In this dissertation I analyze the development of contemporary US welfare policy with special consideration given to the importance of race and gender. In the introductory chapter I outline how the development of the American welfare state has continuously neglected the needs of…
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Purpose of study. Most studies examining stress and coping patterns of pastoral wives have been conducted from an advanced country background. Even though all the researchers agreed that these pastoral wives do experience a certain amount of stress, very little is known about pa…
Based primarily on eighteenth-century criminal records from the Court of Aldermen in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta), this dissertation explores the way in which demographic and economic constraints influenced colonial law, and details the effects of these forces on the female unde…
This study analyzes all of the actual references to "wife" and "wives," following the Hebrew terms 'iššâ and nāšîm respectively, in the book of Jeremiah where the marriage imagery has a prominent role in the understanding of the content and the context of the text. It was notice…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe the experiences of military wives whose spouses have been deployed to a combat zone. Nine military wives whose spouses had been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq participated in this study. Data were generated throu…
This qualitative study was completed to gain a better understanding of wives' experience of stress after their husbands have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The research on problems faced within military couples, specifically related to the partner not in the military, con…
The overarching goal of this thesis was to compare the mother-child relationship and child behaviour across cultures. The three articles in this thesis were part of a multi-method investigation comparing England (an individualistic culture) and Turkey (a collectivistic culture).…
In this dissertation, fertility and demand for contraceptives is analyzed within the non-unitary preferences framework. Husbands and wives are allowed to have differing preferences over number of children and timing of births and the impact of these differing preferences on coup…
In 1763, following the Treaty of Paris, Quebec City officially became a major British garrison. As a result, there was a constant and substantial presence of Anglophone and Protestant young men, the majority of them single, in a city with a civilian population mostly French and …
Globally, the women-centered approach to family planning service delivery and research is being replaced by one which encourages male responsibility and participation. Recognizing this shift, this study applied a Reciprocal Determinism framework to exploring the importance of ea…
This dissertation is a study of the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. The particular focus of the dissertation is the situation of married women. Since independence, growing economic hardship, increasing op…