Gender and Political Apology: When the Patriarchal State Says ‘Sorry’ by Emma Dolan(2021). New York: Routledge, 165pp.

Violence against women, especially by intimate partners, is a serious public health problem that is associated with physical, reproductive, and mental health consequences. The effect of intimate partner violence on women's ability to control their fertility and the mechanisms through which these phenomena are related merit further investigation. Building on findings from a previous analysis in ...

ferable struggle to live and the necessity of preserving a healthy verile stock probably stated their attitude to their weaker brethren. Many peoples including the Spartans, elts and Romans, for instance, required all newly born infants to submit to searching ?Crutiny to exclude evidence of poor development and physical defect. Some even lri:iposed rigorous tests of fitness, as for example the ...

V. Sommer and C. Ross (eds.), Primates of Gashaka, Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects 35, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7403-7_12, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract Chimpanzees and bonobos, despite being closely related hominoid primates, differ in female gregariousness and dominance style. Violent male aggression is not atypical in chimpanzee societies and is vente...

If gifts are reciprocated in the future, intra-household distribution of resources will depend on premarital gifts such as dowry, bride-price and parents’ gifts to a child such as schooling and nurturing. If such social norms of reciprocity exist, parental income effects on their child’s human capital will be asymmetric, and the effect will depend on the amount of intra-household transfers made...

BACKGROUND Child peer violence is a global problem and seriously impacts health and education. There are few research studies available in Pakistan, or South Asia. We describe the prevalence of peer violence, associations, and pathways between socio-economic status, school performance, gender attitudes and violence at home. METHODS 1752 children were recruited into a cluster randomized contro...