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American Circumstance

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This is a novel about appearance versus reality – how our lives and relationships appear to others versus how they are experienced, and the complex ways that social class shapes identity, relationships, and the codes of friendship. American Circumstance also provides a window into the replication of wealth, power, and privilege. The novel can be used as supplemental reading in courses across the disciplines that deal with gender, social class, inequality, power, family systems, relational communication, intimate relationships, identity, American culture, narrative or creative writing. It can also be read in book clubs or entirely for pleasure.


“American Circumstance is wonderful! The characters and story invite you into a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar. Highly recommended!!” – Carl Leggo, Ph.D., University of British Columbia


“American Circumstance kept me up! I wanted to see how the characters’ lives untangled. I loved how Leavy challenged my cultural assumptions. Students will have a lot to talk about as they discover the 'sociology of everyday life' embedded in the fiction.” – Laurel Richardson, Ph.D., The Ohio State University


“The characters were so compelling that I couldn’t stop reading … a great beach read, or class text.” – U. Melissa Anyiwo, Ph.D., Curry College


“Leavy writes in an engaging way that helps you ask important questions about class issues in America. This story keeps you interested and wondering why women make the choices they do.” – Margaret A. Robbins, The Journal of Language & Literacy Education


“American Circumstance is one of my favorite texts to assign to my sociology students.” – Cheryl Llewellyn, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Series Title

Social Fictions Series

Call Number

370 LEA a

Publisher

Rotterdam : SensePublishers Rotterdam., 2016

Collation

XXII, 166

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-94-6300-576-0

Classification

370

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

Ed. 1

Subject(s)

Education

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Statement of Responsibility

Patricia Leavy

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Cataloger

umi

Source

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-94-6300-576-0.pdf?pdf=button

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