Diplomatic Gastronomy: Style and Power at the Table
In: Food and foodways: explorations in the history & culture of human nourishment, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 146-166
ISSN: 1542-3484
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In: Food and foodways: explorations in the history & culture of human nourishment, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 146-166
ISSN: 1542-3484
This study discusses a politically driven change in American women's public mourning customs over the fallen of World War I. During the war, government officials and politicians sought to transform women's grief over a fallen loved one into a celebration of an honorable military death. They actively discouraged the wearing of traditional black mourning and instead urged the wearing of a simple black armband with a gold star. This substituted glory for grief and thus made their loved one's death a mark of distinction by giving their life in the service of their country. The radical change in women's public mourning over a soldier's wartime death, initiated by the unlikely partnership of President Woodrow Wilson and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, demonstrates how two powerful political leaders used women's public grief to help expedite their own political agendas. This study also explores the political networking which resulted in the evolution of the gold star icon and the distinction between how women mourned a war related military death as opposed to a civilian death before and during the World War I period.
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In: Journal of sociology & social welfare, Volume 10, Issue 1
ISSN: 1949-7652
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Volume 34, Issue 9, p. 1915-1921
ISSN: 0190-7409
In: Children and youth services review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, Volume 35, Issue 12, p. 2128-2134
ISSN: 0190-7409
In: Journal of social service research, Volume 41, Issue 3, p. 364-384
ISSN: 1540-7314
In: Research on social work practice, Volume 26, Issue 5, p. 572-582
ISSN: 1552-7581
Objective: This article describes the evaluation of permanency roundtables, an intervention to help youth in foster care achieve legal permanency and the challenges evaluators faced in finding and using appropriate comparison data. Method: In 2009, permanency roundtables were conducted for 496 children in Georgia, most of whom had spent extended time in care. Half (50%) achieved legal permanency within 24 months of the roundtables. Results: Five potential sources of comparison data, none of which provide an ideal comparison, are presented and discussed. Conclusions: Ideally, evaluators should plan for one or more comparison groups at the very beginning of the evaluation. However, post hoc comparisons should not be dismissed altogether. The challenge for evaluators is to generate valid comparison groups to determine whether an intervention made a significant improvement, despite challenges such as limited funding, tight timelines, and unmeasured contextual differences between groups.
Funding Information: Research leading to these results was conducted as part of the InterPregGen study, which received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 282540 and was supported by Wellcome Trust grant 098051. Some data used for the research were obtained from THL Biobank. We thank all study participants for their generous participation at THL Biobank. Part of this work was conducted using the UK Biobank Resource under application number 24711. A full list of acknowledgments appears in Supplementary Note 3. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF
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