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Koivunen, Julie M. "Women's perspectives on issues of equality in their marriages a qualitative analysis /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 0.26 Mb., 180 p, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1042538431&Fmt=7&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Yao, Tracy. "How to Get Married: An Examination of the Marriage Equality Litigation Strategy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/523.
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Marriage equality exists in 35 states and the District of Columbia. Activists are waiting on the Supreme Court to issue a ruling and bring the movement to its conclusion. Critics of litigation claim that its effects are limited at best, and that the movement's desired result could be achieved without stepping foot in a courtroom. This Article seeks to examine the marriage equality movement's strategy for getting to this point, particularly the role of courts, and argues that litigation was an effective and necessary means of expanding the freedom to marry.
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Bosley-Smith, Emma R. "Before and After `I Do': Marriage Processes For Mid-Life Gay and Lesbian Married Couples." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1490879787728175.
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Soukup, Karla S. Jr. "Choice, Chance, or Circumstance: A Qualitative Study of Never-Married and Once-Married Women's Marriage Beliefs in Midlife." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46480.
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Although previous research on singlehood has often focused
on middlfe-class career women, little is known about the
life experiences of non-career path single women. This
study examined the core marriage beliefs of never-married
and once-married child-free, midlife women and the ways in
which those beliefs have evolved over time. The sample
consisted of 10 women, 5 never-married and 5 once-married
between the ages of 35 and 48. For the purposes of this
inquiry, non-career path was codetermined on the basis of
occupation and educational background.
The theoretical framework that guided this study combined a life course approach with a feminist perspective. Respondents were recruited through extensive networking and the sampling technique of snowballing. A qualitative methodology was employed utilizing the research strategy of in-depth interviewing. Data were analyzed on the basis of emergent themes and patterns.
This study produced 3 salient findings. First, the process
of forming core marriage beliefs is similar between never-
married and once-married women. Although an experience of
marrying (or an experience of not marrying) may change the
way a woman views herself within the context of her marital
beliefs, those core marital beliefs do not necessarily
change. Second, whether never-married or once-married,
single midlife women live ambivalent lives: acknowledging
their singlehood status while simultaneously remaining
hopeful of attaining a marital union. Finally, women made
a clear distinction between getting married and marrying
successfully. While most believed that getting married was
a choice, having a successful marriage was a result of
chance. Despite this appraisal, the ideal of marriage
remained pervasive regardless of age or past experience.
Master of Science
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Cole, Marcy L. "The experience of never-married women in their thirties who desire marriage and children." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 1999. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/cole_1999.pdf.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1999.A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Faubert, Kandice Michelle. ""This isn't a fairy tale" an exploration of marital expectations and coping among married women" /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1226116928.
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Frank, Beth. "Conjoint treatment : impact on married couples with and without PMS." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/917831.
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The goal of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a marital systems approach to the treatment of women with self-referred premenstrual syndrome. The first purpose of the study was to identify any significant differences on the Global Distress Scale of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory and the Causal Dimension Scale between (PMS+) and (PMS-) married couples before and after marital treatment. The second purpose of the study was to determine any significant differences on dependent measures of averaged marital ratings between (PMS+) and (PMS-) wives during thecycle ratings between (PMS+) and (PMS-) wives.Nine married couples participated in a group comparison study through Community Hospitals of Indianapolis, Indiana. The study was conducted in two phases, including a three month assessment phase followed by a two month treatment phase. Four married couples whose wives met the DSM-III-R's diagnostic criteria for Late Luteal Phase Dysphoric Disorder were included in the (PMS+) group. Five married couples whose wives did not meet the diagnostic criteria for LLPDD were included in the (PMS-) comparison group.Statistical analyses revealed significant time effects; assessment and treatment purpose of the study was differences on dependent phase of the study. The third to identify any significant measures of averaged menstrual no three-way or two-way interactive effects for any of the three hypotheses. The results clinically support the notion of treating marriages with PMS versus solely treating women with PMS. Regardless of whether wives prospectively confirmed premenstrual symptoms, treatment involving the marriage impacted menstrual cycle symptom ratings and perceptions of the marriage positively.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Forsberg, Edit. "Marriage and individualism - is there a connection? : Highly educated women in Stockholm in 2020." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-186349.
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This study examines the values underlying marriage formation before childbearing among highly educated women living in Stockholm. This group has been shown in previous research to have increasing propensity to enter marriage before childbearing, due to changing values. Previous studies have suggested a possible connection between rising individualism and gender equality on the one hand, and a new marriage trend on the other hand, noted especially among the highly educated in large cities in Sweden. The values underlying the rise in marriage popularity is yet to be explored which is the aim of the present study based on 20 indepth interviews. The analysis is guided by theories on individualism and gender equality by Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Gøsta Esping-Andersen. The results show that rising individualism has created a need for relationship stabilizing tools, where marriage works as a practical security measure for relatively new relationships, prior to having children. The results also show that for the group in the study childbearing and marriage are strongly connected. In contrast to individualization theories this study shows that high marriage propensity can coexist with high levels of individualization.
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Davidsson, Camilla, and Elina Anderson. "Caught in the twilight zone : Mobile money - one solution to the multiple expectations faced by married women in Mbarara, Uganda." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-42183.
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Women’s subordination in marital relations is a problematic issue causing socio-economic imbalance between spouses. These issues are found within the system of Uganda’s patriarchal society. Mobile money (m-money) is a service that entered the Ugandan market in 2009 that allows transferring and withdrawing money and paying bills with your cellphone without being connected to a formal bank. Earlier research shows positive impact of m-money use for women’s entrepreneurship in a male-privileged society. These realities render interest towards investigating how m-money effects women and if it has any impact on their self esteem in their marital relation. The study aims to understand the effect of women’s use of m-money in a marital relation. The field study was carried out in Mbarara using interviews and observations to approach the issue. Ugandan women have a lower position within the marital relation as well as in society in general since it is the man who heads of the family. The study reveals an existing lack of trust between spouses, resulting in the exclusion of one another from their individual finances. This lack of trust becomes an impediment of mutual support within the marriage. Furthermore the study shows that women from a higher strata use m-money as a security line of income and gives leeway to meet both traditional expectations such as care taking of children and modern expectations to be employed within the formal sector. The lower strata of women who use m-money tend to protect the money from their husbands who have different priorities than their wives. Through m-money women are given a tool allowing them to circumvent economic confrontations between the spouses and the societal hierarchal structures. The economic security creates a reality where women are less vulnerable because of their independence. The gained independence can however be deemed as a less bad alternative to dependence as it gives them a stronger foundation to manage the combination of the above-mentioned traditional and modern expectations within society.
