Changing Family Roles and Feminism/edited by Man Singh Das and Vijay Kumar Gupta. 1996, 145 p., tables, figs., $20.
Contents: Introduction. 1. A cross-national analysis of family and household structure/Xuanning Fu and Tim B. Heaton. 2. Age at menarche among adolescent females in Zambia: implication for family foundation/Vijayan K. Pillai. 3. Impact of the Gulf war on marriage and divorce in Israel/Hayim Granot. 4. Intergenerational relationships in Taiwanese families/Robert Strom, Shirley Strom, Yuh-Ling Shen, Shing Jing Li and Hwey Lin Sun. 5. African American private household workers, white employers and their children/Mahnaz Kousha. 6. A sociological view of the never married/Craig J. Forsyth and Elaine L. Johnson. 7. Children in one-parent families: a review/Benjamin Schlesinger. 8. Husbands, wives and welfare: the effect of welfare guarantees and taxes on family labour supply/Howard Genselr and W. David Walls. 9. Measurement of attitude toward inter-caste marriage: development of a Likert-type scale/Saroja Krishnaswamy and R. Kamath.
[Man Singh Das is Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University. His books include Brain Drain Controversy and International Students, Women in Third World and Role of Women in Muslim Countries.]