Submitted by Nara Lays Domingues Viana Oliveira (naradv) on 2015-07-07T14:42:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RositaEstevesPsico.pdf: 4589927 bytes, checksum: 1571c9cace25a7d8e1598aa32bf7c141 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-07T14:42:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RositaEstevesPsico.pdf: 4589927 bytes, checksum: 1571c9cace25a7d8e1598aa32bf7c141 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-21 / Nenhuma / Este estudo buscou analisar e compreender como se apresenta a imagem do corpo em jovens mulheres com bulimia em relação aos próprios ideais e aos de sua mãe. O foco do estudo centrou-se nos aspectos psíquicos referentes à constituição da imagem do corpo e suas alterações na bulimia, utilizando o referencial psicanalítico. Também foram examinadas pesquisas científicas atuais que tratam da imagem do corpo e da bulimia. A abordagem foi qualitativo-exploratória, utilizando como estratégia o procedimento de estudo de casos múltiplos. As participantes do estudo foram duas jovens do sexo feminino, com idades de 19 e 24 anos, com diagnóstico de bulimia e suas respectivas mães. O estudo de cada jovem e sua mãe foi considerado um caso. O acesso aos casos se deu através de encaminhamento por profissionais especialistas do Centro de Especialidades em Saúde (CES) - Secretária Municipal da Saúde (SMS) da Prefeitura Municipal de Caxias do Sul. Como instrumentos, foram utilizadas entrevistas não estruturadas e semiestruturadas com as jovens e com suas mães, o Desenho da Figura Humana, o EAT-26, o BITE, o BSQ e a Escala de Imagem Corporal de Stunkard. Os resultados indicaram a presença de insatisfação com a imagem do corpo tanto nas jovens bulímicas como em suas mães, gerada a partir dos próprios ideais e dos ideais maternos. Também indicaram que as jovens participantes do estudo buscaram uma imagem de corpo ideal como manifestação de falhas na constituição do narcisismo e da identidade frente à relação pouco discriminada com a figura materna. Indicaram, ainda, que as filhas, através da bulimia, estariam respondendo aos ideais conscientes e inconscientes de suas mães. / This study aimed to analyze and understand how body image is seen by young bulimic women regarding their own ideals as well as their mothers’. It focused on psychic aspects related to how body image is constituted and its alterations in bulimia, using psychoanalytical references. Recent scientific research being carried out on body image and bulimia were also examined. The approach was qualitative-exploratory, using the strategy of multiple case studies. Subjects of the study were two young women, who were 19 and 24 years old, diagnosed as bulimic, and their respective mothers. The study carried out on each young woman and her mother was considered one case. Access to the cases took place thanks to recommendations by specialized professionals from the Centro de Especialidades em Saúde (CES) - Secretaria Municipal da Saúde (SMS) (Specialized Health Center – Municipal Health Secretary) which is run by the City Hall of Caxias do Sul. Research instruments used were non-structured and semi-structured interviews with the young women and their mothers, the Human Figure Drawing Test, the EAT-26, the BITE, the BSQ, and Stunkard Body Image Scale. Results indicated that both the young bulimic women and their mothers showed dissatisfaction with their body images, from their own ideals as well as their mothers’ ideals. They also indicated that the young women taking part in the study sought for an ideal body image as manifestation of flaws in the constitution of narcissism and identity given the relationship with the mother figure not being much discriminated. In addition to that, results indicated that through bulimia, the daughters would be responding to their mothers’ conscious and unconscious ideals.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PCL - Ana Carolina Falcone Garcia.pdf: 600319 bytes, checksum: b6a9fdaa17beff569fbf07be20547c48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-06 / This paper aimed at showing the relationship father-daughter in attempt to understand the way this relationship affects the development of a woman in her career. In this sense, we looked forward both to some characteristics of this relationship and the attitude of a young adult woman in her professional work. The analysis also permitted the discussion about these characteristics whether they were attached to the image of the father or to the parental complex, thus, affecting or not the behavior of a woman in her professional environment. In addition, we also examined a partial integration of the animus in this crucial moment of the life of a woman. The qualitatative method was employed in this search and semi-structured interviews were conducted with six young adult women. The participants´ mean age was between 28 and 35 years of age. The results indicate that the relationship father-daughter is significant for the women both in terms of development of affection as well as in terms of guidance to her career. Anyway, we realized that the majority of women are still attached to one or other parental complex, so, while the influence of the father is important at the moment of choosing a career, conversely, the representation of the mother works as an anti-model . We also realized that the dimension of the animus of action influences most of our interviewees. In this way, the animus has been partially integrated in the life of a woman, playing an important role in this particularly period of her life / Esta pesquisa procurou compreender o relacionamento pai-filha, e suas conseqüências no desenvolvimento da mulher no trabalho profissional. Buscou-se desenvolver de que forma determinadas características dessa relação refletem-se no posicionamento profissional das mulheres adultas jovens, bem como, se elas estão presas à imagem do pai ou do complexo paterno no desenvolvimento de seu papel profissional. Também procuramos investigar se ocorre a emergência de aspectos do animus nesse momento da vida da mulher. Para o desenvolvimento desse estudo, partimos do princípio de que o pai exerce uma função importante na vida da filha e contribui, assim, para a discriminação dos aspectos Masculinos da mulher em relação à figura paterna. Sendo assim, o objetivo foi verificar como determinadas características da relação pai-filha se refletiram no posicionamento profissional de mulheres adultas jovens, utilizando para isso o referencial da Psicologia Analítica. O método escolhido foi qualititativo, tendo como população de estudo seis mulheres jovens adultas, entre 28 e 35 anos de idade. O procedimento adotado foi o da entrevista semidirigida, com roteiro previamente construído. Os resultados encontrados apontam para o vínculo muito forte com o pai e também com a mãe, destacando que a maioria das mulheres entrevistadas encontra-se ainda vinculada a algum complexo parental. Nesta pesquisa, a mãe parece ter servido como antimodelo , para a maioria dessas mulheres, na construção de seus papéis profissionais. Percebemos, também, que a dimensão do animus da ação já se encontra parcialmente integrada na maioria das mulheres estudadas, na primeira metade da vida

