Since amartya Sen published his pathbreaking research on the “missing women” of asia two decades ago (Sen 1989, 1990), the distorted sex ratio at birth and consequent masculinization of asian societies have become a growing focus of scholarly and media attention. across east, South, and even west asia, the masculinization of sex ratios has been proceeding at a pace unprecedented in recorded his...

Chinese family is a patriarchal power system. How the system influences young mothers' agency in managing family men's smoking is unknown. Applying a gender lens, this ethnographic study explored how mothers of young children in Chinese extended families reacted to men's smoking. The study sample included 29 participants from 22 families. Semi-structured interviews and field observations were t...

“Males, like rats following the Pied Piper, will be lured by Pussy to their doom, will be overcome and submerged by and will eventually drown in the passive flesh that they are” (Solanas 44). Comparing men to rats, a subhuman species, is not the only derogatory analogy Solanas makes in her SCUM Manifesto. The Manifesto, written in the late 1960s during the second-wave feminist movement, charact...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is widespread, but its implications for their economic and non-economic activities are understudied. Leveraging new data from 564 ever-married women aged 22–65 in rural Minya, Egypt, we estimated logistic regressions and zero-inflated negative binomial regressions to test spillover, compensation, and patriarchal bargaining theories about the influen...

W ife beating, the most widespread form of domestic violence, has adverse consequences on the health and wellbeing of women and is a major cause of disability and death in many countries. In the past few years, it has been widely reported in developing countries’ contexts, where patriarchal family norms are common. In the Middle East, patriarchal gender relations reinforced by traditional cultu...

This paper aims to articulate the problem of relationship between an individual and society its outreach through literary texts. I argue that paradigms interrelation women, men, society, particularly in communities with pivotal patriarchal status have been directly adapted concepts theories development. In history philosophy sociology, various developed; most popular among them are associating ...

This article explores Australian women teachers’ struggles for equality with men from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. While Australia purported be a progressive democratic nation, centralised patriarchal state school systems relied on teachers fulfil requirements of free, compulsory and secular schooling. study focuses South where were enfranchised in 1894, far ahead European coun...