Where have all the mothers gone? : The liminalities of child loss in contemporary drama

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Natalie Melle McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Social Drama ◽  
Child Loss ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Feminist Performance ◽  
Autobiographical Performance ◽  
Child Deaths ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation, "Where Have All the Mothers Gone?: The Liminalities of Child Loss in Contemporary Drama," focuses on the liminal states in which female characters in two specific plays, my autobiographical play And Then It Was Gone and Marina Carr's play By the Bog of Cats, find themselves due to various forms of child loss, such as infanticide and miscarriage, the social drama processes they encounter along the way, and the rituals with which they may release themselves from these transitional states. The social processing of child deaths is present in these plays as a literal (social) drama and as a concept discussed by performance studies scholar Victor Turner. As such, I draw upon Turner's notions of social drama performance and other scholarship centered around autobiographical performance. Also influential in my research are works by Leigh Gilmore and more modern feminist performance studies scholarship such as works by Judith Butler. I use these works to examine the aforementioned plays and the readings, performances, and productions thereof. And Then It Was Gone received a workshop reading at the Missouri Playwrights Workshop in 2016 and a concert reading at the Mizzou New Play Series in 2017. I directed a sold-out production of Marina Carr's play By the Bog of Cats for the mainstage season of the University of Missouri Department of Theatre in the fall of 2017.

La poesia testimonial Womanista de Excilia Saldaña, Nancy Morejón y Georgina Herrera

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Ana Zapata-Calle
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Nicolas Guillen ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Patricia Hill Collins ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My Ph.D thesis, entitled "The Womanist Testimonial Poetry Written by Excilia Saldana, Nancy Morejon and Georgina Herrera," is a post-colonial, sociological, and historiographical analysis of the testimonial poetry written by three Afro-Cuban women poets. The theoretical framework applied is the social theory of womanism from Kemberle Crenshaw, Patricia Hill Collins and Clenora Hudson-Weens, among others. This theory received its name from Alice Walker, who proposed it for the first time in her book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983), and fills a gap that previously existed between western feminism and ethnic studies. The poems of these three authors describe not only the simultaneous oppression of gender and race that the Afro-Cuban women suffer within their society, but also celebrate the tradition, history, beauty, spirituality, arts and accomplishments of black women as a collective and cultural group. Thus, Excilia Saldana's, Nancy Morejon's and Georgina Herrera's work emerge from a different perspective than the poetry of Nicolas Guillen and the testimonial novel of Miguel Barnet, which had previously provided the main Afro-Cuban representation in the literary canon of the twentieth century. In particular, these three poets write from the female gender approach and about the social reality of Afro-Cuban peoples in the contemporary historical period. The dissertation is composed of an introduction, three chapters, one for each writer, and a conclusion. The first chapter is about Excilia Saldana's poems "Mi Nombre (Antielegia familiar)" and "Monologo de la esposa". Her work portrays a society full of violence and contradictions that causes the fragmentation of the black woman's identity. The phenomena of alienation, endoracism, gender and racial oppression, as well as the sexual trade in Cuba, are included in the analysis. The writer uses her poetry to ask for respect for the Afro-Cuban woman, considering her as a full human being and citizen. The s

The social complexity of woman and child valuation in rural Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Roslyn Fraser Schoen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Local Effects ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Rural Bangladesh ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is about the lives of women and girls during a period of economic and demographic change in rural Bangladesh. This bulk of this change, often referred to as economic development, occurs at the intersection of social and economic institutions at a time when agricultural modes of production are being replaced by wage labor within a globalizing labor market. The lived experiences of this change are structured by family and kinship arrangements, ideology, history, tradition, and deeply-internalized gender norms. The purpose of this research is to document via ethnographic methods several important local effects of the shift to a wage-based economic mode from the perspective of women in terms of their roles as wives, mothers, and daughters.

A lacanian reply to Marx : the necessity of topology in the formation of the social

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Lawrence Loiseau
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Link ◽  
True Source ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study addresses Lacan's comments on Marx. While much has been done towards reading Marx with psychoanalysis generally, little had has been done to unpack the meaning and extent of Lacan's own statements on Marx. For example, while Lacanian Marxists like Slavoj Zizek have wielded Lacan to great effect in a critique of post-structuralism, they have neglected the full meaning and complexity of Lacan's own stance. What is argued thereby is that Zizek not only omits the discrete knowledge within Lacan's commentary, but misses what I describe as a Lacan's theory of the social. On the one hand, it is commonly known in Lacanian thought that discourse is responsible for making the subject. On the other hand, what is less known is that Lacan defined discourse as that which makes a social link which, in contrast with Marxist thought, introduces a certain affect and materialism premised on discourse itself, commonly known, but also for providing the underlying strata of topology (namely, paradox) requisite for making any social link between subjects. Although less commonly known, we can nevertheless gain new insight into Marx. On the one hand, Lacan concedes Marx's underlying structuralism. On the other hand, Marx fails to see the true source of discourse's origins, the real itself, and consequently fails to see the true efficacy of discourse. He fails to see how discourse, although negative, stands as entirely positive and material in its distinctive effects. Discourse negotiates subjects and their inimitable objects of desire in this singularity itself. This is where true production lies; it is that which precedes any social or economic theory, which are otherwise premised on reality. Lacan rejects reality.

