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Journal articles on the topic "Woman-to-woman marriage"
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Kareithi, Monicah, and Frans Viljoen. "An Argument for the Continued Validity of Woman-to-Woman Marriages in Post-2010 Kenya." Journal of African Law 63, no. 3 (October 2019): 303–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855319000263.
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AbstractWoman-to-woman marriage is a form of customary marriage between two women, predominantly found in Africa. These customary marriages have been and to some extent still are conducted by various communities across Africa, including in Kenya. Communities such as the Kamba, Kisii, Nandi, Kikuyu and Kuria practise woman-to-woman marriages for a variety of reasons. The legal status of woman-to-woman marriages in Kenya is uncertain due to the provisions of article 45(2) of Kenya's Constitution of 2010 and section 3(1) of the Marriage Act of 2014, which stipulate that adults only have the right to marry persons of the opposite sex. However, a holistic and purposive reading of the constitution, taking into consideration its recognition of culture and the protection of children as important values in Kenyan society, and considering the historical context within which the provisions concerning same-sex marriages were included, leads to the conclusion that these provisions were not intended to proscribe the cultural practice of woman-to-woman marriage in Kenya. The constitutional validity of woman-to-woman marriage opens the door to a more expansive and fluid understanding of “family” in Kenya.
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Cadigan, R. Jean. "Woman-to-Woman Marriage: Practices and Benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 29, no. 1 (March 1998): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.29.1.89.
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Ojwang, Jackton B., and Emily Nyiva Kinama. "Woman-to-Woman Marriage: A Cultural Paradox in Contemporary Africa’s Constitutional Profile." Verfassung in Recht und Übersee 47, no. 4 (2015): 412–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2014-4-412.
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Hasnani, Hasnani. "Marriage in The Late of 19th Century Reflected in The Age of Innocence." ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 2, no. 1 (March 28, 2019): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/els-jish.v2i1.6232.
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The Age of Innocence presents marriage woman in sociocultural background of upper-middle class woman in the late of 19th century. This research aimed to describe marriage in the alte of 19th century reflected in The Age of Innocence. The researcher used qualitative method. The data were analyzed by using the Sociological theory in order to describe marriage in the novel. The sociological theory is uesd to analysed the sociological background of marriage woman at that time. The results of the research shows marriage in the late of 19th century that describe in two parts; woman as fiancee and woman as a wife. The Age of Innocence represent the marriage women are still patriacy and in the domestic sphere
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Ntamwana, Simon. "From Suspended to Emergent Woman, An African American Criticism of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 4, no. 2 (July 19, 2019): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v4i2.47879.
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This paper discusses the rise of the woman from a downtrodden woman to an emergent subject through an assimilated subjugated woman in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. It is based on the African American approach and Mary Helen Washington’s theory of black woman character types in African American literature. It aims at identifying the woman character types in the novel and discussing the woman’s ascension from her patriarchal suspension into her emergence as an independent woman. Anchored on the hypothetical contention that the woman arises from suspension to emergence through assimilation phases, it was found out that during her gradual ascension and independence quest the woman subverts the oppressive patriarchy and its abusive masculinity and transforms it into a man equitably collaborating with her. Janie the protagonist born subservient to patriarchy like her grandmother Nannie fights to liberate herself through love and marriage. While the first marriage with Logan maintains her under patriarchal oppression, the second spousal union with Jody is a simulation of liberation that refrains her from public life and expression. Through gradual revolt against patriarchy, Janie reaches her desired woman selfhood in the third marriage with Tea Cake. Keywords: Suspended, Assimilated, Emergent, African American Literary Approach
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Ikeke, Mark Omorovie. "The Unethical Nature of Abuse of Childless Women in African Traditional Thought/Practice." East African Journal of Traditions, Culture and Religion 3, no. 1 (March 19, 2021): 12–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajtcr.3.1.299.
