Academic and developmental literature has increasingly shown an interest in the anthropological representation of peoples' own perception of their bodies, health and reproductive processes. This interest is at times linked to programmatic priorities of health related development…
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This study, based on a field investigation conducted during the summer of 1985, examines the Palestinian experience in Kuwait. By means of 110 open-ended interviews conducted with Palestinians in Kuwait (250 hours of tape), it investigates the means they have employed since 1948…
This dissertation examines the inter-relationship between a number of socioeconomic and demographic variables including four variables that closely represent fertility. These four variables are family size, total number of births, desire for more children, and ever use of contra…
This study identifies factors associated with long-term adjustment to widowhood of widows under the age of 54 who are also mothers. The data are based on a stratified random sample, drawn for a larger project and selected from the population of Jewish urban widows in Israel, exc…
This study was undertaken in an effort to identify the fratriarchal aspects within the patriarchal family structure in the Old Testament. The Hebrew text of the Old Testament was examined for evidence of this institution. Using the comparative philological method, cuneiform and …
This study of Mandinka children, some actively engaged in child caregiving and all productive in socio-economic roles, examines the nature of the child's participation in the dissemination of cultural values. As co-producers of socializing contexts, as novices rather than non-me…
The Chinese of Jakarta are culturally diverse, yet all of them still consider the family to be the most important unit in the society. Although younger generation Chinese prefer neolocal post-marital residence, it is by no means uncommon for newlywed couples to live with their p…
This comparative study of Arabian and draft horse owners is an attempt to understand a large segment of American population involved with agricultural, professional and recreational activities related to horses, which number is increasing rapidly. The recent crisis in energy has…
The study was designed to investigate the effects of foreign domestic servants in the caregiving role among two groups of Kuwaiti families. First, Kuwaiti families studying in the United States and second, Kuwaiti families studying at the University of Kuwait, in Kuwait, or thei…
Health outcomes vary across households depending on the spatial location of the household and the genetic attributes of the parents. These differences in health endowments or survival probabilities are known to and affect parent decisions, but are unobserved by the researcher. A…
Households around the world are major consumption units with varying decision making processes. They are influenced by different values and cultural orientations that shape their buying patterns. Different family members play various roles and have different degrees of influence…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the impact of dominant discourses on welfare on the everyday lives of women caught up within the American welfare system. In the early 1990s, a moral crusade against welfare emerged, marking poor women as lazy, immoral, dependent, a…
Not many women realise that what they learn from the practical day-to-day knowledge of childbirth also contains their society's ideology and beliefs, which later have a wider impact on them in giving meaning to their experience of childbirth, and the way they see themselves as w…
This study focuses on several migration-related factors which facilitate or constrain changes in decision-making power, activity patterns, and attitudes of women whose husbands emigrated to the Middle East. The three important factors for the study of the "left-behind" women wer…
This dissertation examines disputing and dispute resolution primarily among married couples in the small city of Saint-Louis, in the northwest comer of Senegal, West Africa. The goal of this project is two-fold: first, to locate “couples disputing” in the context of the culture …
This dissertation examines the dynamics of family structure and ideology in two Nigerian cities, Lagos and Ibadan, as affected by the late colonial wage economy. Focusing on railway workers and their families, it charts the ways in which post-World War Two efforts to stabilize w…
Increasing steadily in developed nations during the last several decades, intercountry adoption (ICA) brings unique challenges to the family system during role transition to parenthood. The fundamental change for women during and following ICA is the process of and transition to…
AIDS is currently the third leading cause of death for women ages 25-44 in the United States. In 1996, women accounted for 20% of all newly reported AIDS cases. Since 1981, a total of 573,800 adolescents and adults with AIDS were reported to the Centers For Disease Control and P…
This study's purpose is to investigate the experience of motherhood for Israeli mothers who have been raising their children in the United States. Its aim is to answer the question: How does the experience of becoming a parent in the United States impact Israeli immigrant mother…