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Lappin, Chelsea Michelle. "‘Irreconcilable Differences’?: The Experiences of Middle-Class Women Combining Marriage and Work in Post-War English Speaking Canada (1945-1960)." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38594.
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Following the Second World War, middle-class married women in English speaking Canada became for the first time a significant proportion of the labour force. Nonetheless, society still encouraged them to take up their domestic roles as housewives and mothers. They were subjected to discriminatory government policy, justified by traditional gender norms supported by academic research and popular social commentators. As a result, their lives became increasingly divorced from the prescriptions that encouraged them to remain at home. The differences meant that their work, and its associated challenges, went unrecognized.
Drawing on a broad range of sources, this thesis explores how and why middle class women – especially married ones- entered the workforce, the public’s reactions to their work, and how they negotiated the difference between prescriptions and their lives. It demonstrates that the 1950s were a watershed moment for women’s labour. Married women gained greater recognition of their place in the workforce, and obtained incremental changes to minimize discriminatory policy, practice, and attitudes. Accordingly, their efforts were foundational for the future women’s labour movements and Second Wave Feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Chen, Zhaohui. "Studie zum Ehesystem und der Rolle der Frauen in den Nördlichen Dynastien (386-581) /." Aachen : Shaker, 2000. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009152419&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Williams, Christian Brant. "WOMEN’S MARITAL PROPERTY IN SHAKESPEARE’S ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL AND MEASURE FOR MEASURE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1503584564034864.
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Wood, Laura Thomason. "Change of Condition: Women's Rhetorical Strategies on Marriage, 1710-1756." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4921/.
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This dissertation examines ways in which women constructed and criticized matrimony both before and after their own marriages. Social historians have argued for the rise of companionacy in the eighteenth century without paying attention to women's accounts of the fears and uncertainties surrounding the prospect of marriage. I argue that having more latitude to choose a husband did not diminish the enormous impact that the choice would have on the rest of a woman's life; if anything, choice might increase that impact. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Mulso Chapone, Mary Delany, and Eliza Haywood recorded their anxieties about and their criticisms of marriage in public and private writings from the early years of the century into the 1750s. They often elide their own complex backgrounds in favor of generalized policy statements on what constitutes a good marriage. These women promote an ideal of marriage based on respect and similarity of character, suggesting that friendship is more honest, and durable than romantic love. This definition of ideal marriage enables these women to argue for more egalitarian marital relationships without overtly calling for a change in the wife's traditional role. The advancement of this ideal of companionacy gave women a means of promoting gender equality in marriage at a time when they considered marriage risky but socially and economically necessary.
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Yamokoski, Alexis. "Wealth inequality effects of gender, marital status, and parenthood on asset accumulation /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180542629.
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Aytac, Isik Akin. "The effect of women's labor force participation on marital instability." PDXScholar, 1985. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3428.
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This thesis examines the effect of women's labor force participation on marital instability. It is hypothesized that women's income-earning affects marriage in two ways: 1) the "independence effect" facilitates divorce by enabling women to be self-supporting; 2) the "parallel marriage effect" improves marital satisfaction and the quality of the marital relationship because women with higher incomes generally have more power in marriage. The "independence effect" is measured by whether or not women's income is sufficient, defined as income above the poverty line for the appropriate family size as established by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Parallel marriage" is measured by the wife-husband income ratio. Both women's own income level and wife-husband income ratio are taken two years prior to her divorce.
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Booley, Ashraf. "Women’s rights and freedoms in Islamic jurisprudence pertaining to marriage and divorce: lessons for south Africa from Morocco and Tunisia?" Thesis, University of Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3759.
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Doctor Legum - LLDThe objective of this doctoral thesis is essentially two-fold: first, it seeks to ascertain whether the rights and freedoms of Muslim women in the contexts of marriage and divorce are adequately protected in terms of Islamic jurisprudence, and secondly, whether any valuable lessons could be learnt in this regard by South Africa based on the specific legal experiences of two (other) African jurisdictions, notably Morocco and Tunisia.
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Ward, Jessica D. "Conjugal Rights in Flux in Medieval Poetry." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500176/.
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This study explores how four medieval poems—the Junius manuscript’s Genesis B and Christ and Satan and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and The Parliament of Fowls—engage with medieval conjugal rights through their depictions of agentive female protagonists. Although many laws at this time sought to suppress the rights of women, especially those of wives’, both pre- and post-conquest poets illustrate women who act as subjects, exercising legal rights. Medieval canon and common law supported a certain amount of female agency in marriage but was not consistent in its understanding of what that was. By considering the shifts in law from Anglo-Saxon and fourteenth century England in relation to wives’ rights and female consent, my project asserts that the authors of Genesis B and Christ and Satan and the late-medieval poet Chaucer position their heroines to defend legislation that supports female agency in matters of marriage. The Anglo-Saxon authors do so by conceiving of Eve’s role in the Fall and harrowing of hell as similar to the legal role of a forespeca. Through Eve’s mimesis of Satan’s rhetoric, she is able to reveal an alternate way of conceiving of the law as merciful instead of legalistic. Chaucer also engages with a woman’s position in society under the law through his representation of Criseyde’s role in her courtship with Troilus in his epic romance, Troilus and Criseyde. Chaucer disrupts his audiences’ expectations by placing Criseyde as the more agentive party in her courtship with Troilus and shows that women might hope to the most authority in marriage by withholding their consent. In his last dream vision, The Parliament of Fowls, Chaucer engages again with the importance of female consent in marriage but takes his interrogation of conjugal rights a step further by imagining an alternate legal system through Nature, a female authority who gives equal consideration to all classes and genders.
