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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 20, Issue 2)The percentage of children living apart from their fathers in the US has been steadily increasing. This social phenomenon is the main cause of many social problems such as crime, delinquency, teenage pregnancy,...
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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 31, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedMandell, Nancy and Robert Sweet. "Homework as Home Work: Mothers' Unpaid Educational Labour." Atlantis, Never Done: The Challenge of Unpaid Work, vol. 28. no. 2 (Spring 2004), pp. 7-18. Homework involvement...
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From:Journal of Communication Inquiry (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFamily films contribute to the backlash against feminism by reinforcing the dichotomous stereotypes of divorced women and depicting female independence as destructive. The "good" single mom obeys conservative social...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 28, Issue 1)"The Opt-Out Revolution" by Lisa Belkin, in The New York Times Magazine (Oct. 26, 2003), 229 W. 43rd St.. New York, NY. 10036. "I don't want to be on the fast track leading to a partnership at a prestigious law...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLocation: Third Floor, Hope Maternity Clinic, Anand, Gujarat, India. A long room is lined with nine iron cots with barely enough space to walk in between. There is nothing else in the room. Each bed has a pregnant woman...
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From: Twentieth- Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)Nikki Giovanni, known as one of the angry poets of the black revolution of the 1960s, also wrote three volumes of sensitive and passionate poetry for young people, and individual poems from her poetry books are often...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 176. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's Secret (novel) 1862Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall [as Acton Bell] (novel) 1848Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre; an Autobiography [as Currer Bell] (novel)...
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From:Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 20, Issue 3)"I didn't know the gun was loaded and I'll never never do it again." When I was little, my mother used to sing that song in the kitchen while she made dinner, Bourbon in one hand, lit Winston resting a nearby ashtray....
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From:Shofar (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is the account Hayyim Nahman Bialik, by far the dominant voice of early twentieth century Hebrew poetry, gives of his birth and infancy. The stanza is part of a longer lyric poem--Hirhurei Layla ("Night...
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From:The Mailer Review (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIN 1999 I MET MY PROSPECTIVE MOTHER-IN-LAW, NORRIS CHURCH MAILER. I was in a t-shirt that barely covered my bottom. Needless to say, I was embarrassed. I was fresh in a relationship with her son, Matt and, had I known...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWoody Herman's music is sweeping the nation," my mother wrote in 1945, and Kansas City, where she and Dad went to college, was a jazz hub. One year before they had married, my parents--Max and Bobbie--were dating and...
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThis study is an exploratory content analysis of the cinematic portrayals in the movie Precious (2009) against those present in five movies: Sparkle (1976); The Color Purple (1985); Eve's Bayou (1997); Love and...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 255, Issue 1)"Have you seen that commercial yet? With the taco?" This was the mantra of nearly all my friends and loved ones last summer. It came in the form of e-mails and text messages, taps on the shoulder at parties and too many...
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From:Journal of Narrative Theory (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough in former days, Brett Ashley was almost always labeled a "destructive bitch" or some other narrowly hostile term, since then readers have seen a variety of "Bretts" in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises....
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 35, Issue 2)"If it is true that there is an origin of language and if it is true that the origin of language is other to the uttered experience of language, then the origin is irreparably lost and unreachable ." --PAOLO...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"IN IRELAND--whenever a child is born out of wedlock, so shocked is the public sense by the very unusual occurrence, that it brands with an irreparable stigma, and, to a large extent, excommunicates the woman guilty of...
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From:The Dalhousie Review (Vol. 97, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE: I'm addicted to Joni Mitchell. No, seriously, I'm obsessed. Let me put it this way: in the four years since I first discovered her, I don't think a single day has passed when I haven't...
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From:The Horn Book Magazine (Vol. 85, Issue 2)Here's an interesting game: name one children's adventure story--just one--in which the mother is present. A short list of things that wouldn't make the cut includes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, A Series of...
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From:Women and Language (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This study explores the bounded realities of employed mothers as they negotiate the balance of paid work and family. Informed by Deetz's (1992) concept of corporate colonization of the lifeworld, Haraway's...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 61, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe impact of Elizabeth Bishops maternal loss on the symbolic order of her poetry is well established. Victoria Harrison (1993) pays attention to the various appearances of Bishop's mother, Gertrude Bulmer Bishop, in...