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Walters, Diane. "The social construction of mother-daughter relationships." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0023/NQ38513.pdf.

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Holzgraefe, Sandi. "Side By Side: Reinventing Mother/Daughter Relationships." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4211/.

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Beginning with mother/daughter film classics such as Stella Dallas (1937) and Mildred Pierce (1945), and moving to consider recent mother/daughter texts, Anywhere But Here (1999) and "Gilmore Girls" (2000 -), this thesis, in both its written and visual components, examines the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers and daughters have been represented in popular culture. Challenging the discourses that singularly stress struggle and separation, this research highlights representations that emphasize mother/daughter connection, and examines how such identification empowers mothers and daughters. This project is guided by cultural studies and feminist film theories. The first two chapters outline past and present paradigms of mothers and daughters respectively; the third chapter examines the goals and findings of the visual component.
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Wise, Kristyn. "Conservations with my mother : the daughter-mother relationship and the contemporary woman writer." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390523.

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Brennan, Megan Ilene. "Mother-daughter relationships in emerging adulthood and young adulthood /." Connect to CIFA website:, 2008. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pdwerner/cifa1.htm.

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Ting, Wai-fong. "The perception of adolescent girls in Hong Kong on their life situations." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243709.

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Sen, Chandra. "A phenomenological exploration of the mother-daughter relationships during and after father-daughter incestuous abuse of the daughter." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31518.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of the relationship between mothers and their incestuously abused daughters. The research sample consisted of five adult daughters who in their childhood and/or adolescence, were abused by their biological fathers. The volunteer participants were in therapy at the time of the research interviews. The study employed a phenomenological method in order to allow the daughters to describe their experiences and perceptions of their mothers. By engaging in a dialogue with the daughters, the researcher attempted to explore the dynamics and impact of the mother-daughter relationships on the daughters. Results confirmed that these mother-daughter relationships were damaged. However, the daughters also expressed strong desires to heal their relationships with their mothers. In addition, the daughters identified important connections between their relationships with their mothers and the continued influence of this relationship on their experience of themselves in their current lives. The findings of this study have important research and therapeutic implications. The research findings strongly suggest that the relationship between daughters and their mothers in families where father-daughter incest occurs needs to be examined beyond individual family member's roles which have been the exclusive focus of existing research. Furthermore, the strong connections made by the participants of the present study between their relationships with their mothers and their sense of self, may be an important consideration in therapeutic work with this client population.
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Earles, Lesley Ann. "Faith of Our Mothers: Religiosity in Adult Daughter-Mother Relationships." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81453.

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In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, a purposive sample of 12 religious women considered their experiences of religiosity with their mothers and larger family systems. Adult daughters reflected on the significance and meaning of religion in their lives and relationships, particularly the interaction of mothers and adult daughters concerning spirituality, beliefs, and experiences including intergenerational transmission of religiosity. Adult daughters were queried regarding maternal religious influence and the challenges of being women. Data were collected to saturation and analyzed to consider individual narratives about families into the development of three themes: Family Connections, Religious Consciousness, and Encountering Community. Gilligan's theory of moral development, including the ethic of caretaking, is employed to consider religiosity in the adult daughter-mother relationship. Limitations, clinical implications, and future directions are explored.
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Lee, Yuen-kwan, and 李婉君. "The representation of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships in films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952690.

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Pun, Wai-yi Helena, and 潘偉儀. "A study of caregiving in aging mother-adult daughter relationships." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44569658.

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Abrams, Bertranna Alero. "Acculturation and Its Affect on Afro-Caribbean Mother-Daughter Relationships." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281119407.

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Pun, Wai-yi Helena. "A study of caregiving in aging mother-adult daughter relationships /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13409438.

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McShane, Anne. "Perceived Affective and Behavioral Characteristics of Mother-Daughter Relationships and Subsequent Mentoring Relationships." DigitalCommons@USU, 1989. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2665.

