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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Procreation"”.
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A critical incidents study : the process of differentiation within the family of procreation
… of parents within their family of procreation. Participants of this study were involved in a parenting workshop which was based upon Bowen's Family System Theory and his concept of differentiation. Using a critical incidents approach, participants completed daily logs of their …
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The Regulation of Medically Assisted Procreation in Europe and Related Nations and the Influence of National Identity, Social Cultural, and Demographic Differences
This study details the Medically Assisted Procreation regulations in thirty-five nation-states, and explores the influence of national identity, social cultural and demographic differences on these regulations. Detailed data were gathered from ministries of health, offices of prime ministers, …
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Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood
… of marriage. Due to its untraditional method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into question the role of procreation within marriage. In Chapter Two, I explore the nature of the marriage relationship by offering Lisa Cahill’s definition of marriage which involves both a spiritual and physical …
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The Proverbial Ticking Biological Clock: A Symbolic TMT Perspective on Mate Perception
… Additionally, participants were asked about procreation preferences. No effects of mortality salience or fertility salience were observed in regard to opposite sex facial perceptions, number of children desired, or preferred age for having a first child. Thus, the current research does not …
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Matter of Life and Death
… proof of existing post mortem. My themes include procreation, forensic science, and religion among others. My imagery includes fragmented bodies, reliquaries, and forensic evidence. I use traditional and non-traditional sculpture materials and processes that are intended to conceptually inform the …
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Containing the Blemmye: Anxiety Towards Congenital Difference in the Old English Wonders of the East
… illuminate early medieval anxieties about sex, procreation, and congenital physical difference by applying a lens of critical disability theory to the Old English <em>Wonders of the East</em>, primarily<em> </em>as it survives in the eleventh-century manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton …
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Appalachian couples' perspectives of their family life: a qualitative analysis
… participants highly valued children, family of procreation, extended family,
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A resource complex for Sandy Neck Beach : an exploration in building on an ever-changing land
… for a resource complex intended to aid in the procreation of a better understanding of the natural processes of the land.
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Salt in the wound : a visual exploration of societal and experiental aspects of female reproduction and abortion
… the sole purpose of heterosexual sex should be procreation and that it should take place within marriage. In essence however, it is the corollary of this ideology that is my particular concern, this being the persistent inclination of western societies to perceive abortion in terms of a feminine …
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Bisexual men's identities: (re)defining what it means to be bi.
… identity, and gender roles, as well as promoting procreation, monosexuality and monogamy. Heteronormative models of sexuality fail to capture the complexity, ambiguity, multiplicity, and fluidity of bisexual experience. Using data collected through interviews with twelve self-identified bisexual …
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"The conceit of this inconstant stay": Shakespeare's Philosophical Conquest of Time Through Personification
<p>Throughout the procreation sonnets and those numerous sonnets that promise immortality through verse for Shakespeare's beloved young man, the poet personifies time as an agent of relentlessly destructive change. Yet Shakespeare's approach to the personification of time, as well as his reactions …
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Constructions of masculinities in Islamic traditions, societies and cultures, with a specific focus on India and Pakistan between the 18th-21st Century
… structures, such as the ‘family’ and ‘procreation’. Through an elaboration of the Qur’ānic concept of Islamic spirituality, piety and submission to none other except God, using the prophet’s lives as examples, it becomes apparent that varieties of masculinities and femininities – …
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Childless Women in the Plays of William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee
… have not been studied together as works about procreation and childlessness. The study's historical focus is the post World War II era during which time the three plays proposed for analysis were written and produced. Commonly called the baby boom era, the postwar years saw a marked increase in …
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Sibling interaction in adulthood
… structure of the siblings' families of procreation; and demographic characteristics of the siblings. Geographic proximity was also examined. The investigation utilized adult respondents over 25 years of age, with living siblings. The sample was drawn from the Roanoke, Virginia, urbanized …
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Diachronic Choice in Ethics
… Chapter 5 explores how views in the ethics of procreation that satisfy two intuitively compelling claims apply to decisions that unfold in a series of choices over time. The first of these claims is the Saving vs Creating Asymmetry: other things equal, we have significantly stronger moral …
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Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada
… associated with family and societal maintenance procreation, socialization, and nurturance as well as paid work in social sectors such as health care, education, childcare, and social services. In the context of Wages for Housework, my dissertation re-examines the movements understandings of …
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The Biblical Design Purpose of Sex Applied to Issues of Personal Sexuality
… for sexuality: consummation of marriage, procreation, unity in marriage, expression of affection, abatement of temptation, and the giving and receiving of mutual pleasure. These purposes are exclusively fulfilled within the covenantal union of one male and one female. By systematically …
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Eugenic Sterilization in 20Th Century Georgia: From Progressive Utilitarianism to Individual Rights
… to divest individuals of the natural right to procreation. Involuntary sterilization legislation spread throughout the United States after the 1927 Buck v. Bell Supreme Court decision that gave judicial approval to involuntary sterilization, regardless of due process and equal protection …
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The Ogbanje in Little Bee by Chris Cleave
… of the ogbanje-abiku render useless the aim of procreation. In the rare case that an ogbanje-abiku reaches adulthood, by prior pre-natal agreement with her spirit brothers and sisters, she often will die suddenly at a major life event- a titling ceremony or marriage celebration, for instance. …
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