scholarly journals Midwives of Sixteenth-Century Rural East Anglia

Rural History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIA ALLISON
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
Age At Death ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Parish Registers

AbstractThis study identifies more than fifty previously unrecorded Elizabethan, East Anglian rural midwives. Their professional lives are discussed in terms of licensing and oaths, knowledge, skills, caseload, travel, networking and years of practice. In regard to their family life, matters examined include marital status, spousal occupation, children, social standing, age at death and testacy. Finding and researching these midwives involved examination of a large number of different kinds of archive documents, including sixteenth-century parish registers and quarter session records. As data were examined a clearer picture emerged of these early midwives and their practice.

Maternal Mortality in Six East Anglian Parishes, 1539-1619

2015 ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Julia Allison
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Multiple Births ◽  
Maternal Outcomes ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Maternal Mortality Rate ◽  
Rural Parishes

This study examines the maternal mortality rate in six early modern rural parishes of East Anglia where a midwife was known to be practicing. Register entries from the six parishes are translated and transcribed and maternal outcomes established and discussed. Midwives and their families are researched to establish marital status, parity and social standing. Maternal mortality is calculated and differing rates for women experiencing multiple births, stillbirths and base births examined.

Insolvent Women

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asiya Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
Indian Women

Our study of insolvency records affords a rare glimpse into the lives of women from different social classes and milieus in Bombay during the mid-nineteenth century. Contrary to colonial stereotypes of Indian women as trapped in oppressive patriarchal relationships, and as weak and helpless, we find that many had independent incomes, owned property, and enjoyed power in the domain of the home and family life. Women from wealthy merchant families actually owned and controlled much of the borrowed capital. We infer from the insolvency records that women who were not wealthy and worked for their livelihood also had considerable agency. In our study, about 38% of the women who petitioned the insolvency courts for protections were dancing girls, courtesans, and prostitutes who had independent incomes and were directly affected by the crash. The incomes of dancing girls and courtesans were low as a whole but varied greatly, as did their social standing and levels of literacy.

Women Report Being More Likely Than Men to Model Their Relationships after What They have Seen on TV

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Morrison ◽  
Alida S. Westman
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Broken Home ◽  
Model Family ◽  
Formative Years

Students (21 men and 50 women) anonymously answered questions about imitating relationships seen on TV. The women were more likely than men to report trying to model family life after what they saw on TV situational comedies and to expect their significant other to act as those seen on TV. They also more frequently reported experiencing a significant other acting as those on TV. There was no difference by sex in current age, parents' marital status during the students' formative years, or age of separation, divorce, or widowing if any occurred. For neither women nor men did a broken home during the formative years correlate with looking to TV for information on relationships.

scholarly journals Deadly occupations: Assessing tuberculosis and accidental mortality among male workers in Sydney and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1909–1917

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Natalie C. Ludlow ◽  
Stacie D.A. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Age At Death ◽  
Single Industry ◽  
Specific Mortality ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Glace Bay

This study examines associations between occupation and cause of death among 802 working-age males (15 to 64 years of age) who diedin two single-industry communities (Glace Bay and Sydney) in Nova Scotia between 1909 and 1917. Employment in mining and steelmanufacturing is assessed for cause-specific mortality among men who died in Canada’s early industrial era, with a particular focus ondeaths due to tuberculosis (n=140, or 18% of deaths) and accidents (n=225, or 28% of deaths). Factoring in the effects of occupation,age at death, birthplace, community, and marital status, logistic regression results indicate that, among the men who died, occupation is a significant predictor for accidental deaths (relative to all other causes of death) but not for tuberculosis-related deaths. Interpretation of these results is grounded in a broader perspective on the nature of living and working conditions in these two single-industry communities.

scholarly journals The Impact of Family Life and Marital Status on the Motivations of Ultramarathoners: The Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6596
Author(s):  
Ewa Malchrowicz-Mośko ◽  
Zbigniew Waśkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Distance Running ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Long Distance Running ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this study was to investigate how family life and marital status influence the motivations of ultramarathoners. Two-hundred-sixty-seven Polish athletes participated in the diagnostic survey during the Karkonosze Winter Ultramarathon. The Polish version of the Motivation of Marathoner Scale was used. The motivations of ultra-runners were investigated among the following groups of respondents: people in a relationship/marriage; singles; people with children vs. childless people; people who run alone and with a partner; people who parted with a partner because of lack of support for running. Research results can be useful for sport managers–e.g., findings show the relative importance of modern sport for singles in the second half of life. Research has also shown how people in relationships and people with children can be realized through demanding long-distance running. We also found that running ultramarathons can pose a threat to a relationship.

The Great Goddess and Fulfilment in Love: Rādhā Seen Through a Sixteenth-Century Lens

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Heidi R.M. Pauwels
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Great Goddess ◽  
One Step ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Independent Existence ◽  
Scholarly Attention

In the Hindu pantheon the goddess Rādhā, Krsna's milkmaid lover and consort, is a relative newcomer. Notwithstanding her ‘youth’, she has already attracted scholarly attention (Hawley and Wulff, 1982; Olson, 1983; Kinsley, 1986 and 1989). The interest in this goddess has to do with her ambiguous relation with the male god with whom she is associated; though she has no independent existence from her ‘Viṣṇu’, she is not completely submissive to him either. In fact, Rādhā's devotees affirm her superiority over Kṛṣṇa. The relation between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa certainly is not always portrayed as one eternal happy fulfilment (saṃbhoga-śṛṅgāra). One of the basic traits of this goddess is her suffering, mainly on account of his (real or imagined) unfaithfulness. It is in fact the very stubborn strength of her love that forms the basis for Rādhā's exaltation as a model of devotion. Ironically, with the rise her status, the need to provide an end to her suffering increases. Blissful union with her lover is clearly felt to be the prerogative for a great goddess, and with that the inevitable marital status is only one step away. In this paper I propose to discuss the historical moment when this ‘happy ending’ becomes important.

scholarly journals Family life and Chinese adults’ happiness across the life span

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-534
Author(s):  
Jiashu Xu ◽  
Airan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Chinese Adults ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

An individual's happiness is closely related to their family life as the family is the institution in which they spend most of their life. Capitalizing on data from the 2018 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the relationship between family economic standing (measured by household income and homeownership) and family processes (measured by marital status and childlessness), as well as children's characteristics (measured by gender composition of children and adult children's educational attainment and marital status), and happiness of Chinese adults. We take a life-course perspective and examine how such relationships vary across different life stages. We find that factors like household income and homeownership are positively related to happiness for people in general; that married adults are happier than those who are unmarried; childlessness results in decreased individual happiness in old age; adult children's educational attainment, measured by college degree (three-year and four-year) and above, improves parents’ happiness; while children's unmarried status makes parents less happy. These significant relationships also change across the life span.

The Ban on Polygamy in Polish Rabbinic Thought

1997 ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Elimelech Westreich
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ashkenazi Jewish ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Jewish Culture

This chapter investigates Polish rabbinical treatments of the medieval Ashkenazi ban on polygamy. The Ban of Rabbenu Gershom forbade both polygamy and divorcing a woman against her will. Its promulgation brought about a revolutionary change in Ashkenazi Jewish family life and in the body of law that regulated it. This Ban has been seen by historians as a key determinant of the singularity of Ashkenazi Jewish culture. Hence, analysis of its fate in Poland is a most appropriate means of examining how far Polish rabbis adhered to the Ashkenazi legal tradition. In sixteenth-century Poland, there were two approaches among halakhic scholars. One adheres strictly to the Ashkenazi tradition, while the other is more open to the influence of other Jewish cultural spheres.

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