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Social change and adaptation to widowhood.
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1989 .E545. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1989.
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Household task performance continuity during widowhood
Widowhood is an experience that typically brings about many changes in the lives of surviving spouses, and the resources available for coping may be limited, particularly for elderly persons. Specific variables which influence the ability of men and women to cope with the changes brought about by …
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Lifting the Veil off Widowhood: Portraits of Transformation
… unique and universal and no two journeys through widowhood are exactly the same. Life is a narrative in which marriage, for the 13 participants in this study, has been a major part of their conversations. The death of their spouses represented punctuation marks in their lives, leaving them with …
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Widowhood in a Rural Environment: Adaptation as Role Modification
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Sympathetic Observations: Widowhood, Spectatorship, and Sympathy in the Fiction of Henry James
This thesis explores the roles of widowhood and sympathy in Henry James's short and long fiction. By the time James established himself as a writer of fiction, the culture of sentiment and its formation of sympathetic identification had become central to American and British writers. Critically, …
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Risk and resilience: Ghanaian (Akan) widows and property rights
… investigated Akan widows’ lived experiences of widowhood, widowhood rites, violations against their property rights and the protective resources they employ to survive. The dissertation also explored how the widows make meaning out of their experiences. Twenty widows were selected. They ranged …
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Loneliness among widowed persons in later life
… adjust to dramatic situational changes such as widowhood by defining the transition according to its symbolic meaning and their current perspective of the event. The loneliness model suggested that certain background characteristics, personality resources (morale and mastery), and perceived …
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Roesia De Verdun, Thirteenth Century Femme Sole
… noblewoman whose strategic marriages, assertive widowhood, and material patronage illuminate the complex roles available to medieval women navigating power and identity. Divided into three parts, the study begins with Roesia’s dynastic positioning through marriage and motherhood, highlighting how …
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Causes and consequences of pair-bond disruption in socially monogamous species
… impacts of pairbond disruption (divorce or widowhood). This dissertation investigates the effect of global changes and individual heterogeneity on pair-bond disruption (divorce or widowhood) and their consequences for vital rates and life-history outcomes for socially monogamous species. In …
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The Figure of the Widow in the Hebrew Bible
… to the association in the Hebrew Bible between widowhood, sexuality and death. We begin with an exploration of the presentation of widowhood in Genesis 38 and the book of Ruth, arguing that both texts associate widowhood with sexuality and death. Subsequently, the final chapter of the thesis …
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Causes and consequences of pair-bond disruption in socially monogamous species
… impacts of pair-bond disruption (divorce or widowhood). This dissertation investigates the effect of global changes and individual heterogeneity on pair-bond disruption (divorce or widowhood) and their consequences for vital rates and life-history outcomes for socially monogamous species. In …
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Love, life and the family in the Ulster Presbyterian community, 1780-1844
… and Young children, Youth and adolescence, and Widowhood.
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Three essays in applied microeconomics
… I assess the relationship between entering widowhood and one's financial status for elderly Americans. The results show that entering widowhood is negatively correlated with one's household income, wealth, and mental health, especially for women. More specifically, becoming a widow is …
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“I Was Their Worst Nightmare”: The Narrative Experience of Military Widows
… to explain how widows identify and make sense of widowhood and bereavement: (1) Shifting Identities, (2) Social Support, (3) Fractured Bereavement, and (4) (Un)Structuring Military Loss.
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The role of leisure in the bereavement process of later-life widows
… be widowed. For the majority of married women, widowhood will occur before the age of 64 and last about 20 years. Little, however, is known about the role of leisure in the transition from wife to widow, or the role of leisure in the adjustment to bereavement. The purpose of this study, …
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"When God Takes Away": Gendered Death Customs in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
… death notices, and the responsibilities of widowhood briefly brought women into the public realm.
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Gender and the Subjective Well-being of Widowed Elders
… that aging women have unique experiences in widowhood, which are different from those of aging men because of gender inequality. This study explored the 2014 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to discover whether gender influences the factors that affect subjective well-being of elderly widows …
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