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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"mommy"”.
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Mommy Maladies
<p>An ambivalent mother takes a retrospective look at the costs and consequences of choosing to be a mother.</p>
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Identity, Ethos, and Community: Rhetorical Dimensions of Secular Mommy Blogs
This study examines secular mommy bloggers, a group of women who blog about the difficulties of being a nonbeliever parent in a predominantly religious society. In this study, I explore the rhetorical dimensions of four separate blogs by investigating how each mother builds identity within her …
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Motherhood, performance, and mommy blogs: the political power of maternal online rhetoric
… act that forms - not reflects - identity. Mommy blogs are autobiographical acts with dual performativity: identity and maternity. With performativity, mommy blogs have the power to, as Anzaldúa writes, "rewrite culture." Yet, collectively, mommy blogs reify the normative motherhood …
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Mommy is my teacher : qualitative case studies of three families' homeschooling experience
This dissertation is a qualitative case study of three homeschooling families. Because of the relative recentness of homeschooling as a widespread educational option for parents and because of the relatively few students participating in homeschooling, educators and others interested in this …
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Perbedaan kebahagiaan pasangan pernikahan dengan persiapan dan tanpa persiapan pada komunitas Young Mommy Tuban
… penelitian ini adalah anggota komunitas Young Mommy Tuban dengan sampel penelitian sebanyak 44 orang. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian kuantitatif dengan teknik pengambilan sampel secara purposive sampling. Pengambilan data menggunakan dua skala, yaitu skala adaptasi …
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“Cookie Mom-ster,” “Mom in Chief,” and “Sugar Mommy” : [de-] constructing ideal femininty of Presidential candidate wives
A 2004 New York Times’ article regarding the role of potential First Ladies at political conventions wrote, “The public will someday accept a fully independent first lady, Ms. Gibbons predicted, 'I don't see how we can go backwards.’'' (Purnick, 2004) That isn’t to say, however, we have continued …
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Effects of stimulating unconscious fantasies of oneness using the subliminal psychodynamic activation method
… shown, for four ms, one of five stimuli: MOMMY AND I ARE ONE, DADDY AND I ARE ONE, MYMMO NAD I REA ENO, and two other messages to test subsidiary hypotheses. Men were expected to show a significant decrease in anxiety, as assessed by heart rate, to the MOMMY stimulus, and women to either …
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Mommy Issues: Do Differential Rearing Histories Affect the Social Behavior of Captive Chacma Baboons (<i>Papio ursinus</i>)
<p>I observed the behavior of 17 chacma baboons (<em>Papio ursinus</em>) in order to understand the relationship between rearing history, dominance hierarchy, and social behavior. The Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education (C.A.R.E.) has utilized hand-rearing in the past and is currently …
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Motherhood Moments: Creating New Aesthetic Space
… examples, the use of toys and gestures in my Mommy Mayhem and Motherhood Hit Me Like a Train art series. I explore my creativity, concluding with future plans involving artmaking and workshops for parents. Artistic play is critical for an artist mother.
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Developmental trends in similarity as structural alignment: Evidence from children's performance in mapping tasks
… the use of familiar labels (""Daddy,"" ""Mommy,"" and ""Baby"") were used to increase children's ability to use relational similarity with both types of stimuli in the previous task. When these familiar labels were used, 3-year-old children's ability to use relational similarity in the …
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A Thematic Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Children's Top Mobile Applications of 2018
… surrounding nurturing and caregiving tasks ("Mommy in Training"), making it one of the most frequently exploited feminine stereotypes in the sample. The "Boys will be Boys" stereotype comprised the most frequently displayed masculine stereotypes across the studied applications. These findings …
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"The Effects Of Subliminal Aggressive And ""merging"" Stimuli On The Cognitive Functioning Of Schizophrenics: A Failure Of Silverman's Subliminal Psychodynamic Activation"
… (TIGER EATS PERSON), a merging stimulus (MOMMY AND I ARE ONE), and a meaningless lexical stimulus (DMNOA NIM Y ERO EMA), in a within subjects design. The dependent measures of cognitive functioning included thought pathology and form quality, both derived from subjects' responses to a …
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Mommy's Tired
Mommy's Tired is a novel that follows edgy and irritable Odette, a thirty-something and living in upstate New York. After five years of marriage, and despite his initial refusals, she convinces her husband Jeremy to get a vasectomy. Consumed by questions of what she really wants, Odette decides …
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Bullies and Allies Near the Playground: Mothers' Experiences of Aggression in Their Children's Schools
<p>Despite an increasing understanding of the importance of both parent-involvement and aggression among women, there appears to be little understanding of how these two areas influence each other; specifically, the lack of literature examining the extent to which female guardians experienced …