Headlong he runs into Circe's snares: Representation and the Restoration Royal Mistress is an interdisciplinary study of the Restoration royal mistress. During the Restoration and for generations thereafter, the mistresses of Charles II (reigned 1660-1685) came to symbolize the …
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This dissertation, based on extensive oral data as well as archival documents gathered in Nigeria, France and Ireland, examines the interactions between local women and the Roman Catholic mission in Onitsha, Nigeria, from the founding of the mission in 1885 to 1964. It traces tr…
Social egg freezing is a fertility preservation strategy which enables women to preserve a number of healthy unfertilised eggs for potential future use when faced with the threat of age-related fertility decline. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore how women understand…
Over the last three decades, the impact of dramatic change in the social, religious, political and economic environment has led to a rapid expansion in the number of women entering the paid labour force in Sri Lanka as elsewhere. However, their identities and workload continue t…
This project investigates the development of mature student mothers’ identities in the dual contexts of constructions of the women’s at-home study practices and of their ‘responsibilities’ for their children’s development. Interviews were conducted with 23 women – all ‘new unive…
Professional career women often find themselves caught in a dialectic ideological tension between fulfilling the demands of full-time motherhood and the expectations associated with their professional career. The stories of 10 middle-class, stay-at-home mothers from Singapore wh…
This thesis examines narrative constructions of motherhood in popular children’s novels published in the U.K. between 1945 and 1960. The interrogation considers family fictions intended for readers of nine years onwards, alongside narratives of development aimed at a female teen…
My thesis explores the experiences of women who suffered from mental disorder related to childbirth and pregnancy, looking in particular at Dundee, Fife and Forfarshire in the north-east of Scotland, during the period 1820 to 1930. This study offers a new perspective on women's …
Researchers have investigated the impact of women's work on parenting; however, scant research has been conducted to investigate the impact of motherhood on women's professional lives. Counselor educators who are mothers combine the gendered expectations for motherhood with the …
Mexican women writers of all social classes were actively involved in the Mexican Revolution. They hid prisoners, smuggled arms, and participated in fund-raising activities. Also, they founded, funded, and staffed newspapers and other means of written expression in support of th…
This dissertation examines motherhood as a discursive practice that has influenced American women's relationship to processes of militarization, albeit in different ways and to different effect across bodies and even differentially within the same bodies across time. There are t…
How do the simultaneously cognitive and emotional tasks of mothering and the creation of meaning shape the host-country adaptation of immigrants? How does migration affect mothering? Through in-depth interviewing of ten 1.5-generation, Baha'i and Muslim Iranian-American immigran…
Liberal feminism views vulnerability as weakness and dominance as strength. This binary parallels nationalistic assertions of sovereignty. Within militaristic responses such as the U.S. retaliation to 9/11, however, we see the cost of refusing to acknowledge our vulnerability. I…
This collection of poetry challenges the conventional, body-centred definition of motherhood, which subtly privileges women who have undergone the actual, physical process of birthing a child, and marginalizes those who cannot fulfill the biological requirements. It is the story…
Material Instincts: Ruminations on Motherhood and Craft, is an MFA Thesis Project that focuses on the liminal and subjective experiences of motherhood through a direct engagement with tactile materials and forms. This project includes three distinct works that utilize various in…
This dissertation ethnographically explores the lived experiences of Tibetan women in Jackson Heights, New York City. I explore these lives through gendered readings of the literature on Tibetan Studies, diaspora, food studies, memory and reproduction. Reflecting on the long his…
This dissertation elucidates how motherhood functions as a site for both women’s agency and as a barrier to women’s solidarity within patriarchal culture. This research demonstrates that motherhood—as a set of discourses and practices—provides a mechanism for maintaining cultura…