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In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake
Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled
against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of
Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not
impede their quest to acquire Indian land, and by 1929
Scandinavians owned more reservation acreage than their Dakota
neighbors. Norwegian homesteader Helena Haugen Kanten put it
plainly: "We stole the land from the Indians."
With this largely unknown story at its center, Encounter on the
Great Plains brings together two dominant processes in American
history: the unceasing migration of newcomers to North America, and
the protracted dispossession of indigenous peoples who inhabited
the continent.
Drawing on fifteen years of archival research and 130 oral
histories, Karen V. Hansen explores the epic issues of co-existence
between settlers and Indians and the effect of racial hierarchies,
both legal and cultural, on marginalized peoples. Hansen offers a
wealth of intimate detail about daily lives and community events,
showing how both Dakotas and Scandinavians resisted assimilation
and used their rights as new citizens to combat attacks on their
cultures. In this flowing narrative, women emerge as resourceful
agents of their own economic interests. Dakota women gained
autonomy in the use of their allotments, while Scandinavian women
staked and "proved up" their own claims.
Hansen chronicles the intertwined stories of Dakotas and
immigrants-women and men, farmers, domestic servants, and day
laborers. Their shared struggles reveal efforts to maintain a
language, sustain a culture, and navigate their complex ties to
more than one nation. The history of the American West cannot be
told without these voices: their long connections, intermittent
conflicts, and profound influence over one another defy easy
categorization and provide a new perspective on the processes of
immigration and land taking.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common psychiatric illness
characterized by recurrent, intrusive thoughts and repetitive,
stereotyped behaviors. Research suggests that OCD is associated
with specific deficits related to organizing and manipulating
information in working memory and with certain pre-morbid
personality traits. However, further research is needed to
elucidate whether these findings are specific to OCD or are present
in other anxiety disorders and/or individuals with sub-clinical
levels of obsessive-compulsive (Oe symptoms. In this research, OCD
patients are compared to patients with panic disorder, subjects
with sub-clinical OC symptoms and healthy control subjects on tests
of working memory and a measure of normal personality traits.
Overall, OCD patients showed impairment on cognitive tasks
requiring the organization and manipulation of information in
working memory. The OCD patients also differed from the other
experimental groups on a measure of normal personality traits. The
results have implications for sub-clinical OC research and the
clinical management of OCD.
The archeologist Maria Gimbutas left us the gift of symbols and
images she found in ancient burial sites of the goddess. From a
Jungian perspective this symbolism is related to archetypes which
are built into the design of every human being. Feminist theory
shows the need for new models solely related women's experience.
This book is a guided tour of young women's responses to ancient
symbols as seen in archetypal images of six dark goddesses. The
work unveils their longing for a set of myths, icons and symbols
that are particularly female and empowering. Along that way hidden
fears and pains can be revealed and the power they hold can be
released. This book introduces a new vision of the archetypal
feminine seen through the eyes of young women. Psychologists,
sociologists, archeologists and theologians as well as anyone who
has struggled with love and loss will benefit from this work.
Published In Partnership With The Applied Research Ethics
Association (ARENA), This Study Guide Companion To Institutional
Review Board: Management And Function, Second Edition Facilitates
The Application Of Knowledge Acquired From The Textbook. Written By
IRB People For IRB People, This Study Guide Is A Useful Resource
That Promotes The Professional Development Of People Working In The
Field Of Human Subjects Protection.
"In vivid portraits drawn from the top and bottom of the
social-class ladder, Hansen shows the profound effect social class
has on care. Well observed, beautifully written, this book is a
must read." --Arlie Hochschild, author of The Commercialization of
Intimate Lives: Notes from Home and Work "Not-So-Nuclear Families
explains the often painful choices that parents have to make for
their children's--and their own--well-being." --Barbara Schnieder,
professor of sociology and human development, director of the Data
Research and Development Center, and codirector of the Alfred P.
Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work at the University of
Chicago In recent years, U.S. public policy has focused on
strengthening the nuclear family as a primary strategy for
improving the lives of America's youth. It is often assumed that
this normative type of family is an independent, self-sufficient
unit adequate for raising children. But half of all households in
the United States with young children have two employed parents.
How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they
need? In Not-So-Nuclear Families, Karen V. Hansen investigates the
lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct
to help care for their children. She chronicles the conflicts,
hardships, and triumphs of four families of various social classes.
Each must navigate the ideology that mandates that parents, mothers
in particular, rear their own children, in the face of an economic
reality that requires that parents rely on the help of others. In
vivid family stories, parents detail how they and their network of
friends, paid caregivers, and extended kin collectively close the
"care gap" for their school-aged children. Hansen not only debunks
the myth that families in the United States are independent,
isolated, and self-reliant units, she breaks new theoretical ground
by asserting that informal networks of care can potentially provide
unique and valuable bonds that nuclear families cannot. Karen V.
Hansen is an associate professor of sociology and women's studies
at Brandeis University and is the coeditor of Families in the U.S.:
Kinship and Domestic Politics.
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