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Mentoring has been recognized as an important relationship in a variety of circumstances. This study was conducted for the purpose of determining the perceived benefits or disadvantages of a mentor relationship and identifying characteristics of the relationship. Another objective was to explore to what extent the nature of the mother/daughter relationship functions as a factor that makes the choice of a mentoring pattern more likely. The study sample consisted of 47 females, 12 graduate students and 35 assistant or associate professors on the faculty at Utah State University. The subjects completed several mother/daughter inventories, a mentoring inventory, and a personality inventory. Twenty subjects were interviewed for a more in-depth exploration of both their mentoring experience and mother/daughter relationship. Subjects were divided into groups based on gender of the person most facilitative of their professional objectives. The male-Mentored, female-mentored, and non-mentored groups were comparable on measures of perceived mother.daughter relationship characteristics and personality variables. The relationship between the score on a mother/daughter attention measure and total mentor score was .29. The Pearson correlations between perceived mother rejection and father love was -.61. Subjects were categorized as to whether they et the criteria for having had a mentor based on scores on a mentor inventory. Seventy-eight percent of subjects who specified females as most significant to their career met the criteria for having been mentored. Fifty percent of subjects who indicated a male was most facilitative scored high enough to meet the criteria. A multiple regression model used to predict total mentor score based on perceived mother attention and gender of mentor accounted for 20% of the total variability. An interaction was present between gender of the individual specified to be most significant tot he protege and perceived mother attention. Separate multiple regression equations resulted in a correlation of .53 between mother attention and mentor score when the specified individual was male and .16 when the individual named was female.
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Addinall, Elizabeth Liezl. "Intimacy in romantic relationships during young adulthood: the role of the mother-daughter relationship." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/160.

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This study addressed the role of the mother-daughter relationship on the daughter‟s development of the capacity for intimacy with a romantic partner. The objective of this study was to examine whether separateness in mother-daughter interactions was related to romantic intimacy (sexual and non-sexual intimacy) in romantic relationships. The following instruments were used: 1) Socio-demographic questionnaire; 2) Competence in Mother-Daughter Relationship Questionnaire (ICQ-M) and 3) Personal Assessment of Intimacy Questionnaire (PAIR). 179 adolescent female university students participated in this study most of who were between the ages of 20 and 24. The results indicated that a positive relationship existed between separateness and sexual intimacy (r=.688, p<.01) as well as separateness and non-sexual intimacy (r=.598, p<.01). A positive relationship between connectedness and non-sexual intimacy (r=.468, p<.01) was also observed, however no correlation was observed between connectedness and sexual intimacy. These findings indicate that separateness in mother-daughter interactions has a definite effect on the different dimensions of romantic intimacy. Therefore, late adolescent women who possess the ability to assert themselves and express differences between themselves and their mothers are not as apprehensive as their peers when it comes to romantic intimacy with a partner.
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Kirby, Ann. "Perceptions of Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Art of Adult Incest Survivors." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1994. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/181.

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The notion of the collusive mother is pervasive in the psychological literature on incest. This notion has been further examined in this thesis which entails a critical study of the literature supporting the idea of the colluding mother in incestuous families. In addition, a field study was undertaken to examine adult female incest survivors' perceptions of their relationship with their mothers. These perceptions were studied to see if they suggested confirmation or negation of the notion of the colluding mother as suggested in the existing literature. All of the information generated was viewed from a feminist perspective. Participants in the field study part of tho research attended one group art therapy session. They completed drawings and a questionnaire and were invited to share what they wished with the facilitator and other group members. In addition, each participant attended an individual art therapy session with the researcher. Participants’ comments about their drawings were noted. The therapists of participants chosen for this study were interviewed regarding the general concept of the mother's role in the incestuous family. It was anticipated that a therapist's general beliefs would influence their counselling practice.
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McTaggart, Deborah L. "Breast cancer experience : mothers, adolescent daughters and the mother-daughter relationship." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0018/NQ56587.pdf.

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Hashim, Khuteibe. "Thick Love : A Psychoanalytical Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35880.

