[Ads-l] Self-care

Thu May 2 22:10:31 UTC 2019

Yes, these details sound good, and I will check with Dr. McBride on the
reimbursement to English.

I am checking on our conference room availability and will get back to you.

Dr. Brotton

Melissa Brotton, M.S., Ph.D., Chair
Associate Professor of English
Department of English
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La Sierra University
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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:42 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Well, it's hit the NewYorker "Shouts and Murmurs" page:
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> https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/dos-and-donts-for-2020-democra=
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> Do=E2=80=99s and Don=E2=80=99ts for 2020 Democratic Candidates Targeting
> th=
> e Youth Vote
> ...
> Do talk about self-care. Do you have a skin-care regimen? Are you in
> therapy? Do you ever eat a vegetable that most people hate, like
> Brussels sprouts? Share this! Sure, your generation valued hard work
> and never expressing feelings unless it was on a deathbed in
> Viet-freaking-nam. But this generation is different. Maybe it=E2=80=99s the
> crippling student debt or the rise of the twenty-four-hour
> network-news cycle. Who can say. Regardless, you ate a hot dog at a
> food truck in Flushing, Queens, last week=E2=80=94you can pretend to know
> w=
> hat
> transcendental meditation is.
>
> Does that mean it's jumped the shark?
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:37 PM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
> w=
> rote:
> >
> > Theresa Fisher asks: Hi! I'm trying to figure out when the term
> "self-car=
> e"
> > emerged. I've read a number articles that trace the history of the
> > self-care movement. But I'm having trouble finding information about the
> > origins of the term itself.   This Slate story suggests that self-care
> > emerged as a medical concept at some point before the mid-20th century,
> a=
> nd
> > then acquired political meaning in the 1960s or 70s.
> > I have no idea what the political meaning of self-care might be.
> > I checked the Proquest database of American 'Historical Newspapers."
> > There were a couple of appearances of the term with reference to women
> > caring for their beauty at the beginning of the 20th century, then a
> lull=
> .
> > In the 1930s it appeared as a beauty tip, a medical term, and in a Nazi
> > context. &c..
> > There was a great drop-off in the term appearing in headlines in the
> 2010=
> s,
> > from the 2000s.
> >
> > Go to your library and talk to a librarian to check this and similar
> > databases, more thoroughly.
> >
> > GAT
> >
> > Let Summer Days Help You in Keeping Your Skin Lovely: Summer Can Be Big
> > Beauty Aid If You'll Let It Warm Weather Ideal Time to Care for
> > Skin.   Chicago Daily Tribune,  July, 1931 LIFE SPAN OF 70 SEEN BY MAYO
> I=
> N
> > 25 YEARS: But 12-Year Gain Depends on Man's Self-Care Between 30 and 50,
> > Says Physician   NYTimes, October 1931
> >
> >  REICH MAKES JEWS JOIN FOR SELF-CARE: All Placed in One Organization
> > Running Schools and Relief   NYTimes, July, 1939
> >
> > --
> > George A. Thompson
> > The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> > Univ. Pr., 1998.
> >
> > But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> > your lowly tomb. . .
> > L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
> >
> > The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> > picture of his great-grandfather.)
> >
> http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence-=
> --a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851
> <http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence-=--a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851>
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