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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Nurturer"”.
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From the Master’s Maternity to Redemptive Nurturing: Liberating Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s <em>Beloved</em> and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
… fully assume the liberated role of redemptive nurturer. Ultimately, I find that, regardless of their protagonist’s status as nurturer, Morrison and Jemisin both suggest that whatever process dismantling the master’s house requires, its completion will be signified by a recasting of the concept …
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"both nourished at my grandmother's breast": Eating, Feeding, and the Subverted Female Ideal in Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
… domestic ideal which promoted a woman’s role as nurturer and nourisher. The main female characters in the text, particularly Mrs. Flint, Aunt Martha, and Linda Brent, highlight the distorted nature of womanhood in the context of slavery and point to the subversion and perversion of the …
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Engendering familial citizens: Serial-viewing among middle-class women in urban India
… and places women at the centre of the family as nurturer and custodian of traditional values. This return to the traditional, the thesis proposes, marks a new conjunctural moment in the evolution of Indian television. This new conjunctural moment, characterized by competitive attempts among …
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Vintner's House; A Residence and Vineyard in Davenport, CA
… s house; for the cultivator, the grower, and the nurturer of the vines. The vineyard is set on terraces down a hill to give grapes the sunlight and drainage they desire. These south facing terraces allow the vines to receive full sunlight throughout the growing season. Drainage through the …
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The Lived Experience of Fathers with Advanced Cancer
… as a disciplinarian and breadwinner instead of a nurturer. Fast-forward to modern day society, their role has evolved into a more involved parent that is necessary for their child’s development and well-being. The literature has also evolved and in recent years, this population has been gaining …
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Connecting self, body and world: a counselling psychology perspective
… of the overall experience, specifically: being a nurturer and protector in relation to their child; experiencing a unique bond to their child both emotionally and biologically; and navigating complexity of varying motherhood ‘pulls’, both logistical and psychological. This research study provides …
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Yaku Cosmo-Infrastructures : Designing with Water Across the Andes
… visiting ancestral places, learning from Water nurturers, and participating in the water festival in the South of Peru allowed me to reconnect with my family knowledge. Marcela Machaca, a “Water Nurturer”, taught me that the Andean cosmology considers Yaku (Water in Qechua) to be a person. Yaku …
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The Intersecting Perspective: African American Female Experiences with Faculty Mentoring in Undergraduate Engineering
… Guide, Proactive Supporter, Reactive Listener, Nurturer, Just in Time, Caring, and Role Model. Variation across these mentoring categories were reflected in the mentoring aspects that participants perceived. This set of interpersonal (listen, invested, and shared experience) and professional …
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Family Contributions to the Work Readiness of Youth with Learning Disabilities
… roles included provider, teacher, facilitator, nurturer, communicator, and preparer. Participants reflected on the process of preparing youth with learning disabilities for work, determined what they would do differently, and offered advise on work-readiness skill development to other families …
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Mother what art thou? : a study of the depiction of mother figures in recent Australian and New Zealand fiction for teenagers
… it addresses categories such as, mother as nurturer, as sexual being and, importantly, the dichotomy of the “good/bad" mother. Within western discourses of maternity, this latter category is still used as a model by which to label women who mother. This study considers the stability of this …
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Managing Susceptibility to Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
… could maintain their identity as mother and nurturer. The study's findings support other research in genetic testing and risk management and have important implications for health policy, nursing practice, and future research.
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An investigation into how first generation Nigerian mothers living in the UK experience postnatal depression: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… and adjusting to a different culture), Neglected Nurturer (this discusses the experiences of treatment) and Loneliness and Coping (this refers to lack of support and explores how PND was managed). Conclusions: The study suggests that the FGNMs encountered difficulties with their diagnosis, …
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The influence of physical attractiveness and gender on perceived competence of sportscasters
… while the gender roles for a woman include nurturer, femininity, and attractiveness (Deaux & Major, 1 987). By contrast, sports broadcasters are expected to be knowledgeable, assertive, and competent. Research suggests that female sports broadcasters are seen as less competent and less …
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Early childhood development practitioner’s experience of the occupation of nurturing with children from birth to five years: a descriptive qualitative study
… practitioners in fulfilling their occupation as nurturer. To describe practitioner’s understanding of how their behaviour influenced the learning environment in how children learn. The Methodology Application of the qualitative approach utilized the descriptive tradition of inquiry which captured …
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Indoda iyanyamezela (a man perseveres): Exploring the perceptions, experiences and the psycho-social challenges of Xhosa young men in the Western Cape who have transitioned from adolescence to manhood without present or involved fathers
… the roles of disciplinarian, provider and the nurturer. Even though social fathers and strong maternal kin support could help Xhosa young men to cope better, the void of the biological father remains unfilled, especially around the period of initiation due to the emotional, cultural and …
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A healing approach to teaching : a case study
Healing in education is both an ancient and an emerging idea. Approaching students as whole beings with a need for balance and health of their mental, emotional, spiritual and physical selves is not a common teaching practice in North American educational systems, but one which has had some success …
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Challenging a One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Treating Child Trauma Through the Development and Dissemination of TraumaPlay™: An Integrative Play Therapy Model for Traumatized Children and Their Caregivers
This thesis examines three interrelated projects and provides a critical reflection on the development and dissemination of TraumaPlay™, a flexibly sequential play therapy model for treating traumatized children and their caregivers. The first project explores TraumaPlay’s development through …