A partire dagli anni Settanta, il dibattito femminista ha posto il lavoro domestico al centro dell'analisi della subordinazione delle donne e della loro liberazione. In questo testo, Gisela Bock e Barbara Duden ne tracciano l'origine per mostrarne i legami con lo sviluppo industriale: il lavoro domestico come lavoro non pagato della casalinga non è quanto di più antico caratterizza la subordinazione femminile, né un relitto di un'epoca precedente in procinto di essere abbandonato, ma una forma specifica di sfruttamento connessa ai processi di valorizzazione del capitale, che vede i suoi inizi tra il xvii e il xviii secolo per poi svilupparsi negli anni successivi alla rivoluzione industriale. In questo periodo, tutto ciò che lo caratterizza sembra cambiato, compreso l'atteggiamento nei suoi confronti, il suo significato socio-economico, la sua relazione con l'ambiente sociale e naturale. Con gli strumenti dell'analisi storica, il saggio indica come sia definitivamente necessario abbandonare l'immagine della donna lavoratrice costruita esclusivamente intorno al lavoro salariato e vedere in modo nuovo ciò che le donne sono chiamate a fare 'per amore' dei propri famigliari: il lavoro domestico gratuito è lavoro e lo si vede bene dal fatto che nasce insieme al lavoro salariato, quale suo pendant nella dimensione della riproduzione.

Panama has become Central America's hottest destination. Looking beyond the country's famous, century-old canal, an increasing number of travelers are discovering Panama's vast jungles, remote islands, and rain forests filled with exotic birds. Panama City is the exciting, rapidly developing, hub--a vibrant metropolis with a colonial heart and excellent dining, lodging, and nightlife options, as well as an abundance of easy day-trip opportunities.

Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley of the Inca, and the Nazca lines are
among the most-visited and awe-inspiring archaeological sites in the
world. Bursting with beautiful full-color photos, Fodor's Peru provides
expert insider advice on everything from the best guides to the Inca Trail
to how to experience native cultures on Lake Titicaca.
EXPANDED COVERAGE: Focused coverage on Peru's essential, must-see destinations
includes new restaurants and hotels. A new "Need to Know" feature offers travelers top-line
planning information about the country as a whole.
ILLUSTRATED FEATURES: The guide offers beautifully illustrated, in-depth coverage of Machu
Picchu and the Inca Trail and the Nazca Lines with maps, history, and practical tips. Peru's
history is revealed in a photograph-rich timeline that illuminates the ancient sites. Coverage of
the Amazon jungle and the Cordillera Blanca helps adventurous visitors experience the
outdoors as well. A feature on Peruvian food not only steers travelers to the best meal but also
lets them know just what's on the plate.
INDISPENSABLE TRIP PLANNING TOOLS: Features such as "Top Attractions," "Great
Itineraries," packing advice, and frequently asked questions make planning simple. Extensive
information on trusted tour operators allows travelers to book with confidence. Convenient
overviews present each region and its highlights, and chapter planning sections have good
advice for making the most of your time and getting around by car, bus, and train.
DISCERNING RECOMMENDATIONS: Fodor's Peru offers savvy advice and recommendations
from expert writers to help travelers make the most of their time. Fodor's Choice designates our
best picks, from hotels to nightlife.
INCLUDES: Machu Picchu, Inca Trail, Cusco, Sacred Valley, Lake Titicaca, Lima, Nazca,
Amazon, Cordillera Blanca, and more.
ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's travel guide is researched and written by local
experts and veteran travelers to Peru.

Dramatic shifts in our communication landscape have made it crucial for language teaching to go beyond print literacy and encompass the digital literacies which are increasingly central to learners' personal, social, educational and professional lives. By situating these digital literacies within a clear theoretical framework, this book provides educators and students alike with not just the background for a deeper understanding of these key 21st-century skills, but also the rationale for integrating these skills into classroom practice. This is the first methodology book to address not just why but also how to teach digital literacies in the English language classroom. This book provides:

• A theoretical framework through which to categorise and prioritise digital literacies
• Practical classroom activities to help learners and teachers develop digital literacies in tandem with key language skills
• A thorough analysis of the pedagogical implications of developing digital literacies in teaching practice
• A consideration of exactly how to integrate digital literacies into the English language syllabus
• Suggestions for teachers on how to continue their own professional development through PLNs (Personal Learning Networks), and how to access teacher development opportunities online

This book is ideal for English language teachers and learners of all age groups and levels, academics and students researching digital literacies, and anyone looking to expand their understanding of digital literacies within a teaching framework.

