Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poetry, Life on Mars , has been celebrated and analyzed as an elegy to Smith's father by many reviewers and scholars. And while this reading is valid and has been openly endorsed by Smith herself, our understanding of this co…
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It has been widely believed that modernity is a byproduct of a nuclear family system, a highly urbanized society, and a secular way of life. As such, developing countries are characterized as modern insofar as their social and cultural structures are able to correspond to these …
Aci Tatli Yiyoruz explores transformations in gender, kin relationships and marriage in a Turkish village over a forty year period and argues that there is a connection between economic and social change, which is mediated by a local-level politicization of ideas of tradition an…
Gender differences exist in families in all societies and cultures, but expectations are often different from one society/culture to another. Children's gender and its implications for family behavior have recently received a great deal of scholarly attention, especially in west…
Over the last 40 years, the Canadian psychiatrist and family therapist Karl Tomm has been a key contributor to postmodern developments in family therapy (Collins & Tomm, 2009; Strong et al., 2008; Tomm, Hoyt, & Madigan, 2001). This dissertation traces the people, ideas, …
This dissertation examines material, embodied, disciplinary regimes of person shaping in Tuscan, civic-religious institutions circa 1570-1650. In particular, I analyze how three homes for abandoned children, Florence’s Innocenti and Santa Maria e San Niccolò del Ceppo and Prato’…