Determinants of international cooperation : reciprocity, opportunity, and cooperative norms

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Jeremy Bowling
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Evolution Of Cooperation ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Indirect Reciprocity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation examines few of the determinants and effects of international cooperation. There are three broad themes that run throughout this dissertation, which are the ideas of reciprocity, opportunity, and cooperative norms. Reciprocity is a large part of the development of cooperation theory, particularly in the study of the evolution of cooperation. While it is mentioned across international relations scholarship, empirical testing of its existence in international politics is scarce. Opportunity is a ubiquitous concept across social science. The concept is used in this dissertation as a challenge to the notion that cooperation reduces the likelihood of conflict, which pervades the study of international conflict, particularly from those that study conflict from the theory of liberalism. Lastly, an exploratory analysis of cooperative norms is examined. Studying the social construction of cooperative norms is important for the broader study of international cooperation. I find that direct and indirect reciprocity are important indicators of cooperation, cooperation will increase the likelihood and severity of dyadic conflict unless both states are highly cooperative with each other, and domestic political institutions may be important for the development of cooperative norms that extend to the international level. Overall, international relations scholars should reexamine how cooperation in viewed and studied, particularly in relation to conflict.

Danger Delights: Texts of Gender and Race in Aerial Performance

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (45) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Peta Tait
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Separation

Circus artists, especially aerial performers and wire-walkers, transgress and reconstruct the boundaries of racial and gender identity as part of their routine. In the following article, Peta Tait analyzes the careers of two twentieth-century Australian aerialists of Aboriginal descent who had to assume alternative racial identities to facilitate and enhance their careers. Both Con Colleano, who became a world-famous wire-walker in the 1920s, and Dawn de Ramirez, a side-show and circus aerialist who worked in Europe in the 1960s, undermined the social separation of masculine and feminine behaviours in their acts. Theories of the body and identity, including those of Foucault and Judith Butler, inform this critique of the performing body in circus. The author, Peta Tait, is a playwright and drama lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She is author of Original Women's Theatre (1993) and Converging Realities: Feminism in Australian Theatre (1994).

Butler, Judith (1956–)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University ◽  
Washington University

Judith Butler (1956–) is an American philosopher working in feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis and continental philosophy. She is known for her work on gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability and identity. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Butler attended Bennington College and did her graduate work in philosophy at Yale University, receiving her PhD in 1984. She has held teaching positions at Wesleyan University, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University, and since 1993 has taught at the University of California at Berkeley. Butler engages a wide range of themes across her work, including but not limited to sexed and gendered embodiment, performativity, psychic and political subjection, public assembly, war, violence, dispossession and vulnerability. Despite the impressive breadth and range of her writings, Butler’s corpus evidences a sustained interest in various kinds of susceptibility, vulnerability, exposure and dispossession that constitute the human subject both ethically and ontologically. Dispossession operates for Butler in several registers: the political, the ethical, the personal, the intersubjective, the social and the symbolic. She writes on the vulnerability of sexed and gendered minorities to both physical and psychic violence, the failures of recognition and misrecognition that render certain groups disproportionately available to harm, the vulnerability of the nation-state and the illusory nature of sovereignty, the vulnerability of all subjects to myriad forms of normative violence, and the precarious access to basic human needs endured by certain populations. Butler also explores the idea that gender itself operates as a mode of dispossession.

Exploring stress, self-efficacy, empowerment, and quality of life as outcomes of the social competence intervention : parent workshop

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Rose M. O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dissertation Research ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Autism Treatments ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Show

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Autism Spectrum Disorders are increasing in prevalence (CDC, 2014), and can cause a number of negative outcomes for caregivers who raise these children. Most of what is known about Autism treatments focus on the children who have autism, but there are limited resources for their caregivers. However, because these caregivers are also experiencing significant problems, it is important to focus on focusing on their needs as well. Although workshops are often used as a way to share information with parents, there has been limited research that shows that parents benefit from these learning opportunities. This dissertation research focuses on working with caregivers on issues their children may experience as a way to make them feel less stressed about caring for their child, feel confident in their ability to address their children's needs, feel better physically and mentally, and to feel like they can advocate on behalf of their child. Overall, the results of this dissertation research show that while some parents may experience improvements in these areas, others did not. While the reasoning for the variability in response to this workshop is currently unknown, it does show that this is an area in need of more investigation in the future.

