intimate and personal experience through the lives of student-teachers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Entering research practices with a perspective that stories are effective teaching tools that represent cultural artefacts, these stories help make sense of practices in public schools and in postsecondary teacher training, and help students, teachers and teacher educators to better understand the operations of the educational system.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnfolding the Unexpectedness of Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e can be used as case studies for undergraduate and graduate students and academic researchers in fields of study involving creative nonfiction and life writing, such as Education, Creative Writing, English, Women's Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, Sociology and Integrated Studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e See an interview with Dr Anita Sinner regarding UNFOLDING THE UNEXPECTEDNESS OF UNCERTAINTY: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/dr-anita-sinner-contributes-her-latest-book-to-the-social-fictions-series\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.examiner.com\/article\/dr-anita-sinner-contributes-her-latest-book-to-the-social-fictions-series\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNominations:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOutstanding Publication Award 2014\u003c\/b\u003e Sponsored by the \u003ci\u003eNarrative and Research SIG\u003c\/i\u003e of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Fictions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eSeries Editorial Advisory Board\u003c\/b\u003e: Carl Bagley, University of Durham, UK; Anna Banks, University of Idaho, USA; Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida, USA; Rita Irwin, University of British Columbia, Canada; J. 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Grounded in the cultures of mid-Twentieth Century Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, Lone Twin weaves the personal with the social, cultural, and political. Richardson shares fascinating, resonant, and humorous stories about her relationships with a suicidal poet, a Swedish fencer, a budding scientist, a Puerto Rican family, a Mafia family, her Russian Jewish and Irish Catholic family, and her famous cousin, Laura Foreman. Her story is at once singular and plural. As Richardson shares her journey towards wholeness and forgiveness, readers are invited to consider their own journeys and ask: Is there something missing in my life? How do I justify my existence? Lone Twin is an exquisitely written book about identity, the search for people who understand us, and the ties that bind. This outstanding example of literary sociology can be used as supplemental reading in a range of courses in American studies, gender studies, social science, child development, and creative writing. 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