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This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. Previous research has primarily relied on some specific aspects of psychoanalytic theory and applied it to Beloved. The theoretical framework provides a rationale for this paper to research two events in particular that highlight the mother-daughter relationships between Sethe and her Ma’am and between Sethe and her daughter Beloved. These relationships are consequently analyzed by employing psychoanalytical concepts offered by Freud, Lacan and Kristeva. By utilizing psychoanalytical criticism, the characters’ conscious and unconscious motives and feelings are revealed and explained, as well as the meanings and the undercurrents that lie underneath the text’s consciousness. The results suggest that Sethe murdered her daughter Beloved to keep her from becoming a slave and enduring the dreadful and traumatic consequences of slavery, which was similar to what Sethe went through when she was abandoned by her Ma'am. Sethe’s childhood psychological principles and trauma shaped her identity as a mother as she witnessed her mother abandoning her at a young age by being tortured and killed. The events around Sethe’s mother’s death and the fact that Sethe never identifies her mother’s dead body, scar Sethe for life and instill in Sethe a sense of “lack” and an abnormal feeling of maternal love where she is ready to kill her children to save them from the horror of slavery.
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Barrett, Susan. "Influences of the Mother-Daughter Relationship on Motivations for Sexual Behavior." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2767/.

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The influences of family relationship variables on motivations for adolescent sexual risk-taking were investigated. Previous research has linked these variables to adolescent sexual behavior, however, the nature of these links has not been specifically examined. Family variables were operationalized as child attachment to mother, parental support of each other, parental conflict strategies, and parental monitoring. Emotional motivations were operationalized as attachment and affiliation needs. The sample consisted of 40 single females ages 18 to22 recruited from a local pregnancy care center. Predictions that parent-child relationship and parental influence would predict emotional motivations for sexual risk-taking were not supported. The variable most highly related to sexual risk-taking, though not included in the model tested, was father's destructive conflict strategies. Theoretical and methodological issues are discussed.
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Chu, Mai-lee Christine, and 朱美莉. "The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships during the transition to parenthood." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31976955.

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Tyler, Lisa Lynne. "Our mothers' gardens : mother-daughter relationships and myth in twentieth-century British women's literature /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1335473469.

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Chu, Mai-lee Christine. "The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships during the transition to parenthood." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1340944X.

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Walston, Rachel Adams. "Analyzing Communication in Mother-Daughter Dyads Following the Mother's Cancer Diagnosis." TopSCHOLAR®, 2009. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/104.

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Abrahamsson, Kristine. "Mothers and Daughters between Two Cultures in Short Fiction by Edwidge Danticat." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8542.

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This essay takes a look at two short stories from the novel Krik? Krak! written by the Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. The short stories “Caroline’s Wedding” and “New York Day Women” are about mother-daughter relationships where the mothers and daughters are either first or second generations immigrants from Haiti. This essay focuses on these relationships and how they are related to immigration. To address these issues of relationships and immigration, several critics and their opinions on the subject are presented as well as an examination of key events in the short stories.
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Coffelt, Tina A. ""Little bits and pieces" the process of revealing sexual information in close mother-daughter relationships /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5536.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on June 2, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Aljayyousi-Khalil, Ghadir Fakhri. "Mother-daughter relationships within a Muslim community and the influence on American Muslim adolescent daughters’ health behavior." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15751.

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Karen S. Myers-Bowman
Immigrant Muslim mothers is a rapidly growing population in the United States for which there seems to be little or no information about their health values and parenting practices. Approximately 4 million adolescents in the U.S. have Arab Muslim immigrant parents. The goal of this study is to understand how adolescent girls’ health behaviors can be shaped and influenced by sociocutlural factors especially the mother-daughter relationships and the influences of living in a Muslim community in the U.S. The immigrant Muslim mother’s values (religious and cultural) that shape these relationships were examined. Next, the influence of the new dominant culture; the American culture on the mothers’ values, maternal practices and thus the adolescent daughter’s health behavior was addressed. Using criterion sampling strategy, eleven immigrant Muslim mothers and their American Muslim adolescent daughters (N=22) who were born and also raised in the United States were recruited and interviewed. The interviews were transcribed verbatim, coded, and analyzed following phenomenological research methods. Mothers in this study showed that their health values were shaped by Islam, culture origin and the acculturation factor. The majority of the mothers explained that they were more religious in the United States and some of them mentioned that they left out their culture of origin values and accept some values from the new dominant culture. Mothers in this sample explained that in order to share their values with their daughters, they needed to be close, supportive, open minded, good listeners to them. In addition, they followed different maternal practices such as: tried to be available, monitored their health behaviors, had healthy communication with them although there was imposing, and tried to model different health behaviors. However, the daughters’ perception of the mothers’ health values and maternal relationships was an important factor in determining how these values and practices could shape the daughters’ health behaviors. The results revealed that daughters who perceived that their mothers’ values and practices were shaped by the three factors were more likely to follow healthy behaviors. A theoretical model was developed. Implications for family professionals and recommendations for future research are discussed.
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Lenz, Dawn. "Claiming Iris." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/657.

