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The migration flows connecting Thailand and Europe have constructed social spaces in which different stereotypes regarding Thais and Europeans emerge, perpetuate, and circulate, thereby affecting to various extents the lives of these individuals. To challenge these stereotypes, the present special issue takes into account the mechanisms of social categorization at transnational and local dimensions in three critical steps. First, it adopts an inclusive stance by not limiting itself to heterosexual relationships involving Thais and Europeans. Second, it shifts the scholarly gaze from marriage and family issues to Thai migrants' mobilities in spatial, social, and intergenerational terms. And third, it highlights Thai migrants' engagement in the labor market as intimate workers and entrepreneurs to uncover the factors shaping their (re)productive labor and social incorporation in their receiving countries. Using an intersectional approach, this special issue presents six empirically grounded case studies to unveil often-neglected dimensions and complexities of Europe-Thailand transnational migration.

Many theorists, feminist scholars, and critics have been divided on the question of if it is possible for both men and women to adequately write about women. This article examines how some contemporary men and women have redefined and represented African women in their fiction, discharging them of conventional roles in patriarchal settings. To prove this, we examine instances of reversal of women's conventional roles through womanist and radical feminist trends in four selected contemporary African novels written by both men and women: Mema (2003), A Beautiful Daughter (2012), The Housemaid (1998), and The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (2010). The first two novels are respectively written by men, Daniel Mengara and Asare Adei, whereas the last two were written by women, Amma Darko and Lola Shoneyin. There are similarities in the ways contemporary African authors write about women in their fictional texts. For instance, they sometimes switch from a patriarchal ideology to a matriarchal one. The authors have revealed these ideologies via the reversal of women's roles, by empowering them through decision-making on matters concerning their children, their children's rights, motherhood, giving the hand of their daughter in marriage, and arranging and financing wedding festivities of their children in their novels. But the writers each adopt different concepts when advocating or addressing problems facing women. Their use of womanist or radical feminist ideology varies from one another irrespective of their gender. By reversing women's conventional roles, the authors seem to have confirmed that a society cannot, therefore, be either \"strictly matriarchal\" or \"strictly patriarchal\"; rather, a society can have matriarchal and patriarchal subsystems, and these usually complement each other (Chinweizu, 1990, p.112).

Many adults return to formal learning situations to pursue lifelong learning goals because their lives are in transition from dealing with real-life problems such as divorce and re-marriage. The purpose of this study was to describe what couples learned that contributed to the success of their subsequent marriages and how they learned it. The following categories emerged from the data: Divorce Recovery Process, Life Stage Development, Tests, Communication, Spiritual Foundation, Children, and Zestful Companionship. The major conclusions from the study are (a) that a history of unsuccessful relationships can be changed to successful relationships with couples moving from the unsuccessful, divorce track to the long-term, successful marriage track and (b) that this successful transition is grounded in effective learning, utilizing adult learning principles that include self-directed learning, real-life learning, critical thinking, and metacognition. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

Following the entry into force of Law No. 287/2009 on the Civil Code, as republished, and of Law No. 71/2011 for the implementation of Law No. 287/2009 on the Civil Code, as further amended, that repealed the Family Code (Law No. 4/1953, as republished and further amended), the spouses may choose another matrimonial regime than the legal community regime, respectively the separation of assets regime and the conventional community regime through a matrimonial agreement. The study examines theoretical issues of the matrimonial regimes that raise some debates in the doctrine. The research also consists in the analysis ofsome new institutions such as clauses ofa matrimonial agreement and the provisions of the primary obligatory regime both from theoretical and practical perspectives. Considering the 5 year period after the entry into force of the legal provisions that regulate the matrimonial regimes, the authors intend to carry out an analysis of the relevant case law of the courts of law in the matter of the pecuniary relationships between spouses.

Zepeda and Castillo develop alternative models of technology adoption and compare them to the conventional technology adoption model. A unitary household and a cooperative bargaining model are developed and used to examine the role farm women play in the adoption of rotational grazing.

News reports filed in July 2002 tell a vivid and tragic story. Late in the evening of Monday 1 July, five hundred people were gathered in a remote village in Deh Rawud district, Uruzgan province, in central Afghanistan, celebrating a wedding. Chinara, an eighteen year old, was listening to songs on a cassette recorder with her girlfriends. Her sister was soon to marry a local tribal chief’s son. All of a sudden, at around 11 pm, the roar of aircraft engines drowned out the music, and there was a huge explosion. At that moment and over the hours that followed,

In the summer of 1970, when Levertov went abroad to recuperate, America was in turmoil. On April 30, President Richard Nixon had sent troops into Cambodia.Two days later, a meeting of student leaders at Yale called for a national student strike. Desperate to effect change, students flung themselves into the revolutionary maelstrom. There were demonstrations at over half of the nation’s campuses, many of which closed. Then, on May 4, at Kent State University in Ohio, armed National Guard units were mobilized to stop militant war protestors and four students were killed, a tragedy repeated at Jackson State College in

Paridah binti Abas is a classic example of a female member of the terror group Jemaah Islamiya (JI). Born in Singapore on September 30, 1970, into a middle-class family, Paridah was one of six children of Abas bin Yusuf. She attended a secular high school and grew up planning to become a kindergarten teacher. Her father, Abas, had participated in the study groups established by two radical clerics, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir and Abdullah Sungkar, in Malaysia. He was so inspired by Sungkar’s teaching that he promised Paridah in marriage to one of Sungkar’s most ardent students, Ali Ghufron bin Nurhasyim,

This chapter is a report on a study of the father’s role in rural Chinese society and how it is interpreted in the home, articulating of the joys and sorrows of fatherhood in its positive and varied forms. On the one hand, the study attempts to examine the fathers’ different understandings of their role at home and the diversified ways of interpreting that role. On the other hand, the study seeks order in the fathers’ different understandings of their role and their interpretations of that role. The end product of this search for change in order and order in change reflects the pains, conflicts, helplessness, initiative, and creativity of the fathers. This study suggests that conventional concept of the father’s role as the economic provider of the family is changing in the conventional rural Chinese families. The data tell of the flexibility, changeability, and plurality of the father’s role. In the rural Chinese families, fathers are relentlessly endeavouring to debate the definition of their role with society. Some fathers have even broken through the constraints of society’s definition of their role at home and tried to give play to their creativity and interpret their role in new ways (such as detachment, manipulation, and transformation), based on their own interpretation of the role and their own preferences. What’s more, the changing process is a kind of struggles in between oneself, the family members, and others’ views. More interestingly, the way that father presents today may lead to a very complicated family roles system, and changing father roles may bring an important movement in future China.