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Nyh, Johan. "From Snow White to Frozen : An evaluation of popular gender representation indicators applied to Disney’s princess films." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36877.
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Simple content analysis methods, such as the Bechdel test and measuring percentage of female talk time or characters, have seen a surge of attention from mainstream media and in social media the last couple of years. Underlying assumptions are generally shared with the gender role socialization model and consequently, an importance is stated, due to a high degree to which impressions from media shape in particular young children’s identification processes. For young girls, the Disney Princesses franchise (with Frozen included) stands out as the number one player commercially as well as in customer awareness. The vertical lineup of Disney princesses spans from the passive and domestic working Snow White in 1937 to independent and super-power wielding princess Elsa in 2013, which makes the line of films an optimal test subject in evaluating above-mentioned simple content analysis methods. As a control, a meta-study has been conducted on previous academic studies on the same range of films. The sampled research, within fields spanning from qualitative content analysis and semiotics to coded content analysis, all come to the same conclusions regarding the general changes over time in representations of female characters. The objective of this thesis is to answer whether or not there is a correlation between these changes and those indicated by the simple content analysis methods, i.e. whether or not the simple popular methods are in general coherence with the more intricate academic methods.Betyg VG (skala IG-VG)
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Tfwala, Ncamsile C. "Women's control over sexual matters in traditional marriages : a development perspective." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3179.
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The main objectives of the study are to determine the extent of control women have over
sexual matters in Swazi traditional marriages; to identify the factors influencing the
extent of control women have over sexual matters in traditional marriages; and to analyse
the consequences of women’s lack of control over sexual matters on the women
themselves, their families and their communities with regard to development. Reviewed
literature and identified themes were verified in the field through focused group
discussions and key informant interviews.
The study revealed that women in traditional marriages do not have control over their
sexuality because of the obligations and cultural practices inherent in the marriage
restricting women’s involvement in decision making in sexual matters. This position
undermines the social and economic development of women, families and communities.
It is therefore recommended that cultural practices be amended to improve the status of
women in decision making.Development Studies
M.A. (Social Sciences)
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Hsieh, Kun-Chung, and 謝坤鐘. "Research On Marital Role Conflicts, Marriage Adaptation And Marriage Satisfaction Of Married Career Women." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99966126866815302134.
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Liu, Tung-Mei. "Gender equality of Japanese women in interracial marriage." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15082.
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This study applied a qualitative approach to explore five Japanese women's
experiences and perceptions of gender equality in interracial marriage, with a primary focus
on identifying common factors that affected their experiences. A new trend of interracial
marriage among Japanese has emerged in recent years. Although the phenomenon of
interracial marriages between Japanese women and Caucasian men has started after World
War II, recent studies interpret this trend as a new phenomenon symbolizing feminist
movement toward women's emancipation from a male-dominated society. These women's
experiences have not been fully investigated.
This study employed a multiple-case study method with semi-structured interviews to
explore the five women' experiences as well as to identify factors contributing to their
experiences. The emerging areas of experiences relevant to gender equality were divided
into four different domains: (1) gender role, (2) finances and decision-making, (3) culture
and language, and (4) personal power. Factors that contributed to these participants'
experiences in these four domains were summarized into five categories: (a) gender role
beliefs, (b) financial and cultural resources, (c) socio-cultural factors, (d) personalpsychological
factors, and (e) husband's attitudes. The participants' experiences in each
domain were influenced by a combination of different factors under these five categories
with individual variations. The amount of significance attached to each factor varied from on
participant to another. The final results of this study were compared against three major
theories of gender equality: i.e., ideology theory, resource theory and process theory. The
implications for theories, future research, and counselling are discussed.
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CASWELL, MARISHA. "Married Women, Crime, and Questions of Liability in England, 1640-1760." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7014.
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Upon marriage, women in early modern England became subject to the common law doctrine of coverture. Coverture had a number of consequences, all of which stemmed from a married woman’s lack of independent legal identity. These consequences largely manifested themselves in a married woman’s complete lack of property rights, but the lack of an independent legal identity created complications for assigning criminal responsibility to married women in the early modern criminal justice system. Coverture largely manifested itself in the criminal law through the defence of marital coercion, which held that a married woman who committed a crime – with the exceptions of murder and treason – was assumed to be acting under her husband’s coercion and was therefore not liable for her actions.
This study examines the perceptions, treatment, and experiences of married women in the northern assize circuit and London between 1640 and 1760, with particular attention to the defence of marital coercion. This thesis discovered that the household ideal, not the defence of marital coercion, was the most important factor in determining the perceptions, treatment, and experiences of married women with the criminal justice system. People in early modern England did not see coverture as the loss of rights, but rather the means through which to create a unified household. The household ideal manifested itself in various ways, including understandings of women’s household role, the tendency of people to treat husband and wife as a criminal unit rather than two separate individuals, the “suitability” of victims in murder trials, and the unique treatment of married women in the execution pamphlets.
The married women of this study were subject to the common law doctrine of coverture. While they did not feel its effects in their daily lives, their lack of an independent legal identity created complications in the criminal justice system. Above all, married women were both criminals and wives. Criminal actions may have removed these women from their husbands’ cover, but their experiences with the criminal law were still shaped by coverture and the corresponding household ideal.Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2012-02-23 09:40:38.368
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"'n Psigo-opvoedkundige program as raamwerk vir opvoedkundige sielkundiges om vroue wat in hul huwelik ongelukkig is se geestesgesondheid te fasiliteer." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/897.
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The aim of this research was to develop a psycho-educational program to form a framework for educational psychologists to promote and facilitate the mental health of women who are unhappy in their marriages. The assumption is made that a mentally healthy and happy mother exercises a great influence on the rest of her family. The circumstances in unhappy long-term marriages appear to be a stressful situation which is associated with much uncertainty and confusion. It seems that women in such a situation tend to withdraw in order to attempt to address their pain, confusion and uncertainty in isolation, without being effective in solving their problems. Affluent women’s mental health in the situation of a long-term, unhappy marriage seems to be characterized by a spectrum of unpleasant emotions, an identity crisis, an unhealthy dynamic in their relationship with their life partner and the use of a number of defence mechanisms to ease the pain. Lack of knowledge regarding the specific ways in which their marriage upsets them leads to misperceptions in women. Long-term unhappiness and uncertainty in isolation can also lead to mental disorders that may assume alarming proportions. Clinical disorders are definitely not excluded.Prof. C.P.H. Myburgh
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Kuo, Tzu-Lung, and 郭子龍. "A Marriage, Three Families: Analysis on the Intergenerational Relation Model of Married Women." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8cu7b4.
