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January 1, 2018
Debates over faith-based education have resurfaced in recent years, due to an increase in Islamic schools in the west and concerns over their potential negative influence on Muslim youth. To date, most of these debates have occurred in the public and polit ...
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January 4, 2017
This chapter reviews a growing body of international research that documents a puzzling pattern of gender differences in health and considers the limitations of current explanations. Such limitations derive from a failure to capture the complexity of men's ...
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November 1, 2014
Gender roles and expectations in which the behaviors of women hold substantially more meaning than those of men have enormous importance for Arab Americans. Gender ideas inform a multiplicity of matters of appropriateness, including public behavior, social ...
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December 1, 2010
Religious influences on family and gender roles are at the center of numerous debates about the role of religion in contemporary American life (Bartkowski 2001; Gallagher 2003; Hardacre 1997; Sherkat 2000; Williams 1997). The accepted wisdom is that the te ...
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