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Japanese Women – How Japan Girls Find Love Online

Women have a long time desire to be the princess locked up in a tower and rescued by a Prince. Every woman wants a sincere man that stands by them in happiness and sadness of life and their love will keep on increasing with the passage of time. The women are worried if the man would remain sincere or cheat them. Japanese women are no different from other women in the world and remain almost the same.

The trend within Japan is more open and free however to show love in streets is not allowed. The Japanese women want to have long-term relationship or simply a true love to be with them. A man that shows respect, treats them with care are the most important one’s in their life than their work, friends or even parents. Such men can be found at Japanese dating sites or Asian dating services without any worries. Japanese women now prefer western men as compared to local Japanese men. These girls are even ready to leave their home town in order to find their true love. The process to find love is made easy by the online Asian dating sites available to them. They can access billion of profiles available to them by selecting from good-looking handsome local Japanese men or a number of men from around the world.

They can enter their information in these online love sites by defining their requirements. The process is easy and you just need to register online. This is also free so you don’t have to pay a single penny to find a man of your dreams. Once you get registered with the sites, you get mails that show list of men that are meeting your requirement. You can then personally send them a message and have a formal date to start the process of understanding them better before you decide to take a final step.Your information is not provided to any one without your permission and your profile data is secured. So no one can fulfill his lustful desires. The Asian dating services provide you with pictures and contact information of handsome successful men. So you can decide which one suits you. You must provide your correct information as the people checking your profile will get wrong view about yourself. People are free to reject your profile, which in turn will result in limitations of using these sites.

According to this modern century, Japanese women don’t usually go to the nightclubs to find the man of their dreams, but go to Japan dating sites to find him. It is easy and simple to find the right man online because you have more potential Japanese men to choose from. You can easily select the best one out of many available Asian single men online. What you need to do now is to take action by registering a personal profile online and your date will come at no time. Thousands of single Japanese men are waiting online to meet you for the true love.

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Meet Single Chinese Women at No cost Asian Dating Web sites

Chinese women are attractive and loyal to love and marriage. These ladies are not as considerably open as the western women. These girls are very demandable mainly because of their healthy elegance, ultimate sincere, devotion and attracted personalities. They have courteous and affected person perspective and in most of the conditions they are pleasant and mellow. Dating a Chinese woman is specifically various from dating a western woman in physical, emotional and mental way.

Now Chinese women have gotten freedom equal to males, thus this has resulted in their exposure to on the web Asian dating web pages. Now, these sites assistance them to uncover really like and romance on the web with ease and comfort. Western people today adore to meet Chinese women at cost-free Asian dating internet sites. The exact same goes for Chinese women, they also want to go for western guys and date with them.
Perhaps this is why Asian dating is taking off in the UK cities – you now even have Asian Dating Birmingham specific websites!

Every last single particular person on this earth wishes a lifestyle companion and has prolonged phrase connection. The ladies are hugely passionate about care, sympathy and adore than the males. Thus, they locate a male on the net who match nicely with their capabilities and brain thoughts.

Asian dating providers are the most effective decision for you to get Chinese single females. You just have to browse on the respected internet web page and just with several clicks you will see hundreds of Chinese women on the web. The method is definitely basic and even a Chinese lady with no awareness of computers can register herself. They just to have fill in the specifics in the registration type along with your male preference and qualifications that they want him to possess. Just sit in front of your desktop or laptop computer and fill in the detail of your profile like dislikes, likes, height, and eye colour and so on.

This process is really reasonable and it is correct to say that they make use of different cost-free Asian dating internet sites. They also upload their image on their on the web profile to entice a lot more and even more singles. Therefore, interested males deliver the Chinese women additional and far more messages. Several women use the Asian dating web pages to make close friends and brief time romance. There is no want to travel in order to obtain your dream mate.

Really enjoy and romance is pure in its personal way. The man or woman who is effective in acquiring accurate enjoy is the luckiest man or woman. Chinese women personal oriental charm which is the good reason that they are so popular not just in China but also in other countries as well like Australia, USA, Canada, and Italy and so on. The most beneficial characteristic is that they are highly faithful. The males will get total respect and enjoy from their Chinese wives. They will certainly not leave you, no matter whatever the issue or circumstance is. It is ideal time to make your account on totally free on line Asian dating online websites and meet single Chinese women. The selection is entirely yours and only yours.