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One of the major challenges confronting marriages and families in African from the past to the present is the issue of barrenness or childlessness. Childlessness was often blamed on the woman, even though at times it may arise from the medical conditions of a man. African traditional culture had great value for children and childless marriage was seen as cursed and the woman in particular was even labelled a “man” or a witch. The woman is often verbally abused, and physical violence was meted on her. The marriage is often made unbearable and uncomfortable for the woman by the man or the in-laws of the woman. In some exceptional cases, the man and his relatives were understanding and coped with the situation or the man was allowed to marry another woman, while bearing with the childless woman. In order to cope with the challenge of childlessness women even encouraged their husbands to marry another woman (women). This paper written from critical philosophical analysis and hermeneutics argues that this abuse of childless women is unethical/immoral. The paper will draw upon instances from both written and oral literature to bring light on this belief and practice. No woman or man gives children. Even though a woman may have conditions that may impede the birth of children, it is rare to see a woman causing her own childlessness. These cultural practices that still influence the attitude and (mal) treatment of women need to be denounced and abrogated. The paper finds and concludes there is a need to end these unethical treatments of childless women.
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J. Adams, Dr Adoga-Ikong, and Dr Michael Takim Otu. "Customary Law Marriage Practice in Nigeria: Women and Human Rights." Journal of Social Sciences Research, no. 63 (March 15, 2020): 272–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jssr.63.272.275.
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Marriage has been defined as a voluntary union between a man and a woman or women (in the case of customary marriage) for life to the exclusion of any other. In other words, it is a legal union which exists between a man and a wife(s). The practice is acceptable world over and it is usually legally recognized. In Nigeria, though there exist a statutory marriage which is monogamous in nature but most prevalent is the customary marriage. This marriage is practiced among all the tribes in Nigeria despite the fact that there exist statutory marriages. One thing that is pertinent here is that the practice of customary marriage in Nigeria has violated the human rights of the couple especially the women. The women in Nigeria have not enjoyed their human rights in their customary marriage. This is due to certain customs and traditions that do not allow for such. Among the few are undue reliance on consent of their parents. Before a marriage can be contracted female genital mutilation, the corresponding rights to bring an action for dissolution of marriage if the other party commits adultery, etc. As a result of the above (and many others) Nigerian woman is deprived of her rights. This work seeks to examine these practices which stand as hindrances to the rights of a married woman in Nigeria and therefore suggests that Nigerian women should be allowed to enjoy her basic human rights (even as a married woman) just like her husband, also that the practices in other climes where women enjoy their human rights should be imbibed in Nigeria.
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Badareen, Nayel A. "Shīʿī Marriage Law in the Pre-Modern Period: Who Decides for Women?" Islamic Law and Society 23, no. 4 (November 17, 2016): 368–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685195-00234p02.
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This article addresses the differences between jurists of the three Shīʿī sects – Zaydīs, Ismāʿīlīs, and Twelver Shīʿīs – concerning the marriage contract. In general, Zaydī, Ismāʿīlī, and Twelver jurists agree on three elements of the marriage contract of a woman who is an adult, single, and a virgin (bikr). However, they disagree over certain elements of the contract, the dower, the role of the marriage guardian (walī), the minimum legal age for women to marry, and the role of the adult single woman in concluding her own marriage contract. I examine the varying degrees of agency each Shīʿī sect granted women in contracting their marriages in the period between 900 and 1600 ce I argue that Shīʿī substantive law (fiqh) is as restrictive as Sunnī fiqh regarding a woman’s role in contracting her marriage.
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Wahyuningtias, Diny. "OFFSPRING AFFECTED ANGIE’S EXISTENCE IN MARRIAGE." Apollo Project: Jurnal Ilmiah Program Studi Sastra Inggris 8, no. 1 (February 14, 2019): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.34010/apollo.v8i1.2105.
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This research used a novel titled "The Things We Do for Love" by Kristin Hannah. This research discussed the affected of offspring on women existence in a marriage that are reflected by the main character, Angie, in the novel. This research was conducted to know how offspring affects Angie's existence in her marriage. This novel tells the story of a man and a woman named Angie and Conlan, the main character in the novel. Their marriage ended in divorce because as a woman, Angie cannot give the child to her husband. The problem came to Angie when she knew she could not keep her pregnancy a few times, because she had a weak womb which makes Angie loses her existence as a woman, wife and mother. This research method used descriptive method. Where, the data presented related to the topic, and then explain it in detail. Data collected were analyzed using the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir (1949) in his book that addresses the issue Woman Existence and Julie Mitchell (2008) on Woman Revolution.
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Nugraheni, Prasasti Dyah. "THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MARRIAGE DIFFERENT RELIGION AND THEIR DUE TO THE LAW OF THE RELIGION OF MARRIAGE STATUS." Law and Justice 4, no. 2 (November 19, 2019): 68–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.23917/laj.v4i2.8015.
