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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Marriage & Family"”.
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Divorcing Tradition: Marriage, Family and Female Homosociality in Puerto Rican Literature
This dissertation examines the portrayal of marriage, family, and social relations between women (female homosociality) in selected works of Luisa Capetillo, Rosario Ferre, and Ana Lydia Vega, three Puerto Rican women writers of the twentieth century. In unique ways, Capetillo, Ferre and Vega …
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Marriage & Family Therapy Faculty Member's Balance of Work and Personal Life
… examines the work and personal life balance of Marriage & Family Therapy faculty members across the U.S., 16 of whom were interviewed to gain a deeper understanding of their work and personal life balance issues. Of those, six felt they had good balance, six felt they had poor balance, and four …
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Anarcha-Feminist Writers in La Revista Blanca (1898--1905/1923--1936): Marriage, Family and State
These textual analysis seek to question the limited ideology of the current Spanish literary canon, as well as to enrich the current feminist revision of such a canon with the inclusion of class analysis as well as gender.
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The Relationship Among Gender, Gender Role Attitudes, and the Anticipated Commitment to Career, Marriage, Family, and Housework
… anticipation of future life roles (career, marriage, family, and homecare) were examined. Participants consisted of 297 single college students between the ages of 17-29 years (M = 20). Females reported significantly (p< .01) more egalitarian gender role attitudes than males. Significant …
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The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage and Family among the Academic Elite: The Marriage, Family, and Career Expectations of PhD Seeking Women and Men
… sociological approaches to understanding work/family balance focus exclusively on behavior, examining how employed mothers negotiate marriage, family, and career obligations. Drawing on the socially constructed notion that these obligations are incompatible, much of this literature assumes that …
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Positive Academic and Affective Student Outcomes at a Small School for At-Risk Adolescents Through Ongoing Teacher Consultation with a Marriage, Family, Child Counselor
<p>This study explores one school for at-risk students wherein teachers worked weekly with a therapist. Positive student outcomes garnered through this educational and therapeutic process are examined. Students, teachers, school counselor and the principal were interviewed about their perceptions …
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Characterization in satire: the three degrees of roundness; purpose, complexity, and credibility
… project will attempt to explore how courtship, marriage, family, and divorce would be perceived by characters of the Greek mythos as they attempt to assimilate to a fictional Western culture through the use of satirical conventions. How would modern cultural normalities be accepted or rejected …
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Sons, husbands, and lovers: marriage, filial piety, and transgender men in Chinese media
… public, and heteronormative institutions such as marriage, family, and adoption. Looking at the relationship between Chinese media discourse on transgender before and after the formation and promulgation of the 2009 sex-change regulations suggests the construction of a legal, heteronormative …
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Education about Chronic Mental Illness and Coping in these Families
<p>Coping styles of family members and familial relationships of patients with Schizophrenia/Schizoaffective, Dissociative, and/or Bipolar Disorder maybe influenced by psychoeducation interventions. Specifically, Psychoeducation (i.e. comprehensive & standardized protocol) can lower family …
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A go itewa ke monne wa gago ke Botshelo? : a preliminary investigation into battered women in Botswana.Volume1
… to locate the major themes of the dissertation, marriage, family and the law, within a broader socio-political context. A brief excursus focusses on selected Zimbabwean legislation which directly relates to women. Even though the legislation is not specifically for combating battering, its …
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A life history study of young Chinese women's experiences under the influence of traditional culture and its contemporary evolution.
… about how the transformation of culture, family values, education systems and social beliefs affect and impact on young Chinese women. This study analyses the research on women in traditional Chinese culture, and found they have been encountering various problems, such as women's low …
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Stress Proliferation and Disability over the Life Course
… My findings contribute to our understanding of marriage, family, gender, and health by moving beyond the traditional approach that focuses on individuals with disabilities to explore the impacts of disability on spouses.</p><p>In Chapter 2, I build on the stress process framework by …
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An Analysis of Whites' and Blacks' Attitudes Towards Interracial Marriage
Although interracial marriages are growing more common in the U.S. today, some people still do not approve of interracial marriage, and approval rates likely vary by race and gender. Few studies have examined attitudes toward interracial marriage in recent decades, with the lone exception focusing …
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The Black Middle-class Marriage Paradox: At the Intersection of Race, Upward Mobility, and Gender
Marriage is one of the most widely participated in and deeply gendered institutions in the world. Over time, American marriage has also become increasingly classed—selecting on those who are socioeconomically stable and college educated—and racialized—with Black Americans being the least likely …
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The effect of education on female fertility behaviour in El Gebel El Akhder in Libya
… both in relation to the intermediate variables (marriage, post-partum infecundability, contraception) as presented in Bongaarts? theory (1982, 1985) and in relation to socio-economic factors (education, occupation, income, age difference of partner, place of birth and residence). Female education …
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Making the Maasai Schoolgirl: Developing Modernities on the Margins
… for gender dynamics and iii social forms like marriage, family and household structure and maintenance, and labor relations. I argue that the “schoolgirl” as a category has been created by the collusion of local and global discourses that define girls’ education as a singular and primary …
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