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Holding and letting go : the social practice of personal identities /

This text explores the social practice of holding each other in our identities, beginning with pregnancy and on through the life span. Lindemann argues that our identities give us our sense of how to act and how to treat others, and that the ways in which we we hold each other in them is of crucial...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindemann, Hilde
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What child is this? The practice of personhood
  • Architect and the bee: calling the fetus into personhood
  • Second persons: the work of identity formation
  • Ordinary identity-work: how we usually go on
  • Struggling to catch up: challenges to identity-work
  • What and when to let go: identities at the end of life
  • What does it all mean?