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碩士東吳大學
社會學系
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In traditional Chinese society, marriage is not just a combination of men and women, but also a vertical extension of two original families. In addition to couple relationship and intergenerational relationship, woman usually accommodates man. However, the study suggests that with time changes, woman has better education and employment opportunities, have more open concept, compared to past, married women have increased resources, which make them having more power in marriage. In the past, married women took more care of husband’s family in intergenerational relation, but seldom contacted her parents; with the qualitative and quantitative changes in married women's personal resources, values and resources generated by family, and different backgrounds, the intergenerational relationship of married women changes. The intergenerational relationship contains living arrangements, childcare arrangements and support to eldership. Thereby the study attempts to explore how these changes affect the intergenerational relationship of married women from personal resources, relative resource difference of couples, relative resource difference of both parents, the traditional concept, family resources and other factors. In the study, "Chinese family dynamic database": RI1999, RI2000 and RI2003 are used, including 778 valid samples to explore the factors that involve in married women’s intergenerational relationship. The results show that the higher the personal resources of married women, the more the women will be close to her family in intergenerational relation, including living arrangements choice, childcare arrangements and support parents. In the case of increased personal resource for new era of women, the flexibility of intergenerational relationship enhance than women with fewer resources, which is also why the analysis of the study will be tend to women’s intergenerational relationship as control group. In traditional Chinese society, intergenerational relationship seldom accommodates to women’s family, if choose women’s intergenerational relation as control group, the intergenerational relationship of women in the choice of flexibility can be highlighted. As to the difference in the degree of conjugal resources, there is no eligible assumption, it is more accessible to fight by own. In the analysis results, the conventional concept is not obvious, women have to rely on own strength rather than the strength of traditional concepts. Keywords: Married Women, Intergenerational Relation, Living Arrangement, Childcare Arrangement, Breeding Behavior
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Kao, Chia-Chu, and 高嘉鞠. "The Marriage Experiences of Married Women Who Grew Up in Divorced Single-Parent Families." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54226520844679262895.
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社會工作學研究所
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The marriage experience of married women who grew up in divorced single- parent families is often described as vicious cycle of divorce. The study intends to explore the positive side of their marriage experience from social learning perspective. Six women whose parents were divorced before 18 years old were sampled through the Internet and each was in-depth interviewed. They were all married over one year and some are over 4 years. Four of them have kids already and one of them is going to have kid soon. The results indicated that their marriage experience was intricately interwoven with their parents’ marriage experience. First, they expressed how resilient experience they learn from growing up from their parental divorce. However, their self-independence personality developed from living in single-parent families became a salient struggle when they needed to make mutual decisions with their marriage partners. Second, they always kept vigilant when experience marriage difficulties, But they would never speak out the word of “divorce”during mutual fights, due to a warning of their experiencing parents’ unsuccessful marriage. Last but not least, their back ground of growing up in single-parent familiesdid cause much pressure when meeting cultural rituals of wedding preparation and father presence or not in the wedding banquet.To conclude, implications about braking up divorce cycles, promoting diverse families, and divorce courses are discussed at the end of this study.
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Liu, Chin-mei, and 劉錦玫. "A Study On The Life Meanings of Single Non-Married Women Who Resist Marriage." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04336435744067604121.
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生死學研究所
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The purpose of this study is to realize the reasons, life experiences, dynamics of living and life meanings of single non-married women. The in-depth interview method is used to study and analyze the life stories of three single non-married women. The results of the study demonstrated: Single non-married women share the same qualities of a solid attitude toward life and introspective personalities . The reasons of being non-married as accumulated here were : 1. The distrust of marriage. 2. The responsibility for the family of origin. 3. The pursuit of another answer to life. To support the dynamics of living of single non-married women came from: 1. The pursuit of life model. 2. The fulfillment of responsibility. 3. Unfinished dreams. Moreover , 1. The value of self-approval 2. The value of creation of life. 3. The value of giving back to society, are the significances of life to those who are being non-married.
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Yu, Ya Hui, and 余雅惠. "On the study of satisfaction of the division of housework, belief of marriage, family support and marriage satisfaction for the married women." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38818517633417515176.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
家庭教育研究所
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between satisfaction of the division of housework and marriage satisfaction for the married women. Also, the moderated effects of the belief of marriage, family support, and background variables on the above relationship are examined. A self-constructed questionnaire is used and a total of 1035 questionnaires are retrieved. The analysis methods include Descriptive Statistics, Product-moment Correlation, and Moderated Regression Analysis. The result of this study show that the relationship between satisfaction of the division of housework and marriage satisfaction is positively correlated on the total score and subscores. In other words, when the satisfaction of the division of housework is high, the satisfaction level of marriage is high. The family support and the age of married women have no moderated effect on the relationship between satisfaction of the division of housework and marriage satisfaction. However, the belief of marriage, education level and occupation of the married women have moderated effect on some suggestions based on the findings of this study are provided.
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McQuillan, Deanna Boyd. "The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back? A Sociological Analysis of Marriage and Law School." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/996.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007.Title from screen (viewed on June 6, 2007) Department of Sociology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-89)
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Nevhungoni, Thambeleni Portia. "Discrete survival models with flexible link functions for age at first marriage among woman in Swaziland." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1346.
