Women's Expression in Lullabies

Five Blackfoot Lullabies

PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 155, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2011 1 This is partially supported by a Phillips Fund Grant from the American Philosophical Society (2007), and a University of Montana Small Grant (2007). I greatly appreciate James Boy for his kindness and for sharing his experience with the Blackfoot language. I am also grateful for Susie White Calf, who is no longe...

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Womens Working Status and Physical Spousal Violence in India

The purpose of this study is to identify the causal relationship between women’s working status and the risk of spousal violence against them. In India, working women tend to be more subject to physical spousal violence than non-working women. Given that there is virtually no option outside marriage for women in India, more spousal violence against working women can be understood as a result of...