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Enlightened Europeans to Ban Sexy Ads

We have been hearing for years and years from our friends across the pond about how the United States is fucked up due to the shadowy influence of an ill-defined boogeyman: the “Religious Right.” Supposedly, this omnipotent group wields so much power that Americans are in constant fear of government agents invading libraries to gather kindling for book burnings or kicking in our bedroom doors to regulate what positions we can try out on the 200-pound slut we just brought home from the bar. Well, in the immortal words of Nelson, I have one thing to say to those holier-than-thou Euroweenies who mocked our “repressive” and “backward” culture for so long, “Ha Ha!”

 

You idiots have really done it now!

Disregarding the irreconcilable flaw in the liberal argument that how the Hell is the Religious Right so powerful when every media outlet and talking head on the planet ridicules them constantly? If the RR was as powerful and nefarious as the scaremongers would have us believe, all of these dissenting voices would have been easily crushed long ago. Back on point, it is with extreme Schadenfreude that I turn our attention to the latest curtailment of free speech in the name of equality. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the EU is about to outlaw erections.

The gorgeous ladies over at the EU’s Women’s Rights Committee have decided to ram an insidious law into the collective ass of the countries comprising the EU that bans any advertisement that they deem to contain “sexist insults or degrading images.” Just like feminists here in the U.S., what we have here is a case of hideous bitches claiming to speak for all women. They don’t care one bit about equality between men and women; what they are after is equality between ugly bitches and hot chicks. They cannot stand the fact that some women are able to parlay their femininity into success so their solution is not to change hearts and minds, but rather to devalue a woman’s sexuality so much that they have a chance to grab some cock for themselves every once in awhile. Ironically, it is feminists who devalue what it means to be a woman which of course makes them not only foul and usually obese but also ridiculously hypocritical.

 

 

 

Of course, these feminist trollops could not succeed but for the existence of a pussified culture that has been spoonfed to the world by liberals for generations. They have created a “race to the left” that pervades almost all aspects of life. For people to get ahead, they must constantly prove how “open-minded” they are by staking out position even more radical than the last guy or gal. Someone at a party says they think gays should not be discriminated against and, like clockwork, ten people will all race to be the first to say not only should they not be discriminated against but they should also receive preferences to make up for years of abuse. Whenever a new hyper-liberal position is announced, the crowd “ohs and ahs” at the enligtened specimen before them. This behavior is born of cowardice. Like in “The Emporer’s New Clothes,” everyone is too afraid to admit that shit has gotten way fucking out of hand and you are not a bigoted bumpkin if once in awhile you say, “I’m not really comfortable with that position.”

So what is the feminist solution to keeping everyone mentally enslaved to their point of view? Do they write articles and challenge these unnamed “sex advertisers” to debates? Of course not. They pass laws and file lawsuits to silence the opposition completely. And, conveniently enough, they install themselves as the final arbiters of what is or is not “offensive.” Free speech ends wherever a liberal gets their feelings hurt.

Back when I was in college, I was forced to take a course in Feminist Theory. I was young and weak and I spent the entire semester pretending to hate my own dick and be as empathetic as possible with the Hairypits in the class. At the time, I reasoned that I could stomach anything for a semester if I could get a good grade. So I swallowed my principles, towed the leftoid line and wrote a paper about how I felt guilty that my mom stayed at home to raise my siblings and I because we cost her true fulfillment. At the end of the semester, I received my grade: C-, the lowest I had ever gotten in 18 years of schooling. I learned a valuable lesson. There just is no pleasing radicals whose entire belief structure is centered on you as an aggressor.

 

Professor Moonstone pretended to hate men when in actuality, cock hated her.

 

So what does this mean for the EU? Well, for starters, no advertisements are allowed to “reinforce traditional gender roles.” We know what that means. Just like no criminal in a commercial is ever black in the U.S., now every European vaccuum commercial will have to show a man cleaning up around the house and every sports ad will feature only women. No word yet on how this new law will affect tampon and Viagra commercials.

