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Showing 1 to 20 of 640 for “"motherhood"”.
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Unseen Motherhood
<p><em>Unseen Motherhood</em> is a series of photographs that shows what first-time motherhood is really like, starting with pregnancy and going through birth and everything after. I did not want to just show the happy or perfect moments. I wanted to capture the hard parts, the big feelings, and …
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CENSURED MOTHERHOOD: COMMUNICATING THE DOUBLE BIND BETWEEN MOTHERHOOD AND THE PROFESSORIATE
… utterances that explicate cultural enactments of motherhood in the academy. During the course of this study, I asked the professors who are mothers what nomenclature they preferred to explicate their roles: unanimously participants answered mother professor'. Therefore, honoring research …
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EXPATRIATES OF "GOOD" MOTHERHOOD: BEARING WITNESS, GUILT, AND BURDENS OF TRANSGRESSIVE MOTHERHOOD
… and self-doubt. To be an expatriate of “good” motherhood is no less shocking, no less lonely, and no less anxiety-inducing. This collection braids original creative pieces with critical inquiry into the roots of disorienting riptides of motherhood mythology. The creative pieces include flash …
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Belle-Moue Blessed motherhood
… Il est anticipé que Belle-Moue devenu Blessed Motherhood plaira aux lecteurs de langue anglaise qui s'intéressent à l'histoire et aux thèmes de la vie et de la mort.
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The motherhood myth: unrealistic expectations
… explores the gap between women’s expectations of motherhood before they have children and the reality of their lives as mothers, a phenomenon that I call the Motherhood Myth. My study sheds light on how this Motherhood Myth takes shape, how it is transmitted and reinforced by culture and …
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“‘Is this what motherhood is?’: Ambivalent Representations of Motherhood in Black Women’s Novels, 1953-2011”
… women that include ambivalent representations of motherhood: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha (1953), Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011). Diverging from the image of the strong black mother that frequently appears in black women’s writing, these novels …
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Motherhood Moments: Creating New Aesthetic Space
Motherhood is mayhem. Since becoming a mother, I carve out space and time for short creation bursts. I observe my children’s lack of inhibitions and carefree use of materials and incorporate their habits into my work. Art routines are a way to create in my messy maternal life. This thesis examines: …
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Motherhood, Female Ageing and Samuel Beckett
… Samuel Beckett’s work to analyse the tropes of motherhood and female ageing in his oeuvre. The thesis is divided into two parts: part one investigates themes of misogyny, maternity and motherhood in a selection of the young Beckett’s writing. I consider how the trope of misogyny, which spans …
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Expectations of motherhood: a qualitative investigation
Purpose: Women’s experiences of depression following childbirth have received increased attention within the research base over the past two decades. However, depression that occurs during pregnancy, or antenatal depression, remains poorly understood and often unrecognised. The aim of the present …
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Delayed motherhood : exploring expectations, anxieties and emotional impact of the transition to motherhood at mid-life (37+ years)
… that despite the continuing trend for delayed motherhood (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2002), research on the experience of'late' motherhood is extremely limited. Women are choosing to delay motherhood for many reasons, including the need to feel emotionally prepared, finding the right …
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Teenage girls' experiences of pregnancy and motherhood
Teenage pregnancy and motherhood is a challenging phenomenon worldwide. The goal of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions and experiencesof a sample of teenage girls about pregnancy, birth and motherhood. The objectives of the research were to engage voluntary participants in …
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Antenatal education in the transition to motherhood
… antenatal education and the transition to motherhood, focusing on the pre-natal expectations and postnatal experiences of a small sample of first-time mothers in Plymouth. The aims of the study were 1) to investigate the style and content of statutory and voluntary sector antenatal classes …
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Intergenerational Teenage Motherhood: Memory and Material Culture
… be used to understand intergenerational teenage motherhood. Intimate, feminist ethnography is used to explore the experiences of my mother and my grandmother who were both teenage mothers. Teenage mothers are blamed for perpetuating a cycle of poverty in the United States by conservative and …
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Motherhood, Family, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan
… explores how particular models of family and motherhood are reinforced in contemporary Japan, and give rise to significant social distinctions between families and mothers. Based on documentary research and forty life history interviews with single mothers conducted in Tokyo, I examine how …
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The Non-Traditional (M)Other: The Representation of Young Motherhood and Ambivalent Motherhood in Contemporary German and Irish Films
… German and Irish films represent non-traditional motherhood. I investigate how the films represent young mothers and ambivalent mothers; I analyse the characters’ roles within society and examine how the mothers’ family situations influence their maternal experiences. I do so to fill a gap in …
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