Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 2004

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 2004

Abstracts (English).
March 22, 2004... VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM, Director of Women's Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790 USA Patriarchy in Transition: Women and the Changing Family in the Middle East The family is...

Abstracts (French).
March 22, 2004... VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM, Director of Women's Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790 USA Patriarchy in Transition: Women and the Changing Family in the Middle East La famille est...

Abstracts (Spanish).
March 22, 2004... VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM, Director of Women's Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790 USA Patriarchy in Transition: Women and the Changing Family in the Middle East La familia es tal...

Introduction.(Journal of Comparative Family Studies)
March 22, 2004... In this volume, we examine patterns of family life in the Middle East today against the background of rapid and unpredictable social, political, and cultural change. It is a cliche to describe the Middle East as turbulent, if not volatile or...

Patriarchy in transition: women and the changing family in the Middle East.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The "Middle Eastern Muslim family" has long been described as a patriarchal unit, and it has been noted that Muslim family laws have served to reinforce patriarchal gender relations and women's subordinate position within the...

Women's socioeconomic characteristics and marital patterns in a rapidly developing Muslim society, Kuwait *.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Changes in marital composition and patterns are important elements of the social, economic, and cultural transformations in a society. Behaviors relating to how soon people marry, whom they marry, and how many...

Mental health and violence/trauma in Palestine: implications for helping professional practice *.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION A growing literature examines the effects of trauma related to the Intifada, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among children (Qouta et al., 2001, 1997; Punamaki et al., 2001; Thabet and Vostanis, 1999b), and how...

Have Palestinian children forfeited their rights?
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Adult conceptualizations of young Palestinian minds range from celebrating the indomitable little spirit to rebuke of the destructive deviance resulting from a shattered or manipulated childhood. The phenomenon of children...

Migration as a method of coping with turbulence among palestinians *.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Migration is one way individuals and families cope with economic uncertainty and political turbulence. Migrations in search of stability may be embarked upon with the intention to resettle temporarily or permanently, and these...

Nuptiality transition and marriage squeeze in Lebanon: consequences of sixteen years of civil war *.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Lebanon began its transition to low fertility earlier than most Middle Eastern countries, and yet little is known about the processes of demographic change in the country. This is because the last census was held in 1932 under...

Family change in Lebanon's Biqa Valley: what were the results of the Civil War?
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Lebanon experienced a traumatic civil war from 1976 to 1989. People lived in fear, hiding out in basements and enduring bombardment and sniper fire. Families were displaced, or lost members to death or emigration. Both...

Conceiving family relationships in post-war Lebanon.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION: WAR AND CONCEIVING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS How family relationships are conceived, both materially and discursively, in the aftermath of war is critical for understanding the processes of construction and reconstruction of the...

Family in war and conflict: using social capital for survival in war torn Cyprus *.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The original hypothesis behind this research was that in times of civil war, government services, such as education, health and welfare, become unavailable. It is then that the family emerges as the leading, often the sole,...

The family during crisis in Afghanistan.
March 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Some say the family institution in Afghanistan is rapidly deteriorating. Others say the family remains the rampart on which the survival of its people rests. Surely these radically divergent views about what all agree is the...

Dismantling the Iraqi social fabric: from dictatorship through sanctions to occupation.
March 22, 2004... Women and children, though by and large a politically and economically marginalized group hardly responsible for the power politics that typically lead to war and sanctions, are often the ones hardest hit by the traumas of such events. For...