Do you know a bit of English, and want to improve without a teacher? Whether you're a student, a traveller, or you just want to learn basic English, this plain-speaking guide will help you pick up the essentials so you'll be understanding and speaking English in no time. Improve your grammar, speech, vocabulary and pronunciation at your own pace, and prepare yourself to get around in any English-speaking country comfortably - and without embarrassment!

Learning English as a Foreign Language For Dummies includes:

Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: You Already Know a Little English
Chapter 2: Basic English Grammar
Chapter 3: Greetings and Introductions  

Part II: English in Action
Chapter 4: Shopping and Numbers
Chapter 5: Eating Out
Chapter 6: Out on the Town
Chapter 7: Hobbies and Free Time
Chapter 8: Talking on the Phone
Chapter 9: At the Office and Around the House
Chapter 10: Written English - Newspapers and Signs

Part III: English on the Go
Chapter 11: Money
Chapter 12: Checking into a Hotel
Chapter 13: Asking Directions and Getting Around
Chapter 14: Handling Emergencies   

Part IV: The Part of Tens
Chapter 15: Ten Ways to Speak English Quickly
Chapter 16: Ten Favourite English Expressions
Chapter 17: Ten Holidays to Remember
Chapter 18: Ten Phrases That Make You Sound Fluent in English

Part V: Appendices 
Appendix A: Phrasal verbs explained
Appendix B: Common Verbs  [Agree, Can / be able, Come, Do, Go, Have, Make , Need, Put, Think] English Irregular Verbs
Appendix C: On the CD

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

This new edition offers clear guidance on the practicalities of the Internet as a resource and classroom tool and a range of practical activities grouped by themes and levels.

Looks at the life of Betsy Ross from her Quaker childhood to her role in the Revolutionary War and her days as an independent businesswoman, examining the legend of the Besty Ross Flag and explaining the importance of its legacy today.

In this provocative study, Barbara Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies--male and female, healthy or sick--are indeed cultural constructions. To illustrate this, Duden delves into the records of an eighteenth-century German physician who meticulously documented the medical histories of eighteen hundred women of all ages and backgrounds, often in their own words.

In earlier times, a woman knew she was pregnant when she experienced 'quickening'--she felt movement within her. Today a woman relies on what she sees in a test result or a digital sonogram image to confirm her pregnancy. A private experience once mediated by women themselves has become a public experience interpreted and controlled by medical professionals. In Disembodying Women Barbara Duden takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation of women's experience of pregnancy. She suggests that advances in technology and parallel changes in public discourse have refrained pregnancy as a managed process, the mother as an ecosystem, and the fetus as an endangered species.

Drawing on extensive historical research, Duden traces the graphic techniques-from anatomists' drawings to woodcuts to X rays and ultrasound-used to 'flay' the female body and turn it inside out. Emphasizing the iconic power of the visual within twentieth-century culture, Duden follows the process by which the pregnant woman's flesh has been peeled away to uncover scientific data. Lennart Nilsson's now famous photographs of the embryo published in Life magazine in the mid-1960s stand in stark contrast to representations of the invisible unborn in medieval iconography or sixteenth-century painting. Illumination has given way to illustration, ideogram to facsimile, the contemplative intuition of the body to a scientific analysis of its component parts.

New ways of seeing the body produce new ways of experiencing the body. Because technology allows us to penetrate that once secret enclosure of the womb, the image of the fetus, exposed to public gaze, has eclipsed that of woman in the public mind. Society, anxious about the health of the global environment, has focused on protecting 'life' in the maternal ecosystem, in effect, pitting fetus against mother.

Duden's reading of the body lends a unique historical and philosophical perspective to contemporary debate over fetal rights, reproductive technologies, abortion, and the right to privacy. This provocative work should reinvigorate that debate by calling into question contemporary certainties and the policies and programs they serve to justify.