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Lone Motherhood in Historical Context: Changing Elements in Narrative Identity [PDF]
This paper examines lone motherhood through the lens of narrative identity. The data consists of the written life stories of seventeen Finnish lone mothers.
May, Vanessa
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Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology [PDF]
This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the ...
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Maternal and professional identity change during the transition to motherhood [PDF]
Becoming a mother derails many women’s chances for career progression. One reason for this is that women leave organisations when they become mothers, or reduce their working hours. Another reason is that people within the organisation start to view them
Kutzer, Roxanne
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The Vase in Paintings of the Annunciation, a Polyvalent Symbol of the Virgin Mary
This article tries to highlight the deep doctrinal meanings underlying the vase that is often included in artistic depictions of the Annunciation.
José María Salvador-González
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Sicily has an impressive number of terracottas representing women with children, between them we find a very rare motif in the ancient world (above all in continental Greece) : the breast-feeding woman.
Giulia Pedrucci
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Macro-Concepts of Rod and Makosh: A Comparative Analysis of Motivating Signs
The article describes the macro-concepts Rod (a Slavic female deity) and Makosh (a Slavic female deity) in the Russian linguistic culture. It is the first attempt to analyze these macro-concepts in terms of conceptual signs.
Yu. V. Vayrakh, G. O. Ibraimova
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A Critical Discursive Analysis of ‘Older’ Motherhood [PDF]
Over the past few decades the number of ʻolder mothersʼ – women who begin their families at age 35 or over, has markedly increased. Concerns about rising numbers of ʻolder mothersʼ have been expressed by health professionals, who have warned of the risks
Budds, Kirsty
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Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way ...
Schumann, Eva, +3 more
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Comparative Analysis of Practical Contradiction of Attaining Knowledge and the Mission of Motherhood in the Human Perfection with the Tendency of Practical Morality [PDF]
The position of women as half of the population of the world and their role in the social life is the effective and impressive affair, and study of it, given their existential dispositions and capacities, is a necessary issue.
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“Be welcome in peace, my son!” Beautiful West and motherhood practices in CT 30-37
This paper analyses the role of the divine entity Beautiful West in the liturgy CT 30-37, in which she is referred to as the mother of the deceased and examine the maternal practices she is said to perform. To achieve this, each stanza mentioning her is
Beatriz Noria Serrano
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