228 research outputs found
Lenore Hart, 31st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textLenore Hart is the author of the novels Waterwoman (a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Authors title), Ordinary Springs, and Black River. Her recent novel, Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher (2008), follows Twain’s characters Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher — as adults — through Civil War-era Missouri, the Comstock mines of the Sierra Nevada and San Francisco. Her books for children include T. Rex at Swan Lake and The Treasure of Savage Island. She lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with her husband, novelist David Poyer
The Meaning of Health among Midlife Russian-Speaking Women in the United States
No full textThis study sought to explore the meaning of health among midlife Russian-speaking women from the Former Soviet Union. A hermeneutic, phenomenologic, descriptive and interpretive design following the Utrecht School was used. The setting was in an ethnic community in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The sample included 12 Russian-speaking women who also spoke English, ages 40-61, who migrated after 1991 to the United States. Methods included hermeneutic phenomenology, which combined descriptive and interpretive phenomenology, and content analysis of verbatim transcriptions of open-ended individual interviews. Six major themes were identified: health as a highly valued possession; being a stranger/seeking the familiar; grieving and loss/building a new life; experiencing changes and transitions; trusting self; and importance of hope. Conclusions were that the women value health, are knowledgeable about health, participate in self-care practices, trust their own abilities to make self-care decisions, and seek out health-related information. At the same time, this is a vulnerable population at risk for the onset of chronic medical conditions associated with the process of aging, past exposures, and current stressors related to migration and the tendency to avoid health screening. Implications for nursing practice include the need for interventions to build trust and to assess both self-care practices and values concerning end-of-life issues. Future research recommendations include replication of this study with other samples within this population, further investigation of curative practices, and exploration of the meaning of death and end-of-life issues
The meaning of health among midlife Russian-speaking women in the United States
No full textThis study sought to explore the meaning of health among midlife Russian-speaking women from the Former Soviet Union. A hermeneutic, phenomenologic, descriptive and interpretive design following the Utrecht School was used
What Is It Beat Women Want? A New Reading of ruth weiss, Lenore Kandel and Joanne Kyger
No full textEl objetivo de este estudio es analizar la poesia de ruth weiss, Lenore Kandel y Joanne
Kyger para determinar cómo se diferencia su producción literaria de la de los hombres.
Parafraseando a Kyger, mi análisis estará guiado por las respuestas que cada autora
proponga para la pregunta ‘¿Qué es lo que quieren las mujeres?’. ruth weiss se esfuerza
por encontrar una identidad propia y opta por crear una poesía sin género; Lenore Kandel
se identifica claramente con la transgresión, pero su idea de identidad femenina revela
aspectos que subordinan la mujer al hombre; Joanne Kyger expone las ansiedades de la
maternidad y el matrimonio, mientras intenta crear un equilibrio entre su rol doméstico y
su trabajo creativo. Esta nueva lectura muestra que, pese a que casi siempre hay un intento
de transgresión presente en su poesia, como en la de los hombres, su particular interés
está en identificar el más intimo deseo de la mujer.The present study aims to analyse the poetry of ruth weiss, Lenore Kandel and Joanne
Kyger in order to determine how the literary production of the women of the Beat
Generation differs from the men’s. Paraphrasing one of Kyger’s lines, my analysis will
be guided by the answers that each author may give to the question ‘What is it that women
want?’. ruth weiss struggles to find an identity of her own and opts to create a genderless
poetry; Lenore Kandel clearly identifies with transgression, but her notion of female
identity discloses features that subordinate it to the man’s; Joanne Kyger exposes the
anxieties of motherhood and marriage, as she strives to balance her domestic role and her
creative work. This new reading shows that, while an intent of transgression is somehow
always present in their poetry, as in the men’s, identifying a woman’s innermost desire is
their own distinctive concern.Departamento de Filología InglesaGrado en Estudios Inglese
Comparing Student Role Perceptions: Traditional to Community-Based Curriculum
No full textThis phenomenological study explored role perceptions of senior baccalaureate nursing students in a traditional curriculum (TC) and a community-based curriculum (CBC) following one U.S. schools curriculum revision. Researchers inquired into that moment when students intervened like a nurse. Results were analyzed by groups and then compared. The assumptions and style of the Dutch school of phenomenology guided the collection and analysis of data. Among identified themes were traditional nursing role functions. Students from the CBC perceived a comparatively broader scope for nursing practice, broader definition of client, and a more nuanced description of the nurses role. Seniors from the TC described a developmental trajectory which culminated in being able to intervene like a nurse. Responses from both participant groups confirm the importance of nurse-client and nurse-nurse proximities for the development of professional nursing in both structured and unstructured settings.</jats:p
