Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Black feminist epistemology (1)
- Black women (1)
- Consensual spanking (1)
- Cross-national research (1)
- Culture (1)
-
- DD (1)
- Depression (1)
- Doctor-patient relationship (1)
- Domestic discipline (1)
- Fertility (1)
- Fibroid impact on fertility (1)
- Infertility (1)
- Japan (1)
- Medicalization (1)
- Parental death (1)
- Patient agency (1)
- Procreation (1)
- Procreative technologies (1)
- Reproduction (1)
- Stress process model (1)
- Taken in hand (1)
- Traditional marriage (1)
- Uterine fibroids (1)
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
The Mental Health Consequences Of Losing A Parent: Does Culture Moderate The Impact Of Parental Death?, Daisuke Ito
The Mental Health Consequences Of Losing A Parent: Does Culture Moderate The Impact Of Parental Death?, Daisuke Ito
Sociology Dissertations
The death of a parent represents a potential traumatic life event that has been linked to depression in both Japan and the United States. Yet experiences surrounding death and ways of grieving are framed differently across cultures. At the individual level, the majority of the bereaved people in both Japan and the United States attempt to maintain bonds with the deceased family members. Being complementary to the individual-level desire, Japanese death-related beliefs and practices seem to provide a tool to maintain bonds. In contrast, American death-related beliefs and practices may be at odds with the individual desires by encouraging the …
Unbearable Fruit: Black Women's Experiences With Uterine Fibroids, Ranell L. Myles
Unbearable Fruit: Black Women's Experiences With Uterine Fibroids, Ranell L. Myles
Sociology Dissertations
Uterine Fibroids, medically termed uterine leiomyoma, are benign tumors of smooth muscle cells that grow in the uterus. While they are the most common pelvic neoplasm in women and fewer than 1 percent of fibroids develop into cancer, uterine fibroids can cause infertility, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and greatly affect one’s quality of life. Black women have been disproportionately affected by fibroids; when compared to white women, Black women are: 2-3 times more likely to have fibroids, diagnosed at a younger age, more likely to have 7 or more fibroids, more likely to have more severe and more troublesome symptoms (anemia, …
Assume The Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships, Melissa E. Travis
Assume The Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships, Melissa E. Travis
Sociology Dissertations
Discipline relationships are consensual adult relationships between submissive and dominant partners who employ authority and corporal punishment. This population uses social media to discuss the private nature of their ritualized fantasies, desires, and practices. Participants of these relationships resist a sadomasochistic label of BDSM or domestic abuse. I conducted in-depth interviews and narrative analysis of social media to explore experiences and identities of people in discipline relationships. The sample includes social media bloggers and past and present participants in discipline relationships. I compared explanations participants give for wanting and participating in discipline relationships. I combine identity theory, constructionism, post-structuralism, and …
From No Hope To Fertile Dreams: Procreative Technologies, Popular Media, And The Culture Of Infertility, Evelina W. Sterling
From No Hope To Fertile Dreams: Procreative Technologies, Popular Media, And The Culture Of Infertility, Evelina W. Sterling
Sociology Dissertations
Throughout history, both popular and scholarly literature depicted infertility as a devastating experience in a woman’s life. Infertility was unbearable, filled with stigma, and a perpetual state of conflict between those who cannot have children and the rest of the world who can. Until recently as treatments for infertility developed, families assumed childlessness as hopeless. While the process of overcoming infertility is still arduous, unpleasant and unpredictable, many options are available today to overcome infertility and have children. As a result, the portrayal of involuntary childlessness and infertility especially by popular media, changed significantly over the years. Current procreative technologies …