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Marriage is a very strong and very deep bond that functions to connect between a man and a woman in a household or a family. Informing a household or a family, the belief in the same religion requires not only confidence in the same commitment. However, in the life of the Indonesian people, there are currently many marriages that are not based on similarities in religious beliefs. The marriage is only based on genuine love between a man and a woman. These different religious marriages cause problems in the legal field such as the validity of the marriage itself according to the marriage law in force in Indonesia. Because according to Article 2 Paragraph (1) of Law Number 1 the Year 1974 marriage which is called legitimate is a marriage which is carried out in accordance with the religion and beliefs of the person. Marriage with different religions also causes problems with the legitimacy of the representation. So the problem that will be explained in this journal is about the validity of a marriage that is of different religions in accordance with Law Number 1 of 1974. According to Law Number 1 of 1974 marriages of different faiths is an illegitimate marriage because they are not in accordance with religion and belief in Indonesia. Because according to Article 2 Paragraph (1) of Law Number 1 of 1974 it is stated that if a religion allows the marriage of a different religion, then the marriage is permissible. However, if a religion does not allow the marriage that is of a different religion, then the marriage is not allowed. Keywords: Interfaith marriage, Law Number 1 of 1974, and Compilation Islamic Law
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Woman-to-woman marriage"
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Kareithi, Monicah Wanjiru. "A historical-legal analysis of woman-to-woman marriage in Kenya." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65665.
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This thesis sets out, against a historical background, to establish the legal status of woman-towoman marriages in contemporary Kenya. The phenomenon of woman-to-woman marriage is a form of African customary marriage between two women. Woman-to-woman marriages are distinctly African and clearly distinguishable from the modern-day phenomenon of same-sex marriages, as understood and practiced especially in the global West. They are customary marriages that are conducted by Kenyan communities, such as the Kamba, Kisii, Nandi, Kikuyu and Kuria, for a variety of reasons. The thesis sets out the rationales for woman-towoman marriage and expounds on the nature of the African family and marriage customs in pre-colonial Kenya. Due to the erroneous conflation of the phenomenon of African woman-towoman marriages and same-sex marriages of the West, the provisions in the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and the Marriage Act of 2014 stipulated that adults have the right to marry only persons of the opposite sex. This led to uncertainty about the legal status of woman-to-woman marriage under Kenyan law. This thesis argues that a purposive reading of the Constitution, taking into consideration the Constitution’s recognition of culture as an important value of the Kenyan society and the historical context within which the provisions proscribing same-sex marriages were included in the Constitution and the Marriage Act, leads to the conclusion that these provisions were not intended to proscribe the cultural practice of woman-to-woman marriage in Kenya.Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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Hudak, Jacqueline Lawless John. "Are we not family? The transition from heterosexual marriage to partnering with a woman /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/2980.
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Nilsson, Zandra. ""Power Woman" in rural Zambia. Communicating to address and engage problems about charcoal use and child marriage." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23461.
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A lot has been done in the past years to improve gender equality globally – operationssuch as UN Woman, the Sustainable Development Goals in Agenda 2030 and the workof many international non-governmental organizations. Nonetheless the world is stillfar from being gender equal. As of today, more women than men live in poverty, whichalso makes them more vulnerable to climate change. This degree project exploreswhat and how women in rural Zambia communicate to their community members tochange their behaviors concerning the use of charcoal and to prevent child marriages.Through the lens of communication for development and social change, thetheoretical framework was constructed with gender communication concepts and theDiffusion of Innovations theory. The material was collected during a minor field studyof three weeks in Zambia during March 2020. A qualitative study was conducted withsemi-structured interviews and field observations.The results from this study indicate that all the women communicated throughinterpersonal communication with different emphasis when speaking about childmarriage or charcoal use. When communicating about preventing child marriages, thefocus was mainly on the problems child marriages resulted in, while communicatingabout the options to charcoal the focus was rather on the positive outcomes. Inaddition, the women targeted the whole community when talking about childmarriage, while targeting primarily other women when communicating aboutsubstituting the use of charcoal with lamps and pellet stoves.
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Bertali, Nunzia Di Cristo. "Liverpool, 'the world in the city' : subjective and objective perception evaluations of the integration of woman immigrants in Liverpool, 2001 to 2009." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2011. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6012/.
