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Modernization and Divorce: Contrasting Trends in Islamic Southeast Asia and the West

1997; Wiley; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2137462

1728-4457

Gavin W. Jones,

Gender and Women's Rights

The author investigates differences in divorce rates in Western countries and in Southeast Asia. First the general divorce rate trends...are elucidated using more-refined measures. Then the likely causes of the separate trends in Western countries and in Islamic Southeast Asia are examined to determine whether there is a unified explanation for the trends that is consistent with broader theories about divorce or whether the idiosyncratic features of the Malay-Muslim and Western settings restrict us to ad hoc interpretations of the trends. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA) (EXCERPT)