I would urge the European masses to rise up against this insidious invasion of free expression. If this law is allowed to stand, what next? No more old people in hearing aide commercials or kids in toy commercials (ageism)? No more black people in rap videos (racism)? Homeless bums must be shown in luxury car commercials (must avoid classism)? Wake up World. When you begin giving away your civil liberties in the name of an “ism,” you lose a lot more than the feminists are trying to take away from those women who do not crack mirrors. What is the difference between a conservative arguing that something is immoral and thus should not be done and a liberal who argues something is offensive and must be banned? The difference is that everyone laughs off conservatives as “Puritan bigots” but liberals have the backing of a complacent press that is always eager to prove how sophisticated and fair it is even if it means undercutting the main tenant of its existence: freedom of expression. Do not give up your rights without a fight or you may be surprised when you find yourself next on the liberal facists’ hitlist.

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The New Improved Eco-Surf Spring Break In Costa Rica

When most people think about spring break, images of drunken teens guzzling draft in Daytona Beach nightclubs come to mind. Which begs the question, “do you come home relaxed, rejuvenated and ready to get back to work?” Nope. You come home burnt out, malnourished and embarrassed about lifting up your top for the Girls Gone Wild cameraman, who seemed a whole lot cooler when you were wasted.

Try something different this year – your parents will be proud of you. Costa Rica has everything in place for exotic spring break vacations that break the mold. Package deals range from around $300 – $800 inclusive and discounts for groups are usually offered by most tour companies. Select the Costa Rica Spring Break package that best suits you. Forget Daytona, I’m talking about rain forest canopy tours, snorkeling with tropical fish, swimming under waterfalls, hiking to active volcanoes, and my personal favorite: surfing perfect waves! All this in one week. Believe it or not it’s possible and not only that, it’s easier to plan and book your trip than ever. Costa Rica has an established eco-tourism industry with exotic spring break vacations already packaged and ready to go. Try Vacation City, Witch’s Rock Surf Camp, Sun Splash Tours just to name a few.

Start getting stoked to catch your first wave in the surfer’s paradise of Tamarindo, hike to the breathtaking Arenal Volcano, the heavenly Monteverde Cloud Forest, and finish with a visit to the pristine rain forest beach of Manuel Antonio. Costa Rica is an incredibly bio-diverse country, and on your travels you can expect to see giant turtles, crocodiles, howler monkeys, iguanas, dolphins, parrots, and maybe even a giant sloth if you’re lucky. Costa Rica has established numerous protected areas throughout the country, so you can enjoy the wildlife and feel good that these beautiful and exotic animals will be around for future generations. The sheer natural beauty of Costa Rica’s pristine landscapes, bio-diverse wildlife, and its native people (tico’s) culture, still remains unspoiled and sets the stage for spring break travelers who appreciate nature.

Have you always wanted to learn to surf? Costa Rica’s sand bottom beaches are some of the most consistent in the world. You are pretty much guaranteed to get waves during the march break surf season, and your surf instructors have it down to a science. Experienced surf camp operators like Witch’s Rock Surf Camp will provide everything you need – surfboards, leashes, rash guards, waterproof sunscreen and the best instruction available. Even get pictures or video of you and your friends “ripping” on your spring break surf trip to bring home to your friends and family.

The best part of the whole experience is that Costa Rica is a very safe country to travel in. You get the benefit of being escorted on your entire trip with pickup from the airport in Liberia or San Jose. From there you will be shuttled to your exotic locations for the next week. Your accommodations, travel from place to place, and adventure tour packages are already part of the package. Your tour guides have the local knowledge to take you to the best places and local hot-spots and events, while keeping you out of harms way at the same time. Costa Rica is the ultimate exotic locale with its blend of culture, adventure and beauty.

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Beliefs and Practices in Women Health

Beliefs and Practices in Women Health

• Ramaiah Bheenaveni *

Rural women’s health is an infinitely broad topic. Many Indian women have come from circumstances in which women have limited access to healthcare. Traditionally, there has been discrimination towards women in decision-making; access to resources such as food, education and health care; job opportunities; and in child-rearing and parenting. However, women’s health in rural areas affects everything in their environment from their families to their economies and vice versa. A woman’s health, especially among the poor and illiterate, is often neglected not just by her family but by the woman herself. She is taught not to complain and if she does then she is directed either to use condiments in the kitchen or try faith healing.

