POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This article aims to analyse the contributions of Nancy Borowick’s photographic project The Family Imprint (2017) to the contemporary visual culture of cancer from a gender and care ethics perspective. It is an intimate visual testimony that documents the terminal illness of her parents, both diagnosed with cancer at the same time. Using a qualitative methodology that combines bibliographic and documentary review, v…

Reference · Wikidata

group of people affiliated by consanguinity, law, affinity, or co-residence

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Family is a group of people related either by consanguinity or affinity. It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. Historically, most human societies use family as the primary purpose of attachment, nurturance, and socialization.

Book · DOAB

Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenthcentury English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the domestic space. As a crucial site of contested values, the adult unmarried sister carries the discursive weight of sustained public debates about ideals of domesticity in nineteenth-century England. Engaging scholarly histor…

Image · DPLA

{"value"=>"BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Ahmed M. Mohmoud was born in Hargeisa, Somalia in the 1960s and grew up in both northern and southern Somalia. At the beginning of the Somali civil war, he fled Mogadishu and eventually arrived in Kenyan refugee camps. He provided emergency medical care and public health expertise among the refugees. After living for a time in Kenya, Ahmed moved to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He lef…