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Iris Fitzgerald struggles to make it day to day after she is raped and stabbed while out on an early morning run. Her story is told through her relationships, not only with her new, scared self, but also with her overbearing mother, her best friend, her rescuer and her antagonistic roommate. She has just moved to a strange city and still has not found a job. So, she has the overwhelming stress of the attack to contend with and the added pressure of running quickly out of money in the expensive city of San Francisco. She uses her painkillers as an escape from her stab wound as well as her emotional pain. Claiming Iris is about self-preservation, relationships, addiction and continuing on with life.
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Zimmerman, Shannon. "Daughter of the moon and other stories." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002656.

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Ranivoharisoa, Honnorine. "Between generations : the construction of mother-daughter relationships in the work of black women playwrights in Britain." Thesis, University of Hull, 2005. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5627.

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Since the end of the Second World War, race relations and immigration have become major subjects of debate in the political, social and cultural life of Britain. The presence of immigrants from Britain's former colonies and the subsequent arrival of economic migrants and asylum seekers have triggered discussion of many issues, not least those surrounding difference, assimilation, diversity and identity (Gilroy 1993). It is these particular issues (and the tensions that they engender), often articulated through the depiction of mother-daughter relationships, which are dramatized in the work of contemporary Black British female playwrights such as Winsome Pinnock, Trish Cooke, Paulette Randall, Maya Chowdry, J. B. Rose, Tanika Gupta, Rukhsana Ahmad, Jackie Kay, Grace Dayley, Jacqueline Rudet, Maria Oshodi and Zindika2. My thesis is thus about the construction of mother-daughter relationships as presented in the work of these playwrights. It places particular emphasis on how mothers and daughters negotiate their relationships, positions and identities in the context of their respective experiences as first- and second- generation female migrants in Britain.
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Fernandes, Alessandra Coutinho. "Mother-daughter relationships and the search for identity in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1996. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/111349.

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Lee, Wai-sum Amy. "Chinese mothers - Western daughters? : cross-cultural representations of mother-daughter relationships in contemporary Chinese and Western women's writing." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36353/.

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This study looks at women's prose narrative representing four major Chinese communities during the last 30 years, and focuses on the depiction of mother-daughter relationships among personae within the narrative texts. The thesis seeks to suggest that mother-daughter relationships within the texts are a reflection of how a text responds to its mother culture in the course of development. Narrative prose ranging from self-professed autobiographies to the fictional, written by Chinese women from American-Chinese communities, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, are examined in a comparative approach within an ethnical framework. The concept of a national literature is discussed with regard to different fonns of Chinese-ness. It is revealed, in the course of this examination, that each group of Chinese women's writing examined here demonstrates an acute awareness of a link with an original mother culture, the Chinese orientation. However, recent events both inside and outside China have inevitably shaped cultural development in these communities, resulting in splits and diversifications in the individual cultural consciousness. Approached from this perspective, the Chinese mother culture gains a new vitality by virtue of shedding the burden of a long history. Focusing on the intertextual activities of regional writings, it is shown that represented Chinese-ness is no longer an unchanged and unchanging phenomenon, but is redefined each moment through the locus of interactions among independent hybrid communities.
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Jackson, Laura McGee. "Negotiating identity : mother-daughter relationships in novels by Jutta Heinrich, Elfriede Jelinek, Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch and Helga Novak /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9932.

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Nylin, Kristina. "Why Read Fiction in the English Language Classroom? : Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12828.