Man is unique in that he has a distinct cultural environment of his own. This includes all the conditions in which men are born, brought up, live, work, procreate and perish. Culture as an environment is deeply related to the health of humans. It includes patterns of social organizations designed to regulate a particular society; one can understand the behaviour of people belonging to various sections and predict how an individual of a particular section will react in a given situation. With our knowledge of health, the treatment of diseases among ignorant peoples appears to be strange since they frequently follow practices of praying, wearing of amulets or consulting an exorcist who recites certain verbal formula. Hence, we can say that beliefs and cultural practices are predominately playing significant roles in the human health more peculiarly in the health of women.

Many rural people did not know about the services set up for them at sub-centres and PHC by the government because they did not see any evidence of these services being provided for them. As a part of the awareness programmes, the health workers (ANM) have been organizing to several exposure trips at the villages. It was there that the women were informed about the specifics of various services supposed to be made available to them. This encouraged some of them to ask questions and report on the situation in their PHC. They explained that though a nurse did visit their village it was not a daily visit, nor did she go beyond a certain point in the village, and certainly did not take a round of the village. They made a show of doing their duty by providing nominal services.

A variety of factors, including an older population, a limited supply of health care providers, and further distances from health care resources may contribute to special health concerns for people in non-metropolitan areas. Access to health care and social services are critical issues for rural women.

Belief is the psychological state in which an individual is convinced of the truth of a proposition. Like the related concepts truth, knowledge, and wisdom, there is no precise definition of belief on which scholars agree, but rather numerous theories and continued debate about the nature of belief 1.

The cultural phenomenon of social organization, according to Giger and Davidhizar (2004), includes groups in the social environment that influence cultural development and identification. The family, an important aspect of the social organization phenomenon, strongly influences cultural behavior through a process of socialization or enculturation of children and group members (Giger & Davidhizar; Niska, 1999). These learned cultural behaviors guide individuals through life situations, events and health practices. Understanding family from a cultural perspective is a significant element in providing nursing care to Mexican-Americans since Giger and Davidhizar identify the family as being most values in this culture.

Environmental control is defined by Giger and Davidhizar (2004) as the ability of persons within a particular cultural heritage to plan activities that control their environment as well as their perception of one’s ability to direct factors in the environment. Kuipers’ (1999) discussion of this model, in relation to Mexican-American culture, emphasized the construct of environmental control with a focus on locus-of-control, health beliefs, and folk medicine. Locus-of-control explains the way in which individuals, within their cultural environment, perceive their ability to control what happens to them and to their health. Health may be viewed as being dependent on outside forces or their own actions (Bundek et al., 1993). Beliefs about health and illness, which are components of environmental control, affect health practices, use of health resources, and a person’s response to experiences of both health and illness (Giger & Davidhizer, 2004; Northam, 1996). A third component of environmental control, folk medicine, includes alternative therapies such as using herbs and teas or visiting a cultural folk healer.

Objectives:

1. Exploration of women beliefs on health, risk and their relationship to lifestyles;

2. Elicitation of their views across a range of health-related behaviours and practices, especially puberty, menstruation, pregnancy and child rearing, and assessment of the potential for the positive promotion of women health in these and other areas of her sexual health.

3. Identification of the sources of information and influences on the development of health beliefs amongst women, particularly with respect to common elements in attitudes to risk-taking across a number of health beliefs and practices.

4. To focus on what women themselves know and want to know, including the salience of health, and the relevance of health-related knowledge in their lives

Hypothesis:

1. There is a positive relationship between social beliefs and cultural practices of a given society

2. Positive relationship may be observed among the social beliefs and cultural practices and various other factors such as caste, religion, social and traditional customs in society

3. The explanation for the persistence of belief systems is that people remain committed to them, but for this commitment to last long, the belief system must be validated

Research Design:

A quantitative and qualitative study, building on our previous work in this area, concerning the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices of female children and young women to health, risk and lifestyles. A guiding methodological principle underpinning the study was the development of a sensitive research design for rather than on women: a study grounded not simply in what women know or need to know, but also in what they want to know and feel to be important in the context of their everyday lives. The methods enabling these principles to be taken forward are described below.

a) Area of the Study:

The Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh consists of ten districts namely Hyderabad, Ranagareddy, Mahabubnagar, Medak, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Nalgonda, and Khammam. From this region, the village Ramchandrapur in Koheda Mandal of Karimnagar district has been randomly selected as an area of the study.

b) Universe & Sampling:

According to 2001 census, the village Ramchandrapur has an approximate population of 1840 who from nearly 550 families. This village has a primary health centre (PHC), but lacks a major hospital within a range of 35 kms. And this village has been selected as universe for this study.