In the world of Henry James's novels, characters are often placed in difficult situations where their happiness depends on their ability to make a free choice. Female characters are manipulated and diminished by a patriarchal system that not only seeks to subordinate their will, but also to objectify them, to place them on the shelf as a trophy. Fathers and husbands are typically the controlling agents, but James also presents women who appropriate the dominating role. With varying degrees of success, each female character rejects the status of trophy. Instead, each attempts to make choices and determine her own future. James allows for ambiguity and nuanced resolutions. With ambiguity comes hope in the steadfastness of Catherine Sloper in Washington Square, in the tragic heroism of Isabel Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, and even in the sacrificial loss of Verena Tarrant for Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians.

Excerpt: As both a daughter to a mother and a mother to a daughter, I have lived, and pushed against, and been formed by, the profound truth about mother-daughter relationships suggested by this book's title: it's complicated.

Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times. By Cynthia A. Kierner. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. ix, 281.)

Twentieth-century American literature is filled with new images of motherhood. Long gone is the idealism of motherhood that flourished during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in life and in writing. Long gone are the mother help books and guides on training mothers. The twentieth-century fiction writer ushers in new examples of motherhood described in novels that critique the bad mother and turn a critical eye towards the role of women and motherhood. This study examines the trauma surrounding twentieth-century motherhood and surrogacy; in particular, how abandonment, rape, incest, and negation often results in surrogacy; and how selected authors create characters who as mothers fail to protect their children, particularly their daughters. This study explores whether the failure is a result of social-economic or physiological circumstances that make mothering and motherlove impossible or a rejection of the ideal mother seldom realized by contemporary women, or whether the novelists have rewritten the notion of the mother’s help books by their fragmented representations of motherhood. Has motherhood become a rejection of self-potential? The study will critique mother-daughter relationships in four late twentieth-century American novels in their complex presentations of motherhood and surrogacy: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), Kaye Gibbons’s Ellen Foster (1990), Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) and Sapphire’s Push (1997). Appropriated terminology from other disciplines illustrates the prevalence of surrogacy and protection in the subject novels. The use of surrogate will refer to those who come forward to provide the role of mothering and protection.

Abstract In this thesis, I attempt to examine Jamaica Kincaid¡¦s re-negotiation with the politics of power relations in her novels. Kncaid¡¦s novels, through the strategic deployment of autobiographical writing, redress the power dimension in the notions of self and history. The fact that Kincaid frames the field of power relations within the thematic recurrence of mother-daughter relations structures her novels in a way that conflates her personal stories with her group history. Moreover, such a structure emphatically registers the self-positioning act of Kincaid¡¦s writing as a strategy for survival. The first chapter explores how Kincaid mobilizes her self-writing as an act of political resistance. On the one hand, Kincaid opposes her writing which is delivered in the name of herself or her culture to the poststructuralist pronouncements of the general demise of a writing subject. On the other hand, Kincaid, through implicating the poststructuralist fracture of self in the protocol of decolonization, attempts to strategically inhabit in what Homi Bhabha calls the in-between space to define herself. The second chapter deals with the inscription of historical forces on the body. Foucault¡¦s genealogical unpacking of history in the body here helps to investigate how Kincaid¡¦s fictional alter egos bear and, more importantly, act out against the inscription of power. The third chapter focuses on the politics of Kincaid¡¦s autobiographical writing. At first, I unpack the relations between history and the politics of women¡¦s writing in the West Indies, and borrow the poststructuralist interrogation of Western historical knowledge to contradict the West¡¦s epistemological claims to West Indian history. And then I turn to the analysis of Kincaid¡¦s autobiographical writing, which, through its thematic deployment of mother-daughter relations, turns on the political empowerment in her strategic integration of her personal and collective history.

