Brothers and Sisters Abramovitch, Henry; Rosen, David H
2014, 2014-12-30, Letnik:
19
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Growing up, we typically spend more time with our brothers and sisters than we do with our parents. In an age of divorce, mobility, and alienation, the sibling bond is often the only one that really ...lasts.Given that brothers and sisters are such a fundamental aspect of human existence, it is remarkable that they have received so little in-depth attention in the field of psychology.Henry Abramovitch's Brothers and Sisters explores the tension between the myth and reality of brothers and sisters in a variety of cultures and through the poignant brother-sister stories in the Bible. Abramovitch looks at the developmental sequence in the sibling relationship as brothers or sisters struggle to find their place with each other, concluding with a very personal account of his own relationship with his brother and sister.
InPrincely Brothers and Sisters, Jonathan R. Lyon takes a fresh look at sibling networks and the role they played in shaping the practice of politics in the Middle Ages. Focusing on nine of the most ...prominent aristocratic families in the German kingdom during the Staufen period (1138-1250), Lyon finds that noblemen-and to a lesser extent, noblewomen-relied on the cooperation and support of their siblings as they sought to maintain or expand their power and influence within a competitive political environment. Consequently, sibling relationships proved crucial at key moments in shaping the political and territorial interests of many lords of the kingdom.
Family historians have largely overlooked brothers and sisters in the political life of medieval societies. As Lyon points out, however, siblings are the contemporaries whose lives normally overlap the longest. More so than parents and children, husbands and wives, or lords and vassals, brothers and sisters have the potential to develop relationships that span entire lifetimes. The longevity of some sibling bonds therefore created opportunities for noble brothers and sisters to collaborate in especially potent ways. As Lyon shows, cohesive networks of brothers and sisters proved remarkably effective at counterbalancing the authority of the Staufen kings and emperors. Well written and impeccably researched,Princely Brothers and Sistersis an important book not only for medieval German historians but also for the field of family history.
When the Sisters of Mercy lost their foundress Sister Catherine McAuley in 1841, stories of Mother Catherine passed from one generation of sisters to the next. McAuley's Rule and Constitutions along ...with her spiritual writings and correspondence communicated the Mercys' founding charism. Each generation of Sisters of Mercy who succeeded her took these words and her spirit with them as they established new communities or foundations across the United States and around the world. In Women of Faith, Mary Beth Fraser Connolly traces the paths of the women who dedicated their lives to the Sisters of Mercy Chicago Regional Community, the first Congregation of Catholic Sisters in Chicago. More than the story of the institutions that defined the territory and ministries of the women of this Midwestern region, Women of Faith presents a history of the women who made this regional community, whether as foundresses of individual communities in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries or as the teachers, nurses, and pastoral ministers who cared for and educated generations of Midwestern American Catholics. Though they had no immediate connection with McAuley, these women inherited her spirit and vision for religious life. Focusing on how the Chicago Mercys formed a community, lived their spiritual lives, and served within the institutional Catholic Church, this three-part perspective addresses community, spirituality, and ministry, providing a means by which we can trace the evolution of these women of faith as the world around them changed. The first part of this study focuses on the origins of the Sisters of Mercy in the Midwest from the founding of the Chicago South Side community in 1846 through the amalgamation and creation of the Chicago Province in 1929. The second part examines how the Mercys came together as one province through the changes of Vatican II from 1929 to the 1980s. Part III examines life after the dramatic changes of Vatican II in the 1990s and 2000s. Presenting rich examples of how faith cannot be separated from identity, Women of Faith provides an important new contribution to the scholarship that is shaping our collective understanding of women religious.
A magisterial exploration of poetry's place in the fine
arts by one of the twentieth century's leading poets In
this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht explores the art of poetry
and its relationship ...to the other fine arts. While the problems he
treats entail both philosophic and theoretical discussion, he never
allows abstract speculation to overshadow his delight in the
written texts that he introduces, or in the specific examples of
painting and music to which he refers. After discussing
literature's links with painting and music, Hecht investigates the
theme of paradise and wilderness, especially in Shakespeare's
The Tempest. He then turns to the question of public and
private art, exploring the ways in which all the arts participate
in balances between private and public modes of discourse, and
between an exclusive or elitist role and the openly political.
Beginning with a discussion of architecture as an illustration of a
more general theme of discord and balance, the penultimate lecture
probes the inner contradictions of works of art and our reactions
to them, while the final piece concerns art and morality.
This qualitative study explored the childhood experiences of growing up with a sibling with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) to offer an 'outsider's' view of this condition. Ten individuals ...who had grown up with a sibling with DCD were interviewed about their experiences. Data were analysed using Thematic Analysis. Analysis described three main themes: i)'witnessing the challenges for their sibling with DCD' ii) 'experiencing the impact on the family'; iii) 'a vacuum of knowledge'. Not all experiences were negative and transcending these themes was the notion 'resolution and finding benefit' highlighting access to support, being more empathic and resilient, becoming a role model for others and finding success. Participants play witness to their sibling's experiences which can often be negative sometimes impacted by a vacuum of knowledge but they also describe how a diagnosis of DCD comes with some benefits which are discussed in the context of 'posttraumatic growth'.
Sisters at Crossroads Glowacka, Anna
Alif (Cairo, Egypt),
01/2023
43
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article discusses sister relationships within literature written in German from the Enlightenment to the mid-19th century, focusing especially on the profile of sisters in the period from 1815 ...to 1848. The author concludes that within this period, sisters were presented with a strong physical and personal contrast. The relationship between sisters is used as a personification of harmony, and also as a figuration of conflict. This contrast of sisters perfectly represents the ambivalence of the era.
تتناول هذه المقالة علاقة الأخوات في الأدب المكتوب بالألمانية من عصر التنوير حتى منتصف القرن التاسع عشر. تركز المقالة بشكل خاص على صورة الأخوات في الفترة من ١٨١٥ إلى ١٨٤٨ . وتخلص الباحثة إلى أنه خلال تلك الفترة رُسمت صورة أدبية للأخوات تقوم على تناقض جسدي وشخصي. كما استُخدمت العلاقة باعتبارها تشخيصاً للتناغم، وكذلك للصراع. وهذا التناقض في العلاقة بين الأخوات ما هو إلا تجسيد لتناقضات العصر نفسه.
This book examines the impact siblings had on eighteenth-century English families and society. Using evidence from letters, diaries, probate disputes, court transcripts, prescriptive literature, and ...portraiture it argues that siblings had to constantly negotiate between prescribed equality and practiced inequalities.
In 2011, Jana Mathews's career took a surprising turn. What began as an effort for a newly minted college professor to get to know her students turned into an invitation to be initiated into a ...National Panhellenic Conference sorority and serve as its faculty advisor. For the next seven years, Mathews attended sorority and fraternity chapter meetings, Greek Week competitions, leadership retreats, and mixers and formals. She also counseled young men and women through mental health crises, experiences of sexual violence, and drug and alcohol abuse. Combining her personal observations with ethnographic field analysis and research culled from the fields of sociology, economics, and cognitive psychology, this thought-provoking book examines how white Greek letter organizations help reshape the conceptual boundaries of society's most foundational relationship categories-including friend, romantic partner, and family. Mathews illuminates how organizations manipulate campus sex ratios to foster hookup culture, broker romantic relationships, transfer intimacy to straight same-sex friends, and create fictive family units that hoard social and economic opportunity for their members. In their idealized form, sororities and fraternities function as familial surrogates that tether their members together in economically and socially productive ways. In their most warped manifestations, however, these fictive familial bonds reinforce insularity, entrench privilege, and-at times-threaten physical safety.
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