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This study explores the use of exible link functions in discrete survival models through a simulation study and an application to the Swaziland Demographic and Health Survey (SDHS) data. The objective of the research study is to perform simulation exercises in order to compare the e ectiveness of di erent families of link functions and to construct a discrete multilevel survival model for age at rst marriage among women in Swaziland using a exible link function. The Pareto hazard model, Pregibon and Gosset families of link functions were considered in models with and without unobserved heterogeneity. The Pareto model where the family parameter is estimated from the data was found to outperform the other models, followed by the Pregibon and the Gosset family of link functions. The results from both simulation study and real data analysis of the SDHS data illustrated that, misspecication of the link function causes bias on the estimation of results. This demonstrates the importance of choosing the right link. The ndings of this study reveal that women who are highly educated, stay in the Manzini and Shiselweni region, those who reside in urban areas were more likely to marry later compared to their counterparts in Swaziland. The results also reveal that the proportion of early rst marriages is declining since the di erence among birth cohorts is found to be very high, with women of younger cohorts getting married later compared to older women.
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Hart, Claire. "Marriage and participation in postgraduate study : exploring the motivations and experiences of married female psychology masters students." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/12609.
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The profession of Psychology in post-apartheid South Africa has been dominated by women, despite attempts to address issues of equity, access and redress in recruitment and training. Certain obstacles to entering the profession, that may be specifically relevant to men, included the longevity and cost of training; the notion that Psychology is a ‘woman’s profession’; and the appeal of more lucrative job opportunities. Women, on the other hand, were often encouraged to enter female-dominated professions such as Psychology and financial support either from one’s family or an economically-independent partner facilitates the pursuit of this career trajectory. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of married females who were embarking on postgraduate study. Using semi-structured interviews, eight married female participants currently enrolled in Professional Masters programmes provided in-depth information on why they took on the dual adjustment of marriage and postgraduate study and what were the challenges and benefits associated with this process. Thematic content analysis was used to interpret these accounts which revealed that the dating phase of relationships often concluded as postgraduate study commenced due to the longevity of the study trajectory. To address the accompanying relationship insecurity, marriage was idealised as offering enhanced security and stability. Despite the notion that Masters and marriage would complement each other in order to overcome the difficulties of marriage and postgraduate study, a blurring of boundaries was experienced between the perceived challenges and benefits as the idealised complementarity was not actualised. Using feminist theory, the study added value to debates on the perpetuating influence of chauvinistic notions regarding marriage and career development for women inherent in the family life cycle theory, as well as explored the implications of the “feminisation” of the profession of Psychology on recruitment, training and future practice of female Psychologists.
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Holman, Sayuri. "“Trying to be the man you’ve become”: negotiating marriage and masculinities among young, urban Fijian men married to non-Fijian women." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2030.
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While studies in masculinities and globalization are a rapidly growing field, few studies address the role of marriage in shaping masculinities. This project explores the emerging pattern of young, urban Fijian men who marry non-Fijian women and in doing so, challenge neo-traditional marriage formations and gender roles. In this particular project, I investigate how Fijian men experience these types of marriages with non-Fijian women and how they negotiate their masculinity within their marriages. I also explore how the confluence of colonial experiences, current globalization trends, and culture affect how these men understand their masculinity. I employ several methodologies including multiple interviews, participant observations, and visual anthropology methods. Through these methods, I explore how the relationship between Fijian men and non-Fijian women alters men’s experiences of masculinity and identity at the individual level. Results illustrate the importance of work in defining manhood, according to these men. As well, results suggest that the wives play a powerful role in influencing their husbands’ values with regards to work ethics and the general acceptance of global values. These relationships show the intersection and complexities that emerge between evolving ideas regarding masculinities and marriage, Fiji’s colonial experience and current global values.
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Salinas, Viviana. "The baby will come, the ring can wait : differences between married and unmarried first-time mothers in Chile." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2167.
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The proportion of children born outside of marriage in Chile increased from 15.9 percent in 1960 to 64.6 percent in 2008. Similar increases have been taken elsewhere as indicative of a Second Demographic Transition (SDT). In this dissertation, I study differences between married and unmarried mothers in Chile and the reasons why such a large proportion of children are born outside of marriage, with the goal of understanding whether the demographic changes we are observing in the country are part of a global movement towards the SDT. The data comes from a postpartum survey implemented in Santiago, the capital city. I analyze differences between women according to the family arrangement they live in, including married women in nuclear households, married women in extended households, cohabiters in nuclear households, cohabiters in extended households, visiting mothers, and single mothers. I consider women’s socioeconomic wellbeing, emotional wellbeing, social support, attitudes and values, and reproductive health. The results show large demographic and socioeconomic differences, marking the socioeconomic advantage of married women in nuclear households, who are the oldest, and the disadvantage of cohabiters in extended households, visiting and single mothers, who are the youngest women in the sample. Married women in extended households and cohabiters in nuclear households are between these two poles. Differences in emotional wellbeing exist, benefiting married women in nuclear households, but they are not so large. Differences in social support continue delineating married women in nuclear households as a privileged group, but visiting mothers appear as a highly supported group too. There are not large differences in attitudes and values, as most women continue holding conservative attitudes on family issues, and most unmarried mothers plan to marry. Differences in reproductive health are large, showing that unplanned births and contraceptive failure are high in the underprivileged and youngest groups. Unmarried women seem to accept their pregnancies with no pressure to marry, and to give priority to other goals, such as their careers and homeownership, before the wedding, which they do not discard for the future. Under these circumstances, it is hard to interpret recent demographic changes in Chile as a SDT.text
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Kaunda, Mutale Mulenga. "A search for life-giving marriage : the Imbusa initiation rite as a space for constructing wellbeing among married Bemba women of Zambia." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8847.
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This empirical study analyses whether and how the Imbusa initiation rite is used to construct ‘subordinate femininities’ among married Bemba women of Zambia. Imbusa initiation rite is very significant for Bemba and Zambian women despite the many changes that have significantly altered their religio-cultural practices. It is something that makes every parent proud of their daughter because it is more or less a public declaration that they have raised their daughter with good morals as understood by Bemba people. This study has used two frameworks, first, African women theologies because African women theologies draw their sources from rites, rituals, songs, proverbs, riddles and so on. Secondly, I used status construction within social psychological theory because those with authority in groups define the outcomes and expectations of their group. For instance, banacimbusa among the Bemba people determine what should comprise the teachings in Imbusa and how an initiated woman has to behave in marriage. Utilizing mixed methods, the aim was to understand women’s views about ways in which the Imbusa rite contribute to the identity of Bemba and other Zambian women in marriage. I have proposed a framework for a life-giving marriage; first the need for banacimbusa who are gender sensitive in their teachings; second, African feminist Imbusa pedagogy, teachings that equip women for dialogue in marriage. And third, a holistic approach to sexuality in marriage.Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2013.
