Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 2007

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 2007

Editor's note.(Editorial)
June 22, 2007... This special issue has taken some time to get ready for printing. We will be publishing fairly soon, two special issues based on the Papers presented at the 16th World Congress of Sociology held in Durban, South Africa held at the end of July,...

Erratta.(Correction notice)
June 22, 2007... Article--"Love Styles: A Cross-Cultural Study of British, Indian and Portuguese College Students"--in the Spring 2007 Issue was authored by Felix Neto and Maria da Conceicao Pinto. By mistake Maria da Conceicao Pinto's name was not mentioned....

Family and gender in the transformation of the countryside.
June 22, 2007... This special issue of the journal features contributions that deal with changes in gender and family relations in various rural contexts. Starting in the specific spatial and historical context of farm families, the aims of the articles are to...

Gendered work in family farm tourism.(Report)
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION In this paper we explore gender aspects of farm tourism. In many regions and countries tourism has become a valuable source of additional or alternative income as farming has encountered problems. As an alternative to farming,...

Summer farmers: gender discourses in new arenas.(Report)
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION For centuries, women on Norwegian family farms have had the main responsibility for running the summer farms. This has been a traditional, gendered labour division on family farms whereby outfields are utilized as summer...

Trends of agricultural feminisation in Kastoria, Greece.
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Because in many Western European countries rural women have access to off-farm employment, the process of "masculinisation" of agriculture has been discussed in the rural sociological literature reviewed by Brandth (2002) as...

Masculinisation or professionalisation of Norwegian farm work: a gender neutral division of work on Norwegian family farms?(Report)
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION The penetration of the market economy within family farming has been held as the force behind factors like increased mechanisation and productivity, and the masculinisation of farm work. Empirical studies have described a long...

Gendered values and attitudes among rural women in Croatia.(Report)
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Studies following the collapse of socialism have shown that transition fostered a renewed public emphasis on traditional values, family life and religion, leading to what has been called 'retraditionalisation' (Kligman, 1994)....

Attitudes towards gender roles and gender role behaviour among urban, rural, and farm populations in Slovenia.(Report)
June 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Historically, researchers from various social disciplines (sociologists, geographers, demographers and others) have observed important differences between urban and rural populations in many parts of today's developed...