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Cultural Ideals, Feminine Behavior and Family Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Nadia Youssef
Nadia Youssef
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California State University, Hayward
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In this paper I propose to apply the situational perspective in examiningthe interdependence between cultural values and actual conditions offamily behavior in Latin America, first by singling out significant inconsistenciesand contradictions between the cultural definition of the femalerole and social actuality and second, by identifying some of the situationalcircumstances that are responsible for this divergency.

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Women and Social Controls
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , June 1973 , pp. 326 - 347
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1973

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