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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"matriarch"”.
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Effect of Matriarchs on Group Interactions, Kinship Fitness, and Differences In Chemosensory Behavior of African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana)
… of related females and the oldest female is the matriarch. Related family groups that frequently fuse are termed kinship groups, led by the grand matriarch. I examined matriarch communication behavior across social context and their role in interactions between families at waterholes in Addo …
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Spilling everything that threatens: a collection of poems that explores the role of the black matriarch in the nuclear family in South Africa
… I intend to explore the role of the black matriarch in the nuclear family in contemporary South Africa. Matriarchy, defined by Karen McGee “as the social system in which the mother is the head of the family or a family, community or society governed by women,” has existed for centuries and …
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You Are My Sunshine: Writing and Testimonio as Coping When Mamá Is Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
… following a breast cancer diagnosis of the matriarch. An exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative study examines the process of three different women, including myself, whose mothers were diagnosed with the disease, and certain patterns and differences will be noted as I examine each of …
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They Burn You They Bury You They Pull You from the Water
… categorized as a ditch row clan, crucifying its matriarch to find a newer, promising story. Here, you will find them full of momentum toward a life unfettered to the stories, numerous, and stalking them all. [CLAN SHOCK] n, the effect of being born into [this]. BLOODGOODBABE: who you must …
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Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
… I then deliberate his sexual fetishism for the matriarch pharaoh, and how their relationship functions as sadomasochistic, defining Antony as the masochist and Cleopatra as the sadist. In conclusion, I focus on Antony’s suicide, and determine the masculine value of his final moments within the …
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Altering perceptions of child sexual abuse survivors and individuals with dissociative identity disorder
… old, Lori is a high-functioning businesswoman, matriarch, and contributing member of society. Lori is also diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). From age 3, Lori was violently raped and assaulted by several perpetrators, yet views her multiple personalities as strength, as …
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EXPLORING BLACK WOMEN'S MOTIVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES WITH HIGH-END SHOPPING
… and assigned to Black women, including Mammy, Matriarch, Sapphire, and the Strong Black Woman, and these images and labels continue to affect many Black women today. To counteract the adverse images associated with Black women, they may have developed unhealthy coping strategies such as …
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"""They'll Not Love You if You're Witty"": The Literary Humor of American Women Before 1900"
… humor embodies. Theirs is the comic voice of the matriarch--sly, knowing, experienced, practical, sometimes moralistic but, above all, forgiving. The study shows how female humorists incorporated the conventions of and profited from a tradition which had thrived on opposition to feminization. …
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Chosi Ntsomi! making a Xhosa theatre identity by adapting Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's folktale about a rite of passage for Xhosa girls
… The focus is on the recordings of a late matriarch, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani's storytelling sessions in Xhosa and the possibilities these present for a post-apartheid and postcolonial South African theatre stage. This research traces the boundaries set by the Xhosa culture, first on …
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Aging Ragefully: A Look at Aging Women in Four Contemporary American Dramas
… Letts’ August: Osage County. Each of the aging matriarchs in these dramas plays a different role within her family structure; however, all employ others’ perceptions of them as a means of gaining or keeping control over their own situation. Chapter 1 examines Mrs. Bett from Zona Gale’s Miss Lulu …
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Imagined nation and imagined womanhood in the Shaw Brothers' musicals
… of four core chapters. Chapter one looks at the matriarch as an embodiment of the imagined nation China for the diasporic audiences. I argue that in the female genre, the image of homeland is gendered female. The matriarch symbolizes the motherland that is in danger and mobilizes the audiences to …
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Isililo sikaNandi: imagining dithyrambic dirge to performatively score the precarity of blackwomnhood
… oral historical narratives and timelines of Zulu matriarch, Queen Nandi, to imagine a dithyrambic dirge drawn from blackwomn's experiences of ruptures, reckonings and refusals.
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"The thick dark current runs": As I Lay Dying -- A Multi-Theoretical Approach
… a poor farm family as they journey to bury their matriarch. The family journeys from a private isolated space to a public outer space. The chosen theories are ordered in this same inner to outer fashion. The study begins with Freudian theories which consider how the inner workings of the mind …
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Multiple Community Services: One Family's Experience
… study. The family consisted of Elizabeth, the matriarch, age 39; Allen, third husband of Elizabeth, age 30; Bradley, middle son of Elizabeth, age 16; and Benjamin, youngest son of Elizabeth, age 14. Elizabeth's eldest son C. C., age 18, did not participate in the study.The services received by …
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Transgressive matriarchs: an exploration of female agency and resistance in South African telenovelas
… transgression disrupt existing depictions of the matriarchal figure onscreen. Drawing on the works of Sisonke Msimang, Pumla Gqola and Sabine Binder, specifically their analyses of the iconography surrounding Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, this paper interprets the two Black female protagonists under …
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Effect of Lion Calls on African Elephants (<i>Loxodonta Africana</i>) in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa
… more social behaviors after lion calls when the matriarch was absent than when she was present. Furthermore, when group size was larger and more calves were present, females decreased drinking and increased time exhibiting distress behaviors. Based on this and other studies it can be concluded …
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Echoes From the Stone Reframing Preservation in Syria Through Haurani Folklore
… Ghazi, an olive farmer, and Um Saado, a Bedouin matriarch and shepherd who once lived in the old home with her family. By foraging for this counter-archive of living memories, I reveal intergenerational intersections which complicate and reimbue the colonial history of the village—and of …
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Putting Tamar in her Place
… mother, the alter ego of Joseph, and the fifth matriarch beside Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel and Leah. Taken together they also show how the story serves as a lynchpin in Genesis uniting the patriarchal stories and the Joseph narrative. Most importantly it becomes clear that contrary to conventional …
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A Travellers' Sense of Place in the City
… are involved in the unmaking of the family’s matriarch. Chapter three considers the relationship between men’s economic activity and the city. It draws correspondences between men’s economic transactions with non-Travellers, and hunting, suggesting that each practice consists of the skilled …