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Clinical interest in PMS has existed for more than one and a half centuries. There is still no consensus about its frequency, seriousness, etiology or treatment. Its impact on marital relationships has not been an area of research interest, even though one woman in twenty, or even one every ten, may be so afflicted that her life is disrupted premenstrually month after month. This study was designed to explore this research area through the use of prospective self-reporting measuring instruments completed on a daily basis by both husband and wife in six couples over a time period of one complete menstrual cycle. The husband's perception of his wife's negative affect was one independent variable. The wife's perception of her own negative affect was the other. Six dependent variables were measured: The husband's and wife's self rating of own marital satisfaction; the husband's and the wife's perceptions of the spouse's displeasing behaviors; and the husband's and the wife's perceptions of the spouse's pleasing behaviors. A case study approach was used and, in addition to time series analysis of the daily ratings, a semi-structured exit interview was conducted with each couple so that anecdotal material could be compared and evaluated along with the quantifiable data. Because of the nature of the study, self-definition and diagnosis of PMS was chosen as the admission criterion. In addition, the wife could not be using oral contraceptives, nor could she be taking over-the-counter or prescribed medication for her PMS. Decreases in the husband's marital satisfaction were found to be associated with increases in his perception of his wife's negative affect in five of the six cases. In four of the six cases, the husband perceived an increase in displeasing behaviors by his wife when he perceived an increase in her symptoms. / Ph. D.

Queer theory emphasizes the circulation of power through sex-gender-sexuality systems to trace methods of normalization for the purposes of political intervention. Within literature, queer theory functions as a lens into historical gender and sexual ideologies. My thesis attempts to bridge queer theory with medieval studies to highlight queer and non-normative sensibilities within a particular medieval text: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales develops characters who straddle the line between the queer and the licit, and he creates situations that disrupt the expected hetero-normative, masculine ideology of medieval England. Queering Canterbury explores how queer-gender, queer-bashing, queer humor, and the queynte function within Chaucer's Canterbury Tales while relating the overarching struggle for masculinity and power.

This thesis examines representations of lawyers and law in examples of Jacobean city comedy, taking into account certain contemporary developments in the legal profession and the law in England. The period covered is 1598-1616. The thesis questions the conventional interpretation of city comedy as hostile to the legal profession. It suggests the topic is more complex than has been assumed, arguing that city comedy makes direct and indirect positive representation of Inns of Court lawyers, who are to be distinguished from attorneys (newly segregated in the Inns of Chancery), amateur quasi-lawyers, and university-educated civil lawyers. It is proposed that city comedy represents Inns of Court lawyers positively in two ways. Firstly, by means of legal content: representations of developments in the profession and the law demonstrate a wish to connect with the young lawyers and students of the Inns of Court, and reflect a contemporary drive by them for increased organization and regulation. Secondly, by means of literary form: ostensibly pejorative representations need not be taken at face value; instead, they may be found to be ironic. The main proposed contributions to knowledge are: that Inns of Court lawyers were a favoured part of the target audience of the private playhouses, making it questionable that they would be represented negatively in city comedy; that lawyers as represented in city comedy are not a single or a simple category; that representation of lawyers is inflected by the various forms and impulses of city comedy; and that city comedy incorporates some reflection of the increasing professionalization of legal practice in the period.

