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There's no place like home: a study on World War II war brides and their families in Northwestern Ontario
01 Oct 2019-
TL;DR: The authors examined war brides who settled in Northwestern Ontario and explored how these women created home and community in their new environments, as well as how they made meaning in their lives through traditional expressive culture.
Abstract: During the Second World War an estimated 48,000 women, mostly from the United Kingdom,
met and married Canadian soldiers who were stationed overseas (Oosterom 2011, 26). These
women immigrated to Canada as new wives and new mothers and came to be known as “war
brides.” This research examines war brides who settled in Northwestern Ontario and explores
how these women created home and community in their new environments, as well as how they
made meaning in their lives through traditional expressive culture. Consequently, this study is as
much about war bride families as it is about war brides-- perhaps even for so. In this study I ask:
How were war brides able to create “home” in a new country so far away from their families?
And, how did ideas of home get passed on to the children of war brides? Most importantly, I
ponder the concept of “home” and how it is understood differently by so many people. These
questions are explored through three folklore genres: foodways, family narrative, and material
culture.
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TL;DR: Friedman as discussed by the authors used framing theory, textual analysis, and feminist scholarship to argue that well-entrenched assumptions about gender permeated every angle of war-bride coverage in U.S. and British periodicals.
Abstract: Friedman, Barbara G. From the Battlefront to the Bridal Suite: Media Coverage of British War Brides, 1942-1946. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. 154 pp. $29.95. Some 70,000 British women married the dashing American soldiers who blanketed their nation during World War II. This slim volume, a richly contextualized if somewhat abbreviated account of a slice of women's life during the war, adds a fresh twist to the growing body of scholarship that illuminates women's role in wartime. Lest you think the topic smacks of a romance novel, understand that the sole commonality found among news coverage was that all of the periodicals surveyed blamed women for spreading venereal disease, which skyrocketed as the American forces rose to 1.65 million men by the eve of D-Day. U.S. military service magazines warned soldiers away from British women by framing them as predators out for the Americans' relatively posh pay, while between the lines the magazines encouraged male promiscuity. As Yank headlined a 1942 story, "Don't Promise Her Anything-Marriage Outside the U.S. Is Out." Friedman, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina, skillfully weaves framing theory, textual analysis, and feminist scholarship to argue that well-entrenched assumptions about gender permeated every angle of war-bride coverage in U.S. and British periodicals. She compared two American and two British service magazines; the New York Times, The Times of London, and the London Telegraph; and two women's magazines, one American and one British. She also offers war-bride stories from Ladies Home Journal, Life, Reader's Digest, and Time. The media accounts are augmented by letters and archival materials from places such as the Imperial War Museum in London, the American Red Cross, and the Home Intelligence Reports of the National Archives in London. Friedman's findings support earlier scholarship that argues "ideals concerning gender are closely related to notions of political identification and citizenship." Those notions often were paradoxical, such as the British government's massive media campaign encouraging women to socialize with U.S. soldiers as a patriotic duty. At the same time, public discourse admonished women to remain chaste until British men returned home. In fact, as many as 100,000 American soldiers a month were guests in British homes, and others were billeted in the homes of married women whose husbands were fighting overseas. …
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TL;DR: Pardue as mentioned in this paper is the museum services division director at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, part of the US National Park Service, which is responsible for the preservation and management of the historic structures, archeology, history and ethnography of the sites.
Abstract: Diana Pardue is director of the Museum Services Division at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, part of the US National Park Service. She was involved with the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island restoration projects in the 1980s which created the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Her current duties include overseeing the museum programme and cultural resource management of the historic structures, archeology, history and ethnography of the sites. She is also a member of ICOM and chair of the International Committee of Architecture and Museum Techniques (ICAMT).
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the Swedish immigrant experience up in the rocky mountains writing the swedish immigrant experience, but end up in infectious downloads, rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some harmful virus inside their computer.
Abstract: Thank you for reading up in the rocky mountains writing the swedish immigrant experience. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their chosen readings like this up in the rocky mountains writing the swedish immigrant experience, but end up in infectious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they cope with some harmful virus inside their computer.
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TL;DR: The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment as discussed by the authors, where the authors provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self, and suggest that human capacities for the creation and redirection of meaning offer the only hope for survival.
Abstract: The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begin by reviewing what social scientists and philosophers have said about the transactions between people and things. In the model of 'personhood' that the authors develop, goal-directed action and the cultivation of meaning through signs assume central importance. They then relate theoretical issues to the results of their survey. An important finding is the distinction between objects valued for action and those valued for contemplation. The authors compare families who have warm emotional attachments to their homes with those in which a common set of positive meanings is lacking, and interpret the different patterns of involvement. They then trace the cultivation of meaning in case studies of four families. Finally, the authors address what they describe as the current crisis of environmental and material exploitation, and suggest that human capacities for the creation and redirection of meaning offer the only hope for survival. A wide range of scholars - urban and family sociologists, clinical, developmental and environmental psychologists, cultural anthropologists and philosophers, and many general readers - will find this book stimulating and compelling.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the sequential organization of the telling of a dirty joke in conversation and found that the joke is built in the form of a story, which is the decisiveness of that feature involves the fact that there being means for sequentially organizing the story in conversation.
Abstract: 0.0 In this paper we examine the sequential organization of the telling of a dirty joke in conversation. For the organization of the joke and also of its telling we find that there is a single most decisive feature: the joke is built in the form of a story. The decisiveness of that feature involves the fact that, there being means for sequentially organizing the telling of a story in conversation, the sequential organization of the telling of this joke's being built in the form of a story is largely given by those means. This telling is composed, as for stories, of three serially ordered and adjacently placed types of sequences which we call the preface, the telling, and the response sequences. We shall proceed by considering each of them in turn, intending that the adequacy of such a characterization as is developed in terms of these types for these materials will provide support to our proposal that the joke's construction in the form of a story is indeed its decisive feature. 0.1 In what follows we shall largely be concerned to subject the utterances of the fragment, of which we present a transcription at the close of this section, to analysis in terms of how they figure in the three types of sequences we have proposed to constitute organizational parts of the telling. In this endeavor one recurrent theme may be extracted for introductory comment.
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08 Mar 2001
TL;DR: In this article, Toni Morrison discusses home matters, longing and belonginging, and how to fix the past, re-placing Nostalgia and fixing the past.
Abstract: Introduction: Home Matters, Longing and Belonging PART ONE: IS MOTHER HOME? Yearning and Nostalgia: Fiction and Autobiographical Writings of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing PART TWO: DISPLACEMENTS OF/FROM HOME Home is (Mother) Earth: Animal Dreams , Barbara Kingsolver Home/lands and Contested Motherhood: The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven , Barbara Kingsolver Inverted Narrative as the Path/Past Home: How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents , Julia Alvarez PART THREE: MIDLIFE NOSTALGIA AND CULTURAL MOURNING Homesickness and the Five Stages of Grief: Ladder of Years, Anne Tyler Hom(e)age to the Ancestors: Praisesong for the Widow , Paule Marshall Haunted Longing and the Presence of Absence: Jazz , Toni Morrison PART FOUR: NOSTALGIA FOR PARADISE Memory, Mourning, and Maternal Triangulations: Mama Day , Gloria Naylor Amazing Grace: Longing for Paradise and the Good Mother: Paradise , Toni Morrison Conclusion: Fixing the Past, Re-Placing Nostalgia
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