So for this study, the researcher adopted stratified-proportionate random method of sampling based on caste composition of the villagers and selected the respondents from the families mentioned in the habitation list of Ramchandrapur. This village population data was collected from Supraja Seva Samithi, a voluntary organization, which is working in the region for the last 10 years in the fields of health, education and environmental protection. The list consists of various caste grouping and from which proportionate stratified samples were selected. Then a list of about 181 respondents was prepared for data collection. Therefore, it is obvious that an attempt has been made to present a general picture of community data and on the basis of which, views and attitudes of the respondents were taken into consideration.

C) Tools of Data Collection:

As the research is qualitative and quantitative, non-participant observation and interview schedule was adopted for the collection of primary data. The aspects that will cover in the interview schedule were defined under two parts, one is for socio-economic and cultural status of respondents such as name, sex, age, social status, education, religion, income, nature and type of the house, etc. and the other for socio-cultural beliefs and practice patterns in health and the related treatment of the villagers.

D) Analysis and interpretation of data:

After arranging the collected data through tabulation and classification, they were analyzed and interpreted in the socio-cultural context so as to give a scientific basis to the study. Although statistical methods like frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, t-test, chi-squire and ANOVA have been used in the study, they were applied in a relevant way.

Findings:

Socio-Economic Profile:

During the field work, observed that 22 castes were appeared and most of the respondent belongs to the BC castes like Yadava, Gouda, Munnuru Kapu, Vishwa Brahmin, Mudiraj and a insignificant number of people belongs to services caste like Mangali, Chakali, Mera and so on. A considerable amount of people belongs to SC community i.e. Mala and Madigas. Only a few respondents belong to ST (Erukala) community. Out of the 181 respondents, 55 percent are male and 45 percent female,. This research is carried out with almost all the equal four fold age groups of respondents. Thus, it is noted that age group is scattered in this study. More number of respondents i.e. 91% belongs to Hindu religion and 5% are Muslim. Nearly 4% of the respondents belong to Christianity. It is also proved that common phenomena of religion composition in India.

In this village, a majority of the respondents i.e. 82 (45%) are illiterates. The next more number of respondents have studied up to primary and secondary level i.e. 24 (13%). There are 21 (12%) of the respondents can read and write. A significant number of respondents i.e. 18 (10%) claimed to have studied up to college level while the small number of people who have studied up to professional level, technical level and others stands at 7 (4%), 3 (2%) and 2 (1%) respectively. The findings reveal that more number of the respondents i.e. 55 (30.4%) are labourers and one-fourths of the respondents i.e. 45 (24.9%) are engaging in the farming. On the whole 38(21%) are continuing their caste occupation while 20 (11%) and 17 (9.4%) respondents are doing other occupation and brought up into the service sector respectively. Only a few of the respondents i.e. 6 (3.3%) are carrying out business.

It is also noted that a majority of the respondents i.e. 84.21% are living under the tiled houses and a significant number of the respondents i.e. 15.79% posses R.C.C houses. A substantial number of the BC community respondents i.e. 75% owned the tiled house and rest of them i.e. 14.29% have R.C.C. houses and 8.04% own asbestos roofed houses. Most of the SC respondents i.e. 91.49% are residing under the tiled houses while only 8.51% consist R.C.C. houses. Among the ST respondents, 33.33% have R.C.C., tiled house and thatched house equally. Regarding the income, less than 24% of the respondents earn Rs. 1501 – 2000 per month. Almost equal number i.e. 22.7 and 21.5 % of the respondents earn below Rs. 500 and between Rs. 1001 and 1500 respectively. A significant number of respondents i.e. 20 % obtaining monthly income is in the range of Rs. 501 – 1000 while only 12.7% claimed their income was over Rs. 2000.

