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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Family and Marriage"”.
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Culture and Family Life: Three Studies on Family and Marriage Relationships across Cultures
This dissertation explores how family and marriage relationships vary according to the culture in which they occur. Based on the individualism/collectivism framework about cultural variations in familial beliefs across countries, I study three topics of family and marriage relationships across …
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Attitudes towards family and marriage in time and context: using two British birth cohorts for comparison
With dramatic changes in family-related behaviours in the past 50 years, there has been an increasing awareness and acceptance of different family arrangements. Subsequently, measuring and studying people’s attitudes towards issues such as commitment to marriage, acceptance of alternative family …
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Attitudes of Qatari citizens towards marriage and family counselling
… of counselling into a wide range of social and cultural groups has raised questions about the acceptability of counselling for people living in societies who do not share Western traditions of psychological therapy. The present study is contextualised within reviews of models of marriage and …
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The Control and Determination of Gender and Sexual Identity in Law.
… is unable to exercise control over their sexual and gender identity in law. In other words, I suggest that identity is controlled not by the individual, but by law. My focus is female gender and sexual identity with particular reference to lesbian sexual identity. I suggest that the legal …
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The ambiguous female voice : recovering female subjectivity in Elizabeth Cary's The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry
… in a society that enjoins women to silence and to the private realm of the home. In the play Cary debates the actions of several female characters, presenting the reader with the understanding that they are wilful subjects who act to push the boundaries of the patriarchal confines of the …
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Private supper/public feast: Gender, power, and nurture in Early Modern England
… analyzes how instances of eating, preparing, and serving food in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson are liminal activities, stationed on the threshold of old and new forms of hospitality, constructions of public and private, gender and work. Because these issues punctuate the broader economic …
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Dementia within the Marital Sphere - Discourse, Power & Knowledge
… dementia has been conceptualised historically and contextually, plus the conditions that have allowed for the emergence of certain dementia discourses over others. It explored how dementia has generated biomedical, neuro, psychological, pharmaceutical, technological, charitable and academic …
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VISUALIZING MASCULINITY: MEN, FAMILY, AND COUNTRY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH PRINT CULTURE
… citizens. I will focus on man’s connection to marriage and family life, as these institutions were so closely connected to perceptions of masculinity. Specifically, I look at portrayals of the cuckold and the bachelor—tropes of male identity that deviated from the ideal notions of the French …
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An analysis of the development of a lay relationship counselling training programme in Gugulethu
The principles and policies of primary mental health care and developmental social welfare in South Africa have in common a comprehensive, people-centred, equitable approach to addressing the discriminatory practices of the past in a transforming South Africa (Freeman & Pillay, 1997, White Paper …
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A life history study of young Chinese women's experiences under the influence of traditional culture and its contemporary evolution.
As Chinese society and culture have become more complex and diverse over time, this has impacted upon the roles and experiences of women. Women continue to face significant barriers while pursuing self-development and enhanced social status. In general, Chinese culture is for men, and there exists …
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The Promise of Marriage Consent: Family Politics, the United Nations, and Women’s Rights in the US, 1947-1967
<p>In this dissertation, I use women’s marriage rights as framed in the 1962 United Nations Marriage Convention to demonstrate the contradictions contained within human rights that allow them to be coopted into the preservation of systems of power, from imperialism to Jim Crow. The treaty’s …