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  • Silenced voices : maids in Singapore

    Creator:
    Gaulocher, Suzanne M.
    Abstract:
    This paper is a compilation of micro and macro consequences of women migrating into Singapore to work as domestic workers. Singapore's governmental push for Singaporean women to have babies and a career simultaneously has required modern families to seek alternative forms of child care as a means of fulfilling household...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Applied Anthropology. Applied Anthropology and Women Studies presented on February 16. 2001. Title

  • Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

    Creator:
    Niazi, Amarah
    Abstract:
    This dissertation examines women's lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to analyze social change through women's access to education and reproductive...
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    Dissertation
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    identity plays a role in their social status only prior to marriage. Once married, women refer to their