Research on marriage in developing countries has been somewhat narrow in scope because of both conceptual and data limitations. While the feminist literature recognizes marriage as a key institutional site for the production and reproduction of gender hierarchies, little is known about the processes through which this relationship operates. This article uses data from the newly collected India ...

This paper analyses whether living in a locality with high crime against women affects the probability of early marriage—that is, marriage before legal age girls. We hypothesize that parents who perceive themselves to live high-crime would marry their daughters off at an protect chastity from any sexual violence. However, there be no similar effect perceived on sons. Using nationally representa...

This paper examines what author calls a fundamental form of sex discrimination in Pakistan: the fact that women's extensive participation in the labor force is ignored by economic planners. While wage and job discrimination are the most common forms of sex discrimination in Europe and North America, in Pakistan sex discrimination revolves around the divergence between the myth that women do n...

Lucknow, at the suggestion of the second who was at one time reader in forensic medicine at the Lucknow University. The paper is complementary to that of Lall and Nat (1934). The object of the investigation was to ascertain the ages of the union of epiphyses of Indian girls, as it is commonly believed that they unite at an earlier age than do those of European girls. The skiagraphic method was ...

the 17th October, with Yomitii?g and purging, the former symptom consisting of the rejection of part of her last meal ?which she had taken four hours previously, and which was said to have consisted of her ordinary articles of diet; the latter of watery stools, which -were passed involuntarily in the patient's clothes to the extent of nine, during the night. These facts were not reported by the...