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Le mouvement pro‐famille est né au Canada en 1983 grǎce à une campagne d'organisation autour de plusieurs thèmes symboliques liés à la défense de la famille traditionnelle et des valeurs morales conservatrices. Le mouvement s'est limité dans un premier temps à des sorties de caractère rhétorique contre le féminisme, les droits des homosexuels, l'éducation sexuelle, le divorce sans culpabilité et l'avortement. Cependant, depuis 1987, il s'associe de plus en plus activement aux thèmes politiques du néo‐conservatisme. S'appuyant sur les données recueillies en 1986 et 1987 à l'aide d'un questionnaire envoyé par la poste à un échantillon national de 812 membres d'expression anglaise, l'auteur de cette communication avance des hypothèses quant à la probabilité que le mouvement réussisse à entraǐner une mobilisation autour de revendications touchant la fiscalité et les réductions des services sociaux. Les données sont examinées sous l'angle de la relation entre l'idéologie d'un mouvement social et l'héritage culturel de ses membres ordinaires. The pro‐family movement organized in Canada in 1983 around a number of symbolic issues related to a defence of the traditional family and conservative moral values. In its nascent years, it restricted its efforts to rhetorical attacks against feminism, gay rights, sex education, no‐fault divorce, and abortion. Since 1987, however, it has increasingly promoted a neoconservative agenda. On the basis of data collected in 1986–87 in a mail‐out survey of the national (Anglophone) membership (N=812), this paper speculates about the movement's likelihood of mobilizing support around fiscal issues and social service cutbacks. These data are discussed with reference to questions about the relationship between social movement ideology and the experiences and cultural heritage of rank‐and‐file supporters.

Based on qualitative data collected from interviews and observation in both sending and receiving areas, this study examines the rural-to-urban migration of married women in contemporary China. Bringing motherhood into the analysis, we found that having children plays an ambiguous and even contradictory role in women’s migration decisions. On the one hand, it may confine women’s mobility inasmuch as they are still expected to act as primary caregivers in the rural household; on the other hand, motherhood may facilitate women leaving their natal communities for urban employment, especially if such decisions are seen in connection with the costs of their children’s education. Owing both to chronic labor shortages and to their perceived docility and relative disposability, married women have been recruited in great numbers in recent years, especially into the garment factories of China’s mushrooming coastal cities. Yet because of barriers to family resettlement—the oppressive “household registration” or hukou system—most of the women in this study migrated alone or with their husbands, leaving their children behind in the care of grandparents, or in even less stable arrangements. That this geographic separation between childrearing and work creates a profound dilemma for these women, requiring them to alter both their mothering practices and their identities as maternal caregivers, is the central focus of the analysis. In this connection, divided motherhood in China can usefully be compared and contrasted with the phenomenon of transnational motherhood happening in other migration contexts around the globe.

Women in Science chronicles the lives of women in the physical and natural sciences in the 19th and early part of the 20th century. In the second volume, Bailey broadens her scope to cover 78 fields of science and to include women in a variety of positions such as policy scientists, management consultants, applied scientists, and clinical scientists, to name but a few. The introduction documents the advancement of women in science during the 20th century and the range of obstacles that they encountered while they negotiated careers in academe, government research, and the private sector. Bindocci, C. G. (1993). Women and technology: An annotated bibliography. New York: Garland.