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Hlatywayo, Anniegrace. "From the marriage bed to the graveyard : towards a bold community praxis in reducing HIV infection amongst married women in sub-Saharan Africa." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8579.
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Recent studies reflect increasing levels of HIV infection amongst married women in sub-Saharan Africa. The institution of marriage, which is highly revered within the church and society, is thus now regarded as a 'potential death trap' for many married women. This study examines the drivers of these increasing levels of HIV infection amongst married women in sub-Saharan Africa. It offers a critical reflection of the socio-cultural factors and gender-insensitive theological traditions that expose married women to the vulnerability of HIV infection.
In order to observe the sacrosanctity of the marriage institution as well as preserving the dignity of life for many married women in sub-Saharan Africa, the study presents the imago Dei theological motif as a gender-sensitive theological response to the increasing levels of HIV infection among married women. The imago Dei theological motif argues that both men and women equally reflect the divine image of God. This theological motif also brings to the fore the realization that HIV and AIDS is fuelled by conditions of inequality, socio-economic and socio-cultural discrimination, hence the need to promote human dignity for both men and women within our communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Furthermore, emanating from the imago Dei theological motif, the study offers a bold community praxis through the transformation of gender-insensitive theological traditions; the transformation of hegemonic masculinities; and the transformation of gender-insensitive HIV prevention models as practical ways aimed at redressing the vulnerability of married women to the increasing levels of HIV infection.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.
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Longwe, Molly. "A paradox in a theology of freedom and equality : the experiences of pastors' wives (amayi busa) in the Baptist Convention of Malawi (Bacoma)." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8255.
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This study is a critical exploration and analysis of the experiences of 'being church‘ for women married to pastors in the Baptist Convention of Malawi (BACOMA). The study focused on the following research question: 'What does being church mean for women who are married to pastors in the BACOMA, whose distinctive mark is freedom of choice in matters of faith and ministry according to the Baptist-held principle of the priesthood of all believers?
It is a qualitative empirical study of the life experiences of pastors‘ wives which used feminist narrative methods of inquiry. In order to get a full picture of the role perceptions and experiences of pastors‘ wives, the study used in depth interviews, group discussions and participant observation. A purposely selected group of twenty-nine pastors‘ wives from BACOMA-affiliated Lilongwe Baptist Association of Malawi were individually interviewed by the author. In addition, two group discussions with members of the Lilongwe Baptist Association Pastors‘ Fraternal group (LBAPF) were conducted and fifty church members that included women, men, and young people were also interviewed in order to determine the congregational perceptions of a pastor‘s wife.
The purpose of my study was to determine the ideo-theological and socio-cultural factors that contribute to the construction of the identity of a pastor‘s wife in the BACOMA. By presenting a synthesis of the various perspectives on the experiences of pastors‘ wives, this study has demonstrated that a plurality of perspectives contribute to the construction of the identity of a pastors‘ wife. This causes her to be identified as a "dialogical self"¹ because of the many positions that contribute to the self understanding of her identity. These perspectives, which are embedded in patriarchal ideologies, include: doctrinal or biblical, ecclesiastical, congregational, cultural, and the "Self". I have also shown that the areas of conflict and tension between the Self and the "others" can be clues towards transformation. This is in addition to the alternatives suggested by feminist theologians in the study. Baptist ecclesiology in Malawi is challenged to take cognisance of these factors in order to build an inclusive ecclesiology that affirms the humanity of women in general and pastors‘ wives in particular.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.
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Breiding, Matthew Joseph. "The role of observed hostility and observed dominance as mediators of husbands' gender role conflict and outcomes for wives." 2003. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11052003-133646/.
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Khoza, Janet Sonile. "An investigation on gender roles expectation of marriage : a case of Mbombela Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/327.
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Nayak, Asawari. "Transnational arranged marriages and the lives of married women in the hindu-gujarati diaspora of Portugal." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14434.
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The present study took place in the Greater Lisbon area, Portugal and used micro-ethnographic methods, to understand the practice of transnational arranged marriages among the Hindu-Gujarati diaspora. Eight married women between the ages of 32 to 52 years were interviewed to understand the experiences and perceptions of women who participate in such marriages. Furthermore, lives of married women within the diaspora were also analyzed using an intersectional structural approach, to comprehend their position within the larger power structures such as caste and gender. Additionally, strengths-based and agency favoring approaches along with migration theories on transnationalism were used to analyze how married women actively negotiated with their environments and countered challenges faced by them while living in Portugal.
The study established that arranged marriages between transnational communities served the collectivist purpose of ensuring continuity and reproduction of their culture in while abroad. Traditional marriages among diasporas also entailed that certain power hierarchies from countries of origin sustained in the new geographic context. Although married women from the diaspora were disadvantaged in relation to their male counterparts when it came to certain aspects, they were never ‘passive’ beings within the migration process or while living abroad. Women not only challenged oppressive structures or practices but also occassionally occupied high positions in certain power structures (such as caste) and actively sought to ensure their maintenance in Portugal. The research value of this thesis lies in the fact that this is the first attempt to studying how arranged marriages take place within a transnational context in Portugal. Studying women within diasporas through the lens of strengths-based and agency-favoring approaches is also relatively new approach in social research. Lastly, the study concludes with making suggestions for social work practitioners and researchers who would want to study this group.
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Pitso, Gilbert Tokelo. "Socio-religious implications of church membership transfer through marriage in a black rural community." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1053.
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Sabalele, Similo Newman. "A traumatic experience faced by the second wife married in a polygamous marriage. A challenge to pastoral care. A story of the proposed contribution of a modern pastoral care, and councelling model to the second wives, married in a polygamous marriage, with special reference to the people of Mogale circut at Mogale Methodist Church of Southern Africa in Gauteng Province." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26268.