Relaciones familiares conflictivas y resignificaci�n de la familia en la narrativa de escritoras Mexicanas contempor�neas

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Reina Muro Drake
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The University ◽  
Sobre Todo

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Esta disertación se basa en el estudio de tres novelas mexicanas, Amora de Rosamaría Roffiel, Dos mujeres y Vida y peripecias de una buena hija de familia de Sara Levi-Calderón, enfocadas en la re-presentación de las relaciones familiares conflictivas y la resignificación de la familia en la narrativa de escritoras mexicanas contemporáneas. En este estudio se intenta demostrar que los trabajos narrativos actuales con temática lésbica son transgresores porque en ellos se subvierten las construcciones culturales del sistema patriarcal mexicano tales como los conceptos de: familia nuclear, instinto maternal y supremacía del padre. La narrativa lésbica de estas escritoras mexicanas se apoya en las perspectivas feministas para desestabilizar esos códigos culturales y sociales que obligan a la mujer a cumplir con sus funciones reproductivas biológicas como si fuera su única meta en la vida. Como lo demuestran las narradoras/protagonistas de estas novelas, las mujeres pueden escoger amar a otras mujeres, negarse a ser madres y distanciarse de los miembros de su famiia nuclear. La relación lésbica de las protagonistas nos invita a reflexionar sobre la vida y los problemas que enfrentan en la sociedad conservadora mexicana las mujeres que vi transgreden el orden social heteronormativo. Las personajas de estas novelas sufren violencia genérica aún dentro de su familia nuclear, por lo que terminan por rebelarse y buscar nuevas relaciones afectivas que las ayuden a liberarse de las imposiciones del patriarcado. Estas subjetividades forman uniones familiares alternativas a las modelizaciones tradicionales donde predomina el amor, la buena comunicación y el respeto mutuo. La mejor manera que estas subversivas protagonistas encuentran de liberarse de las agresiones físicas y psicológicas que sufren de parte de sus familiares masculinos es la independizarse económicamente de ellos y encontrar un espacio propio donde puedan escribir sus propias historias del lucha social. Con sus aportaciones literarias, Rosamaría Roffiel y Sara Levi Calderón han abierto el camino para que otras escritoras mexicanas usen sus obras artísticas como un medio para abogar por la liberación y aceptación de los sujetos pertenecientes a la comunidad de LGBTQ. Las ideas feministas pueden ser el instrumento para que estas autoras visibilicen las experiencias de dichos sujetos marginalizados por el sistema patriarcal que privilegia al sujeto masculino heterosexual. Entonces, esta investigación utiliza como marco teórico las ideas de Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, Lucía Guerra Cunningham, Adrianne Rich, Sharon Magnarelli, Mauren Baker, Darja Zorc-Maver y Norma Mongrovejo Aquise, entre otras. La finalidad de este análisis es comenzar un debate no solo sobre las diferencias de género sexual, sino sobre todo de que existen nuevas alternativas del concepto de familia.

Living and dying Lakota : an ethnography of a tribal nursing home

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Anastacia Schulhoff
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Institutional Culture ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Resonance ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This ethnographic research looks at people who reside, visit, and work at a Native American tribal nursing home. Using grounded theory to sort through 18 months of participant observations, extensive fieldnotes, and 22 interviews -- 12 with staff, three administrators, and seven residents' interviews -- my findings show that there is a complex tension between institutional and cultural particulars competing with one another in a tribal nursing home. The goal of this dissertation is to make visible the assemblages of meaning that are passed over by managerial views of nursing homes. By doing so, I show that a tribal nursing home cannot simply be understood as another nursing home, but must be understood in terms of its cultural resonance. I show how different fields of meaning engender culturally specific signifying practices and narratives that construct the nursing home under study as distinctly "Native American." Fields in this context is much like the social worlds that Gubrium (1975) defines as a setting where they create order, meaning, and structure. I trace how particular objects of signification practices -- family talk, discursive and material anchors, and ceremonies - help define what it means to be Native American in a tribal nursing home, thus constructing a unique institutional culture. This dissertation begins to fill the large gap in the fields of gerontology and sociology about Native Americans in general, and Native Americans use and understanding of nursing homes, in particular.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

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