Exploring reproductive roles and attitudes in Saudi Arabia

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Exploring reproductive roles and attitudes in Saudi Arabia "
Azizah Linjawi E. Carlson

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	52417
Doc. No	:	TL22371
Call number	:	‭3216623‬
Main Entry	:	Azizah Linjawi
Title & Author	:	Exploring reproductive roles and attitudes in Saudi Arabia\ Azizah Linjawi
College	:	The Florida State University
Date	:	2005
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2005
Page No	:	180
Abstract	:	My study attempts to provide a picture of the relationship between choices about childbearing in Saudi Arabia, the position of certain women in the social structure of Saudi Arabian society, and their family formation attitudes. The assumption of the study was that a woman's social position may affect her attitudes about gender relationships and, in consequence, her fertility behavior outcome may be affected as well. This study is important for Saudi society. A study linking fertility transition and social-structural family formation changes could provide important information and clues as to how these two trends interact, explain variations in the fertility transition within Saudi society, and provide a prior study about how women's social position might serve as a demographic indicator. This study will help in explaining how reproductive roles and attitudes can be explained in more detail, apart from the low status of women in Islam, which many previous studies have focused on. Using the format of focus group interviews as a method, this study gathered qualitative data from married Saudi women in Jeddah, differentiated by level of education, work status, age, and family background. Groups were scheduled for two-hour sessions, 90 minutes for the interview and 30 minutes for the introduction and ending. Interviews were conducted in the places I originally located each group. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Subject	:	Social sciences; Family formation; Gender relations; Reproductive roles; Saudi Arabia; Demographics; Womens studies; Social structure; 0453:Womens studies; 0700:Social structure; 0938:Demographics
Added Entry	:	E. Carlson
Added Entry	:	The Florida State University