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Polygyny and reproductive behavior in sub-Saharan Africa: A contextual analysis
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POLYGYNY AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR IN SUB"SAHARAN AFRICA: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS*
In this paper I examine the effect of polygyny on aggregate reproductive behavior I argue that within countries there exist different polygyny regimes, each exhibiting a unique reproductive pattern. Using the 1988/1989 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHSI) data. I identify three distinct regimes: low-polygyny, midpolygyny, and high-polygyny regimes. The results of the bivariate and multivariate analyses reveal strong differences in reproductive preferences and behaviors across polygyny regimes. ...
 "Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)")
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Thomas Pynchon's `Against the Day' weighs in: Jokey, dense, 1,085 pages.
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
; ...Romano "Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon; Penguin Press ($35...pyramid requires commitment. Thomas Pynchon requires commitment. You can...chair, stock up on food. The new Thomas Pynchon novel, nine years in the making...
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Thomas Pynchon vs. the world: Against the Day is exhausting, twisted, and paranoid. But that doesn't mean Pynchon can't also be fun.(BOOKS)(Book review)
Magazine article from: New York
; THERE IS A striking moment in Thomas Pynchon's enormous new novel that threatens...t actually matter anymore. Thomas Pynchon has always been paranoid, but...caught up. AGAINST THE DAY BY THOMAS PYNCHON. PENGUIN PRESS. 1,085 PAGES...
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Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins. Ed. by...argument shared by these contributors that Pynchon is an engaged political writer. In the...approaches used to substantiate this argument Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins makes a valuable...
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Abbas, Niran, ed. Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel
; ABBAS, NIRAN, ed. Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins...256pp. $43.50. Pynchon's novels continue to...dubious as to whether Pynchon has immersed himself...of the Oedipus quest. Thomas Schaub sets up The Crying...
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Postmodern exhaustion: Thomas Pynchon's 'Vineland' and the aesthetic of the beautiful.
Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction
; ...his first novel, V, in 1963, Thomas Pynchon's novels have stood as the paradigm...and technological wizardry, Pynchon's work has set the standard for...prefigured in that art.(1) Pynchon's work has always been fundamentally...
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A postmodernist challenge to imperialism.(A Study on Thomas Pynchon: Empire and the Postmodern )(Book review)
Magazine article from: Pynchon Notes
; A Study on Thomas Pynchon: Empire and the Postmodern [in Korean...000 won. Eunjung Park's Study on Thomas Pynchon: Empire and the Postmodern, the...consistently pervades his novels. A Study on Thomas Pynchon begins with the paradoxical premise...
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A trove of new works by Thomas Pynchon? Bomarc Service News rediscovered.
Magazine article from: Pynchon Notes
; ...Cornell and while writing V., Thomas Pynchon moved to Seattle and began working...Mead does list one article from Pynchon's time at Boeing, "Togetherness...byline identifies the author as "Thomas H. [sic] Pynchon, Bomarc Aero-Space Dept...
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I want to be ALONE ; LITERATURE ++ ABSENT FRIENDS ++ Thomas Pynchon's new novel has put the publicity-shy author in the spotlight again. But how reclusive is he? And why, asks Ed Caesar, do so many writers go into hiding?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; Thomas Pynchon, the American novelist, has carried with him a Homeric...and you will see that the author is not "the great Thomas Pynchon" or "the postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon" (although both are true), but "the reclusive Thomas...
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Talking to themselves.(Thomas Pynchon's Narratives: Subjectivity and Problems of Knowing; Mason & Dixon & Pynchon)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Pynchon Notes
; Thomas Pynchon's Narratives: Subjectivity and Problems...s fiction, Alan W. Brownlie's Thomas Pynchon's Narratives and Charles Clerc's...audience, then for whom are we writing? Thomas Pynchon's Narratives calls to mind many of...
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Full-length portrait in a post-Soviet frame.(Thomas Pynchon and His America: Enigmas, Parallels, Cultural Contexts)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Pynchon Notes
; Thomas Pynchon and His America: Enigmas, Parallels, Cultural Contexts (in Russian...Minsk: RIVSH-BGU, 2001. 268 pp. 110 rubles. Alexei Lalo's Thomas Pynchon and His America is the first book-length study of Pynchon in post...
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