This village consist very good fertile lands, There is just below half of the respondents i.e. 84 (46.4%) have not possess any land on their own. There are 35 (19.3%) of the respondents possess land between 1- 2.19 acres. A significant number of respondents i.e. 28 (15.5%) and 20 (11.04%) are having land between 2.20 – 4.39 acres and 5 – 9.39 acres respectively. A considerable number of respondents i.e. 14 (7.7%) are owned land 10 and above acres.

Social Dogmatism on Menstruation

Patriarchal societies have tended to control women by first announcing menarche (the onset of menstrual cycle in a young girl) to the world in an apparently celebratory fashion while thereafter attempting to control the implied fertility and sexual power by monthly rites of pollution, restriction and isolation of the menstruating woman.

The various names for menstruation or ‘periods’ point to its polluting quality. For instance in Telugu, it is called samurta or peddamanshi meaning attaining maturity. Menstrual blood is believed to be polluting. There are varying restrictions put on a girl due to this belief such as not touching people or hanging washed clothes out to dry; not touching certain flowering plants lest they die or not fruit; sleeping on a jute bag or woollen blanket away from others. A woman cannot touch her child during menstruation. If she has to, the child must first be unclothed completely or made to wear silken clothes. Visiting or touching images of gods, temples, religious scriptures is also prohibited. A fear is inculcated in the adolescent that she will sin if she breaks these taboos. Restrictions are also placed on diet. These pollution taboos result in many women getting an enforced rest for at least these three days of the month since they are barred from carrying out their normal activities.

Not only is menstrual blood supposed to be dirty, but evil too. A menstruating girl should not let her shadow fall on a child with measles lest the child turn blind. The used menstrual cloth also possesses an evil quality. If men see the cloth, dry or otherwise, they could go blind. If a cow were to swallow the cloth she would curse the girl with infertility. In villages in A.P., women do not throw their menstrual cloth-they either burn it or bury it.

There seem to be some similarities between Hindus and Muslims regarding the practice of some of these rituals. Among Muslims, the menstruating woman should not touch holy books lest they become impure. Converted Christians follow, although to a lesser degree, the rituals of their original castes. The taboos and rituals clearly devalue. Women’s reproductive powers. The notion of women being polluted and unclean can be ascribed to patriarchal control of women’s reproductive powers. While the woman fulfils a vital social role of giving birth to progeny through her biological reproductive capacity, she is, at the same time, isolated during menstruation.

Cultural Practices of Puberty

Most women do not know about the physiology of menstruation and therefore the first experience of menstruation is filled with fear, shame and disgust. In some areas such as in rural areas of A.P. the girl is sometimes told to dub three or four dots of menstrual blood or mustard oil on the wall and draw a line between the second and third or third and fourth; it is believed that she will finish her menstruation within two and a half or three and a half days in all subsequent periods.

Elaborate rituals are performed in south Indian states-as well as in many parts of north India-at the onset of menstruation. The onset of puberty is traditionally viewed in terms of the girl’s emergent sexuality and prospective motherhood. The pubescent girl is given an elaborate ritual bath, after a massage with turmeric and vermillion. The Mudiraj communities in A.P. isolate the pubescent girl for 21 days within the house, away from the male gaze. The room in which she is secluded is separated with an iron rod and a fire is kept constantly burning during this period. Fire signifies purity and also keeps away daiyyam or witches and evil spirits. The girl is polluted and hence prohibited from touching people and other people are not allowed to touch her. In case of default, a bath is essential for ritual purification.

The Impact of the Food Habits on Women Health:

Although women are more or less marginalized and neglected in relation to the quality and quantity of food, certain occasions in a woman’s life are celebrated with the offering of a variety of nutritious foods specially prepared for her. Almost every community has the practice of feeding a girl on her first menstruation with delicious and nutritive foods, with the time of seclusion for the period ranging between nine to 21 days. In parts of A.P., sweets made of jaggery, groundnuts, sesame, fenugreek, wheat flour and sorgum are given to the girl. Menstruation for the first time in the house of one’s in-laws is also considered very auspicious in all regions of A.P. and is celebrated with gaiety.. The idea seems to be to give the girl ‘rich’, that is, strength-giving foods as well as both ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ foods.

