Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 1997

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 1997

On a panhuman preference for monandry: is polyandry an exception?
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION This article explores the following proposition: that monandrous marriage arrangements marriages simultaneously involving one or more females but only one male are universally preferred. The formal object of analysis is marriage...

Acculturation of Arab-American immigrants: an exploratory study.
September 22, 1997... As noted by Sporakowski (1993: 299), "The United States has probably always been a country of immigrants and migrants." Tavakoliyadzi goes further to describe the United States as having been historically "... a haven for immigrants (1981: 56)."...

The effect of children's sex on parent's gender-role attitudes: an extension using Japanese data.
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Family sociology is replete with research focusing on how parent's attitudes and behaviors affect their children. Less well researched is the effect of children on parents (Ambert, 1992) and, in particular, the effect of sex...

Gender equality and participation in housework: a cross - national perspective.
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION The gender division of labor in the home is a central component of the continued existence of gender stratification. Recent feminist theory has argued that the division of labor in the home is more than just an unequal...

Female role change and male response in the post-nomadic urban environment: the case of the Israeli Negev Bedouin.
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY Numerous attempts have been undertaken by Middle Eastern governments in recent years to bring social development to nomadic populations through the use of resettlement and public service provision. States which only...

The portrait of the unemployed father in Finnish Women's Magazines.
September 22, 1997... UNEMPLOYMENT AND FATHERHOOD This study began at a time when unemployment had already become a sizeable political problem in Finnish society. New statistics were constantly appearing as evidence of rising numbers of unemployed people. The aim...

The prevalence and determination of wife abuse in urban China.
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Wife abuse as an enduring social issue and an institutionalized form of violence against women transcends national and cultural boundaries. In recent decades, despite an increasing public effort combating against it, wife abuse...

A comparative analysis of the effect of domestic institutions on suicide ideology.
September 22, 1997... Attitudes towards suicide found in the subcultures of socio-demographic groups can be important correlates of actual suicidal behavior (e,g. Stack and Wasserman, 1992). They can also be instrumental to the primary prevention of suicide (e.g. Sale...

Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: STACY A. HAMMONS Using a transactional perspective, Altman and Ginat study members of two Mormon fundamentalist religious communities practicing polygamy. The researchers' framework is based on five assumptions about close...

Families in Postmodern Society.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: VICTOR THIESSEN Without particularly embracing it, Cheal utilizes modernization theory, in its various forms, to provide the structure for the historical patterns of poverty and for the theoretical rationale for the empirical...

Understanding Diverse Families: What Practitioners Need to Know.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: CHESTER A. WINTON Postmodern theorists write that post-industrial societies are characterized by decentered social structures. In the 1990s, we have witnessed the decentering of nation states such as Czechoslavakia, Yugoslavia,...

Multiracial Couples.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: DEBBIE STORRS Interracial marriage has become more common in recent years, particularly after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws against interracial marriages in 1967. According to the US Census, black-white couples have...

The Frog, the Prince, and the Problem of Men.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: N. JANE McCANDLESS Using the story of the Frog Prince as a point of reference, Dench argues that patriarchy should not be viewed as a system of male domination, but rather as a system of incentive of ensure that men will rise...

African American Single Mothers.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: LYNDA DICKSON The scholars whose works appear in African American Single Mothers share the following characteristics: 1) personal experiences in, as, or with single parent families which didn't fit the (usually negative)...

Family, Women, and Employment in Central Eastern Europe.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: KRISTIN MARSH How has the transition away from state socialism affected women's lives in Central Eastern Europe? What meaning do women attach to the transition in terms of their changing family and work roles? And what Western...

Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: MARK MOBERG In its unceasing "creative destruction" of existing labor processes and social relations, capitalism occasionally resurrects earlier forms of labor organization once thought to be moribund if not extinct. One...

Good Enough Mothering?: Feminist on Lone Parenthood.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: PAULA CHEGWIDDEN This is a British collection of eleven articles analyzing the phenomenon of lone motherhood from historical, cross-national comparative, theoretical, and contemporary UK political perspectives. The articles are...

Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: HEATHER JON MARONEY Gordon's multifactor historical analysis of the development of policy on female-headed households in the United States of America starts with a contemporary question: why is "welfare" (Aid to Dependent...

Library in a Book: Sexual Harassment.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: ANN GOETTING Library in a Book: Sexual Harassment provides a lucid feminist introduction to understanding sexual harassment and serves as a definitive one-step reference for advanced study, activism and litigation. Its accessible...

Gender Issues in Elder Abuse.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: MARCIA L. BELLAS Most victims of elder abuse are women. Yet, as Aitken and Griffin contend in Gender Issues in Elder Abuse, little attention has been paid to this fact or to the social conditions that give rise to the abuse of...

The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: PABLO VILA A welcome addition to the increasing (but still insufficient) literature about masculinities, this thoughtful and penetrating ethnographic work analyzes the contradictory meaning of being a male in Mexico City's...

Current Widowhood: Myths and Realities.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: BESS A. ROTHENBERG The issue of widowhood has traditionally been swept under the carpet by most academics having been deemed an uninteresting or unimportant field of study. For this reason Helena Znaniecka Lopata's book makes a...

A History of the Famil, vol. 1, Distant Worlds, Ancient Worlds..(Distant World, Ancient Worlds. Vol. 1.)
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: DAVID POPENOE This is a most welcome addition to the growing body of literature on family history. Originally published in French in 1986, it consists of chapters in English translation, each by a French scholar-specialist,...

Children and the Politics of Culture.
September 22, 1997... Reviewed by: LINDA MILLER MATTHEI The papers in this volume developed out of an international, interdisciplinary conference in 1992 whose thematic focus was "Children at Risk". This is a path-breaking book. Though seven of the twelve...