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The essay makes a case for the use of the Nobel Prize-winning (1993) author Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye (1970) in the English language classroom. The essay argues that the novel is an excellent reading choice and to what is appropriate according to the learning goals stated in Gy11's course syllabus English 6. Since the course English 6 syllabus is new some aspects different from previous course syllabus English B are mentioned by way of comparison.  In order to develop the arguments for using the novel, different perspectives of reading and the learning process are discussed and how they match the curriculum Gy 11. Some points about how Morrison has managed to voice the former unspoken experiences of African American society are made to make it clear why reading The Bluest Eye is such a superb text in relation to the learning goals that are outlined in Gy11.The essay focuses mainly on mother - daughter relationships because most pupils will easily relate to this theme since they have experiences of this relation themselves, and therefore they will find it easy to find issues to discuss after reading the novel.
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Wasim, Fatima. "South Aasian American daughter-in-law/ mother-in-law relationships, cultural values conflict, and help-seeking for domestic violence." Thesis, Oklahoma State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3641446.

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The South Asian American population growth rate is high, however, there is little research regarding their mental health concerns and low utilization of services. One of the most understudied and complex issues is the interpersonal relationships of South Asian women, specifically the relationship between a daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. This study is a first to examine the relationship between a South Asian daughter-in-law and mother-in-law living in the US through a combination of feminist and relational-cultural perspectives. Also investigated are the help-seeking sources daughter-in-laws use for personal/emotional and domestic violence concerns. Participants in this web-based, descriptive study were 155 married (or previously married) South Asian American women (ages 18-69), who had a mother-in-law. Most identified as Muslims or Hindus. T-tests, correlations, and standard multiple regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between the daughter-in-laws' perceptions of their relationship with their mother-in-laws, cultural values, and formal and informal help-seeking for personal/emotional and domestic violence issues. Instruments used were adapted to be culturally sensitive. Thirty-five percent of the participants reported psychological abuse and 23% reported emotional abuse by their mother-in-laws. All identified caring and controlling aspects of their relationship with their mother-in-law. Most of the women did not meet full criteria for partner violence, however the daughter-in-law/mother-in-law relationship differed between the women who were abused by their partner and those who were not. Perceived care and control from mother-in-law was related to daughter-in-law's sex role expectations, partner violence, and help-seeking. Daughter-in-law's help-seeking sources differed depending on the type of problem; as with previous studies and cultural expectations most identified informal help-seeking sources. Higher care from mother-in-law predicted lower help-seeking intentions from mother-in-law for personal issues and domestic violence. Sex role expectations and partner violence predicted help-seeking from minister for personal issues. Intimate relations and partner violence predicted higher likelihood of help-seeking from minister for domestic violence. To promote interpersonal health among South Asian American women, it is necessary to explore and comprehend the nature of in-law relationships and study both positive and the negative in-law relationships. Implications of these findings for women's personal relationships, for clinical work and future research needs are discussed.

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Kestler, Jessica L. "Intergenerational Fashion Influences: Mother/Daughter Relationships and Fashion Involvement, Fashion Leadership, Opinion Leadership and Information Seeking from One Another." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1261402077.

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Anderson, Whitney Allison. "“You’re Not Part of the Family”: Understanding the Turning Points and Family System Consequences of High Conflict Mother-/Daughter-in-Law Relationships." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25667.

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Popular culture representations of in-law relationships are frequently negative, and research has affirmed the communication difficulties associated with these non-kin, nonvoluntary relationships. Mother-in-law/daughter-in-law (MIL/DIL) relationships face unique challenges, as these women compete for the position of “kinkeeper,” or the person who manages relationships throughout the family. When MIL/DIL relationships are characterized by conflict and negative feelings toward one another, the family system suffers. To better understand the implications of “high conflict” MIL/DIL relationships on entire families, 27 DILs were interviewed about the turning points they had experienced with their MILs and the repercussions of the MIL/DIL relationship throughout the family system. Nine turning point categories emerged inductively from the data, along with several consequences for relationships throughout the family system, including DIL/husband, MIL/grandchildren, and husband/mother. Findings indicate high conflict MIL/DIL relationships do not just lead to negative outcomes for the two women involved, but also for other members across the family system.
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Curton, Carman C. "Women Becoming: a Feminist Critical Analysis of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500230/.

