Essays about: "mothering"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 24 essays containing the word mothering.

1. 16. Gender Construction in Alice Munro´s Writing A Comparative Study of Early and Late Stories

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Charlotta Wessman; [2015-02-18]
   Keywords : Gender construction; women´s mothering; the feminist quest; Alice Munro;

   Abstract : Abstract: It is civilization, and not biology, that constructs gender. The formation of children into gendered adults is made “naturally” by invisible societal structures and is consequently troublesome to reveal. READ MORE

3. 17. To mother or to migrate? Ideal motherhood and normative migration: Perceptions from Nicaraguan migrant mothers

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Rebecca Sjöstrand; [2014]
   Keywords : Nicaragua; migration; transnational motherhood; norms; ideals of motherhood and mothering; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Female transnational labour migrants account for half of Nicaragua’s high volume of migrants, where women partake in international seasonal migration, primarily to Costa Rica, to improve the lives of themselves and their children. The migration processes are often informal, short-term and repetitive, often with reasons related to Nicaragua’s high poverty levels and unemployment rates. READ MORE

4. 18. Skendräktighet - med hunden i fokus

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

   Author : Malin Ottosson; [2014]
   Keywords : skendräktighet; tik; gulkropp; dräktighetshormoner; hund; pseudopregnancy; pseudocyesis; bitch; corpus luteum; pregnancy hormones; dog;

   Abstract : Tikens skendräktighet kan ställa till med mycket problem för djurägaren och även förvirring hos hunden. Många ser kastrering som en lösning på problemet men det kan i sin tur ge biverkningar. READ MORE

5. 19. Good and Bad Mothering in the Fiction of Marian Keyes : A Discourse Analysis.

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Sara Larsson; [2014]
   Keywords : motherhood; chick lit; mother-love; working mother; single mother; depression; alcoholism;

   Abstract : The object of this essay is to map the discourses of good versus bad mothering in four selected novels by Marian Keyes, and to analyze how they relate to hegemonic Western discourses of motherhood.  The analytical approach is based on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory. READ MORE

6. 20. Internet language in user-generated comments : Linguistic analysis of data from four commenting groups

   University essay from Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Jenny Dahlström; [2013]
   Keywords : asynchronous CMC; internet language; netspeak; chatspeak; user-generated content; user-generated comments; reader responses; gender;

   Abstract : The present study examines typical features of internet language found in user-generated comments collected from commenting groups from four online magazines aimed at different readerships: (1) adult women (Working Mother and Mothering), (2) adult men (Esquire), (3) young women (Seventeen) and (4) young men (Gameinformer). Approximately 5,000 words from each commenting group were collected, creating a 21,087 word corpus which was analyzed with regard to typographic (emoticons, nonstandard typography of and, personal pronouns you and I) and orthographic features (abbreviations, acronyms) as well as syntactic and stylistic features resembling spoken language (contracted forms, ellipsis of subject and/or verb and commenting tone). READ MORE