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The study focuses on foreign women who have been living in Liverpool from the year 2001. The investigation mainly analyzes the subjective perception of integration and the objective outcome. Literature has neglected, in general, the role of women in migration and in particular the importance of the integration of women, in the host society, for the well being of the whole family. It is often assumed that if the local Authorities adopt policies that respect diversity the immigrants will automatically feel integrated and become a vital part of the wider society. The responses obtained from 100 English women were compared to the ones received from 100 foreigners and 23 respondents who were born in the United Kingdom. The women from the UK: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, were considered as foreigners because people who are born in any of the countries that form part of a Nation State feel strongly about their ethnicity. This research tries to discover whether the perception of the women contacted reflects the objective outcome of the survey that has been conducted with the help of a questionnaire and evaluated by using a purposely created tool. The tool enabled the construction of a table to show the discovered differences. They show that there is a marked difference between the subjective perception and the objective outcome of integration. It is therefore acceptable to speculate that foreign women in Liverpool are integrated in their "diaspora space" but not within the wider society of the city. If the mothers are not integrated is unlikely that their children will be. This condition can, as a first consequence, cause confusion in the children and perhaps lead to their rejection of the local culture and, secondly, prevent any sort of integration that in turn should avert the formation of a cohesive society. Integration in the wider society can only be achieved if the subjects speak the local language. However the learning of English in the country of origin will not encourage the absorption of the culture of the country where the language has originated. Therefore fluency in the host language could be another aspect encouraging the creation of self-segregated communities.
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Hunt, Sheila C. "Listening to women : an ethnography of childbearing women living in poverty." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36408/.
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This thesis examines the ways in which childbearing women living in poverty made sense of their lives and experiences. Based in the West Midlands, in an area of urban decay and major inequalities in health, the research focused on the lives of 25 women during their childbirth experience. The theoretical framework is feminist poststructuralism and throughout the study, I recognise that there is no single, unified woman's voice, and no universal solution to the problem of pregnancy and poverty. The thesis examines the different ways in which individual women experience pregnancy and poverty. The research draws on a range of ethnographic methods including interviews and participant observation. The fieldwork was undertaken over a two year period mainly through meetings with women in their own homes but also at the GP surgery and other more public places. The data discussed in the thesis illustrate the private stresses and strains of poverty related to how women cope with pregnancy and the demands of small children. I was especially interested in how childbearing women living in poverty were alike and how they were different. The women who contributed to this study shared a well developed sense of responsibility, doing what was right and putting their children first. They worked hard to be seen as respectable, and balanced the needs of their children with the demands of a life dominated by poverty. I considered the networks of support and the importance of grandmothers in some women's lives. I have considered the changing and varied relationships that women had with the men in their lives and the different ways in which they resolved conflict in their relationships. Some women were determined to go it alone and to rid themselves of the men in their lives. For over half the women in the sample, domestic violence was an everyday reality of their lives and I examined the similarities and differences in their experiences. I have also found evidence of the adverse effect of some midwives' attitudes towards these women. Beliefs based on stereotypes and prejudice meant that women living in poverty sometimes experienced less than adequate care. The thesis concludes by making recommendations for further research and for improving midwifery practice for the benefit of women.
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Lee, Tracey. "Female to male transsexuality : a study of (re)embodiment and identity transformation." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3087/.
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This thesis is a qualitative study based in in-depth semi-structured interviews with fourteen female to male transsexuals, concerned with the social and discursive processes through which female to male transsexuals construct their new 'male' gendered social identities and the ways in which their bodies may be seen to impact upon these processes across a variety of personal and social relationships. Chapter One provides an overview and critique of key and competing perspectives concerning the relationships between transsexual subjectivity and embodiment, and the hegemonic discourses/discursive practices of heterosexuality, sex and gender, and medicine. Chapter Two establishes the epistemological and innovative methodological framework of the thesis, moving from the analysis of representations of transsexuality to a sociologically informed analysis. Dealing with issues of experience, voice, power, agency and representation through contemporary work in feminism and the sociology of health and illness, the Chapter adapts the multidisciplinary methodologies and methods of 'narrative analysis' to the study of female to male transsexual identity in social interaction. Chapter Three engages with existing perspectives on written transsexual autobiography within feminist, literary, cultural and transgender theory and, through rigorous and detailed narrative analysis addresses the significance and specificity of 'oral autobiography' where constraints and opportunities for the construction of an 'authentic' transsexual selfhood are produced in a dynamic, interactional context. In Chapter Four personal narratives are examined to extend the issue of transsexual 'authenticity' into the broader area of relationships with parents, siblings, partners, children, friends and work colleagues. It deals with the ways in which past and present knowledge of the interviewees as particularly embodied and gendered individuals by these 'knowing' others impacted upon their recognition and acceptance of them as men. The thesis concludes that taking this analytic approach which moves 'beyond the text' into social and interactional contexts reveals complex negotiations of 'traditional' stories, the significance of others' past knowledge and investments in sexed/gendered embodiment and the interviewees' own active management of their embodied gendered selves which earlier work has overlooked or not fully addressed. Finally it identifies fruitful areas for further research suggested through this study.