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This analysis of Tan's first two novels reveals that her female characters suffer from the strains critics like Amy Ling say result from the double paradox of filling the roles of mother or daughter as minority women in a white, male society. Recognizing this double paradox offers Tan's characters, and her readers, the opportunity to resolve the conflicts between mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club. Using the theories of psychologist Kathie Carlson helps readers understand how the protagonist of The Kitchen God's Wife resolves similar conflicts with her daughter and her own mother by seeking support from a mythic mother-figure, a Goddess of her own making.
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Dornelas, Kirlla Cristhine Almeida. "Relatos de mães, relatos de filhas: o relacionamento na vida adulta." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2006. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6682.

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As relações interpessoais estão na base da sociedade e são fundamentais para direcionar nossos comportamentos. O relacionamento entre pais e filhos adultos, especialmente entre mãe e filha adulta, representa uma área recente e ainda pouco investigada. A literatura, ao tratar deste relacionamento complexo, usualmente apresenta uma delas como dependente e a outra como cuidadora. Entretanto, há um momento em que estas duas mulheres compartilham uma condição similar: quando ambas são adultas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar, descrever e analisar o relacionamento entre mães e suas filhas adultas destacando os aspectos que promovem os encontros e desencontros entre elas e a influência do casamento das filhas nas relações com suas mães. Na história do relacionamento entre mãe e filha observamos mudanças que promovem momentos de separação e aproximação, dependência e independência entre elas, o que sofre a influência da família. As atividades compartilhadas e o processo de comunicação, assim como a cooperação, a influência mútua e a percepção que mãe e filha adulta têm do seu relacionamento, são aspectos desses encontros e desencontros. Nesta dinâmica, mãe e filha compartilham similaridades e diferenças, apresentam comportamentos recíprocos e complementares que podem gerar conflitos cuja resolução está associada ao movimento de auto-revelação e privacidade presentes no relacionamento. Finalmente, apesar dos desencontros, mãe e filha procuram valorizar as sistuações que propiciam a manutenção da relação devido à importância da relação para ambas.
Personal relationships are at the basis of society and are fundamental to direct our behavior. The relationship between parents and adult children, particularly between mother and adult daughter, represents a recent and poorly investigated research area. The literature about this complex relationship usually presents one of them as dependent and the other as a caregiver. However, there is a moment when these two women share a similar condition: when both are adults. This work aimed at investigating, describing and analyzing the relationship between mother and their adult daughters emphasizing the aspects promoting their getting close or getting apart and the influence of the daughters' marriage in their relations with their mothers. In the history of relationship between mother and daughter we observe changes which promote instances of separation and proximity, dependece and independence between them, what is influenced by family. The shared activities and the process of communication, as well as the cooperation, mutual influence and the perception that mother and have of their relationship are related to getting close or getting apart. In this dynamics, mother and daughter share similarities and differences, apresent reciprocal and complementary behaviors wich may give rise to conflicts, whose solution is associated with self-revelation and privacy, present in the relationship. Finally, despite sometimes getting apart, mother and daughter try to emphasize the situations which keep their relationship due to its importance for both.
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Anderson, Whitney Allison. "?You?re Not Part of the Family?: Understanding the Turning Points and Family System Consequences of High Conflict Mother-/Daughter-in-Law Relationships." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25667.

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Popular culture representations of in-law relationships are frequently negative, and research has affirmed the communication difficulties associated with these non-kin, nonvoluntary relationships. Mother-in-law/daughter-in-law (MIL/DIL) relationships face unique challenges, as these women compete for the position of ?kinkeeper,? or the person who manages relationships throughout the family. When MIL/DIL relationships are characterized by conflict and negative feelings toward one another, the family system suffers. To better understand the implications of ?high conflict? MIL/DIL relationships on entire families, 27 DILs were interviewed about the turning points they had experienced with their MILs and the repercussions of the MIL/DIL relationship throughout the family system. Nine turning point categories emerged inductively from the data, along with several consequences for relationships throughout the family system, including DIL/husband, MIL/grandchildren, and husband/mother. Findings indicate high conflict MIL/DIL relationships do not just lead to negative outcomes for the two women involved, but also for other members across the family system.
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Yousefi, Yalda. "Demythologizing motherhood : a comparative study of the maternal and mother-daughter relationships in the works of contemporary British, North American, and Iranian women writers." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10147/.

