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Showing 1 to 20 of 412 for “"WIves"”.
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Patch Life: Army Wives Behind the Wire
… three years. Known by the collective ‘Army Wives’ and ‘Dependents,’ these women faced multiple dislocations as they sought to make a life for themselves, bounded by British military jurisdiction in a South-Eastern corner of the European Union. Using a free association qualitative interview …
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Racial Differences in Wives' Labor Force Participation
… events of the family on racial differences in wives' labor force participation. Previous research had been unable to identify determinants of black wives' labor force participation. Variables that have a large significant effect on the labor force status of white wives--their educational …
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Spending decision responsibilities of husbands and wives
… this study. Respondents in the study were the wives in 91 Blacksburg,Virginia, families in which husband and/or wife were employed. It was hypothesized that no relationships exist for major housing, transportation, and food decisions between the decision-maker and average age of couple, the …
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Attitudes of college men toward careers for wives
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Sociology, 1929.
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Community Connections Factors Related to Army Wives' Adaptation
… IV. The survey focuses on randomly selected wives of active duty Army members (n=6451). The research model for this study includes wives' adaptation as the criterion variable, with community connections as independent variables and a set of contextual influence measures also considered as …
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Making Military Wives: Militarizing Social Reproduction of Military Families
… practices structure the daily lives of military wives? To answer this question, I use the theories of greedy institutions, militarization, and the life-course perspective to investigate the effects of deployments, temporary duty assignments, and training exercises, which coalesce to create …
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Wives, Witches, And Warriors: Women In Arabic Popular Epic
This dissertation consolidates the known corpus of the medieval Arabic popular epic (sīrah shaʿbīyah) in order to examine the roles of its female characters and how they relate to power. Borrowing from feminist theory, the study takes as its organizing principle the categories of “power-over,” …
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Personality characteristics of wives of gamma and delta alcoholics
40 wives of first admission alcoholics admitted to an alcoholic clinic and a mental hospital were examined and classified into two groups, on the basis of their husband's pattern of drinking, 17 falling into gamma and 23 into delta categories. Subjects were tested on Cattell 's 16PF, Fould1 s …
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Wives' perceptions of family needs related to employment relocation
… in method, was to explore the perceptions of 20 wives whose husbands had relocated within the past 12 months related to their employment. The researcher conducted in-depth interviews including six open-ended questions related to their most recent relocation experience. The focus of this study was …
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Sojourning in the Margin: Living as Wives of International Students
… existing literature, little attention is paid to wives of international students (WoIS). This study aims at describing and understanding lives of WoIS in the United States as sojourners in the margin. The research begins with a literature review and an examination of theoretical frames: from the …
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Wives, Warriors, and Womanhood: A Study of Women’s War Roles
… constructed to appeal to American housewives. As the article argues, women proved integral to civil defense programs and embraced these policies to escape, if only metaphorically, from the restraints of domesticity, instilling a deeper sense of meaning and patriotic responsibility to …
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The identification of essential components for equipping pastors' wives for ministry
This dissertation identifies the factors pastors' wives deem necessary to consider themselves equipped for serving in ministry in North America's churches. Initially, this study defines leadership and the title "Pastor's wife." This study further explains the variances of the meaning of the role of …
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Putting the Family First: Chinese Wives’ Stories of Migration to Britain
… for further education and employment. Their wives frequently give up their own jobs and come to the UK as following spouses, in order to assist their husbands with their educational and career advancement. Little research has been done on Chinese women overseas in general, and there are even …
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The Lived Experience of Wives and Husbands with Coronary Heart Disease
… him,” and “wrapping him in cotton” revealed the wives' focus on their husbands. The women feared that their husbands were vulnerable and assumed responsibility for protecting them from harm. The further essential theme emerged, “right in the middle of it,” reflecting the wives sharing or …
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Mistress Quickly In The Merry Wives Of Windsor: A Performance Monograph
… Quickly from William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. In my research, I will be focusing on a number of issues, many of which will bear direct relevance to and undoubtedly, more fully inform, my interpretation in performance. A key element of the performance-related side of my …
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Images and perceptions of wives and daughters of the Victorian clergy
… women, who were either the daughters or wives of clergymen of the Church of England, placing them in the social and religious context of their time. In a group biography of three women it looks at the companionate marriage of Henrietta and Samuel Barnett, in a partnership of shared …
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Resisting and Transforming: Pastoral Theology and Care of Korean Military Wives
<p>Korean military wives have been symbolized as "dirty," "nothing," and "evil" by Koreans, Korean Americans, and their American families. They also experience same level of oppression and discrimination within Korean American congregations. In Korea, the women suffered poverty, sexual violence, …
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