丈夫向妻子使用暴力是最常見的性別暴力形式，相比於其他人際間暴力行為更為常見。過往文獻對家庭暴力風險的分佈模式已形成不同的理論解釋，但鮮有研究者試圖在華人社會中探討並檢驗這些從西方社會脈絡中發展出來的理論。本論文將運用資源理論、性別觀點、社會控制等理論視角以解釋香港社會中的家庭暴力行為。 / 本論文使用量化研究方法驗證數個關於家庭暴力社會文化因素的假設。所使用的是2007年在香港一個西北區域收集到的住戶調查數據。該調查在使用概率抽樣下，成功訪問了871對伴侶 (共1, 742人) 。樣本中，10.7%的丈夫在過去一年曾向妻子使用過暴力。本論文主要由三篇獨立成章的實證研究論文組成，每篇論文各自針對一個理論視角指出其不足之處並檢驗過往研究中鮮被驗證過的論點。 / 第一篇論文指出，夫妻間收入差距和丈夫的全職工作降低了丈夫在夫妻關係中的權力慾望，並因此降低了丈夫暴力對待妻子的風險。中介分析驗証了夫婦間收入差距和丈夫的全職工作對丈夫向妻子使用暴力行為存在間接效應。第二篇論文指出，夫妻雙方的性別態度交互地影響了家庭暴力的風險分佈。當妻子持有非傳統的性別態度時，丈夫的傳統性別態度和使用暴力呈正相關。而當丈夫持有傳統的性別態度時，妻子的傳統性別態度則和丈夫使用暴力的風險呈負相關。研究發現，控制了其他變項後，家庭暴力風險最高的伴侶组合為傳統丈夫和非傳統妻子。第三篇論文分析指出，婚姻衝突和丈夫向妻子動武的相關程度受朋輩對伴侶間使用暴力的看法所影響。當朋輩贊同對配偶使用暴力時，婚姻衝突更有可能轉化為家庭暴力。但只有對存在婚姻衝突的伴侶來說，朋輩贊同對配偶使用暴力的看法才會增加家庭暴力的發生風險。 / 本論文意在表明家庭暴力成因的複雜性。影響丈夫向妻子使用暴力的各個因素不單相互連結，而且各個因素交互地影響了家庭暴力的風險分佈。此項研究結果反映了社會需要一套綜合的預防及干預策略，通過不同層面的角色合作以减少家庭暴力。 / Husband-to-wife violence is the most common form of gender-based violence and is much more prevalent than many other forms of interpersonal violence. In the literature, some theories are developed to explain the prevalence pattern of husband-to-wife violence. The focus of this thesis is on the applications and discussions of resource theories, gender ideology and a social control perspective. These theories are primarily developed in the Western context. However, empirical tests of these theories in Chinese societies are still rare. / A quantitative approach is adopted in this thesis to empirically test the hypotheses about the relationship between socio-cultural factors and husband-to-wife violence in Hong Kong. A household survey, with a probability sample, was conducted in a northwestern district of Hong Kong in 2007. In total, 871 couples (1,742 respondents) had completed the survey. The prevalence rate of husband-to-wife physical assault over the past year was 10.7%. The main body of this thesis contains three empirical papers analyzing the prevalence pattern of husband-to-wife violence in Hong Kong. Each of the papers addresses the limitations of a theoretical perspective and contributes by testing some of the ideas from the above perspectives that have not been empirically examined in past studies. / In the first paper, the analysis shows that a couple’s income difference and the husband’s full-time employment are negatively associated with the husband’s desire to have more decision-making power in the relationship, while the husband’s desire to have more power in the relationship is positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault. Mediation tests confirm that a couple’s income difference and the husband’s full-time employment status have exerted indirect effects on husband-to-wife violence through the husband’s power motive. In the second paper, the analysis shows that the interaction of couples’ gender role attitudes plays important role in shaping the risk of husband-to-wife physical assault. Husbands’ gender role traditionalism is positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when they are coupled with wives who have non-traditional attitudes. Wives’ gender role traditionalism is negatively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when they are coupled with traditional husbands. Non-traditional wives with traditional husbands face the highest risk of husband-to-wife violence, controlling for other factors. The third empirical paper shows that the strength of association between marital conflict and husband-to-wife violence in Hong Kong was conditioned by peer approval of spousal violence. The association between marital conflict and violence is stronger for couples who had at least some friends who approve spousal violence. Likewise, peer approval of spousal violence is positively associated with husband-to-wife violence only for couples that experienced marital conflict. In contrast, there is no significant association between peer approval of spousal violence and husband-to-wife violence for couples that experienced low-levels of marital conflict. / In sum, this thesis reveals the complexity of the causes of husband-to-wife violence that the correlates of husband-to-wife physical assault are interrelated and their associations with husband-to-wife violence are not independent of each other. This work calls for a comprehensive intervention and prevention package that requires efforts from multiple agencies operating at different levels. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Cheung, Ka Lok. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-97). / Electronic reproduction. 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Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese; appendix includes Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.ix / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1. --- Background of the Study --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- Research Objectives --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3. --- Methodological Approach --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3.1. --- Data Source --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3.2. --- Measures of the Dependent Variable (The Revised Conflict Tactics Scale) --- p.9 / Chapter 1.4. --- Organizational Structure of the Thesis --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Husband’s Resources, Power Motive and Husband-To-Wife Physical Assault: A Mediational Analysis of Resources Theories in a Chinese Society --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1. --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2. --- Past Literature and the Current Study --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.1. --- Resource Theories and Domestic Violence: The Role of Power Motive --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.2. --- Resources and Domestic Violence: Other Possible Explanations --- p.18 / Chapter 2.2.3. --- Hong Kong as a Chinese Society --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3. --- Methods --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.1. --- Measures of Independent Variables --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.2. --- Analytic Strategy --- p.23 / Chapter 2.4. --- Results --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.1. --- Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Associations --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.2. --- Results from Logistic and OLS Regression Models --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4.3. --- Products of Coefficients and Significant Level for Indirect Effects --- p.29 / Chapter 2.5. --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.31 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Traditional Husband With Non-Traditional Wife: Couple’s Gender Role Attitudes and Husband-to-Wife Physical Assault --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1. --- Introduction --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2. --- Past Literature and the Current Study --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.1. --- Couple’s Gender Role Attitudes and Husband-to-Wife Physical Assault --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.2. --- Hypotheses of the Current Study --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.3. --- Context for the Current Study: Hong Kong --- p.42 / Chapter 3.3. --- Methods --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3.1. --- Measures of the Independent Variables --- p.43 / Chapter 3.3.2. --- Analytic Strategy --- p.44 / Chapter 3.4. --- Results --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4.1. --- Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Associations --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4.2. --- Results from Logistic Regression Models --- p.46 / Chapter 3.4.3. --- Interpreting the Interaction Effect --- p.49 / Chapter 3.5. --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.51 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Marital Conflict, Peer Approval of Spousal Violence and Husband-to-Wife Physical Assault: Testing an Interaction Effect Hypothesis --- p.55 / Chapter 4.1. --- Introduction --- p.55 / Chapter 4.2. --- Past Literature and the Current Study --- p.57 / Chapter 4.2.1. --- Marital Conflict and Husband-to-Wife Physical Assault --- p.57 / Chapter 4.2.2. --- Peer Approval of Spousal Violence and Husband-to-Wife Physical Assault --- p.58 / Chapter 4.2.3. --- Towards an Interactive Effect Hypothesis --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3. --- Methods --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3.1. --- Measures of the Independent Variables --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3.2. --- Analytic Strategy --- p.63 / Chapter 4.4. --- Results --- p.63 / Chapter 4.4.1. --- Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Associations --- p.63 / Chapter 4.4.2. --- Results from Logistic Regression Model --- p.65 / Chapter 4.4.3. --- Interpreting the Interaction Effect --- p.66 / Chapter 4.5. --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Conclusion --- p.72 / Chapter 5.1. --- Summary of Findings --- p.72 / Chapter 5.2. --- Limitations of the Current Study and Suggestions for Future Research --- p.74 / Chapter Appendix A --- Results of Additional Analysis for Husband-to-Wife Psychological Aggression and Sexual Coercion --- p.78 / Chapter Appendix B --- Original questions for the multiple-item scales (in Chinese) --- p.84 / Bibliography --- p.86

