Having daughters, not sons to predict accepting education although for children may be controversial in a patriarchal society, whiles the actual sense is merit. This so, as society first, perceived daughter and son from traditional gender ideology instead of human capital view. Patriarchal feels guilty when daughters turn out determined, assertive, competent than sons. paper explores predictors...

Among the commonplaces of social history is the idea that early capitalism made the family (and indeed all of society) more authoritarian and more patriarchal. The Protestant Reformation, we are told, was both an instrument and an expression of this process. This view, here starkly oversimplified, is loosely associated with the names of Marx and Weber, but has passed into common currency. In re...

In this paper I argue that the practice of veganism is, or can be, a Foucauldian ethical practice of freedom. I begin by sketching out the problematization of alimentary practices within a normalizing patriarchal framework, which some feminists argue is dominant within contemporary North American society. Within this problematization, eating—for many women—is a way to manage the body’s appearan...

This study examined the relationships among enculturation, attitudes supporting intimate partner violence (IPV-supporting attitudes), and gender role attitudes among one of the largest Asian Indian population groups in the US. Data were collected via computer-assisted telephone interviews with a random sample of Gujarati men and women aged 18-64 in Metropolitan Detroit. Using structural equatio...