The project was about empowering young women in Dharavi. The building is a school of Home science.

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

The Body and the Parent-Daughter Bond: Negotiating Filial Relationships in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Dew Breaker est une étude sur les différentes façons dont le corps déséquilibré, torturé et traumatisé influence la relation parent-fille. Cette thèse examine l’impact du pouvoir et de la violence sur le corps aussi bien des parents que celui des filles et les différentes manières dont ces corps deviennent déséquilibrés. Cette thèse porte sur la construction et la négociation de chacune des conditions de parents et de filles sous l’angle du corps sexué traumatisé. Le premier chapitre traite la littérature précédemment écrite sur le corps en premier lieu, et sur les liens de filiation dans les deux œuvres en second lieu. J'ai introduit ma contribution au domaine et les différents aspects de la relation parent-fille qui ne sont pas pris en considération et que ma thèse essaye de démontrer. Ce chapitre contextualise ces deux œuvres pendant l’ère de la dictature des deux Duvaliers, père et fils, en exposant et discutant l’impacte néfaste de cette dictature sur les familles. Ce chapitre conceptualise et définit le corps, qui est une construction culturelle et un site d'interaction entre le pouvoir et la violence, par rapport aux relations filiales. Dans le deuxième chapitre, l'accent est mis sur la relation de Martine et Sophie par rapport à la pratique rituelle du test de la virginité. Dans ce chapitre, j’ai soulevé des questions sur le pouvoir de Martine de discipliner et contrôler l’attitude et le corps de Sophie et la manière avec laquelle la fille peut réagir au contrôle et à la subjugation de sa mère. J’ai examiné le conflit intergénérationnel qui est intensifié par le désordre corporel. J’ai essayé de démontrer comment Sophie souhaite rejeter et se séparer du corps de sa mère et son incapacité à le faire. Dans le troisième chapitre, j’ai étudié la relation de M. Bienaimé avec sa fille Ka qui est perturbée à la fois par le corps de son père et l’identité antérieure de ce dernier en tant qu’ancien Tonton Macoute. La question soulevée dans ce chapitre concerne le corps du père comme un agent de violence politique et comme une source d’inspiration artistique pour sa fille. L'identification de Ka avec et plus tard sa séparation du corps de son père est au cœur de mon étude, car c’est ce corps là qui modifie cette relation filiale particulière, qui résulte en un traumatisme transgénérationnel. Mots-clés: corps, relation parent-fille, pouvoir, violence, Edwidge Danticat / The Body and the Parent-Daughter Bond: Negotiating Filial Relationships in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Dew Breaker is an investigation of the different ways the disordered, tortured and traumatised body alters the parent-daughter relationship. It explores the mechanisms of power and violence on the bodies of both parents and daughters and the ways these bodies become as disordered as the psyche. This thesis will deal with the construction and negotiation of both parenthood and daughterhood from the angle of the gendered traumatised body. The first chapter deals with the scholarship that has been written on either the body or the filial relationships in both works. I have introduced my own contributions to the field in addition to the different overlooked aspects of the parent-daughter bond that my thesis tries to demonstrate. This chapter contextualizes both fictions with the era of Duvalier’s dictatorship and conceptualizes and defines the body in relation to filial relationships as a cultural construction and a site of the interplay of power and violence. The second chapter focuses on Martine-Sophie’s bond in relation to the ritual practice of virginity testing. In this chapter, I raise questions about the extent of Martine’s power to discipline and control Sophie’s body and behaviour and how the daughter reacts to her mother’s empowerment. I examine the intergenerational conflict that is intensified by body dysmorphia. I also demonstrate how Sophie wishes to separate herself from her mother’s body and why she fails to do so. In the third chapter, I study Mr. Bienaimé-Ka’s relationship that is disturbed by both the father’s body and his past identity as a former Tonton Macoute. The question raised in this chapter concerns the father’s body as an agent of political violence and his daughter’s source of her artistic inspiration. Ka’s identification and later separation from her father’s body is at the heart of my study because it is this body that alters this particular filial relationship, resulting in transgenerational trauma. Key words: body, parent-daughter bond, power, violence, Edwidge Danticat