Sin Lai-ting. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-156). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract in English --- p.i / Abstract in Chinese --- p.iii / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / List of Tables and Graphs --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1： --- lntroduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Literature Review and Application --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1) --- The Theory of Marriage and Family Formation --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2) --- The Theory of the Allocation of Time Between Family Members in Housework and Market Work --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3) --- Application of Becker's Theoretical Models to Different Variables --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4) --- Empirical Review on the Division of Labor between Husbands and Wives --- p.24 / Chapter 2.5) --- Decomposition of the wage differential of men and women --- p.31 / Chapter 2.6) --- Summary --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Methodology --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1) --- Changes in the Relative Economic Contribution of Husbands and Wives to Their Families --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2) --- Stable and Unstable Mating --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3) --- Reasons for the Changes in Economic Contribution of Husbands and Wives --- p.43 / Chapter 3.4) --- Decomposition of the Economic Contribution Differential --- p.46 / Chapter 3.5) --- Definitions of Control Variables --- p.48 / Chapter 3.6) --- Summary --- p.52 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Data and Sample Description --- p.53 / Chapter 4.1) --- Data and Sample Extraction --- p.53 / Chapter 4.2) --- Variable Characteristics --- p.55 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- A First Look at the Changes in Relative Economic Contribution of Husbands and Wives --- p.58 / Chapter 5.1) --- Simple Data Analyses --- p.58 / Chapter 5.2) --- Pooled Regressions with Husband Dummy --- p.64 / Chapter 5.3) --- Summary --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- An Analysis of Selected Characteristics between Husbands and Wives --- p.72 / Chapter 6.1 ) --- 2x2 Canonical Correlation Analyses --- p.72 / Chapter 6.2) --- 3x3 Canonical Correlation Analyses --- p.75 / Chapter 6.3) --- Summary --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter 7: --- Reasons for the Changes in Relative Economic Contribution of Husbands and Wives to Their Families --- p.79 / Chapter 7.1) --- Determinants of the Changes in Economic Contribution of Husbands and Wives to their families --- p.79 / Chapter 7.2) --- Decomposition of the Economic Contribution Differential of Husbands and Wives to their Families --- p.90 / Chapter 7.3) --- Summary --- p.93 / Chapter Chapter 8: --- Conclusion --- p.94 / Tables --- p.98 / Graphs --- p.129 / Flow Chart --- p.136 / Appendix --- p.137 / References --- p.153

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This article explores the specific capacity of TV courtroom drama to dramatize civic issues and to seduce viewers to an active engagement with such issues. I argue that television series of this genre eyploit the apparent theatricality of their subject matter-trials-to invite their audiences to the deliberation of social or political issues, issues that they negotiate in their courtroom plots. contemporary courtroom dramas amend this issue orientation with a self-reflexive dimension in wich they encourage viewers to also reflect on how the dramatic construction of 'issues' shapes their civic debate. I unfold this argument through a reading of episodes from two very different legal dramas, Boston Legal (2004-2008) and The Good Wife (2009-).

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Also available in print.