Mary McIntosh

The stereotypical nuclear family is in the minority of households, yet remains a powerful ideology. This classic of socialist feminism charts how the family reinforces conditions of inequality, and asks: Why does the family enjoy such popular support, including by feminists and the left? Despite its many problems, The Anti-social Family answers, the family meets real needs. These needs must be taken seriously, and alter-native ways to meet them developed, giving people more choices and collectively taking on the work and responsibilities currently privatised within the family.

All you need to encourage a love and enthusiasm for reading and writing from a young age. Benefit from the experience of key educators across the Caribbean regions who have carefully designed this resource to give your students exactly the right introduction to the Language Arts curriculum.-Ensure a steady transition from Creole to Standard English with an introductory section on language acquisition in the Teacher Guides called Language Strategy. -Cover technicality of grammar, vocabulary and syntax using picture cues and writing as well as reading and reading comprehension. -Offer exposure to many different forms of text with a variety of different text types and genres. -Connect reading and writing with templates, to make sure that students don't fall behind and progress evenly with both. Support for this student book is available from the accompanying Teacher's Guide 9781510414273.

All you need to encourage a love and enthusiasm for reading and writing from a young age. Benefit from the experience of key educators across the Caribbean regions who have carefully designed this resource to give your students exactly the right introduction to the Language Arts curriculum.-Ensure a steady transition from Creole to Standard English with an introductory section on language acquisition in the Teacher Guides called Language Strategy. -Cover technicality of grammar, vocabulary and syntax using picture cues and writing as well as reading and reading comprehension. -Offer exposure to many different forms of text with a variety of different text types and genres. -Connect reading and writing with templates, to make sure that students don't fall behind and progress evenly with both. Support for this student book is available from the accompanying Teacher's Guide 9781510414266.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

Despite much talk of its decline, the nuclear family persists as a structure central to contemporary society, a fact to be lamented, according to the ideas of Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh. The Anti-social Family dissects the network of household, kinship and sexual relations that constitute the family form in advanced capitalist societies to show how they reinforce conditions of inequality. This classic work explores the personal and social needs that the family promises to meet but more often denies, and proposes moral and political practices for more egalitarian caring alternatives.

Mary McIntosh is now 91 years old, yet she writes with all the animation and verve of a twenty year old. In "Much Have I Travell'd" she remembers her many junkets all over the world and the adventures she enjoyed and the wonderful people she met. Try a sample and you'll find you want to read more. And your feet may start itching to get up and go see for yourself some of the wonderful sights Mary relates. You'll also yearn for those times gone by before so many others had made the trips Mary describes. In a slower and more innocent time she explored many cities and lands few Americans had yet visited. It's a wonderful read and a real inspiration to get up and get going This book is also available as an E-book at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Visit their web sites and sample it for free. If you do we know you'll buy one. While there you can also sample and buy "Mary's Diary, A Secret Journal of the 1930s' available in five E-book volumes - one volume for each year from 1935 through 1939. They are fascinating reading. Try one and you'll read them all. As publisher of the non-profit Preservation Foundation I'd like to inviteyou to visit us at http: //www.storyhouse.org and enjoy our WRITERS SHOWCASE dedicated to publishing and "preserving the extraordinary works of 'ordinary' people." While there you can read some of our 1,000 plus stories, find out how to send some of your own for us to publish on line or as an E-book or paperback, or even enter one of your own stories in our annual General Nonfiction or Travel Nonfiction contests for previously commercially unpublished writers. And, by theway, if you enjoyed this book you will find more of Mary McIntosh's stories there as well. You are invited to join us. I hope to hear fromyou soon. Richard LollerThe Preservation Foundation, [email protected]: //www.storyhouse.org615 889-2968

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.