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Hatcher, Richard. "Children's lives : a study of children's peer cultures, with special reference to 'race'." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1994. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/104940/.
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This thesis is a study of the cultures of children. Its principal perspective is sociological, though it draws heavily on the substantial body of work on children within the field of psychology. It also engages with work within the field of cultural studies, and in particular studies of youth cultures. The Gramscian perspective which informs much of the work in this area provides a theoretical framework for conceptualising children's cultures as partly autonomous from, but powerfully shaped by, ideologies and structures in the wider society. The study makes special reference to issues of 'race' within children's cultures. A theoretical framework derived mainly from studies of 'race' and youth within the 'cultural studies' tradition provides the context for a critical engagement with work on social identity within the field of social and cognitive psychology. The research on which the study is based was conducted with children in mainly- white primary schools. Most of them were aged 10 and 11. A smaller-scale follow-up study was carried out two years later when the children were at secondary school. The study adopts a qualitative methodology in order to explore the peer relationships and social interaction of children, and the extent and ways in which it may become racialised. Its findings confirm and extend previous research on friendship and conflict in children's cultures. They contribute to an understanding of 'race' in children's lives by identifying the principal forms it takes and situating them within the cognitive and social processes of children's cultures. The distinction between the expressive and instrumental functions of name-calling and other forms of racist behaviour provides the basis for a theorisation of the 'thematic' ideologies of 'race' which embody children's beliefs and the 'interactional ideologies' which govern peer interaction, and the complex relationships between them.
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Dearlove, Josephine Patricia. "Lone or alone? : a qualitative study of lone mothers on low income with reference to support in their everyday lives." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36376/.
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The thesis invites women to voice their perceptions and experiences on being lone mothers, in receipt of Income Support and what 'support' means to them in their daily lives as carers of pre-school children. This qualitative study is set against firstly, the backdrop of the increasing numbers of lone mothers and their reliance on income support. Also prevalent was a negative discourse around lone motherhood. Secondly, lone mothers were encountering the consequences of a restructuring of social and welfare policy and practice, with the changing boundaries between public and private responsibilities impacting on their daily lives. Thirdly, within this changing socio-economic and political landscape, both neo-liberal and 'third way' governments identify kinship as the appropriate resource for families in need. The study draws data and analysis from the perceptions and experiences of, initially, thirty-three women in five focus groups and more particularly, from thirtyseven lone mothers on Income Support. The findings of the thesis highlight the qualitative difference between alone and not alone, lone mothers. This key, but previously underresearched distinction, is shown to turn on the quality and consistency of support. It is the degrees of availability or lack of social and material support which is found to be crucial in mediating, moderating or amplifying the aloneness of the lone mother. The research illustrates how this qualitative difference in women's lives cannot be captured within categories of quantitative data. Emphasised is how different forms of support serve as gateways through which other forms of support are accessed. What is argued is that those lacking support may face being multiply disadvantaged and experience cumulative levels of support deprivation which formal support may do little to alleviate. Lastly, while all forms of support are identified as being mutually reinforcing, child-care appears to be particularly pivotal. As a central gateway to accessing other support, it directly enhances well being and the capability to care.
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Yang, Sonam. "Family patterns, attitudes and behaviour in relation to the upbringing of children in South Korea : the social construction of child abuse." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11976/.
