Essays about: "Patrilineal"
Found 4 essays containing the word Patrilineal.
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1. How individuals engaged in social work in Bali perceive their room for action when working with jandas : A qualitative study on social work with socially vulnerable women in Bali
University essay from Marie Cederschiöld högskola/Institutionen för socialvetenskapAbstract : The main purpose of this study is to investigate how individuals engaged in social work with socially vulnerable women in Bali perceive their room for action. Our participants' clients are widows, divorced women, unmarried women, or women with children born out of wedlock. In our thesis, we refer to these women as jandas. READ MORE
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2. Female Empowerment and Early Childhood Health Investments: The Long-Term Effect of Matrilineal Kinship in Sub-Saharan Africa
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : How we choose to invest in the future generations is becoming increasingly imperative as researchers learn more about the long-term consequences of early childhood. The early-life literature suggests that empowered mothers invest more into their children and that matrilineal females are more empowered than patrilineal counterparts. READ MORE
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3. The Matrilineal Puzzle : Women's Land Rights in Mozambique- Case study: Niassa Province
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : This thesis aims to shed light on issues related to women’s rights to access and benefit from land in matrilineal communities in rural, northern Mozambique. It portrays the environment in which organisations working with implementation of land rights operate as well as proposes conclusions on the core obstacles to their work. READ MORE
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4. Why honor is worth more than a life : A literature review about ’so called’ honor violence
University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för hälsaAbstract : Background: In honor culture the family’s honor is valued by the girl’s or the woman’s social and sexual behavior, in her virginity, and is therefore dependent on how well she can manage the deeply rooted traditional norms that describes what is acceptable or not. Anyone who violates these norms and rules must be punished, and the most extreme form is killings, ‘so called’ honor killings, sanctioned by the community. READ MORE
