...Jaqueline Smith © COPYRIGHT 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2003 FIGHTING FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS IN PRISON JAQUELINE SMITH The District Court Judge sentenced me to one hundred thirty-five months in prison; and the first thought that came to my mind was, "What about my chil...

...Margaret E. Johnson This article argues that the American series Queer as Folk (2000–2005) uses a combination of melodrama and realism to engage the viewer both emotionally and logically in the consideration of current issues significant to the gay community, in particular HIV/AIDS, gay parenting...

... in which Kim’s protagonist operates, attempting to solve the case of her parents’ murder, is as treacherous as the world portrayed in early hard-boiled detective fiction. Kim has inherited from early hard-boiled crime fiction such elements as its rugged individualism, a cynical-but-sentimental worldview...

... of the participants in this case have been given pseudonyms. This has also been an “experience- near” study in which we have tried to understand the multiple perspectives of parents, clinicians, and children (as they grew older) about illness and treatment. We drew not only on classic ethnographic...

... classicus. The boy who came to be known as the "Wolf Man" was the son of a rich Russian landowner, and grew up on his parents' estate. Here, the little boy developed an animal phobia and had the famous dream of wolves, which for Freud, writing his FREUD'S MENAGERIE...

..., "born at San Francisco in 1873 to parents of Chinese descent and subjects of the Emperor of China, but domiciled residents at San Francisco," returned to the U.S. from a temporary trip to China (649). Wong Kim Ark was denied entry and detained under the Chinese Exclusion Acts, the first 'race...

... in Singapore is through Chiah Deng’s parents, whom I take to be a subtle commentary on the Singaporean state’s “Asian values” rhetoric. As she does with the plug metaphor, Tan uses Chiah Deng’s parents to satirize Singa- porean state governance, which at one point took a strong self-­orientalizing...

... conditions, such as diabetes, medical personnel spend relatively little time narrating with individuals what it will be like to live with specific diagnoses. When such diagnoses pertain to children, and parents know that the condition named and ascribed...

... and Wallock 1994. 204 GENRE including Richard’s parents — have stood to gain from sprawl, at least in wealth and status. In other ways, however, it has been a harmful development for them too. Many of the Everett family’s problems, particularly Richard’s, can be traced back...

... of the responsibility. This is the beauty of the tide gone out over the tight lap of the sea against its belt. Sometimes people seem to make an appear- ance in their own skins for the first time, as though they were stepping out from behind a curtain to take a bow. When the body you are watching fail is a parent...

..., for instance, a middle-class parent dutifully sponsors the education of her child with no expectation of being reimbursed for her outlays other than in the currency of honor and pride and perhaps gratitude. That transaction partakes in a domestic gift economy, an economy of social obligation, not a modern...

... it) a traumatic com- munal history. Intrinsic to the decisions made in this narrative is a profound hesitation to connect to a community of pain. And this is true whether the community in question is racial or familial. This story embodies considerable ambivalence about being where one's parents...

... they symbolize the authoritative and repressive world of adults yet also valued for their knowledge and wisdom, which enable the success of the commune. Reba and Alfredo revel at times in the power and authority they claim as parents, while in other moments they rail against...

... have you done this to us? Just look, your father and I have been worried to death looking for you" [my translation], the son answers with a magisterially snippish question that acts out to his parents the questioning and replying he has been pursuing in the temple: "Why were you looking for me...

... children almost all of their possessions—compass, map, backpack, flashlight, even Elegies for Lost Children —for a bow and arrow and two stray hats, as if she understands that while she and Swift Feather will be reunited with their parents, the lost children may stay lost; her trade is as practical...

..., according to the author's revision of Freud. In this novel, the Bildungsheld specifically emerges as "the child in-between" radically different parents, a pattern Jeffers further contextualizes by alluding to a general crisis of parenthood, which he relates to changes in methods of production...

... romanticized picture of parenthood. In this book, a manual intended to instruct Catholics in the foundations of Christian marriage, Thomas states that the bond between parents and children is rooted in “the deliberate action of the husband and wife who give themselves to one another and whose...

... immigration "in the winter of 1939, almost six months after the stoning" death of a "village crazy lady" suspected of being a Japanese spy (96). The Sino-Japanese War provides the general occasion for Maxine's parents' reunion, but the stoning episode suggests a more proximate impetus for her...

... are "a runaway train," prisoners' words are "a sign waved at the window, pleading for help to avert catastrophe." Chevigny insists, therefore, that it is our own humanity, not that of prisoners, which these read- ings call into question. Jaqueline Smith's "Fighting for Parental Rights in Prison...

... ago," and further reasoning, "I should think that any parents would consider it worth $10 to their children to obtain the information of Eastern habits they might from witnessing a Chinese tragedy or drama" (8).10 Wong's lectures themselves may have appealed to audiences in part as minstrel...