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People of Africa have travelled a long way with discrimination oppression and abuse, more especially women married as second wives in a Polygamous marriage. They have been abused oppressed and discriminated in the church, in the family and in the community. This has happened for a very longtime due to a long time male dominance in the church and in the community. This has left the church crippled in the ministering of women more especially second wives married in a Polygamous marriages. The researcher aims to help our community to confess for the past sins and ask for forgiveness. The aim here is to help the church to see that culture and Christianity works together with the aim of having one culture as Mugambi states “It can be change” ( Mugambi J.N. 1997.14). by doing so it will be pleasing in God’s eyes and we will be blessed as Africans. The researcher focuses on how the Methodist Church of Sothern Africa can play a role in addressing issues faced by the second wives married in a Polygamous marriage so that they have dignity and human rights. How can the church deal with the trauma and pains caused by the church, the in Laws and the community more especially after the death of a husband, this will help the women’s married in a polygamous marriages to share their painful stories so that they can be helped, and accepted by the church and organizations in the church as full members. This research is a way of helping and educating the church to have compassion and love for the women’s married in a Polygamous marriage, and that will make the church to be christlike and that will be pleasing in God’s eyes and we will be blessed as Africans and as the people of God.Dissertation (MA(Theol))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Liu, Jing 1979. "Incomes and outcomes : the dynamic interaction of the marriage market and the labor market." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18081.
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In this thesis we study the interdependency of individual decisions on work and family, particularly the dynamic interaction of the marriage market and the labor market. My basic idea is that marital status affects individual labor supply decisions, and in turn, labor market condition influences marriage formation and dissolution. While these interactions are evident, the overwhelming majority of research on labor or family economics usually simplifies the individual decision-making by assuming that one of two markets outcomes is given while studying the other one. In the empirical study, endogeneity issues are troublesome, especially under the dynamic setting. My work takes a different approach. I directly model the individual decision-making, which describes how marriage market and labor market interact with each other; and matching with survey data we empirically recover the underlying economic environments that characterize the structure of the marriage market and the labor market. I further examine to what extent my model explains the observed facts. Very few studies have been conducted to explore work and family issues in this direction partly due to its complexity. The structural models, besides the conventional regression, improve our perceptions on how individuals form decisions on work and family, which have far-reaching implications on policy designs and welfare evaluations. In my thesis, I explore all these issues in three steps. In chapter 1, I explain a stylized fact that there exists a positive correlation between rising wage inequality and declining marriage rates. A two-sided matching model is developed to exploit a theoretical channel through which wage inequality affects marriage rates. My model features a steady state equilibrium in which the whole marriage market is divided into groups and only people in the same group will marry each other. Using the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) data from 1970 to 2000, my estimates indicate that a structural change occurs in the U.S. marriage market. The higher matching efficiency and declining elasticity of men suggest that the nowadays marriage market provides more chance to meet and better gender equity, though higher arrival rates also raise the outside options of getting married. Additionally, I find that wage inequality accounts for over 38% of the decline in marriage rate, which is underestimated in Gould (2003). Chapter 2 examines household dynamic labor supply after introducing bargaining between husbands and wives, which has not been thoroughly studied previously in literature. Here bargaining between husbands and wives determines the amount of husbands' earnings that are transferred to wives for their private consumption. A household search model that incorporates the intrahousehold bargaining is developed and estimated using panel data from the year 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). My results show that the portion of household income shared by husbands for private consumption is responsive to their employment status, suggesting the existence of the bargaining between the U.S. couples. My findings also imply that the labor supply of women will increase with higher women wage and lower money transfer from husbands to wives, showing that the income effect dominates for wives. Moreover, the wage frontier of husbands is positively correlated with wives' wages and negatively correlated with husbands' earnings transferred to wives, highlighting that husbands are subject to both the income effect and intra-household bargaining, and their decisions depend on which effect dominates. In the third and the last chapter, I study household unemployment duration. Previously, most studies have addressed the topic of job search at the individual level. This chapter studies job search patterns of married couples and in particular compares couple's unemployment duration given their spousal earnings. A household search model is introduced, which includes the bargaining between husbands and wives. I use the year 2001 panel data Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to estimate the structural model of family decisions. Our findings reveal that there exists a gender asymmetry in job search of the U.S. household: The more husbands earn, the longer wives search for a job; but the more wives earn, the sooner husbands find a job.text
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Madebwe, Crescentia. "Husband immobility and the international migration of married women from Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18571.
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This thesis examined husband immobility and the international migration of married women from Zimbabwe. Data was collected from husbands and wives in married couple households where the wife had migrated alone. Face-to-face semi structured interviews were conducted with migrant women’s husbands in Zimbabwe while migrant women were interviewed in countries of destination telephonically. Empirical results showed that migrant women and their husbands were middle aged. Preferred countries of destination were in the region and the United Kingdom. Having a wife’s own social contacts in the preferred destination encouraged migration by reducing financial and emotional costs. Husbands' immobility facilitated wifely migration. Many wives exercised agency in migration decision making with more wives than husbands having initiated the discussion on migration. There were also cases of joint and wife sole decision making. With a few exceptions decision making was consensual. The women migrated as a survival strategy. In several households remittances were the primary source of income. Husbands were the main recipients of remittances. Some wives gave instructions on how the remittances should be used. Overall, remittances were used for paying fees, buying assets and for household upkeep. Some of the women had not visited their families since their migration. The physical separation of spouses had caused emotional distress in some marital relationships. The majority of respondents cited loss of consortium as a major problem.Sociology
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Swart, Chené. "Caring with women married to Dutch Reformed clergymen: narratives of pain, survival and hope." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1214.
