Mothers and daughters

Beyond the Oedipus Complex: Mothers and Daughters

Women are often critical of their mothers and identify with their most negative characteristics. Simultaneously, it has also been noted that strong bonds are often established between mothers and daughters. When traditional Oedipal theory is applied to women, it does not take into account sufficiently either the prevalence of daughters’ critical perceptions of their mothers or the strong connec...

Cayetano González: Mothers, daughters, stemness, and cancer

If you've come across a diver wearing a dry suit in the sea south of Spain, you may have run into Cayetano González. A dry suit might be overkill for the warm waters of the Mediterranean, but González uses one because he fi rst learned to dive in the cold, dark lakes around Heidelberg, Germany, where a dry suit is a necessity. While he was exploring the depths of European lakes, González and hi...

Mothers and daughters: intergenerational patterns of reproduction.

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess intergenerational mother-daughter patterns of reproduction. METHODS In 1966, 12 055 pregnant women in Northern Finland, representing 96% of all births in the region, responded to a questionnaire in mid-gestation. In 1997-98, the 31-year-old daughters born from those pregnancies were sent a questionnaire and 4523 (80%) responded. Reproductio...

Mothers and Daughters: Interpersonal Approaches to Body and Dieting

Non-question rises in narratives produced by mothers and daughters

In recent years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the use of rises on non-question utterances in American English, as well as other English varieties. However, little attention has been paid to this phenomenon in the speech of children acquiring American English (AmEng). Here we analyze elicited spontaneous speech from four mother-daughter pairs in Central Connecticut. Both mothers an...