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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"HQ The family. Marriage. Woman"”.
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Attachment and exceptional experiences among twins
The attachment between twins has for many years been known to be very strong, but has so far not been very much researched, and since it seems to relate to another under researched area, the deep empathic experiences reported by twins, generally called twin telepathy (including remote sensitivity …
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Maltese parents’ role as sexuality and relationships educators
This research study explored the parental perceptions, attitudes and knowledge regarding sexuality and relationships in Malta. A range of barriers and enhancing processes involved were addressed in order to understand the complex dynamics involved in the educative process within the family nucleus. …
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“Give my baby everything I didn’t have”: a study of young men’s experiences of fatherhood
The subject of young fatherhood has not been widely addressed in academic research, and until recently most studies on young parenthood have concentrated mainly on teenage mothers. This thesis explores how men who became fathers at a young age narrate their experiences of fathering and their …
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Socio-historical perspectives on young fatherhood: exploration of social change on the Isle of Sheppey
The academic field of young parenthood has seen a significant increase in interest, both academic and political, in recent years. This increased interest is related to the view that young parents are “outside” normative discourses. Nevertheless, the experiences of young fatherhood have been …
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Recent changes in family structure and fertility in Jordan
This study seeks to make a contribution to the field of population studies by throwing some light on the explanation of fertility change in developing countries. It hopes to do this by investigating the role of the family and its structure in explaining fertility attitudes and behaviour in Jordan. …
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University women: origins experiences and destinations at Glasgow University 1939-1987
Abstract available: p.2-3
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A suitable match: Love and marriage amongst middle class Gujaratis in India and the UK
The thesis is an ethnographic study exploring understandings of love and intimacy amongst young middle class Indians of Gujarati origin living in the UK and India. It is based primarily upon repeat in-depth interviews, and participant observation. A two site comparative study was used to enable an …
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Diet in transition : the effect of leaving home on the diet and nutritional status of young adults
Dietary habits change over the life-course and might be profoundly affected by changes in lifestyle. The transition from living as a dependent in the family home to independent living is a crucial stage in most young people's lives, and the initial diet and lifestyle choices adopted following …
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Pain, childhood, and the emotions: a cultural history c. 1870-1950
This thesis is a study of pain in childhood in British medical and scientific discourse between 1870 and 1950. It explores the physical, emotional, and performative dimensions of pain from a cultural perspective, analysing written documents and visual material and comparing the perspectives of …
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'Family matters': ideas about the family in British culture 1945-1970
There is an idea, currently fashionable amongst historians, that all history is really 'about' the present 1. This thesis does nothing to undermine this idea. Although most obviously concerned with ideas about the family in the twenty five or so years after 1945, it is also very much concerned with …
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The development of political concepts in children between the ages of seven and eleven years
The aim of the study is to explore the hypothesis that children, between the ages of seven and eleven, not only have concepts of politics, but that these develop, following a basic Piagetian model, through consecutive, cumulative stages. Investigation of this idea is carried out by examining …
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The pornographical: a mimetic ethics of bodies
This thesis is situated across the fields of contemporary political philosophy, critical theory and feminist/gender studies. It argues that the notion of an ‘ana-aesthetic’ is required in order to provide a fuller sense of the conceptual nuances regarding pornography. The ‘ana-aesthetic’ is …
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Critical times: a critical realist approach to understanding services for looked after children and young people
The PhD submission centres primarily on the book Testing the Limits of Foster Care, which reports on a piece of applied social work research, and the paper Critical Times: a critical realist approach to understanding services for looked after children which examines key theoretical issues relevant …
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Fathers as co-parents: how non-resident fathers construe family situations after divorce or separation
A model of the co-parental role based on personal construct theory is described, with inter-parental conflict explained in terms of the constructivist concept of hostility. Four unstructured group interviews, on the theme of the experience of separated parenthood, were conducted with separated …
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Attitudes towards family and marriage in time and context: using two British birth cohorts for comparison
With dramatic changes in family-related behaviours in the past 50 years, there has been an increasing awareness and acceptance of different family arrangements. Subsequently, measuring and studying people’s attitudes towards issues such as commitment to marriage, acceptance of alternative family …
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Uncertainties in gender violence epidemiology
This thesis contains 11 papers published in peer reviewed journals between 2006 and 2012. The papers focused on gender violence research methods, the prevalence of risk factors for gender violence, and its association with HIV and maternal morbidity. The accompanying commentary addresses three …
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A gendered musicological study of the work of four leading female singer-songwriters: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, and Tori Amos
This thesis investigates the role of gender in popular music, exploring the possibility of a feminine mode of writing. It focuses on the work of four leading female singer-songwriters, namely Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Tori Amos, whose songs are analyzed as textual entities. Building …
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Women who sexually offend against children; the role of care and compassion in their experiences and their treatment
The thesis contains two papers concerned with women who sexually offend against children. The first document is a theoretical review of the literature considering whether a therapeutic approach, Compassionate Mind Training (CMT), could be successfully applied to females who sexually offend against …
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First hand accounts of adults with asperger's syndrome: an exploration into their experiences of being parented during childhood and adolescence
Background This study retrospectively explores the experiences of individuals with Asperger’s syndrome (AS) of being parented during childhood and adolescence. Although there is extensive research examining experiences of parents in bringing up a child with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), …
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