..., the categories of sham and real marriage remain notoriously difficult to define. Instead of weeding out couples in sham unions, the interview is more effective as an educational practice that promotes desirable models of cross-Strait family formation. Hsieh Chang ting marital authenticity presidential campaign...

...Chapter 2 explores how women asserted their own strength in the midst of domestic violence and neglect. Drawing on sustained observations of families, private conversations with women, and formal interviews about family care, this chapter contrasts women’s ideals of family with the frustration...

...This chapter examines the changing distribution of income per person for nonelderly persons between 1979 and 2007. It notes that changes in income distribution are influenced not just by changes in income sources but also by changes in the family choices made by men and women, such as deciding...

... Woodbury and is similar in many ways to Burnett’s Killer of Sheep. It tells the story of an unemployed black man in Watts who suffers a crisis of masculinity while he tries to find a job and keep his family together. Man in a Basket is an adaptation of Crazy Kill...

... families filial piety women daughters wives self-sacrifice vendetta stem family Inoue Tsūjo Nakayama Suzuko Itō Maki Among human practices, none is greater than xiao [filial piety]. —Confucius, from the Shuo Yuan, Lau and Chen, eds., A Concordance...

...The chapter explores the discourse and experience of motherhood within Japan’s low-fertility regime in the early modern period. In a manner rarely seen elsewhere in the early modern world, Japanese families used various means, from infanticide to adoption, to correlate family size with income...

...This chapter demonstrates how at the turn of the century, the use of family endowments and benevolent associations created the earliest forms of independent women's groups. It studies the notebook of Adele Azar in light of Halide Edip's educational work in Syria and Mount Lebanon during the war...

... development urban economic benefits exurban landscapes flammability land use planning practices losses management mitigation efforts political ecology risk fire suburban landscapes Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire family home residential development wildfires Early afternoon has arrived in a swirl...

...At a time when industrial labor was regarded as potentially the most volatile of Japan' s “social problems,” female labor in particular threatened to undermine a newly imagined national moral order based on the family system. This chapter notes that the cultural meaning of labor-management...

...This chapter offers a description of the economy, making the case for the material self-sufficiency of the Matsigenka Indians in the household and extended-family hamlet. It explains that a single Matsigenka household is capable of meeting all its own subsistence needs with few exceptions...

...This chapter focuses on Matsigenka Indian society and politics. It shows the remarkable extent to which their everyday lives and interactions focus on the hearth and homestead of the nuclear-family household, even in cases of hamlet living and polygynous marriage. It explains that in a family level...

...This chapter summarizes the findings and restates the case for the Matsigenka Indians as a family level society. It explains that family level societies similar in their general characteristics to the Matsigenka are a basic form of human society and they were the predominant form of human society...

...The New Culture Movement's drive to a family reform reveals that the primary impetus of the family revolution was the search of young, urban males for a new identity in modernizing and industrializing society. To educate other people with their family reform, it released a founding journal...

...As early as 1920, Shanghai's education and business circles joined forces to address the question of marriage and family. As this issue grew, commercial presses published an ever-increasing number of books and pamphlets on love and marriage, newspapers began to add supplemental sections on home...

... policies as they applied to women were not implemented. On April 30, 1950, The Central Committee passed the Marriage Law as one of its legislative actions. The law took effect the same day, and the government began a propaganda campaign that carried new ideals of marriage and family. Chinese Communist...

...The family lives of elderly people attracted fresh concern in the postwar years when more old people lived alone and used welfare services. Sociologist Peter Townsend spent many hours speaking with each of 203 interviewees when he researched the topic in East London in 1954–1955. Townsend...

... consumption Silent Spring Institute freedom of choice femininity motherhood foodwork grocery shopping family health “There is a long history of society blaming mothers for the ill health of their children,” wrote Sarah Richardson and her colleagues in a widely discussed social commentary published...

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... it draws also upon fieldwork, particularly with regard to worship of the newly canonized Russian royal family. Agadjanian Alexander dichotomies animate inanimate Herzfeld Michael identity ID card individualism postsocialist transformations religiosity analogic mode Rousselet Kathy royal family...

...This historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born...