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This study explores the ways in which the Western concept of child abuse is understood by parents and professionals in Korea and how it is applied to Korean society. In order to address this, attention will be focused on parents' and relevant professionals' attitudes and perceptions in relation to child rearing, along with their responses to the problem of child abuse. Qualitative methodologies were used; semi-structured in-depth interviews with 50 participants. The findings suggest that Korean society may be operating on assumptions about child rearing and family life which differ markedly from those in the West. In particular many Korean parents and some of the relevant professionals did not define or understand `child abuse' as their equivalents in the West. Power relationships and familial collectivism seemed to be interwined in creating situations which Western commentators would see as abusive to children. There was recognition that maltreatment existed and needed to be policed but this had not been internalised by all strata of society. Therefore, there was a deep uncertainty and ambivalence towards the concept of child abuse and good child rearing and its implication for child development. Notably, there was a sense of ambivalence about the appropriateness of using physical chastisement. In spite of the majority saying that it was not right, it was still viewed as a permissible or even necessary form of discipline. This suggests that both parents and professionals face considerable confusion and doubt as to whether certain parenting behaviour is abusive. This study concludes that there is a need for a meaningful national consensus as to the best ways of translating legislation into reality. The acceptance of a degree of intervention in family life by the state, programmes of education about child development and what children need to develop healthily, raising awareness of how children are harmed, and the legitimacy of corporal punishment should be addressed through national debate. The main aim has to be to promote the safety and welfare of children. The first essential is to put consideration of the needs and rights of children at the centre of policy and the development of policy and practice should be shaped by this.
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Sweeney, Nicole. "Public attitudes to inheritance in Scotland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30620/.
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This thesis seeks to provide a deeper understanding of public attitudes to inheritance in contemporary Scottish society, with particular regard to perceptions of parental obligation in an era of increased family diversity. The cornerstone of the thesis is an empirical study conducted in 2014 against the backdrop of the Scottish Law Commission’s (SLC) 2009 succession law reform proposals that would seriously curtail children’s inheritance rights. The thesis begins by contextualising the empirical study. It explains the current law of succession as it relates to provision for adult partners and children and examines the SLC’s proposed reforms. It argues that the SLC’s proposals to further bolster the spouse’s position at the expense of the deceased’s children are not supported by public opinion. Through analysis of a range of other empirical studies it demonstrates that public opinion supports continued recognition of children in succession law, particularly in reconstituted families. The second part of the thesis explains how the empirical study was planned and executed before detailing the methodological approach used to analyse the data. Having established the methodological framework, the thesis then discusses the key research findings, focusing primarily on the parent-child relationship. Firstly, it explores the obligations parents are considered to owe their children, addressing how these obligations can be reconciled with conceptions of testamentary freedom. Secondly, it examines whether parental duty is viewed differently when the deceased’s surviving spouse is not his children’s other parent and, thirdly, it asks what duty, if any, the deceased owes his stepchildren. While the parent-child relationship is the main focus of this thesis, the SLC also proposed reforms to the inheritance entitlements of half-siblings and these proposals are examined in the context of broader discussion on reconstituted families. The thesis concludes by arguing that, while the SLC rightly identifies social change as a ground for law reform, its proposed reforms fail to adequately reflect social norms in the context of the parent-child relationship. This is because the proposed reforms do not correspond to the societal changes identified: whereas the SLC acknowledges the rise in the number of reconstituted families, the reforms do not adequately consider how these families can be better served by succession law. Instead, confronted with increased family diversity, the SLC opts for simplicity, privileging the spouse ahead of all others regardless of the effect this will have on children in reconstituted families.
Books on the topic "Woman-to-woman marriage"
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Brothers, Joyce. What every woman ought to know about love & marriage. New York: Ballantine Books, 1985.
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Woman, aware and choosing: Keys to healthy relationships. 2nd ed. Brea, Calif: MinMar Press, 1998.
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Mother to daughter: Becoming a woman of honor. San Bernardino, CA: Here's Life Publishers, 1988.
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O'Leary, Dale. One man, one woman: A Catholic's guide to defending marriage. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2007.
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Wade, Marion J. The virtuous woman and the answer to the submission question! Tulsa, Okla: Christian Pub. Services, 1989.
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Kathy, Miller-Vejtasa, ed. How to romance the woman you love-- the way she wants you to! New York: Gramercy Books, 1998.
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Sanna, Lucy. How to romance the woman you love--the way she wants you to. Rocklin, CA: Prima Pub., 1995.
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Greenup, Louis S. How to stop the other woman from stealing your husband. South Holland, Ill: Creative Ways Multimedia, 1997.
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Ullrich, Helen E. "Marriage: From Woman as Object to a Decision-Maker." In The Women of Totagadde, 157–80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59969-8_7.
