Polly F Radosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 332870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Polly F Radosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Polly F |
| FAMILY NAME | Radosh |
| SIGNATURE | RADOSH P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quilts: Moral Economies and Matrilineages
Across time and culture, women connect generations through traditions. Women often bequeath family mementos to succeeding women. Quilts made by women commemorate, illustrate, or express important events. While these items have economic value, their primary worth is in the connections they make within families. Quilts are frequently passed on in matrilineal gifts and bequests. Their value is in the familial networks and reflects a moral economy th…
Colonial Oppression, Gender, and Women in the Irish Diaspora
This paper explores the relationship between colonial oppression in pre-famine Ireland and the development of gender patterns that fostered uncommon social and familial roles for women. In post-famine Ireland women's traditional family roles illustrate cultural empowerment that combined with the pull factors of employment opportunities to spawn higher female than male emigration at the same time that patriarchal oppression restricted women's full…
Sara Ruddick's Theory of Maternal Thinking Applied To Traditional Irish Mothering
This paper uses Sara Ruddick's theory of maternal thinking to explain patterns of Irish mothering that developed in Ireland following the Great Famine of 1845–1852. Ruddick's central thesis, that maternal thinking develops strategies for preserving the life of the child, fostering the child's growth, and shaping an acceptable child, is applied to the intersecting influences of famine memory, religion, education, and emigration in post-famine Irel…
The Past, Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice
The Women's Movement and the Rebirth of Feminism: Conflicts and Contradictions
Women and crime in the United States: A Marxian explanation
The paper briefly reviews the leading theories of female crime causation that surfaced in the twentieth century and proposes an alternative, theoretical orientation using a Marxian approach. This explanation uses existing theoretical and empirical studies to account for: 1) the means by which women are defined as criminal, 2) the class relationship between female criminals and the general population of women, and 3) the system by which control ov…
Midwives in the United States: Past and present
Quilts: Moral Economies and Matrilineages
Across time and culture, women connect generations through traditions. Women often bequeath family mementos to succeeding women. Quilts made by women commemorate, illustrate, or express important events. While these items have economic value, their primary worth is in the connections they make within families. Quilts are frequently passed on in matrilineal gifts and bequests. Their value is in the familial networks and reflects a moral economy th…
Colonial Oppression, Gender, and Women in the Irish Diaspora
This paper explores the relationship between colonial oppression in pre-famine Ireland and the development of gender patterns that fostered uncommon social and familial roles for women. In post-famine Ireland women's traditional family roles illustrate cultural empowerment that combined with the pull factors of employment opportunities to spawn higher female than male emigration at the same time that patriarchal oppression restricted women's full…
The Women's Movement and the Rebirth of Feminism: Conflicts and Contradictions
Women and crime in the United States: A Marxian explanation
The paper briefly reviews the leading theories of female crime causation that surfaced in the twentieth century and proposes an alternative, theoretical orientation using a Marxian approach. This explanation uses existing theoretical and empirical studies to account for: 1) the means by which women are defined as criminal, 2) the class relationship between female criminals and the general population of women, and 3) the system by which control ov…
Midwives in the United States: Past and present
Midwives in the United States: Past and present
Women and crime in the United States: A Marxian explanation
The paper briefly reviews the leading theories of female crime causation that surfaced in the twentieth century and proposes an alternative, theoretical orientation using a Marxian approach. This explanation uses existing theoretical and empirical studies to account for: 1) the means by which women are defined as criminal, 2) the class relationship between female criminals and the general population of women, and 3) the system by which control ov…
The Women's Movement and the Rebirth of Feminism: Conflicts and Contradictions
The Past, Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice
Sara Ruddick's Theory of Maternal Thinking Applied To Traditional Irish Mothering
This paper uses Sara Ruddick's theory of maternal thinking to explain patterns of Irish mothering that developed in Ireland following the Great Famine of 1845–1852. Ruddick's central thesis, that maternal thinking develops strategies for preserving the life of the child, fostering the child's growth, and shaping an acceptable child, is applied to the intersecting influences of famine memory, religion, education, and emigration in post-famine Irel…
Colonial Oppression, Gender, and Women in the Irish Diaspora
This paper explores the relationship between colonial oppression in pre-famine Ireland and the development of gender patterns that fostered uncommon social and familial roles for women. In post-famine Ireland women's traditional family roles illustrate cultural empowerment that combined with the pull factors of employment opportunities to spawn higher female than male emigration at the same time that patriarchal oppression restricted women's full…
Quilts: Moral Economies and Matrilineages
Across time and culture, women connect generations through traditions. Women often bequeath family mementos to succeeding women. Quilts made by women commemorate, illustrate, or express important events. While these items have economic value, their primary worth is in the connections they make within families. Quilts are frequently passed on in matrilineal gifts and bequests. Their value is in the familial networks and reflects a moral economy th…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works)