Navigating interpretive authorities: women readers and reading models in the eighteenth century
No full textChallenging existing notions of the oppositional reader, this dissertation proposes the model of limited interpretive authority as a new way of understanding reading practices in eighteenth-century England. It examines the women readers of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa as illustrations of this concept. Chapter 1, a literature review, suggests that even as methodologies become more flexible, the modern, individual, and secular reader continues to inform studies of historical reading. Arguing that the field requires a reading model describing more limited individual interpretive authority, this chapter turns to eighteenth-century instructions for reading the Bible. These texts employ a language of self-discipline and self-censorship that characterizes reading which negotiates, instead of rejecting, interpretive authority. Chapter 2 explores the historically problematic emphasis on oppositional reading in the study of women readers. A review of these methodological problems is followed by an examination of Hester Mulso Chapone's 1773 Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. This influential conduct book theorizes and recommends socially-embedded reading practices; in recuperating novelistic reading practices for the reading of the Bible, this text reflects a key change in reading practices. The chapter argues for extending the search for evidence of reading to the didactic texts usually believed to merely constrain readers. The final two chapters examine the implied readers and historical readers of Samuel Richardson's 1747-48 novel Clarissa. Chapter 3 examines internal reading strategies. Clarissa's interpretive practice changes as she moves from acting in the social world to spiritual retreat. Silences in response to her family's coercion--representing a form of passive disobedience--are replaced by a refusal to narrate. This refusal signifies Clarissa's removal from the interpretive conflicts of the material world. Clarissa's self-transcendence invites us to imagine some readers' desire for similar self-transcendence. Using both published and archival letters, Chapter 4 tests and extends the models of reading proposed by the novel itself. Anna Howe, this chapter proposes, not Clarissa, provides the model of reading most often employed by readers. Reading like Anna Howe, or reading in a mode of filial disobedience, reveals a way to navigate, without necessarily rejecting, the interpretive dictates of patriarchy.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226)
Fighting for the forests: a history of the Western Australian forest protest movement 1895-2001
No full textAs the first comprehensive study of Western Australian forest protest the thesis analyses the protest movement's organisation, campaigns and strategies. Its central argument is that the contemporary Western Australian forest protest movement established a network of urban and south-west activist groups which encouraged broad public support, and that a diversity of protest strategies focused public attention on forest issues and pressured the state government to change its forest policies. The forest protest movement was characterised by its ability to continually adapt its organisation and strategies to changing social and political conditions. This flexible approach to protest not only led to victories in the Shannon River Basin, Lane-Poole Reserve and old growth forest campaigns, but also transformed forest protest into an influential social movement which contributed to the downfall of the Court Liberal Government in 2001
The Value of Dialogue when Planning and Conducting Phenomenological Research: Reflections of a Dissertation Chair and Doctoral Student
No full textLandscapes of food production in agriburbia: Farmland protection and local food movements in British Columbia
No full textPost World War II suburban growth in Canada and the US has created concern over the long-term availability of farmland to meet food production needs. Subsequent efforts to provide legal protection to agricultural land continue to shape the development of the fringes of nearby urban areas. This paper employs the concept of “agriburbia,” suburban landscapes in which agriculture maintains a significant presence, to investigate the relationship between peri-urban farmland preservation efforts and local food movements. Through a case study analysis of Vancouver, British Columbia's suburb of Richmond, we assess the impact of a strict agricultural land use restriction on urban development. We highlight a dialectic between rural and urban that includes fruitful interactions between large-scale and commercial agriculture, small plot agriculture, and local food movements in both the agriburb and its neighboring city.Peer reviewedFarmland protection; Rural-urban interface; Agriburbia; Local food; Peri-urban agricultur
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