The basic research question this thesis addresses is how the secondary status of Bangladeshi women is reinforced through household labour. It is argued that gender relations and housework shape each other. To develop this, it examines the degree of participation of women in diff…
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This study investigates demographic influences on income distribution at the micro level of households. Relevant theoretical arguments are discussed, and an empirical analysis is carried out in the context of Peninsular Malaysia, using the 1988 dataset of the second Malaysian Fa…
This descriptive study was conducted with a systematically selected sample of 55 rural child-rearing women. It was conducted to determine the perceived influence of each of nine select factors on the women's utilization patterns of six health care options. The nine factors were:…
This dissertation examines the determinants of the desire for additional children for currently married women in Pakistan. Then the determinants of contraceptive use are examined. It is generally argued that the traditional social and economic structure of Pakistani society keep…
Recent demographic evidence for sub-Saharan Africa shows that the absence of a demand for small family sizes is the major barrier to a fertility decline in the region. Other evidence shows that the traditional child-spacing practices of breast-feeding and postpartum abstinence a…
This dissertation discusses the emergence of Robert A. Jaffray as a leader. It deals with the whole of his life and ministry, starting from his childhood, through his conversion, missionary calling, missionary training and subsequent missionary service in East Asia, and finally …
This dissertation is a collection of essays that explore issues related to the lending scheme and lending experience of a credit institution in Bangladesh, the Grameen Bank. The bank makes loans to rural poor women to finance self-employment activities. Its innovative feature is…
This study of remittance from the Middle East migrants to a town in Pakistan presents a model explaining the use of remittances for business, agriculture, basic family needs, and social ceremonies/luxury items. The focus was on the influence of four dimensions of extended family…
This is a study of the family-based health care system and the impact of illness on the family in a Kelantan Malay village in Peninsular Malaysia. This study shows that illness, depending on its nature and seriousness generates fear and other social and cultural problems within …
This research is concerned with the determinants of birth intervals in natural and controlled fertility populations. The paper identifies and discusses direct and indirect determinants of birth intervals. Single and multistate event history models are used in the statistical ana…
Two questions are addressed in this thesis. The first considers cultural variability among Middle Eastern communities by reference to one ethnographic case, the Druze. The second concerns the relation between cultural beliefs, expressive forms, and the family. Research has noted…
This dissertation examined the impact of American culture and other variables related to Saudi Arabian culture on the attitudes of Saudi students in the United States toward Saudi women's participation in the labor force, the role of women as housewives and homemakers, women's a…
The objective of the study is to explore the impact of divorce on household consumption behavior. More specifically this dissertation examined the degree and ways in which divorced and married women differ with regard to selected aspects of women's consumption behavior. It was h…
This examines theory and purposes of ritual throughout the life cycle, but especially in childhood. The religious function is stressed, along with the psychological or expressive, ideological or cultural, and social. "Religion," "religious" and "spiritual" are broadly defined as…
The effect of schooling on nutritional knowledge, attitudes and nutritional outcomes in Ethiopia was investigated. Data were obtained in late 1989 in Debre Birhan in Shoa province from three groups: 267 mothers, 114 clinic users and six primary schools with a total of 528 studen…
Qualitative and exploratory in nature, this study applied intercultural communication competence (ICC) research to the context of intercultural marriages. The purpose of the study was to identify communication skills and strategies employed by intercultural couples to resolve th…