Certain ‘hot’ foods (like jaggery) and ‘cold’ foods (like tamarind and lemons) are taboo as it is believed that the girl will suffer from menstrual pain. ‘Hot’ foods may cause heavy bleeding and ‘cold’ foods may cause severe menstrual pain. Special foods are understood to compensate for the loss of blood, regularise the menstrual cycle and flow, strengthen her reproductive organs and generally contribute to her fertility.

Work Prohibition of Pregnant Women:

It is also observed during the fieldwork that almost all the respondents have revealed that prohibition of work is compulsory while a women pregnancy but this notion is varies to one community to another. The higher social status communities are not allowed to perform the works even domestic works also from the early months to after late months of maternity. Whereas weaker section women perform the daily domestic actives some of them perform field activates but it is only in the early months. They should also take rest in the late months of pregnancy and early months of maternity.

Encourage and Disencourage Food Items During the Pregnancy of Women:

During pregnancy and lactation, many traditional communities across the country restrict a woman’s food intake. It is believed that if a pregnant woman eats too much, the foetus will not have room to move. The abdomen is supposed to contain both the food and the foetus and the latter’s space needs should be given greater priority. Another reason for controlling a pregnant woman’s food consumption is perhaps that excess weight would reduce the productivity of her work in the fields and around the house. A widely prevalent practice all over India is shrimanta. In the seventh month of pregnancy special rituals are performed and different types of sweets are prepared and given to the parents-to-be. The purpose is to give moral support and encouragement to the pregnant woman and celebrate her achievement of having reached near full-term. The sweets are generally made of wheat flour, jaggery, ghee, fenugreek and dry fruits. In the final stages of pregnancy, the pregnant woman is supposed to cat these foods custom every day. This is a good custom because it provides the calories and protein needed for the rapidly growing foetus in the last trimester of pregnancy.

Food Items Encourage % Disencourage %

1.Milk 173 95.5 8 4.4

2.Green leafs 148 81.7 33 18.2

3.Toddy 80 44.1 101 55.8

4.Non-Veg 132 72.9 49 27

5.Papaya — — 181 100

6.Potato 49 27 132 72.9

7.Brinjal 50 27.6 131 72.3

The above table explains the villager’s perceptions on encourage and disencourage food items during the pregnancy of women. The data shows that there are 173 (95.5%) of the respondents have stated that they are encouraging milk and its related food items and only insignificant number of respondents i.e.8 (4.4%) are not encouraging the food items of milk. As many as 148 (81.7%) of them revealed that they are encouraging green leafs and rest of the significant number of respondents i.e. 33 (18.2%) are not interested to give the green leafs to the pregnants. Interestingly the data depicts that more than half of the respondents i.e. 101 (55.8%) have said that they are encouraging toddy and 80 (44.1%) of them are not giving taking toddy. A substantial number of the respondents i.e. 132 (72.9%) have expressed that they are encouraging the consummation of non-vegetarian foods like mutton, chicken and egg. The total number of respondents is practicing the prohibition of papaya consummation during the pregnancy. All most all equal number of respondents i.e. 49 (27%) and 50 (27.6%) have revealed that Potato and Brinjal are encouraged food items and as similar 132 (72.9%) and 131 (72.3%) of them are not encouraging the food items of Potato and Brinjal.

