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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Mother/daughter relationships"”.
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Side By Side: Reinventing Mother/Daughter Relationships
Beginning with mother/daughter film classics such as Stella Dallas (1937) and Mildred Pierce (1945), and moving to consider recent mother/daughter texts, Anywhere But Here (1999) and "Gilmore Girls" (2000 -), this thesis, in both its written and visual components, examines the multiple and often …
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Matrilineaology: Mother-daughter relationships in contemporary fiction
… attempt to answer questions such as, "How do a mother's experiences prior to the birth of her daughter affect the way that she raises that daughter?" and "How does a mother's history affect her attitude(s) toward her daughter?" These questions are important because they lay the groundwork for …
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Perceptions of Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Art of Adult Incest Survivors
The notion of the collusive mother is pervasive in the psychological literature on incest. This notion has been further examined in this thesis which entails a critical study of the literature supporting the idea of the colluding mother in incestuous families. In addition, a field study was …
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Studying the Hyphen: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Selected Works by Amy Tan
… is best exemplified using the theme of mother-daughter relations. Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club explores the relationships between four generations of women: the grandmothers, the mothers, the daughters and the grand-daughters. Each generation considers Chinese-American life …
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Nopalitos Mean Something: Communicating Identity in Mother-Daughter Relationships through Food and Recipe
… highlight the unique role of food and recipes in relationships among women—specifically within mother-daughter relationships. The text highlights how food and recipes can become emotionally entwined in our life stories and in our relationships. Using cluster analysis, the analytical research of …
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The mother of all dissatisfaction: Consequences of mother-daughter relationships on body dissatisfaction
… investigation further extrapolated how the mother-daughter dyad informs the internalization or deconstruction of sociocultural beliefs and attitudes crucial for body dissatisfaction maintenance. This mixed methods study utilized two separate samples of women during respective quantitative …
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Between generations: the construction of mother-daughter relationships in the work of black women playwrights in Britain
… often articulated through the depiction of mother-daughter relationships, which are dramatized in the work of contemporary Black British female playwrights such as Winsome Pinnock, Trish Cooke, Paulette Randall, Maya Chowdry, J. B. Rose, Tanika Gupta, Rukhsana Ahmad, Jackie Kay, Grace …
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Latino Family Involvement: An Exploratory Study of Latina Mother-Daughter Relationships and Their Effects on Educational Attainment and Resiliency
… to examine Latino family involvement and the relationships and communication patterns between Latina mothers and daughters. The Latina mother-daughter relationship was studied in an effort to gain a better understanding of how this relationship affects a Latina daughter's educational …
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Audience Engagement with Mother-Daughter Relationships in Prime-Time Television of the 21st Century: A Qualitative Analysis of Interpretation, Sensemaking, and Perceived Effects
… audience engagement with fictional portrayals of mother-daughter relationships in prime-time television of the 21st century. I used in-depth interviews with women of different backgrounds to explore how real mothers and daughters interpret portrayals of mother-daughter relationships on television; …
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The Mother-Daughter Dyad as Modernized Archetypal Mythology in The Last House On The Left and Carrie
… the feeling function, the dual nature of the mother archetype, and specifically, its constellation as the negative mother complex of the daughter. It examines the mother-daughter relationship as female-specific and a unique psychological experience, asserting how the sexual likeness to her …
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I don't want to be here
… that explores questions of consent, ethics, mother-daughter relationships, and community through the lens of the Oak School when it becomes involved in a Me Too scandal. Helen Mathews, a teacher and administrator at Oak and one of the novel's protagonists, is accused of failing to act on …
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Loon : a novel
Loon is a novel that investigates familial relationships within a framework of biblical parallels. Like many seventeen-year-olds, the narrator questions her identity and her role within society--which in this instance have been shaped by her mother's insistence that she is the Second Coming. Her …
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Star Eater: A Novel
… justice. It explores the burdens and stresses of mother-daughter relationships against a background of political intrigue and environmental crisis. It is also, fundamentally, a novel about friendship.
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The mother's voice: a folkloric analysis of Amy Tan's the joy luck club
… universality of the conflicts found within the mother-daughter relationships that she explores. Tan's superb narrative ability becomes apparent as she poignantly illustrates the relational dynamics occurring within four Chinese immigrant families. She uses personal narrative, vivid imagery, …
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Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir
… ineffectual or absent father and a strong-willed mother, fashion autonomous Lacanian 'I's for themselves out of relationships with their mothers that more closely resemble the adversarial relationship Freud posited between fathers and sons than they do the communal and less autonomy-engendering …
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Sins of the Mother: When the Crazy Just Won't Let Go
… Seeing a pattern emerging, I chose to make my mother, Mary, the focus of the collection by narrowing in on her troubled relationship with her own mother and how the ramifications of that tension deeply affect our relationship today. By working closely with my mother, I was able to gain very …
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Stage(d) mothers: mother-daughter tropes in Twentieth-Century American drama
The relationship between mother and daughter is an important one for many women. In learning how to best become a successful member of society, daughters look to their mothers to demonstrate the behaviors and beliefs appropriate to a female. Such explicit and implicit instruction makes the …
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Lesbians and Their Mothers: A Taiwanese Experience
… studies have also addressed how their familial relationships have been shaped because of the experience. As a Taiwanese who has studied family therapy in the United States, my personal experience as well as research and professional interest brought me to conduct this qualitative study focusing …
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