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The purpose of this research journey was twofold: (1) to investigate the ways in which the lives of women married to clergymen have been influenced by their position in the Dutch Reformed Church and (2) to collaboratively present ways of caring and supporting these women living within this reality. Discourse analysis explored the taken-for-granted truths and power relationships that inform these women's daily lives. Fifteen women embarked on this feminist narrative participatory action research journey, not only to tell their stories but also to negotiate for change in current practices as well as their own contexts. This research journey challenges the institutional structure of the Church through narratives of hope, survival and pain, as storied in a book (Lamentations and Butterflies, 2003), that were collaboratively constructed by the women living these realities. This book and research journey offers a deeper understanding of the experience of being a clergyman's wife in the Dutch Reformed Church.Practical Theology
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Hlophe, Nokwazi. "Ubunjalo nenqubo yomndeni omkhulu : ubudlelwane phakathi komakoti nomamezala elokishini laKwaMashu = The extended family's power structure : a case study of relations between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in KwaMashu Township." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5347.
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Koutseridi, Olga. "The meaning and use of the word vidua in Latin literature of the 2nd and 1st century B.C." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22721.
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The primary role of this report is to provide an in-depth analysis of all the instances of the word vidua, its meanings and uses in Latin literature from the last two centuries B.C. This close examination of the word vidua in the literary sources of this period has resulted in a number of important modifications to its definition. The word vidua, which is commonly translated by ancient scholars as widow, is not sustained by the contextual evidence of the majority of the passages that do no state explicitly the reason for the women's deprived status. Instead the word is most commonly used to mean a much broader social group of Roman women, all no longer married women, a category which includes various groups of women such as widows, divorcees, abandoned women and women whose husbands have been away for long periods of time. Furthermore the English word unmarried should not be used to translate the Latin word vidua since, as I demonstrate throughout my paper, there is a clear distinction in the Roman minds between women who are no longer married, vidua, and women who are not yet married, virgines an important distinction that gets lost with the more inclusive and broader social category meant by the word unmarried.text
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De, Ru Henriet. "The recognition of same-sex unions in South Africa." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3226.
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With the abolition of apartheid and the introduction of a new constitutional dispensation, the state’s totalitarian exclusion of homosexuals from legal recognition was relegated to a past era. The constitutional commitment to human dignity and equality and the inclusion of sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination led to the recognition of same-sex life partnerships and, inevitably, same-sex marriage by means of a civil union regime. The object of this study is to investigate the scope of the legal consequences provided to same-sex couples by the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006 and to determine the legal standing of same-sex couples who fall outside the ambit of the Act. The study includes constitutional arguments pertaining to the continued recognition of same-sex life partnerships and a critical analysis of the constitutionality of the Civil Union Act as a separate measure to govern same-sex marriage. This investigation is conducted with reference to relevant legislation and case law.Private Law
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Langa, Mdumiseni Langelihle. "Some gendered practices in a Zulu family : a feminist perspective." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9117.
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This study on “Some Gendered Practices in a Zulu Family: A Feminist Perspective”
investigated gender bias, gender inequality, and gender stereotypes as seen in daily gendered
practices happening within the Zulu family. The practises examined are confined to the domain
of the Zulu culture, particularly the Zulu marriage. The four main research questions put
surveillance on how married women are restricted to move freely on the premises of their own
homes; how women can unhappily find themselves in a polygamous marriage; how a wife’s
dignity can be denigrated due to a man’s lack of understanding of her body anatomy; how she
can be denied equal status with her husband due to certain cultural beliefs and conceptions.
In the face of inevitable change that influences human behaviour, this study sought to show that
the Zulu nation, particularly men, find it difficult to easily and speedily accept that culture and
tradition are subject to change. The study attempted to establish whether there is any
improvement on gender transformation or not, especially within the context of the current
endeavours by the South African government to ensure that there is no gender discrimination by
having female representativeness in all spheres of government.
Progress has been made with regard to fair representation of women in political
and decision-making positions in all spheres of government. The country is
currently rated 7th in the world in terms of representation of women in legislature.
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Throughout the analysis and interpretation of both the statistical and qualitative data, I critiqued
the data to establish whether the gender transformation ideal is being achieved in the Zulu family
or not. Radical feminism, the theory through which this study was conducted, has helped to show
that Zulu women are still disadvantaged and oppressed due to social machinations that are
essentially invented by patriarchal men.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.
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Spies, Nicoline. "Exploring and storying Protestants Christian women's experiences living in sexually unhappy marriages." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4823.
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This research project arose from my journeys with Protestant Christian women who were living in
sexually unhappy marriages. In South African Protestant faith communities there is the expectation
that Christian marriages will experience sexual fulfilment. For many Christian women however,
sexual unhappiness becomes their reality. Sexuality is cocooned in silence not only within the
church, but also in many Christian marriages. This leaves many Christian women (and men) with
little or no recourse to address sexually unhappy marriages.
My research journey briefly explored the social construction of sexuality within the history of
Christianity to see which discourses underpin current constructions of White Christian female
sexuality. This participatory feminist action research journey centralised the voices of present-day
contexts: Protestant Christian women, as well as clergy, were invited to share their understandings
and interpretations of matrimony and sexual practices in relation to their faith. With the help of
narrative therapeutic practices, some of the dominant social and religious discourses that constitute
White Christian female sexuality were explored, deconstructed and challenged.
This research journey aimed to penetrate this silence and to invite Christian women, who are living
in sexually unhappy marriages, to share their experiences. This exploration included the faith
predicaments and relational complexities, challenges and dilemmas Protestant Christian women
experience when living in sexually unhappy marriages. This feminist-grounded action research
explored the effects and consequences which living in sexually unhappy marriages held for the cosearchers.Practical Theology
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Welsh, Shirley Anne Vera. "The law giveth and the law taketh away : Marriages out of community of property excluding accrual post 1984/88." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16460.
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Because women are predominantly responsible for childcare, men are the primary income
earners. Having acquired the marital assets, on divorce the husband would retain them in a
marriage out of community of property. The wife would be left deskilled, financially
dependent, with little likelihood of receiving spousal maintenance and with no marital assets.
In 1984 the Matrimonial Property Act and in 1988 the Matrimonial Property Law Amendment
Act introduced a judicial discretion to equitably redistribute marital assets in certain
marriages out of community. This dissertation argues that the bases for the limitation of the
judicial discretion to women married before a certain date are unsound and that the limitation
arguably violates the equality clause of the Constitution.Law
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