The data regarding Caring of Pregnant Women among the Villagers clarifies the pursuance of the opinion of several communities respondents such as Yadava 14 (7.7%), Gouda 3 (1.7%), Munurukapu 11 (6.1%), Oddera 6 (3.3%), Vishwa Brahmin 5 (2.8%), Mala 25 (13.8%), Madiga 21 (11.6%), Padmashali 7 (3.9%), each 3 (1.7%) of Mangali, Dudekula and Erukala, Kumari 2 (1.1%) and each 1 (0.6%) of Pusala, Mera, Chindi and Dakkali have stated that family and their kins are taking care of their pregnant women. In this category the total numbers of SC and ST communities are appeared because of less financial status and peer group pressure. A majority number of working caste like Yadava, Munnurukapu, Oddera, Padmashali, Dudekula and Kummari are appeared. However, these communities’ people are visiting either government or private hospital for check up their health conditions during early pregnant hood as well as before delivery. One more interesting thing that the caste Mangali itself is traditional birth attendant community in this village so we may consider them in response to this query that they are taking care about pregnant as a traditional birth attendant and as a family. On the whole 3 (1.7 %) of Yadava, 2 (1.1 %) Gouda, 1 (0.6 %) of Munnurukapu and Kummari, 8 (4.4 %) of Chakali, 5 (2.7%) of Dudekula and the total number of Mudiraj 7 (4%) community respondent have expressed that traditional birth attendant are taking care about pregnant of their communities. It is important to note that previous these caste people took care about pregnant but at presently they are seeking the help of traditional birth attendant by reason of saving of time. These kind of villagers always busy in their routine work if they involve in the caring process they should be lost more time in order to money also. The data also describes that all most all the respondents of Deshmukh 3 (1.6%), Vysya 4 (2.2%) and Vaisnava 5 (2.7%) communities have revealed that health workers or ANMs are looking after the pregnant women. It may due to the higher awareness regarding health and personal bias or prejudices of health workers or ANMs who are interested to associate with the higher social status communities.

On account of preferable birthplace; the responses of majority respondents i.e. 112 (62%) is that birth at the traditional birth attendant is more preferable. As many as number of respondent i.e. 36 (20%) have revealed that they prepared birthplace is Government Hospitals and the reaming respondents i.e. 32 (18%) have expressed their perception that Private Hospital are preferable to give the birth. The cluster analysis of data also provides the social status wise explanation that there are 7 (4%) of OC respondents, 19 (10.5%) of BCs and 10 (5.5%) of SCs are interested to go to the government hospitals. There are 10 (5.5%) of OCs and 23 (12.7%) of BCs were interested on Privates hospitals. Among the reaming of categories, the more number of BC respondents i.e. 70 (38.5%), 37 (20.5%) and the total number of ST community respondents i.e. 3 (1.7%) and only few {2(1.1%)} of OC respondent are still interested to give birth under the observation or treatment of traditional birth attendant.

Practices after Delivery:

Women underfed themselves during pregnancy and strove for a small baby to ensure easy delivery. Babies were not to be breast fed on first three days and baby-clothes were not used till a ceremony (purudu/Naming) on 9th day to 21st day. Mothers could not leave the delivery room till that day. To minimize the toilet needs, they severely restricted their intake of fluids and food during first week after delivery. Mothers did not wash hands properly; their clothes and linen were often dirty. Newborn babies, even if sick, were not moved out of home. The usual explanations for the sicknesses in neonates were ‘evil eye’, ‘witch craft’, or ill effects of foods eaten by mother.

The practice of breast-feeding female children for shorter periods of time reflects the strong desire for sons. If women are particularly anxious to have a male child, they may deliberately try to become pregnant again as soon as possible after a female is born. Conversely, women may consciously seek to avoid another pregnancy after the birth of a male child in order to give maximum attention to the new son

Summary and Conclusions:

Due to the orthodoxical and traditional dogma, majority numbers of respondent are not possess proper notion on Women’s health. In addition to supernatural beliefs about what brings on disease, women also have some beliefs about the non-physical causes of ill-health. The most commonly found syndrome was ‘weakness’ which consists of fatigue, body ache, ghabrahat (a generic term used for anxiety, fear, restlessness, trepidation, etc.), pallor, low backache and burning of palms and feet. Thus poverty, illiteracy and social backwardness complete the subordination of women. In reality, therefore, most women carry a tremendous degree of mental anguish and agony due to the improper beliefs and practices.

However, practices existed to over come or to tune with the problems, which may be physical, psychological, cultural and environmental. Subsequently practices are to be strengthen in order to persisting as the beliefs. Once, belief is to be got its own identity; the existence of practice should automatically come by the deeds of the victims or followers. Sometimes belief might be deteriorate due to the business, cost effective and the rationalism should also vanish the irrational beliefs so that we can eventually conclude beliefs exist by the practices which may takes place to over come the problems or to adjust with the nature.

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