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The New Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship » Read Now
by Paula J. Caplan. 290 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This revised edition by a research psychologist shows how to stop blaming mother and, instead, start loving her. By identifying dangerous myths about mothers, Caplan shows how anger and agony can be replaced with a new bond based on understanding and respect.
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Perceptions of Communicative Control Strategies in Mother-Daughter Dyads Across the Life Span, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Mary Lee Hummert, Melanie Morgan. 17 pgs.

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Mother-Daughter Dyads View the Family: Associations between Divergent Perceptions and Daughter Well-Being, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence » Read Now
by Roberta L. Paikoff, Steven Carlton-Ford, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 20 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Nurturing Success: Successful Women of Color and Their Daughters » Read Now
by Essie E. Lee. 293 pgs.

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Although interest in mother/daughter relationships has led to a plethora of books on the subject, these books all consider situations found in the mainstream white population. In this book, relationships between mothers and daughters from 13 ethnic groups, including Asian, Black, Latino, and Native...
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Although interest in mother/daughter relationships has led to a plethora of books on the subject, these books all consider situations found in the mainstream white population. In this book, relationships between mothers and daughters from 13 ethnic groups, including Asian, Black, Latino, and Native American, are explored. The voices of 17 highly successful mothers, in different stages of their life, and their 19 daughters are heard. The reader will learn of their values, intergenerational relationships, and the mother's influence as a role model. The research that confirms their personal stories and validates their life stories is discussed. The book provides valuable insight into the issues facing minority women in the United States.
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African American Mothers' and Daughters' Beliefs about Possible Selves and Their Strategies for Reaching the Adolescents' Future Academic and Career Goals, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence » Read Now
by Jennifer L. Kerpelman, Sabrina Ross-Griffin, Marie F. Shoffner. 14 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Conversational Styles of Mothers and Their Preadolescent and Middle Adolescent Daughters, in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly » Read Now
by Sherry L. Beaumont. 21 pgs.

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Mothers and Their Adolescent Daughters: Relationship between Self-Esteem, Gender Role Identity, and Body Image, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence » Read Now
by Judith Daniluk, Sonia Usmiani. 16 pgs.

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Development of Self-Criticism in Adolescent Girls: Roles of Maternal Dissatisfaction, Maternal Coldness, and Insecure Attachment, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence » Read Now
by Richard Thompson, David C. Zuroff. 15 pgs.

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Economic Hardship, Family Relationships, and Adolescent Distress: An Evaluation of a Stress-Distress Mediation Model in Mother-Daughter and Mother-Son Dyads, in Adolescence » Read Now
by Dania S. Clark-Lempers, Jacques D. Lempers. 18 pgs.

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Adjudicated Adolescent Girls and Their Mothers: Examining Relationship Quality and Communication Styles, in Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling » Read Now
by Sondra L. Smith, Jennifer L. Kerpelman. 15 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Recollections of Menarche: Communication between Mothers and Daughters regarding Menstruation, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Daryl Costos, Ruthie Ackerman, Lisa Paradis. 11 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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Influence of Maternal Gender-Role Beliefs and Role Satisfaction on Daughters' Vocational Interests, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research » Read Now
by Julian Barling, Jennifer Steele. 12 pgs.

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Communication among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters: A Qualitative Study of Maternal Relationships » Read Now
by Michelle A. Miller-Day. 254 pgs.

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This scholarly volume examines communications processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Miller-Day uses the device of layering to integrate and juxtapose alternative experiences of the social world. This allows the reader to be...
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This scholarly volume examines communications processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Miller-Day uses the device of layering to integrate and juxtapose alternative experiences of the social world. This allows the reader to be situated in the world of grandmothers, mothers, adult daughters, and granddaughters as they experience, describe, and analyze their family communication. The book describes and interprets the patterns of communication among female family members that provide symbolic links across generations. Drawing on eight months of qualitative research, using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book provides a heuristic account of intergenerational mother-daughter relational communication. This book builds upon and extends earlier qualitative research to include the experiences of multiple families, as well as maternal grandmothers. With the inclusion of aged mothers as well as younger mid-life mothers and their adult daughters, Miller-Day seeks to illuminate how this relationship is experienced at different points in a woman's life. In addition, in studying three generations of women, she gathers multigenerational perspectives on family, and then examines these for patterns of maternal interaction transmitted across generational boundaries. Scholars and researchers in the areas of family communication, intergenerational communication, women's studies, family studies, interpersonal communication, relationships, and others (social workers, psychologists, counselors) who need to understand family communication processes and their dynamicsacross generational lines will all benefit from the wealth of material included in this volume.
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Mothers and Daughters in American Short Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Women's Literature » Read Now
by Susanne Carter. 132 pgs.

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In 1976, Adrienne Rich wrote that the mother-daughter bond is the "great unwritten story," awaiting analysis and definition. Since then, many voices have come to fill the gap, including those of American fiction writers. This bibliography provides information on short stories that explore the...
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In 1976, Adrienne Rich wrote that the mother-daughter bond is the "great unwritten story," awaiting analysis and definition. Since then, many voices have come to fill the gap, including those of American fiction writers. This bibliography provides information on short stories that explore the mother-daughter relationship. The general introduction and the annotations analyze approximately 250 stories written by American women in the 20th century. Most of the stories were written during the past two decades and reflect a reevaluation of the mother-daughter bond and its impact on women's lives. The bibliography is arranged thematically with chapters on abuse and neglect, aging, alienation, death, expectations, nurturance, and portraits. Each chapter begins with an introductory overview and collective analysis of the stories in the chapter. The volume includes author, title, and subject indexes.
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The Voice of the Mother: Embedded Maternal Narratives in Twentieth-Century Women's Autobiographies » Read Now
by Jo Malin. 124 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Every woman autobiographer is a daughter who writes and establishes her identity through her autobiographical narrative. In The Voice of the Mother, Jo Malin argues that many twentieth-century autobiographies by women contain an intertext, an embedded narrative, which is a biography of the...
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Every woman autobiographer is a daughter who writes and establishes her identity through her autobiographical narrative. In The Voice of the Mother, Jo Malin argues that many twentieth-century autobiographies by women contain an intertext, an embedded narrative, which is a biography of the writer/daughter's mother.
Analyzing this narrative practice, Malin examines ten texts by women who seem particularly compelled to tell their mothers' stories: Virginia Woolf, Sara Suleri, Kim Chernin, Drusilla Modjeska, Joan Nestle, Carolyn Steedman, Dorothy Allison, Adrienne Rich, Cherrie Moraga, and Audre Lorde. Each author is, in fact, able to write her own autobiography only by using a narrative form that contains her mother's story at its core. These texts raise interesting questions about autobiography as a genre and about a feminist writing practice that resists and subverts the dominant literary tradition.
Malin theorizes a hybrid form of autobiographical narrative containing an embedded narrative of the mother. The textual relationship between the two narratives is unique among texts in the auto/biographical canon. This alternative practice -- in which the daughter attempts to talk both to her mother and about her -- is equally an autobiography and a biography rather than one or the other. The technique is marked by a breakdown of subject/object categories as well as auto/biographical dichotomies of genre. Each text contains a "self" that is more plural than singular, yet neither.
In addition to being a theoretical and textual analysis, Malin's book is also a mother-daughter autobiography and biography itself. She shares her own story and her mother's story as a way to connect directlywith readers and as a way to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
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Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction » Read Now
by Joyce Carol Oates, Janet Berliner. 242 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A collection of 17 stories from the pens of some of today's most important female authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Mary Gordon, Jamaica Kincaid, & Isabel Allende.