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Research indicates that workplace incivility affects the higher education workplace and has been shown to reduce job satisfaction. Existing literature on these two variables focuses heavily on academic faculty, failing to investigate this trend for student affairs staff members.…

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of doctoral student mothers pursuing doctorates in higher education as well as the meanings ascribed to the doctorate. This study was guided by Rich’s (1976) notion of motherhood as experience and as institution held in te…

This dissertation seeks to understand the role of women as political actors in the rise of Islamo-nationalist movement in Palestine. Using a historical and ethnographic approach, it examines the changing opportunity structures available to Palestinian women in the nationalist st…

This thesis investigates the rights of women under Islamic law, focusing on mothers and their children and comparing traditional Islamic law with the contemporary Lebanese legal system. The approach chosen here is to examine the laws pertaining to nasab (lineage). My analysis of…

The study was conducted involving 71 low-income mothers having each a child <5 years and who attend the child feeding service, at Bushulo health center in Sidama, southern Ethiopia. Household food production, consumption, child feeding practices, child health, morbidity and mort…

Diarrheal diseases affect an estimated 19% of children under the age of five years in Egypt. The mother's behaviors in response to symptoms of diarrhea in her child play an important role in determining the health outcome for the child, since the mother's intervention can preven…

It has been widely believed that modernity is a byproduct of a nuclear family system, a highly urbanized society, and a secular way of life. As such, developing countries are characterized as modern insofar as their social and cultural structures are able to correspond to these …

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…

Across much of South Asia, the basic unit of social and economic organization is the family. Within the family, norms of patriarchy and preferences for living in large joint-households induce predictable cycles of household formation and dissolution. The cycle begins when a male…

Purpose. A randomized trial was conducted to assess the effect of teaching mothers to treat their under-five children for malaria at home with chloroquine in rural Tigray, Ethiopia. Mother coordinators (MCs) were trained to teach neighborhood mothers to do so. Methods. 24 tabias…

Many mothers with learning disabilities experience social isolation (McGaw, 1998; Booth & Booth, 1996) despite current research clearly delineating the importance of supportive relationships for mothers with learning disabilities. The aim of this research was to investigate the …

This dissertation examines the roles of maternal education, skills, and health knowledge in the formation of children's health. Maternal education has widely been found to positively impact child health but the operative mechanisms and causal links remain relatively unexplored. …

In the United States in post 9/11 context, American mothers perform a daily struggle to both protect children from indirect experience of the war on terror and other dangers, and prepare children to enter into the social world safely and successfully. How mothers manage this eve…

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2000 and 2002, this work examines the importance of reproduction and motherhood for understanding Igbo women's power in southeastern Nigeria. It argues that women's roles in both biological and social reproduction form the b…

A growing body of literature has demonstrated that the challenges that migrants face as they try to acculturate to their new context can result in stress, which, in turn, can contribute to psychosocial difficulties of adjustment. Although refugees constitute a significant propor…

This study examined the Ethiopian immigrant mothers’ experiences and perception of raising a child with mild mental retardation and/or emotional disturbance. It also, investigated the association between Israeli Ethiopian mothers’ ethnic identity, their perception of their child…

My dissertation project, "College Knowledge: The Experiences of Mexican Mothers and Educational Success in the Midwest", is grounded in the idea that Mexican parents (regardless of citizenship status) take part in a critical role in U.S. schooling today. While Mexican parents ho…

Although exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for 6 months protects infants from morbidity and growth retardation, 70% of Bangladeshi mothers introduced non-breast milk foods during the first 6 months of lactation. The aim of our study was to understand mothers' decisions related to in…

This dissertation examines motherhood as a discursive practice that has influenced American women's relationship to processes of militarization, albeit in different ways and to different effect across bodies and even differentially within the same bodies across time. There are t…

Mother Utters: Struggle and Subversion in the works of Gwendolyn Brooks explores how Brooks uses women's speech and traditional classical poetic forms to struggle with and subvert the predominant social, moral, and political systems which impede class mobility and impress Africa…