Queer postmemory

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-273
Author(s):  
Dilara Çalışkan
Keyword(s):  
Personal Memory ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Generational Transmission ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Trans Women ◽  
With Memory ◽  
Memory Transmission

Drawing on 10 years of activism in Turkey’s trans movement and seven months of fieldwork in Istanbul on mutually formed mother and daughter relationship among trans women, this article looks at alternative understandings of ‘inter-generational’ transmission of memory. How can we engage alternative family making processes and non-normative formations of time with memory transmission rather than merely identify ‘inter-generational’ memory in advance with pre-established non-normative systems? Or can we talk about ‘inter-generational’ memories without knowing what ‘generation’ really means? Inspired by these questions, Marianne Hirsch’s work on postmemory and narratives of self-identified trans mothers and daughters, in this article the author discusses the conceptualization of ‘queer postmemory’ in order to think critically on unmarked temporal and familial dimensions in the study of collective and personal memory. While refusing to position memory as an outcome of predetermined temporal frameworks within normative understandings of family, the author looks at strangely remembered things through glimpses of other types of time, other types of relationalities and other types of inheritability.

scholarly journals Interfaces of affectivity and interpersonal bonds building in the mental health of mothers and daughters victims of sexual abuse

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mariana De Silvério Arantes ◽  
Maria Inês Gandolfo Conceição
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Victims Of Sexual Abuse ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Family Mental Health

The objective was to investigate the affection in the bond mother and daughter victims of sexual abuse, understanding the affective logics of conduct, and to investigate transgenerational issues and mental health. Three families from an assistance program to victims of sexual abuse participated in this study conducted by means of home visits, semi-structured interviews with parents, genograms for viewing the families’ life cycle. The analysis of the results used the constructive-interpretative method of González Rey, resulting in four areas of meaning which revealed: 1) transgenerational abuse issues in learning about protection, 2) development of links patterns, 3) affective logics of conduct built on the experiences of the roles and 4) aggressiveness as a interpersonal bond pattern in victims of violence. We perceived the the importance of welcoming families with their pains, opening a safe space to identify and express themselves, trying to break patterns transgenerational lack of protection, avoiding revictimization, and trying to promote family mental health.

scholarly journals Dire consequences of devastated motherhood and daring daughters- A Diasporic perspective of Chitra Banerjee’s Before We Visit the Goddess

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 2965-2968
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Life Goals ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ◽  
Familial Relationship ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
The Impact

This study is focused on the novel Before We Visit the Goddess that deals with the mother and daughter relationship and their lives both in India and as immigrants in America. The diasporic writer, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni discovers the nuances of details connecting India to Texas, intertwining the emotions of three courageous women who struggle to attain their independence and fulfil their life goals. During the process of attaining their goal, they break the rules, and compromise with situations that compel them to commit mistakes in piles, both irrevocable and irredeemable. Divakaruni, makes clear that Indian women living abroad as well as in India devastate their life for all fault of their own. Every form of relationship that women establish with others, less exercising their discerning sense brings doom upon themselves. The worst of all troubles they face is due to their own disillusionment. Sabitri, Bela and Tara are three women representing three generations,though had an opportunity to fulfil their dreams either sexually get involved with men or take reckless decisions that bring them inexplicable woes and sufferings. The interpersonal relationship among themselves gets jeopardised. Yetthey determine to sustain their bond and confront the challenges daringly. This paper is an attempt not only to diagnose the impact of conflict and controversies between mothers and daughters, but also to explore the themes of Cultural Nostalgia, Familial Relationship and Immigrant Identity from diasporic perspective

scholarly journals The ‘other woman’ in a mother and daughter relationship: The case of Mami Ji

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Creese ◽  
Adrian Blackledge
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Project ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Break Time ◽  
Other Woman ◽  
Speech Events

