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Showing 1 to 20 of 615 for “"wife"”.
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A Secretary's Wife
A Secretary's Wife is a work of historical fiction that draws from real events and people who emerge from the journals and letters of Lady Anne Barnard while she was in the Cape for the period 1797–1802. Lady Anne Lindsay marries a younger man without title or fortune. When he lands a position as …
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Wife abuse in Thailand
… industrialized countries, on the occurrence of wife abuse in a developing Asian society, Thailand. The following variables are organized in two path analysis models: social isolation of the wife, socio-economic status, duration of the marriage, number of children, wife's employment status, …
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Wife abuse among Indians in the U.S.
… status intersect to shape the experiences of wife abuse among women. In this study, I analyze the experiences of one group of abused women -- Indian women in the U.S. I examine how Indian women's experience of abuse, and their reaction to it is shaped by the patriarchal gender relations within …
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Wife battering policies, programs and definitions: A social constructionist analysis.
… definition process of the social problem of wife battering in Canada from 1970 to 1990. The primary component of the thesis is an examination of the development of various conceptual frameworks. The issue of wife battering would not have evolved as a social problem had it not been for the …
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The Priest's Wife in the Anglo-Norman Realm, 1050-1150
This thesis is a prosopographical study of the wives of the clergy in England and Normandy from 1050 to 1150. After the Norman Conquest of England (1066), both regions shared an elite ruling class and the churches shared personnel. However, the different social and political contexts of the English …
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The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot
… to romantically idealize the role of being a wife. In particular, heroines Catherine Morland, Marianne Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, and Emma Woodhouse lose autonomy and become more limited within their characters as they are influenced by the societies around them. The stories of Austen's other …
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STABILITY AND CHANGE IN PATTERNS OF WIFE-BEATING: A SYSTEMS THEORY APPROACH
<p>This research is a longitudinal study of wife battering using a system's theory approach. Two types of longitudinal analyses are presented. The first is the analysis of retrospective data of histories of violent relationships. The second type of longitudinal analysis is the comparison of the …
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I rest your loving obedient wife: marital relationships in Scotland 1650-1850
… with the words ‘I rest your loving obedient wife’. These words, or a variation on them, were a common subscript for wives during the seventeenth century. The combination of the words loving and obedient could be used through habit or consciously for effect, yet, in most cases, without any …
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Factors that lead to low prosecution of wife battery cases in Lusaka Urban
… of domestic gender based violence in general and wife battery in particular. This motivation is against a backdrop of many cases of wife battery that do not get prosecuted despite being reported to the police. The study was limited to Lusaka urban district which is considered to be a boiling pot …
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Factors that lead to low prosecution of wife battery cases in Lusaka Urban
… of domestic gender based violence in general and wife battery in particular. This motivation is against a backdrop of many cases of wife battery that do not get prosecuted despite being reported to the police. The study was limited to Lusaka urban district which is considered to be a boiling pot …
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