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This thesis explores the representation of motherhood as ideology, identity, and experience in contemporary women’s writings, offering comparative studies of Persian texts alongside English-language narratives from marginalized backgrounds such as African American, Caribbean, Chinese American, and queer mothering. It investigates theoretical approaches to motherhood and identity such as those of Adrienne Rich and Alice Walker, questions the exclusion of women from other literary theories such as that of Michel Foucault, and engages with contemporary critical views on motherhood and the materials published recently in mothering studies.
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Colón, Camille I. "Mother-daughter relationships in La casa de los espíritus and the Joy Luck Club an attempt to subvert patriarchal society in the quest for identity /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2004. http://thesis.haverford.edu/77/01/2004ColonC.pdf.

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Rae, Sarah A. "Getting to Chicago." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1663.

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This creative thesis of poems explores the relationship between traveling literally and traveling metaphorically as the speaker grapples with the reality of her mother's Alzheimer's disease. In the process, she uncovers her own potentialities and limitations.
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Elayan, Suzanne. "Changing seasons : examining three decades of women's writing in Greater Syria and Egypt." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12423.

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Throughout the last three decades, the Arab region has attracted the unwanted attention of the rest of the world because of its spiralling political upheaval. This unrest has caused migration, economic and cultural changes, and eventually a spring of revolutions and protests in demand of reform. Arab countries are now in the spotlight of global current affairs, and all the imperfections regarding their cultural, social, and gender inequalities have surfaced to the foreground. Arab women novelists have been addressing feminist issues for centuries, chipping away at the stereotypical image of the meek and voiceless Arab woman that comes hand in hand with Orientalism. Through their fiction, writers such as Nawal El Saadawi, Hanan Al- Shaykh and Fadia Faqir have promulgated a bold brand of Arab feminist thought. This interdisciplinary thesis explores the Greater Syrian and Egyptian woman's novel written between 1975 and 2007. Through the in-depth analysis of Arab women's novels available in English, I attempt to uncover the many reasons behind today's gender inequality in Greater Syria and Egypt. By examining contemporary Arabic narrative styles and cultivating traditional Arab story-telling methods, the creative element of this thesis uses fiction to expose social and political injustice. The novel within this thesis challenges different forms of patriarchy that are dominant in the region, and endeavours to document a historical, on-going revolution.
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Borello, Lisa Joy. ""Mother May I? Food, Power and Control in Mothers and Daughters"." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07272006-133036/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Layli Phillips, committee chair; Amira Jarmakani, Cassandra White, committee members. Electronic text (125 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 2, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-118).
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Kinser, Amber E. "Book Review of Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1240.

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Excerpt: As both a daughter to a mother and a mother to a daughter, I have lived, and pushed against, and been formed by, the profound truth about mother-daughter relationships suggested by this book's title: it's complicated.
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Onayli, Selin. "The Relation Between Mother- Daughter Relationship And Daughter&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612609/index.pdf.

