This new collection of vintage-with-a-twist work by Anne Taintor offers up a fresh serving of Anne's signature hilarious commentary on the joys, challenges, and cocktail hours of motherhood. From the fundamentals (WOW! I get to give birth AND change diapers!because I'm the mothe…
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"This diverse collection explores the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies that propose "to put women and children first," including homeland security, school violence, gun control, medical intervention of intersex infants, and policies that aim to distinguish "good" from…
Moederschap afgebeeld in literaire genres en films, als witte, middenklasse moeders.
From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts chang…
"From 19th-century novels to films in the 1990s, American culture abounds with the images of white, middle-class mothers. Kaplan looks at how they appear in the psychoanalytic, historical and cultural spheres."--Provided by publisher.
Research indicates that workplace incivility affects the higher education workplace and has been shown to reduce job satisfaction. Existing literature on these two variables focuses heavily on academic faculty, failing to investigate this trend for student affairs staff members.…
‘‘Menopause . . . is the quintessential biopsychosocial experience. It is both crisis and opportunity”. McQuaide (1996:132) This study explores how women in contemporary Ireland understand, experience, and negotiate menopause. The research examines how the Midlife Women Rock Caf…
Research has shown that South Asian parents have unique cultural experiences while raising a child with ASD. This study explores South Asian mothers’ experiences of raising a child with ASD in an intergenerational family. Additionally, it examines the impacts of the grandparent’…
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to gain a deeper understanding of the lived experience of low-income single mothers rising from the grips of poverty in Wilmington, DE. Over the past few decades, due to the increase in divorce rate and single mothers caring for childre…
Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) has afflicted all of Israel's different communities–secular and orthodox Jews, Arabs, and other minorities living there. A large-scale study found that 17.7% of Jewish girls and boys (6th, 8th and 10th grade students -age range 12-17) in secular and reli…
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of doctoral student mothers pursuing doctorates in higher education as well as the meanings ascribed to the doctorate. This study was guided by Rich’s (1976) notion of motherhood as experience and as institution held in te…
This dissertation seeks to understand the role of women as political actors in the rise of Islamo-nationalist movement in Palestine. Using a historical and ethnographic approach, it examines the changing opportunity structures available to Palestinian women in the nationalist st…
This dissertation uses Positive Deviance (PD) to understand child marriage by abduction in a community in the Sidama Zone of Ethiopia. Marriage by abduction occurs among the poorest 10% of the Sidama population and entails the kidnapping of girls between the ages of 10 and 14 fo…
The Muslim American population is progressively growing and is the second largest religion in the United States. Muslim Americans have also experienced an increase in racial and religious victimization post 9/11 (Elver, 2012). With the rate of growth in this population and ongoi…
Mother Utters: Struggle and Subversion in the works of Gwendolyn Brooks explores how Brooks uses women's speech and traditional classical poetic forms to struggle with and subvert the predominant social, moral, and political systems which impede class mobility and impress Africa…