192 research outputs found
Review: Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future: Inspiration for Writers and Seekers by Jennifer Browdy
Book Review: Jennifer Browdyâs Purposeful Memoir as a Guest for a Thriving Future: Inspiration for Writers and Thinkers (Green Fire Press, 2021), a guidebook for writers seeking to heal through the study of the self. Browdy is Professor of Cmparative Literature and Media Arts at Bard College at Simon\u27s Rock
âDigital by Necessityâ: An Interview with Dr. Jane Wanninger
In the summer of 2020, Dr. Jane Wanninger participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute hosted by Agnes Scott College to learn about implementing digital storytelling in the classroom, which ironically, had to be completed digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her experience was the inspiration for this issue of Early College Folio as she pitched her ideas using the phrase âdigital by necessity.â Issue Editor Julia Carey Arendell interviewed Jane, captured here, on all that she learned to think more deeply about using the virtual tool of digital storytelling as a teacher, a student, and a medium
Repartnering: the relevance of parenthood and gender to cohabitation and remarriage among the formerly married
This paper is an exploratory analysis of the impact of current and anticipated parenthood on cohabitation and remarriage among those formerly living in marriage-type relationships. The focus on children is embedded within a broader analysis of repartnering which takes account of other factors, including gender. Quantitative and qualitative analyses are used, with a multivariate analysis of repartnering patterns, using data from the General Household Survey, being complementedby in-depth interview data examining the attitudes of the formerly married to future relationships. The paper demonstrates that parenthood has a statistically significant effect on the likelihood of formerly married women repartnering, with a higher number of children being associated with a lower probability of repartnering. The presence of children can work against repartnering in a variety of ways. Children place demands on their parents and can deter or object to potential partners. Parents may see their parental role as more important than, and a barrier to, new relationships. However, mothers are typically looking for partners for themselves rather than fathers for their children. Among formerly married people without children, the desire to become a parent encourages repartnering. The paper concludes that parenthood should be a key consideration in analyses of repartnering
Hip bone density predicts breast cancer risk independently of Gail score: Results From the Women's Health Initiative
The Gail model has been commonly used to estimate a womanâs breast cancer risk in a certain time period. High bone mineral density (BMD) is also a significant risk factor for breast cancer, but it plays no role in the Gail model. The objective of this study was to investigate whether hip BMD predicts postmenopausal breast cancer risk independently of the Gail score
âIt's like giving him a piece of me.â: Exploring UK and Israeli women's accounts of motherhood and feeding
Objective The present study explored how Israeli and UK mothers integrate feeding into their conceptualisations of mothering 2â6 months post-partum. Background The nature and importance of motherhood is subject to differential contextual, cultural, political and historical influences. We set out to compare experiences of motherhood and feeding between these two countries using a qualitative approach. Methods Forty one women (mean age 36.4 ± 2.7 years) from Israel and the UK, mostly married or in a committed relationship were interviewed about their experience of pregnancy, motherhood and feeding. Data were analysed thematically. Results The experience of motherhood in the early postnatal period was dominated, for all mothers, by the experience of breastfeeding and clustered around three representations of mothering, namely; 1) a devoted mother who ignores her own needs; 2) a mother who is available for her infant but acknowledges her needs as well; and 3) a struggling mother for whom motherhood is a burden. Such representations existed within both cultural groups and sometimes coexisted within the same mothers. UK women described more struggles within motherhood whereas a tendency towards idealising motherhood was observed for Israeli women. Conclusion There are similarities in the ways that UK and Israeli women experienced motherhood and feeding. Where family life is strongly emphasized, mothers reported extremes of idealism and burden and associated an âidealâ mother with a breastfeeding mother. Where motherhood is represented as just one of many roles women take up, they are more likely to represent a âgood enoughâ approach to mothering. Understanding the experience of motherhood and feeding in different cultural settings is important to provide the context for postnatal care specifically where mothers are reluctant to share problems or difficulties encountered
A socially situated approach to inform ways to improve health and wellbeing
NoMainstream health psychology supports neoliberal notions of health promotion in
which self-management is central. The emphasis is on models that explain
behaviour as individually driven and cognitively motivated, with health beliefs
framed as the favoured mechanisms to target in order to bring about change to
improve health. Utilising understandings exemplified in critical health psychology,
we take a more socially situated approach, focusing on practicing health, the
rhetoric of modernisation in UK health care and moves toward democratisation.
While recognising that within these new ways of working there are opportunities
for empowerment and user-led health care, there are other implications. How these
changes link to simplistic cognitive behavioural ideologies of health promotion and
rational decision-making is explored. Utilising two different empirical studies, this
article highlights how self-management and expected compliance with
governmental authority in relation to health practices position not only
communities that experience multiple disadvantage but also more seemingly
privileged social actors. The article presents a challenge to self-management and
informed choice, in which the importance of navigational networks is evident.
Because health care can become remote and inaccessible to certain sections of the
community, yet pervasive and deterministic for others, we need multiple levels of
analysis and different forms of action
Agency, âgood motherhoodâ and âa load of mushâ: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press
In this age of âintensive motherhoodâ, new mothers are flooded with information on the best ways in which to raise their children. One of the key issues is infant feeding, in particular, the timing and method of weaning their children onto solid food. This paper examines a new approach called âbaby-led weaningâ (BLW) in which the child feeds themselves instead of being spoon-fed, that came into popular parenting culture in recent years, considering the ways in which it is represented in National and International newspapers. The media search database Proquest International Newsstand, was searched for âbaby-led weaningâ, producing an eventual sample of 78 articles from a number of countries. The articles were subjected to a critical discursive psychological analysis. The key themes that emerged from the newspapers focused around two main areas; the infant as agentive in their eating behaviours; and, constructions of maternal identities and resisting âgood motherhoodâ
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