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The purpose of the study was to examine the relation of mother daughter relationship to well- being of the daughters with respect to self-esteem and life satisfaction. The sample was consisting of 426 female university students from Ankara and Kirsehir with a mean age of 21.62 (SD= 2.35). The scales which were used in that study are Adult Daughter Questionnaire (MAD) (Rastogi, 1995), The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965), The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, &
Griffin, 1985). Adult Daughter Questionnaire (MAD) (Rastogi, 1995) has been used to measure the current mother-daughter relationship. The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) has been used to measure global self esteem, and The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin, 1985) has been used to measure the global life satisfaction. The canonical correlation analysis was utilized to examine the relationships between the mother daughter questionnaire&rsquo
s subscales ( connectedness, interdependency and trust in hierarchy) and the two indicators of well being namely life satisfaction and self-esteem. The results of the study showed that the three indicators of the mother-daughter relationship (connectedness, interdependency, and trust in hierarchy) and the two indicators of well being (self-esteem and life satisfaction) were interrelated. In other words mother daughter relationship is positively related to life satisfaction and self esteem of the daughters.
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McBride, Noelene J. "Mothering matters: Being prepared to care." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2000. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36633/1/36633_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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This study focuses on understanding care provided by women who work as professional child carers. It provides knowledge of personal experiences and professional practices of professional carers and identifies how carers-in-training responded to statements about the caring role. Cultural feminist theoretical perspectives are adopted to theorise lived experiences of mothering and caring and to obtain insights into how personal experiences of being mothered influence professional caring practices with young children. Feminist methodologies supported the mixed-method, action oriented research design that also set out to record the subjective experiences of doing research. Six carers' personal experiences show being mothered as a significant factor in their professional care. Data from these six professional carers were used to survey carers-in-training to understand if there was a similar influence operating. The study provides insights into connections that existed between participants' experiences of growing up in relationships with their mothers and caring philosophies that continued to mediate their professional caring practices. Findings from carers-in-training suggested that personal experiences have the capacity to influence professional caring practices. The study concludes with some recommendations for child care training programs.
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Matsila, Pfarelo Brandy. "Intergenerational constructions of black feminine identity: Mother-daughter narratives." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75252.

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This study is focused on the relationship between mothers and their daughters, and the ways in which this relationship serves as a critical site from which black women (specifically from rural Venda area in Northern South Africa) construct their identities. Within the broad framework of qualitative research, this investigation employs a hybrid theoretical model rooted in black feminist epistemology incorporating standpoint feminism, feminist social constructionism, and intersectionality theory. The study draws on 18 interviews with mothers and daughters aged between 35-55 and 18-25 respectively. Using thematic narrative analysis, various themes, i.e. perceptions of femininity, intersectional nodes of femininity, and tensions between normative and counter normative constructions of femininity are explored to showcase shifts and changes in gendered narratives of femininity. The research finds that the multiple and varied ways in which identity is constructed is a complex relational process mediated by various social factors such as class, gender and location; and are consistent with the traditional conception of women as respectful, resilient, „silent‟, and nurturing. Furthermore, findings showed that most mothers played an active role in enforcing patriarchal ideologies of femininity, whereas most daughters actively challenged traditional conceptions of femininity to construct an empowered sense of femininity drawing from their mother‟s own lived experiences. The study further illustrates that the critical triangle of the self, motherhood and social location is a messy one that demands complex and dynamic understanding. This highlighted the need to use socio-cultural and socio-economic frameworks to investigate the multi-layered, complex process of femininity construction for women in rural areas, and how mothers and daughters in interaction with each other can become agents of social change in relation to gender relations.
Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development
Sociology
MSocSci
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Patsdaughter, Carol A. "The mother-daughter relationship in menopause and the aging process /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7208.

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Lawler, Stephanie. "Mothering the self : a study of the mother-daughter relationship." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296881.

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Bautista, Anna Marie. "Constructions of motherhood : Hollywood negotiations of the mother/daughter relationship /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2363652x.

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GUIMARAES, ISABEL MARIA CHAVES. "MOTHER AND DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP AND THE IMPASSES ON THE WAY TO FEMININITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=22243@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A presente dissertação tem por objetivo realizar um estudo, a partir de Freud e Lacan, sobre a constituição da feminilidade e sobre as dificuldades que as mulheres apresentam na realização dos seus vínculos amorosos. A análise das relações entre mães e filhas tornou-se o principal tema deste trabalho visto que a maioria dos textos psicanalíticos sobre a mulher abordam este assunto. Ficou evidente que o vínculo entre elas é estrutural e fundamental para se obter uma resposta sobre o feminino. Os conceitos de complexo de Édipo e de complexo de castração, e os estudos da constituição psíquica do sujeito neurótico são a base teórica.
This dissertation aims to conduct a study, based on Freud and Lacan, about the constitution of femininity and about the difficulties women present in the realization of their loving relationships. The analysis of mothers and daughters is the main theme of this work since the majority of psychoanalytical texts about women deal with this subject. It was clear that the relationship between them – mothers and daughters- is structural and fundamental in order to achieve an answer about the feminine. The theoretical base for this study constitutes of the concepts of Oedipus complex and castration complex, and the studies about the psychic constitution of the neurotic subject.
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