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Voices from the past: memory and desire in Marina Warner’s radio play Brigit’s Cell
No full textThis article examines Marina Warner’s radio play Birgitta’s Cell (BBC Radio 4), later published as Brigit’s Cell (2010) focusing on the themes of memory and desire. By drawing on Jan Assman’s theories on collective memory, the article shows how the two time levels Warner builds in the radio drama succeed in creating a fresh connection between women in the past and in the present as well as between individual and collective experience. The
analysis of Warner’s work focuses on the dramatization of the story, taking into account the results offered by the use of the spoken word, fragments of dialogues, interior monologues, silences, enhanced, by its initial destination for the radio
Natural Limits and other stories/Limiti naturali e altre storie
No full textIl volume Natural Limits and other stories/Limiti naturali e altre storie costituisce la prima edizione italiana dei racconti di cinque dell'autrice britannica Marina Warner, con testo a fronte e introduzione critica
Women who had positive relationships with their own mothers reported good attachments to their first child before and after birth
No full textAim: Bowlby’s attachment intergenerational transmission theory suggests that a woman’s attachment to her parents, particularly her mother, plays an important role in her future parenting. We studied whether there was any association between pregnant women’s attachment to their baby before and after birth and their relationships with their mothers. Methods: A longitudinal study was carried out in 2015 on 201 first-time mothers recruited in the maternity ward of the level two Misericordia e Dolce Hospital in Prato, Italy. At
32 weeks of pregnancy, the women filled in the Parental Bonding Instrument and the Prenatal Attachment Inventory and their spontaneous attachment behaviour towards their newborn infants were observed in the nursery during the first two days after childbirth. Results: Having a good relationship with their own mothers was a positive predictor for the women’s prenatal attachment to their baby and caregiving and attachment behaviour to their newborn infants. In addition, the mothers’ prenatal attachment positively predicted their behavioural attachment pattern after birth.
Conclusion: We found that women who had positive relationships with their own mothers also had positive attachments to their unborn babies and in the period immediately after birth. Our findings supported Bowlby’s attachment intergenerational transmission theory
Mothers’ Social Perceived Support, Anxiety and Prenatal Attachment to Child: Which Direct and Indirect Influences on Delivery Clinical Indices?
No full textThis study investigates the reciprocal, direct and indirect influences that the social support mothers perceive during pregnancy, their states of anxiety, and prenatal attachment to the child have on the quality of the mother’s delivery experience. In particular, we tested a complex theoretical model hypothesizing that maternal social perceived support could influence clinical delivery indices, both directly and indirectly, through the mediate effects of a mother’s anxiety state and her prenatal attachment to her child.
A longitudinal design at two different times was carried out on 167 nulliparous no risk pregnant women. The women completed the Maternal Social Support Questionnaire, Prenatal Attachment Inventory, and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory- Y during the third trimester of pregnancy. Then, the first day after childbirth, clinical data on delivery (duration of labor, administration of oxytocin and epidural analgesia) were collected. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to investigate the theoretical hypothesized model, using robust procedures.
SEM analyses showed that the tested model has a good fit to the data. Social support perceived by mothers during pregnancy plays an important role as a significant protection factor to reduce the negative clinical aspects of their childbirth experience, both directly and indirectly, through the promotion of maternal prenatal attachment to child, mediated by a reduction of the mother’s anxiety states connected to pregnancy and delivery experiences
Cibo, corporeità e spiritualità in Sante Impossibili di Michèle Roberts: la visione sovversiva del sacro pasto
No full textThis paper takes into consideration the interconnections between, food, sexuality and spirituality which constitute the core of Michèle Roberts's novel Impossible Saints. We shall be focusing on the process of cannibalization of women's bodies, considering the term both in a metaphorical and in a literal sense with relation to the stories told in the novel.
We shall examine the relationship between Roberts's "new" saints and food and the desecratory, macabre representations that the author offers of the sacred meal
MATERNAL SOCIAL SUPPORT AND THE QUALITY OF DELIVERY 
No full textIntroduction. Social support plays a significant role on physical and psychological wellbeing of pregnant women. The aim of this study was to test a complex theoretical model hypothesizing that social support mothers perceive during pregnancy, could influence clinical delivery indices, both directly and indirectly, through the mediate effects of the mothers’ anxiety states and their prenatal attachment to their child. Method. A longitudinal design at two different times was carried out on 167 pregnant women (age M = 31.84, SD = 4.92). Inclusion criteria were to be nulliparous native Italian women, no risk pregnancy, and single fetus. All participant completed the Maternal Social Support Scale (MSS; Webster et al., 2000; Dabrassi et al., 2009) that allow to measure a global score about the maternal perceived social support; the State Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y2; Spielberger et al., 1983; Predabissi et al., 1989), which assesses the state of anxiety; and the Prenatal Attachment Inventory (PAI; Muller, 1993; Della Vedova et al., 2008) that measures the mother’s attachment bond to child during pregnancy. Moreover, at the first day after childbirth, clinical data of delivery were collected. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was employed to investigate the theoretical hypothesized model.
Results. The results confirmed that the social support mothers perceived during pregnancy promote a more positive experience of delivery, both directly, protecting women from clinical difficulties of the delivery, and indirectly, reducing the occurrence of maternal anxiety states and promoting a more secure prenatal attachment to child
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