ABSTRACTThis article describes the range of discursive strategies in the socializing messages of a mother and daughter interaction. The analysis draws on the work of Bakhtin (1981) and Tannen (2007) to interrogate the role of a physically absent but discursively present sister-in-law, ‘Mami Ji’, across three speech events. Following Tannen, we show how the characterisation of the sister-in-law, Mami Ji, has chronotopic value that connects mother and daughter in the present and makes links across family histories. Through the discursive strategies of repetition, dialogue, detail, and translanguaging, ‘Mami Ji’ becomes an iconic benchmark of how not to speak, how not to dress, and how not to behave. Drawing on material from a linguistic ethnography approach, we present three discourse analyses from a much larger international project that also looked at classroom interaction and break-time conversations. The article contributes to the under-researched topic of the representation of sisters-in-law in discourse, theorises the chronotope in everyday conversation, and demonstrates how mother and daughter solidarity is achieved through opposition to another female family member. (Chronotope, linguistic involvement strategies, translanguaging, socialisation, sister-in-laws, mothers and daughters)

Between Races and Generations: Materializing Race and Kinship in Moraga and Irigaray

Hypatia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina L. Hom
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Primary Difference ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Other Woman

Juxtaposing Cherríe Moraga'sLoving in the War Yearsand Luce Irigaray'sSpeculum of the Other Woman, I explore the ways that sex and race intersect to complicate an Irigarayan account of the relations between mother and daughter. Irigaray's work is an effective tool for understanding the disruptive and potentially healing desire between mothers and daughters, but her insistence on sex as primary difference must be challenged in order to acknowledge the intersectionality of sex and race. Working from recent work on the psychoanalysis of race, I argue that whiteness functions as a master signifier in its own right, and as a means of differentiation between the light‐skinned Moraga and her brown‐skinned mother. Irigaray's concept of blood deepens Moraga's account of her healing and subversive return to her mother. The juxtaposition of Moraga, Irigaray, and contemporary psychoanalysis of race can allow for a necessary revision of Irigaray's psychoanalysis that acknowledges the ways in which sexual difference is indexed by race and sheds new light on her account of the mother–daughter relation.

scholarly journals Researcher’s Reflection: Learning About Menstruation Across Time and Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 441-447
Author(s):  
Sheryl E. Mendlinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Immigration Process ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Mendlinger looks at the ethnically pluralistic society of Israel to explore how young women acquire the knowledge informing their health behaviors including those related to menstruation. Beginning with the origin story of her research agenda at a time of mass immigration to Israel, she then offers the main findings from 48 in-depth interviews with mothers and daughters that fall into several categories of mother-and-daughter dyads: native-born Israelis and those composed of immigrants from North Africa, Europe, the Former Soviet Union (FSU), United States or Canada, and Ethiopia, each bringing traditional knowledge and practices to bear on what it means to menstruate. Mendlinger’s work, anchored by the voices of women, vividly demonstrates that four types of knowledge: traditional, embodied, technical, and authoritative that are passed generationally from mother to daughter change through the immigration process.

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

Intergenerational Family Relations in Luxembourg

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Albert ◽  
Dieter Ferring ◽  
Tom Michels
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Acculturation Gap ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Model Family

According to the intergenerational solidarity model, family members who share similar values about family obligations should have a closer relationship and support each other more than families with a lower value consensus. The present study first describes similarities and differences between two family generations (mothers and daughters) with respect to their adherence to family values and, second, examines patterns of relations between intergenerational consensus on family values, affectual solidarity, and functional solidarity in a sample of 51 mother-daughter dyads comprising N = 102 participants from Luxembourgish and Portuguese immigrant families living in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Results showed a small generation gap in values of hierarchical gender roles, but an acculturation gap was found in Portuguese mother-daughter dyads regarding obligations toward the family. A higher mother-daughter value consensus was related to higher affectual solidarity of daughters toward their mothers but not vice versa. Whereas affection and value consensus both predicted support provided by daughters to their mothers, affection mediated the relationship between consensual solidarity and received maternal support. With regard to mothers, only affection predicted provided support for daughters, whereas mothers’ perception of received support from their daughters was predicted by value consensus and, in the case of Luxembourgish mothers, by affection toward daughters.

Mother and Daughter on Mentoring and Being Mentored

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asuncion M. Austria ◽  
A. Marie M. Austria
Keyword(s):  
Mother And Daughter
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