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The author suggests a course created for upper-level undergraduates as part of major programmes of study in Asian studies and women studies in the USA. The course focuses on China and Southeast Asia, regions that provide substantially different cultural, social and economic models of gender relations in both traditional and modern periods. (DÜI-Sen)

Utilization of the "banjar," a traditional, village-level organization, in promoting national development policies.

Focusing on the banjar (hamlet), a ritual and social community ordinarily comprising some 50 to 150 households, the article highlights the organizational role of the village in the development process of Bali. Banjar as a tool in the service of the national government's development strategy. The Village Government Law of 1979 and its effect on community organization in Bali. (DÜI-Sen)

The prepatient phase of the moral career of the mental patient is examined from the standpoint of the male spouses of sixteen women hospitalized as schizophrenic in the late 1950s. The husbands' interpretations of their wives' troubles are compared with wives' interpretations of their hospitalized husbands' troubles in Yarrow et al.'s classic article on "The Psychological Meaning of Mental Illness in the Family." Similarities in the structure of interpretation were related both to general cultural interpretations of trouble and to role relations in the family, while differences appeared to be an artifact of method. Differences in the content of interpretation were related both to the gender role division of labor in the family and to the affective tone of the marital relationship.