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Achebe, Nwando. "Woman-to-Woman, Polyandrous, and Child Marriage." In Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties, 170–91. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199856749.003.0010.
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Macedo, Stephen. "Traditional Marriage and Public Law." In Just Married. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691166483.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the philosophical argument, grounded in natural law, for regarding marriage as necessarily the union of one man and one woman. It first considers whether marriage is by nature heterosexual by discussing the claims advanced by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George in their book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman—A Defense. In particular, it explores the New Natural Law defense of marriage as necessarily the relation of one man and one woman, its endorsement of sex within the marriages of sterile heterosexuals as not only permissible but good, and its insistence that only heterosexual couples can be married because only their unions can be oriented toward having and raising children. The chapter shows that natural law arguments fail to provide a reasoned basis for excluding same-sex couples from the civil institution of marriage.
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Crissey, Etsuko Takushi. "Varied Experiences of International Marriage." In Okinawa's GI Brides. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824856489.003.0005.
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Interviewees included women with successful marriages whose husbands had died, one from the effects of Agent Orange after deployment in Vietnam and another from leukemia. Flashbacks from his deployment in Vietnam also led to alcoholism that eventually incapacitated another woman’s husband. The couple also had a successful marriage and four children who she worked to support after her husband was unable to hold a job. After two children were born, another woman’s husband turned verbally abusive and expelled her from their home. Emotionally devastated, she subsequently struggled to support herself. Another woman married a marine despite her family’s reservations and moved to the U.S. The marriage was going smoothly, but after the birth of their third child, her husband impregnated another woman and, over his objections, she obtained a divorce. Another interviewee whose marriage seemed to be going well divorced her husband after he ran off with a mutual friend. A woman returning with her fiancé to the U.S. discovered that he was already married. Though they eventually married after he obtained a divorce, her husband soon abandoned her after which she struggled to raise her two children and obtain legal residency in the U.S.
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"6 A Son Who Proposed Marriage to a Westernized Woman." In The Lius of Shanghai, 116–46. Harvard University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674073845.c8.
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"3. Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman? Support and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage." In Conditionally Accepted, 79–98. Rutgers University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36019/9781978807105-004.
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Yonemoto, Marcia. "Marriage." In The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan. University of California Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520292000.003.0004.
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The chapter focuses on the contradictions between ideals and practices of marriage. Once married, convention decreed that a woman was to devote herself loyally and exclusively to her husband and his family. And yet among all classes divorce and remarriage were frequent, and women more often than not maintained close relationships to their own families throughout their married lives. The chapter examines instructional manuals’ dictates on marriage, the economy and politics of marriage as an alliance between families, and popular cultural images of wives and wifely behavior. The experience of married life is traced through the lives of Kuroda Tosako (1682-1753), Sekiguchi Chie, and Itō Maki.
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Cox, Rosanna. "Milton, Marriage, and the Politics of Gender." In John Milton. British Academy, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264706.003.0007.
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This chapter investigates the seventeenth-century cultural and historical context of Milton's portrayal the relationship of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost. This approach aims to bring the intellectual, doctrinal, and political debates with which he engaged in his portrayal of the relationship between the sexes. The chapter examines Milton' understanding of the ideas of woman, womanhood, and the cultural debates about the relationship of man and woman in marriage and in the household, and the ways in which these conceptions formed his political and theological outlook. Milton's thoughts on gender and marriage, which were grounded in reformation and seventeenth-century Puritan teachings, in political debates on family and political obligation, and in the ideological and imaginative relationships between politics and gender, formed his prose and poetry on the relationship of man and woman.
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Govindaraj, V. C. "Law of Persons." In The Conflict of Laws in India, 73–127. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199495603.003.0007.
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This chapter deals with the law relating to marriage and divorce, as interpreted and applied by courts in India. Marriage involves many topics/processes such as celebration, divorce, nullity, etc., and each one is accorded a different treatment by the concerned law. The following topics/processes under each matrimonial law are discussed: pre-solemnization requisites; solemnization; divorce; marriages solemnized under the Foreign Marriages Act, 1969; the conversion of spouses of the Hindu, Christian, and Parsi marriages to Islam, and right to polygamy after such conversion; conversion of Muslim women from Islam after dissolution of marriage under Muslim Law; and rights of a Muslim woman to seek divorce and maintenance.
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"Rational fellowship or slavish obedience? Love, marriage and family." In The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 156–74. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203094181-14.
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